Ohio introduces opioid prescribing guidelines
From the article:
Officials said 44 organizations in the state, including the Ohio State Medical Board and Ohio Board of Pharmacy, developed the new guidelines.
Does anyone wonder who the other 42 “organizations” were involved?.. my money is on the vast majority had to do with some sort of drug diversion as their primary focus…
The new guidelines recommend that 80 milligrams Morphine Equivalent Daily Dose (MED) should trigger the prescriber to “press pause” and reevaluate the effectiveness and safety of the patient’s pain management plan
There goes dosing Morphine SR 30 mg every 8 hours…. which MAY help manage MODERATE PAIN… those in SEVERE PAIN.. need not apply… and this dose is 33% LESS than the state of Washington imposed as a daily limit of Morphine equivalent.. Maybe the people in the mid-west are more pain tolerant than those in the North West ?
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You want to throw someone that thinks they know about how much pain a person is in… pain is subjective… so is hunger, thirst, sleepiness, fatigue and dare anyone to look.at a person and determine what a particular person’s hunger, thirst, sleepiness or fatigue is at any given point in time. Also.. ask these “know-it-all” how they would fair if someone else told them how much food or how many calories that you need to resolve your hunger.. and how often you could eat… the same with water/fluid and amount a person sleeps. All of these vary .. minute to minute.. hour to hour.. day to day.. so does the intensity of a person with chronic pain…
My idea of pain meds is that someone in severe pain should get whatever it takes to alleviate the pain. Seems that every bozo with half a brain thinks they know just how much pain meds a patient should get, despite they do not know what is wrong with the patient or the severity of the patients pain.