The state legislature and AG’s seem to have a game plan that they keep bringing out.
A few years ago a small pharmaceutical company brought out a opiate product call Zohydro and basically all it was .. was a long acting (12 hr) Hydrocodone WITHOUT any Acetaminophen/Tylenol. Came in various strengths from 10 mg to 50 mg.
The anti-opiate groups reacted like a bunch of “rabid dogs”.. they told the media that it was some sort of “death med”… they jumped to comparing the lowest dose of Vicodin/Norco that was prescribed – 5 mg.. to the most potent strength of the Zohydro 50mg. Since many chronic pain pts take 4-6 Norco 10/day.. a total of 40 mg – 60 mg.. their reaction was nothing short of irrational hysteria .
State after state starting passing rules about how Zohydro could be prescribed/dispensed.. some even tried to ban its sale in their state. Because all of this “banning” was done at the state level, the company producing this product had to challenge the rules at the various state level. What state AG’s succeeded in doing was bankrupting the company because the company was force to fight legal Goliaths in numerous states at the same time.
IMO.. it looks like they are trying the same “game” with limiting opiates to pain pts.. more and more states..plus the Feds are creating rules/limitations. Early this year, there was a published survey where 90% of the family with a chronic pain pt member. The disease itself and/or the cost of treating the disease was causing a financial hardship on the family.
So it would appear that these “bureaucratic bullies” are creating a “mine field” of state and Federal level obstacles for chronic pain pts to get thru. It is going to take a battalion of attorneys and a Fort Knox pile of money to individually challenge all of these laws.
If your life is not being impacted by all these opiate dosing limitation, but all means… vote to keep the current legislature in place. If you don’t have “deep pockets” to help fund the challenges to all of these unconstitutional laws/rules/regulations… then perhaps you need to consider voting to “clean house”… a legislature can just as easily REPEAL an existing law as they can pass a new law.
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Majority of people don’t know that the next president can repeal any law with the stroke of spending along with the legislature,why do you think they took history an government studies out of education!!!