Posted by bsj on November 29, 2003, at 19:48:33
In reply to Re: Boy~Do I miss Vicodin! » bsj, posted by krazybirdlady on November 29, 2003, at 19:03:00
"you'd be better to fall down and go "OWWW" my back hurts. then you'd have an "accepted" course of action"
Well, we can't let doctors off the hook completely--they're as much to blame for opiophobia as the DEA. The AMA can be a powerful lobby when it wants to be, and if enough doctors wanted to increase prescription of opiates, the DEA (or similar agencies in other countries) would not be able to stop them.
Right now, I don't need a psychiatrist to prescribe my pills; you can (apparently legally) buy up to 60 doses of hydrocodone every 25 days at online pharmacies. This fits my needs perfectly. Of course, in recent months the DEA has been trying like mad to close these places down. A balancing factor to this is that pain study that came out a few weeks ago--the one pointing out how untreated pain has huge economic costs; hopefully that will exert some pressure on the DEA to allow online pharmacies to continue selling hydrocodone. We'll see. (The U.S. has to be most paternalistic and paranoid country where drugs are concerned; e.g., in the UK you can buy Tylenol with codeine OTC. Over here, if you have pain that demands even a weak opiate, you have to go shell out cash for an office visit, and probably some x-rays; that just seems silly to me.)
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