Four hundred million opiate pills were being prescribed annually in Tennessee. Whose population is 6 million.
This is a crime against humanity.
400,000,000 Pills
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Four hundred million opiate pills were being prescribed annually in Tennessee. Whose population is 6 million.
This is a crime against humanity.
Clarissa's Blog 
If my calculation is correct it is 66.66 per person.That means that many people don’t take any.If someone take 3 per day that is over 1000 per year.This is for people with severe chronic pain.Here I know too people on morphine patches without which they are totally disabled by pain.They might get depressed or even kill themselvesif their pain was not treated.And with your gun laws they could shoot themselves .Do you suffer chronic pain and if so how do you cope?I hope you don’t have it but if you do you know whta I am talking about….Katherine
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I’m not sure what your message is. That the pharmaceutical company which used false advertising to get thousands of people addicted to opiates did a good thing?
Only last week I was offered a bottle of 30 Oxy after a simple tooth extraction. And I was given another bottle of 30 Oxy after an elective c-section 6 months before. And my husband was given a bottle of 30 Oxy after a root canal. Neither of us complained about pain or even asked for medication.
What persistent pain? What disabled people? This junk is handed out like candy to completely healthy young people who often turn into heroin addicts as a result. Nobody denies that opiates are helpful to terminal cancer patients. But prescribing it to healthy people with minor passing conditions is immoral and vicious.
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I was trying to show that the figure might not be as alarming as it looks when you present it that way/Have you written a post on false advertising? Opiates taken for a short time are very useful as I found after cancer surgery on my face.I think though it requires self-discipline to take them only for a short time.The long-term pain could be severe rheumatoid arthritis.Here it’s a problem to get strong enough relief and we don’t see ads for opiates.
And also opiates very in strength.I was given some once 4 times as strong as previous ones but I only took them for 2 nights.
Also people vary in how much pain they can take.I had a tooth out and had no pain but in the past had severe pain..I don’t know why
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I don’t need to write a post about the crimes of greedy and immoral Purdue Pharma. There is an in-depth report published as a book on this subject. The book’s title is Dreamland. I highly recommend. There are so many people who are dead or addicted to heroin because of these pills. So many people, including very young kids.
It should be illegal to prescribe more than 1 or 2 pills to anybody who is not a terminal patient at a hospice. But doctors are handing them out in huge bottles of 30. Even today, after a wave of Oxy deaths across the country.
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I suppose they do the same with anti-depressants and all sorts of drugs.Then tey are helped by the psychiatrists who define childhood disobedience as a mental illness… in fact nearly all behaviou is a mental illness.Long gone are the days when being shy or disobedient was normal behaviour.Here masses of children are now “autistic”
Nevertheless I think sometimes milder opiates are useful after certain surgeries or when struggling with agonising joint pain.I am not so adamantine as you seem to be.I’ve never k nown anyone get addicted,the opposite: people need them and can’t get them.I repeat they vary in strength by huge amounts
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A month’s supply of daily oxycontin seems excessive for a tooth extraction on an otherwise healthy person. Maybe it has to do with insurance? I remember when I had five teeth removed (four impacted wisdom teeth and a random baby tooth). I was on a drip, but I was conscious enough to remind my dentist about the last tooth. He had to take out bits of my jaw and honestly I was fine after two days, living on soft foods. I took antibiotics for a week and maybe some Vicodin for a couple of days. I don’t think I finished that prescription and it certainly wasn’t for a month.
I think sometimes people take more painkillers when they’d be better served by resting, but wouldn’t oxycontin make people loopy? I can’t speak to c-sections or root canals or joint pain.
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“A month’s supply of daily oxycontin seems excessive for a tooth extraction on an otherwise healthy person.”
That’s what I’m saying! The last time, the doctor actually ran into the parking lot after me, waving the prescription at me. I couldn’t explain verbally why I wasn’t taking it because I was still anesthetized. So I just ran away. I still have a massive stock of Oxy at home from the surgery. I keep counting for how much I could sell it on the street, coming up with ridiculous amounts. (As a joke, of course. I’m not actually going to sell them.)
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“I think sometimes people take more painkillers when they’d be better served by resting, but wouldn’t oxycontin make people loopy?”
I remember that it made me extremely alert, happy, energized and feeling like I was omnipotent. It was so scary. But I do understand why people might want to feel like that permanently.
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My former dentist used to have a tv with a remote in his examination room so anxious patients could relax. Hilariously, research bears his ideas out.
Screen Time Works as Well as Sedatives in Calming Kids Down
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You mentioned insurance companies… I suffered extreme nausea and vomiting with my pregnancies, worse and longer with every subsequent pregnancy. With the third one I lost 30 lbs because I could not keep anything down for 5 months. The OB gave me Zofran to help with the nausea and insurance would not allow Walgreens to dispense more than 3 at a time, so I had to go to the goddamn pharmacy every 3 days or halve the pills and have them for nearly a week and only take some before teaching so I could straighten up enough to go into the classroom. It took many calls from OB office to convince insurance to let Walgreens dispense whopping 10 at a time. So they dispense opiates like candy but worry about abuse of fuckin’ nausea medication?
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“So they dispense opiates like candy but worry about abuse of fuckin’ nausea medication?”
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Start selling birth control pills on the street? Turn into a birth control drug lord? In the meanwhile, people are getting literally hundreds of pills of highly addictive opiates. What sense is this making?
Wait five minutes for the next session of Congress. Then you’ll hear legions of talking heads shriek about “birth control drug lords” dispending pills like old fashioned Smarties from inside some commodious trenchcoats, cruising America in minivans, corrupting teens on their way to play rainbow parties on Snapchat.
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So they dispense opiates like candy but worry about abuse of fuckin’ nausea medication?
I was a Bendectin baby.
I’m sure you had to pay quite a bit of extra money for prenatal care and delivery to be covered under insurance. I suspect latent puritanical thinking that women should suffer for boinking.
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I’m waiting for somebody to study what’s going on with insulin pens and why my insurance doesn’t even cover them. I suspect there might be the same issue as with the currently scandalous epipens.
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