Obama: Limiting opiate prescriptions won’t solve crisis

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President Barack Obama has declined to endorse a proposal from the nation’s governors to limit the number of high-powered painkillers doctors can prescribe at a time.

Obama hosted the National Governors Association at the White House on Monday. At their meeting this weekend, the governors said limiting the number of Oxycontin pills that doctors can hand out for short-term injuries would help curb the nation’s heroin epidemic.

Obama was cool to the idea, noting that painkillers are sometimes the only realistic treatment option for people in rural communities. He says simply ordering doctors not to overprescribe won’t solve their patients’ problems and that limiting prescriptions should be part of a comprehensive approach.

Addiction to heroin and opiate painkillers is killing 78 Americans a day, according to federal data.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...196228-d99c-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6_story.html
 
How do they think that prescribing less OxyContin will help with the heroin epidemic. I have read since the makers of OxyContin made them harder to abuse it has made the use of heroin rise. I am sick of insurance companies and big Pharma making money off of people that need them. No matter what the need. I don't think the war on drugs has worked. My rant. Thank you for your time
 
Such a reactionary proposition.
Not a in a governor's jurisdiction to make such calls. Obama is right to not play these games.
 
What I have seen was there used to be a 5-10 year cycle of abuse of sorts of when it came to hard drugs, especially heroin, at least from where I'm from. A generation would use heroin, they would be naive and would get hooked, some would od and the youth 5 years younger would see the negative impact of their neighbors, parents and siblings that were casualties. But since rise of prescription pharms from the mid 90's onward.... it's never ending. The epidemic is so rampant that everyone is using and society as a whole has become so lax on the dangers that everyone becomes a potential lifelong addict. When I was younger that wasn't the case. They didn't prescribe "narcotic" drugs like candy, and they certainly didn't prescribe any feel good drugs to teens. Why? Because of the lessons learned in the 60's through the early 80's. But its like everyone in the seat of power of the medical industry suddenly had amnesia and the opiate/opiod, benzo, and stimulant faucet was turned on in the late 90's. I only knew of 2 people who even tried using prescription pills to get high in high school. There is a direct correlation with over prescribing and lax regulation with the FDA with psychoactive drugs in regards to the opiate/benzo/meth epidemic we are facing today. I am shocked that he didn't do anything and feel it was his backers who influenced his decision, he knows first hand how out of control the problem is in his hometown of Chicago and has done NOTHING. 80% of the world's oxy being prescribed in Florida? They prime kids and teens to use meth by prescribing stimulants, the rise of prescription stims mirrors the same spike in use of meth. I guess if you got a degree to deal drugs you should be left alone...smh
 
On the other hand, the addiction rates can have the other effect of making it very hard for people in genuine pain to get the relief they need.
Should those people be forced to suffer (more) because they happen to need a class of drug that is also addictive/recreational?
(Consider that a rhetorical question).

I suppose what i am getting at is that these matters should be a medical issue, not a political one.
Does the fact that a Governor has been voted into office give him or her informed authority to make decisions about medical issues?
I'm concerned that it is a reactive stance, that puts people with medical problems and long-term pain in a really tough position when it comes to getting the meds they need.

Addiction issues can - and should - be addressed in other ways, such as funding rehab, detox and drug counselling services, as we have in Australia. There is no perfect solution, of course - but i can't see this bill having the intended outcome without causing a lot of people needless suffering.
 
Obama likely saw this for the publicity stunt it is. The fact is, doctors are already limited in their prescribing of opiates by two major forces: self-policing from within the healthcare system, and the DEA. Any doctor who habitually prescribes unusually large amounts of opiates will attract the wrong kind of attention very quickly, and be at least warned, if not sanctioned. The culture of healthcare in the US is definitely bending in the direction of "very few people need opiates", and "completely pain-free is an unrealistic goal".
 
People are going to find a way to use. It doesn't matter if you get from a doctor or on the street. As spacejunk stated there are much more realistic ways to combat addiction, and it should never be a political statement to oppose it through prohibition. Why should we take a tool away from doctors because some people enjoy it. There are people in legitimate pain that are forced to just deal with it even though if an addict doesn't get a pill they will just resort to heroin. Basically the PM patient is punished while the addict barely breaks stride.
 
My ranting is back. The war on drugs is back. The new man in the White House is telling a health care provider what is best for the patient.
 
Fuck Obama, with his keen sense of reason and developed intelligence and what not! Fuck scientific studies and hard evidence! That's why I voted for Trump: who needs logic when you've got money? Who needs reasons when you've got God? America!
 
take every chronic pain patient in the US....several millions.....they will all become heroin users.

I had a full prescription for fentanyl patches and switched to heroin because the hassle of literally spending days going to pharmacies every month wasn't worth it anymore.
 
He right but it won't matter. Getting long term painkillers for non cancer pain is done. Especially when it comes to non obvious stuff.
 
Of course it won't work. It will create more ppl relying on illicit opiates adding to the increased risk of death or incarceration. Seems like a win win for them. God forbid the idiots that create these types of bill and restrictions should have to know what chronic pain is. Until there are better options opiates are the gold standard.
 
'medicine cabinet' said:
Of course it won't work. It will create more ppl relying on illicit opiates adding to the increased risk of death or incarceration. Seems like a win win for them. God forbid the idiots that create these types of bill and restrictions should have to know what chronic pain is. Until there are better options opiates are the gold standard.
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I'm convinced that the fda has decided that little can be done for the people who already had large scripts or got into heroin. They have written us off as dead. That's why the CIA is backing this fent epidemic. It's kind of a coincidence that as soon as the US pulls out of Afghanistan the fent hits the street. Unspeakable tragedy is occuring.
 
As to my previous rant abt Trump on the patient health provider relationship, I was wrong. I recently went for my check in to get my prescription for my OxyContin filled and was told that the new regulation started in October of 2016. Look at the CDC website they have recommendations on how to prescribe. The prescription of my OxyContin has to be adjusted to the morphine equivalent dose of 90 mg. I was taking too much according to that formula so my amount of OxyContin was lowered. There are other regulatory places that say the same as what the CDC says. I will be told at any time to have a urine test to see if I have opioids in my system. That way they will know I am not selling them. That is my thinking. Please tell me how this is going to help the opioid overdose problem I had another thought what has happened to the epidemic of meth. Hopefully states can get their laws to change the possession of small amounts of meth to be changed to a misdemeanor.
Thank you
 
LucidSDreamr said:
I wonder what little Jeff sessions has to say about scripted opiates
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Nothing good. He is bad news for any progress towards HR. In Alabama was instrumental in keeping needle exchanges illegal despite Birmingham having one of the highest rate of new hep c infections in the nation. He is old school drug warrior. I am glad he's out of the senate though. With a little luck the Russian probe will get him fired and out of politics completely.
 
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