Pills and Medication
Last week the FDA announced proposals to limit patients access to various classes of pain killer to help prevent accidental overdoses.
You can read more at the New York Times article here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/business/fda-seeks-tighter-control-on-prescriptions-for-class-of-painkillers.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&
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LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND YOU WILL HAVE FAR LESS OVERDOSES! YOU CAN NOT OVERDOSE ON IT AND IT IS NATURAL AND ALOT LES PEOPLE WILL BECOME ADDICTED TO THESE PILLS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO KEEP UP-ING THEIR DOSAGE BECAUSE OF THEM NOT WORKING ANYMORE . ITS PRETTY SIMPLE.
Most that die from overdose isnt from taking Vicodin, Percocets, or other low dose narcotics. Its the hardcore narcotics like Heroin and Fentynal. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but its not the norm. So I think its truely ,overreach to treat them as a Class 2 narcotic.
I live 80 miles from my Neurologist when my MS decides to flair up who is going to drive down and get that prescription?
I completely, 100% agree with you.
This government is getting out of control with too much control ~~
No, the FDA are not correct.
More and more, the United States government agencies feel that it is their job to protect the people from themselves with laws, rather than using older strategies. For example: when it comes to certain prescription medications, the government used to require warning labels. Now, the FDA feels that far more restrictive laws are required to protect citizens from themselves. This is not the case. Attempting to protect a human from him/herself does not work because the human has free will.
Just because SOME patients CAN and WILL (I was probably one of “those patients” years and years ago) choose not to heed their physician’s warning, risking their own lives, punishing every single patient that is in pain is not the correct way to “solve” the problem, nor is it anywhere close to remotely fair to the rest of the population of patients that are in moderate pain.
I think the doctors and patient should try to work together to find something that actually works. If the patient has to keep increasing the dosage then it is not working. As with Vioxx there were certain doses that worked and taking extra did absolutely nothing so the was no point and not really a risk of OD.