After 12 Yrs of U.S. Occupation, Afghanistan Sets Record for Growing Opium

[tod evans]

Yep. I see it every day. The new thing seems to be "pain management centers". Instead of a doctor writing a prescription for hydrocodone, they send them to a "pain management specialist" that has no clue about your actual problem and wants to "manage" your pain (which some people have already dealt with for many years and know what works for them, but now they get to start over and let some clueless, careless fuck tell them what to try next).

Sorry state of affairs eh?

Best part is this'll all be "free" now thanks to the new healthcare edicts.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Sorry state of affairs eh?

Best part is this'll all be "free" now thanks to the new healthcare edicts.

Free? Free pain in the ass, is what it has been for me, lately. I've had to take some of these people to the doctor and "pain management specialists" over and over all over the damn place (and even to another state once).

The most recent visit, for my aunt, to a "pain management specialist" was a total waste of 4 hours. We got caught in a construction zone on the highway, just sitting, and were 10 mins late to the appointment. Once there, the receptionist just said, "You'll have to reschedule, you're late". I just said, "Seriously", loudly and in her face, and stormed out!

 

[Red Green]

Just goes to show you what superior security and distribution can do to an enterprise. It allows the growers to do what they do best: grow.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Yep. I see it every day. The new thing seems to be "pain management centers". Instead of a doctor writing a prescription for hydrocodone, they send them to a "pain management specialist" that has no clue about your actual problem and wants to "manage" your pain (which some people have already dealt with for many years and know what works for them, but now they get to start over and let some clueless, careless fuck tell them what to try next).

What's even worse about the pain management centers, and healthcare in general is the lack of a patient/doctor relationship and government meddling with what the doctor thinks is best for a given patient.

For instance, DEA raids of pain management centers and doctors prescribing Oxycodone are not uncommon. A doctor is in fear to prescribe people the dose they need, or the amount they need for fear of being targeted by the DEA. It's why when in serious pain, they attempt to prescribe me Motrin or Ultram instead of highly regulated and highly watched narcotic based painkillers. Now I don't partake in opiates at all, considering all it does is mask the pain, you think the problem is gone, you go about your day and further aggravate the injury, you need more opiates to mask the pain of the aggravated injury, and on top of it all, you grow a tolerance to the drug. It leads many down a path of addiction with relatively no pain relief and certainly no curing of the actual problem. That is beside the point, though, as needing a permission slip to ingest a substance is about the most authoritarian concept I could imagine.

There are many people who are sick, from being on these pills for so long and their doctor gets raided, then the doctors are afraid to see these people or prescribe to them what they need because of the intimidating scope of DEA targeting. Pain management centers are a popup result from the problems with opiates as a means of treatment. The DEA harassment is part of the ruins called "healthcare."

I get annoyed because I'm reminded of this ridiculousness pretty regularly. Just recently I had a real bad cough and lung infection. They prescribed codeine cough syrup. I shit you not, this bottle was the size of one of those 1.75ml dollar bottles of liquor at the checkout line. (the really, really, small ones) Needless to say, that was drank in about an hour and the cough persisted for another two weeks. No need to bother trying to get a refill, either. I knew the answer to that one. I really don't know why people tolerated this nonsense and how it has become what it is. "Shaking my head" is an understatement. I'm baffled.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Probably just a coincidence.

 

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFikB4unZgo