Important:. ESPECIALLY FOR PATIENTS WHO MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY ABSORBING OR METABOLIZING ABUSE DETERRENT OPIOIDS

(CALL TO ACTION ALERT) Hey folks, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review is accepting public comments in order to draft guidelines that will be used for formulating, pricing, and prescribing Opioid Analgesics with Abuse Deterrent Technology. They seem to be fair, and unbiased, and not anti opioid. Please consider commenting and addressing issues such as 1) what if they dont work? 2) what about the stigma around prescribing me an “abuse deterrent’ medicine when I DONT ABUSE? 3) what happens if it simply doesnt work for me, but I am cut off from my standard, common opioid analgesics? 4) what if Insurance companies wont cover it since they now believe Im an addict that needs “ABUSE DETERRENT” formulated medicines? 5) what if , since they are new medicines, are pushed into the higher Tier brackets and the co pays are unaffordable, and IM NOT ALLOWED TO GET ANOTHER CHOICE in opioid analgesics? and so on. Please consider a list of concerns you have with this push to start making ALL PRESCRIPTION ANALGESICS AVAILABLE ONLY WITH ABUSE DETERRENT TECHNOLOGY. We are not addicts. We cannot simply accept this belief that we are, and we ‘need’ these medicines because we ‘abuse so much medicine’. While there SHOULD be ADT medicines available for ADDICTS and those who are ‘at risk’, the average pain patient should not be forced to have to take these UNPROVEN, and EXPENSIVE medicines, which will ADD STIGMA and PERSECUTION to my health care needs. (PLEASE SHARE IN OTHER GROUPS AND PAGES).

www.icer-review.org/topic/abuse-deterrent-opioids/

LINK TO MAKE COMMENTS

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FDA-2017-N-1094-0001

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