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3/7 By early 2000s clinical teaching suggested the risks of addiction or misuse from opioids had been overblown. The best case for enthusiastic use of opioids was often surgery. Clinicians were eager to take away the “organic” pain they had just created in the operating room.
4/7 It would be one thing if such patients fared well, and if the scientific evidence supported such use. But in fact, there is scant evidence for the safety or effectiveness of opioid use for chronic post-operative pain.
5/7 This reservoir of opioids creates challenges, including difficulties around safe storage, disposal and potential diversion to family and friends. Note-> To locate a drug take back site near you, go to https://takebackday.dea.gov/#collection-locator …
6/7 The good news is that reducing surgical opioid use need not compromise patients’ quality of care. Patients and surgeons have many tools to choose from, and the time for such discussions is before an operation.
7/7 A comprehensive response to the opioid epidemic must consider all of the settings in which these drugs are overused. For many patients, the most important setting is after (or before) they have an operation.
Thousands of people using them report decreased pain. That’s evidence!
so then, what are the safer and more efficacious alternatives to opioids for pain relief?
What is the incidence of chronic post operative pain? What procedures lead to this most frequently?
All of these Tweets involve preaching without a good explanatory theory.
You're suggesting here that science is necessary to *prove* something is true before being protected as an individual right - which is frightening.
Manifest truth. @AGAshleyMoody @hrw
Where are the studies? SHOW US If a pt goes from someone that can care from themselves to dependence on family for ADLs, it’s a sign that they benefited from opioids. Also, increased depression & wt gain 2* reduced activity
Any chronic pain patient should be treated individually per a doctors clinical knowledge, data, & history of their patient. Not government
Access to pain medications for reasonable pain relief is a basic human right. WHO..World Health Organization. Allowing suffering is inhumane
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