Comment · Tue, October 29, 2013
FDA Proposal To Curb Painkiller Overdose Deaths Would Add Burdens For Pain Patients
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Fifteenth_Platypus · 0 points
There is already an enormous black market for opiates. I don't know what rich kid neighbourhood you live in but where I live I interact with opiate addicts every day. The majority of them do not have a perscription for them. The doctors in my province are extremely lax with giving out drugs, and it shows. Drug dealers hang outside pharmacies and will offer financially struggling senior citizens hundreds of dollars for their pills, because they know there's a hefty supply of addicts who'll break their kids piggy bank to buy them. Just look up "Opiate abuse P.E.I.", you'll see what I'm talking about.
Cocaine, Meth, Heroin, and other drugs are becoming less and less of a problem. But opiate abuse is on the rise all over the western world. Like I've said several times before, and like you just can't seem to grasp, I do not care if some one is actually experiencing chronic pain and they take opiates to subdue it. But something needs to be done. I've lost too many friends to little white pills.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
So how does changing it from schedule 3 to 2 alter that market at all? Are you suggesting there is no oxycodone on the black market? Because that is schedule 2. Scheduling doesn't do shit if the doctors are skirting their responsibility and prescribing it improperly, or not informing their patients about the risks of addiction.
I am on oxycodone right now. I've been given a script for it before multiple times. I have also been given a script for hydrocodone and codeine on multiple occasions. Guess how many times my doctors have discussed with me the addition profile of the drugs. Not even that. Guess how many times I have even been given detailed instructions on how to use opiates properly. ZERO! I have never been given any relevant information by any of the doctors that have prescribed me opiates. Not so much as a 30 second long primer. That's the problem right there, not government regulations. It's the healthcare industry's fault.
This time I told the doctor that I have an allergy to acetaminophen so he would give me the oxy without it. There's no fucking reason to have it mixed with it, except to damage people's livers. It's not like I don't have 1,000 acetaminophen pills in my medicine cabinet already if I really wanted to add it in there. All this fucking government intervention is fucking shit up. They are not preventing addiction. They are not saving your friends. They are just ruining people's lives under the guise of morality, and you are letting them do it with your attitude toward it. Addiction is a medical problem, not a legal problem.