Posted by sigismund on May 11, 2010, at 20:36:01
In reply to New Licensing In Future For Opiod Prescribing, posted by Phillipa on May 11, 2010, at 20:26:02
>Dr. Rappaport, also a neurologist, acknowledges that untreated chronic pain is an enormous public health problem. "We are going to need to find a balance," he said, "between ensuring patients can achieve adequate pain control with access to opioid therapies while taking steps to protect against addiction and death," he said.
Ha!
It is said that 2 to 3 million Australians are in chronic pain, which is one in seven.
NSAIDs damage the gut lining. Codeine simply shifts the pain to the gut. Paracetemol? Goodness. And then there's the addictive ones which work.
Cracking down (if that's what this is) is what we're good at.
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