ONE Board of Medicine member – hopefully a physician – along with appointed bureaucrats from the Governor’s office and of course, a number of people from the judicial system… making medical decisions on people that they have never seen and well probably never see. To set up rules/regulations/guidelines how prescribers are to practice medicine..
CONCORD — New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan is calling on the state’s Board of Medicine to develop stronger rules for prescribers of painkillers to help prevent opioid abuse.
Hassan called on the board to select one of its members by week’s end to work with her office and the attorney general’s office to come up with proposed rules by the board’s Oct. 7 meeting.
Hassan said the current recommendations are not rules and appear to be “outdated and inconsistent with the current understanding of the addictive propensities of opioids.”
She cited as a “glaring example” of the inadequacy of the present recommendations a patient consent form containing the language “I am aware that the chance of becoming addicted to my pain medication is very low.”
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This approach doesn’t work. Never has. Never will. The problem is that the State has one tool in its toolbox, a hammer. This century old public policy of drug prohibition has been like watching a game of Whack-a-Mole. The problem is the patient is the one who feels the pain, regardless of which of the actors get’s whacked.
At the end of the day, these groups that formulate the policies, whether they be a specially commissioned panel or an existing bureaucracy, are operating under the proposition that whatever they decide, it must first and foremost serve the interests of the State, for the State über alles.
People of New Hampshire better write, call and forward the info from BOP meetings (FL) to inform them to be careful…..the people who are truly “hurt” (pun intended) are those legitimate pain patients!