Treatment for a chronic pain patient should NOT include diminishing their quality of life to only being in bed, in constant agony. It should NOT include denial of opioids which would allow them to function. It's inhumane cruelty.
#USAPainCrisis
Those who demonize opioids do NOT know what it's like to be in physical and mental agony 24/7. They have no idea what it's like to feel agony that severely limits what they can do in life. For this reason, OUR Voices have to be the loudest ones in this fight!! 👊#USAPainCrisis RT
Kolodny needs to do more research.. Its not so cut and dry as he makes it out to be... This is why we need to understand all the different factors of how individual patients react to medications... Not everyone will feel euphoria from opioids.. New studies coming out suggest so..
#opioidhysteria#spoonies#chronicpain We have a massive public health crisis disallowing the entire population to use ancient, safe, medications for pain. The excuses are not sufficient to watch people squirm in pain due to chronic and rare painful diseases. This is horrible.
I spoke with a man from Texas last night. He's forced to get his pain medication off the street.
MS, several herniated discs.
His doctor retired two years ago and he has been struggling since then.
@Irishbrat1966 The Federal Givernment is putting pressure on distributors not to distribute oxycodone to pharmacies. Some pharmacies are only getting tiny amounts of 15 mg size. Not an offical ban but sneaky. Feds making decisions ignorance and fear based. Fear of addiction phobia. #opiophobia