A very small percentage of people prescribed opioids will become addicted. People laugh at the scare tactics of "reefer madness", they should also ridicule "opioid hysteria" and "addiction can happen to anyone" since it's not true.
When it comes to the #OpioidEpidemic, we need people to understand that addiction can happen to anyone—the only way we are going to dig out of this crisis is if we break down the "us" vs "them" dialogue and support everyone.
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Hundreds of millions of Americans have been prescribed opioids in the past 20 years, and yet, the best estimates of the addiction industry is 2 million addicted. They wouldn't happen to have a bias or conflict of interest in padding those numbers?
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“Anyone” being less than 1%https://www.cochrane.org/CD006605/SYMPT_opioids-long-term-treatment-noncancer-pain …
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Studies are not needed. All they have to do is ask the living patients! If they want to study something a good one would be a followup of those taken off pain medications against their will.
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@Surgeon_general is looking at the bigger picture. To be sure many individuals have been helped by opioids but drug companies and doctors took it too far. No town of 3,000 people needs more than 3,000 bottles of pills.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/health/opioids-trial-addiction-drugstores.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share … -
These numbers are provided w/o context. Pain pts can be prescribed 190 pills per month: 3 per day (every 8 hours) plus extra for breakthrough pain. CDC counts 50 million pain patients now; but a few years ago it was 100 million. That's a lot of citizens.https://reason.com/2019/07/18/the-washington-posts-simplistic-assumption-that-more-opioid-prescriptions-mean-more-drug-overdoses-is-demonstrably-wrong/ …
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It seems all the attention has been focused on harm from abused opioids..not the millions of pain pts who have benefited. It seems pain pts who have vastly improved QOL are thrown under the bus by weaponized & misinterpreted CDC gls & talking heads who haven't treated pain pts.
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It is all focused on the abuse. Every gov’t ofcl I’ve contacted replies w the same form ltr reminding me of the “epidemic”. Now the FDA’s calling vaping a epidemic with teens. Hell everything’s a epidemic now.
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SG, respectfully, is that actually a fact? Many people can use medications that have a propensity for addiction/misuse without ever experiencing those issues. In fact, the vast majority use opioids safety and effectively.
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Planned obsolescence of opioids in 1999 thru
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Yeah Vaginal Mesh has been a complete debacle. I was going to say that 12mcg Fent Patch is not enough but then she mentioned the MS Contin. Look at how well she functions on Good Days. I think that's all the advocates are asking for. An opportunity for functionality.
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