https://news.tn.gov/taxonomy/term/76
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam joined Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (TDMHSAS) Commissioner E. Douglas Varney and others today to announce “Prescription for Success,” the state’s plan to prevent and treat prescription drug abuse in Tennessee.
Prescription drug abuse is a pervasive, multi-dimensional issue impacting Tennessee individuals, families, and communities. Of the 4,850,000 adults in Tennessee, it is estimated that nearly 5 percent (about 221,000) have used pain relievers, also known as prescription opioids, in the past year for non-medical purposes. Of those, it is estimated that 69,100 are addicted to prescription opioids and require treatment for prescription opioid abuse.
The Gov of TN… is committed that although they have been trying – unsuccessfully – eliminating drug addiction in his state for a “number of years”.. they are going to have a multi-focal process to attain that goal in the next few years..
The THIRD POINT of his SEVEN POINT PLAN .. explains it all.. “Reduced the amount of control substances that are dispensed in TN”
I am sure that everyone with at least three brain cells holding hands… knows that if you reduce the number of controls dispensed.. that is going to automatically stop those who like to abuse some substance.. because.. they will also know that there are NO KNOWN VALID MEDICAL NEEDS FOR OPIATES/CONTROLS.
I know that it was a short video.. I must have missed them planning on eliminating the sales of tobacco and alcohol that kills about FIFTEEN TIMES the people annually that drug overdoses does ?
They mentioned that abt 5% of population had “used” opiates without a medical need and that abt 1.5% of the population is “addicted”… right around national averages… Again, I missed the number of minors that had “used” alcohol or tobacco products and/or how many minors are “addicted” to these drugs ?
But, I forgot .. this whole press conference was about DRUG ADDICTION….
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Oh god, the war against disabled as the real drug users are making dangerous concoctions of other things, as more die from.bloodyhinners and more symptoms from psych drugs, and the stats are all skewed. How about monitoring drs do diagnosis investigatively, and start trying trying to save more lives vs drs that do nothing and let people suffer, as the overbill with medicare fraud?
Thanks for helping me understand that this plan makes no logical sense. I can’t get what medication is ordered locally because of discrimination. Finding a doctor that will not force the useless painful dangerous injections is almost impossible and they are not FDA approved. The disabled need help not more grief and pain. Appreciate your honesty.
Then there also needs to be a distinction between true addiction and a phenomenon of psuedoaddiction as seen in many chronic pain patients (especially cancer pain) when their pain is undertreated physicians. And these opioidphobics also need to understand a chrionic pain paitient is going to become dependent and tolerant to their dose and yes require higher doses. Maybe everyone…pharmacists docs, DEA, wholesale people and whoever is involved in the drug industry needs to go back to take a series of pharmacy CE on pain management from A-Z and make it required and in depth.I totally agree with you on your stats. I have a very close friend who has MS and Osteoporosis among other things who lives in southern IN and I feel helpless in trying to help her as an RPh in trying to get her meds. When she lived up here, I was able to use my contacts with my local colleagues to vouch for her to get them. This witchhunt needs to stop. Ok, I’m off my soapbox at least for now. Thanks for letting me rant.