Posted by yxibow on December 14, 2008, at 6:00:39
In reply to Re: Prescription opiods leading cause of Accidental OD » Phillipa, posted by Phillipa on December 14, 2008, at 0:51:35
> I don't get it though as it's next to impossible to get a prescription for opiods even after my surgery it was a lidocaine pump and about 4 days of an opiod???? Phillipa
I personally think that if you can't treat other symptoms in a situation, pain is really the humane thing to be treating.
Its unfortunate that the focus on OxyContin and its diversion among other things has lead MDs to be much more cautious in writing any prescription with the DEA watching their medical license.
That being said, obviously opiods are habit forming and become addictive pretty soon, so that the use of them for post-trauma pain is generally kept to a short term use unless longer hospital stays are necessary in serious and possibly terminal situations.
There wasn't so much of this problem more than a decade ago when I had my wisdom (all four and I think at least one impacted) teeth taken out under local (I didn't like the idea of being put out, although it was 50 minutes of something that is a bit too unsavory to describe here -- would have been nice to have one of the teeth as a souvenir, never asked for it... okay that's odd, but anyhow).
I had I think most of a week's worth of percocet although I only used about 3 days -- after all that I deserved to find cartoons incredibly amusing. About the only legal (not that I've done otherwise) high I've had.
-- Jay
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