The our health care system.. when I first started as a pharmacist… it was pretty much you had a DISEASE or you DIDN’T..
Today we have all sorts of PRE-disease CONDITIONS… think of pre-diabetes, pre-hypertension… sometimes when I get frustrated with someone wanting to discuss all of these PRE-ISSUES on someone’s health… I try to bring things back to reality EVERYTHING AFTER BIRTH IS PRE-DEATH !
I try to look at how the media, the various bureaucracies , and healthcare itself in a “big picture” context. I try to to look at what is said, what is not said.. and how often the “truth” is twisted.
They routinely state that opiates are ADDICTIVE or HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
They routinely state that Fentanyl is involved with a OD… when it is one of many ILLEGAL FENTANYL ANALOGS
They tend to ignore the decrease in legal opiate prescription while OD are going dramatically in the opposite direction.
They have even changed the nomenclature:
No more accidental overdoses.. just anyone dying with a opiate in toxicology has their death certificate designate their cause of death to be “opiate related death”
No more addiction/dependence .. just anyone using opiates (legally/illegally) for >90 days… is suffering from a “opiate use disorder”
CDC published opiate dosing guidelines and the then head of the CDC made the statement that they DID NOT BEAR THE WEIGHT OF LAW. One has to ask why a Fed agency in charge of dealing with contagious disease, elected to publish these opiate guidelines while at the same time ignore publishing any guidelines in treating addiction
Then we have various insurance companies, PBM’s and large healthcare corporation are now setting up some additional opiate guidelines. Daily MME limits, Prior Authorization, Quantity limits and the like.. while at the same time eliminating any limitations on the treatment of addiction.
Could it be that “the powers to be” have decided – for whatever reason – chronic pain is a pre-addiction symptom and thus those who are addicted are treated to change their behavior – which would suggest that they are treating addiction as the mental health issue that it really is… but treating chronic pain as symptom of an impending addition.
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You are dead on Steve.I agree with Mary excellent piece.
As I saw the lowered doses of pain meds,higher prescription prices,ridiculous regulations and higher priced monthly office visits at my pain clinic I was concerned. I saw they were treating chronic pain as a symptom of impending addiction and that was when I knew I had enough. Not too mention the list that you just added they just pulled since last year.
I LOVE THIS PIECE,,,IT TRULY POINTS OUT THE ,”HOW” THEY DID THIS TORTURE ONTO THE MEDICALLY ILL,,,ALL CORRUPTED OF COURSE,,BUT,,,JMO,,,,,EXCELLENT PIECE ON THE HOW,,THEY DID THIS TO US,,,,maryw