drug addiction

[wat is best]

I wanna know what the citizens think is the best way to handle all the addiction problems in our community.

[Start with doctors]

First limit prescriptions doctors can write! Second if their on welfare drug test them & if positive for drugs no more welfare. Third bust them & send them to jail don't give meth addicts or meth lab people shock probation!

[yelp]

I agree. I think doctors are to easy to write pain meds. But after a doctor gets them hooked I think they should offer options to help get them off if them. I know now urgent clinic is pushing people left and right to just go to a pain clinic. I know they set the knew law in motion but the way I see it help them get off the mess, don't shove them on to a drug house. 1/2 of this town takes pain pills. I think its sad. Plus not going to mention the docs name that just stopped practicing but I know that's the main reason urgent care is having to send alot of people to pain management. Again sad. I say help. Get them off the stuff.

[silver fox]

I agree to a point. If a doctor gives Pain Meds when they are needed, and if you take them as prescribed, you will not get addicted.

The problem is when the doctor give 30days of Oxecotin and you are back in 15 days for more= then 1 of 2 things are happening, either you are taking way too much ( and if that is the case, you will get addicted) or you are selling.

We don't need to have the doctors to stop pain meds totally, some people really do need them, some like me that have pain that sometimes nothing else will help.= But 30 days of Hydros will last me 2 or 3 months.

The problem could be solved if they would come up with a system where doctors could look and see if another doctor in the state has prescribed pain meds for the same person and how long ago that was.

These people are not dumb, they know how to doctor shop.

[Anonymous]

They have solved that problem of more than 1 doc prescribing meds with KASPAR. It tracks every narcotic prescribed.

[yelp]

@silver fox. I hate to disagree with you but you can get hooked by following doctors orders I did. I agree sometimes people need it. But I know from being on pain killers for 15 yrs. Doctors orders. I have severe med problems but your pain gets harder to manage. You actually hurt more. Any form if exercise helps pain. I agree again tonight is a night I need some kind of medicine. My pain is very intense. Its just such a fine line. I take the same amount as yrs ago. I don't get high off them. It pisses me off thou to have to pay to be drug tested and screened every mth so I choose to go off of them. I pray I can stand the pain. But the dope heads get all medical free and pills free so their the only ones can actually follow the doctors rules.

[silver fox]

yelp wrote:

@silver fox. I hate to disagree with you but you can get hooked by following doctors orders I did. I agree sometimes people need it. But I know from being on pain killers for 15 yrs. Doctors orders. I have severe med problems but your pain gets harder to manage. You actually hurt more. Any form if exercise helps pain. I agree again tonight is a night I need some kind of medicine. My pain is very intense. Its just such a fine line. I take the same amount as yrs ago. I don't get high off them. It pisses me off thou to have to pay to be drug tested and screened every mth so I choose to go off of them. I pray I can stand the pain. But the dope heads get all medical free and pills free so their the only ones can actually follow the doctors rules.

You may be right, I have only been on them for about a yr now. I am in my 60s and have never taken pain meds much at all. Even now I take as little as possible. But I know people that take 2-3 times what the dr. prescribes and then fusses because they can't get more.

And yes, if you are a addict you can get all you want, you know all the right places and people that will sell you pills. It burns me up, when I know people are on Food Stamps, and get help with bills, but they have money for gas and to buy drugs.

But I don't think stopping the drs. from prescribing pain meds is a way to solve the problem, if I can take a half of hydro and be able to sleep at night, because it dulls the pain, then that's what I am gonna do. I started on (half of one)almost a yr ago and as long as that helps I don't want to take more.

You can't tell me that the drs don't know who is abusing and who is not= like I said early a 30day supply will usually last me 2-3 month because I only take them when nothing else works. But the drs have people come in there all the time wanting more meds way before theirs should have run out.

Cut off the ones that are coming back all the time. I know a person that takes 15=20 hydros a day and still complains, and he is in his early 30s. But yet if there is something FUN that he wants to do, his pain doesn't seem to bother him. MAKES ME WONDER. Anyway just my 2 cents. Have a great day

[yelp]

I agree. Until all my diagnosis came back the docs looked at me like I was a drug head because I complained of pain. Then all my test came back and they were like I can't see how you bare it. But then everytime I go to the doc they Sorda act like im a dope head. But I see the same pill heads there begging and they just write it out i but I agree we shouldn't have to suffer but we do.

[kyresident]

I my self am in my early 30's been on pain meds since i was 18 I agree you do get addicted really easy and as for them taking people off of there meds they do need to take some people off of so much meds. and I have been called in on not once but several times but like my doctor said there are people that just gets mad at someone and tries to get there meds taken away because they are not getting any but my doctor does do Random drug screens.Aslong as I take my meds right there is nothing no one can do.So if your reading this and you know who I am and you are the dope head skank you can kiss my A$$!!!!!!!!

[Jamey Mitchell]

This is a sad topix, people get addicted for many reasons, but one thing is sure, there hurting in some way. Help them see that there somebody and that they can feel better without drugs of there choice. Be there friend and try to understand there pain without pointing fingers. Jamey

[Addict]

silver fox wrote:

I agree to a point. If a doctor gives Pain Meds when they are needed, and if you take them as prescribed, you will not get addicted.

The problem is when the doctor give 30days of Oxecotin and you are back in 15 days for more= then 1 of 2 things are happening, either you are taking way too much ( and if that is the case, you will get addicted) or you are selling.

We don't need to have the doctors to stop pain meds totally, some people really do need them, some like me that have pain that sometimes nothing else will help.= But 30 days of Hydros will last me 2 or 3 months.

The problem could be solved if they would come up with a system where doctors could look and see if another doctor in the state has prescribed pain meds for the same person and how long ago that was.

These people are not dumb, they know how to doctor shop.

Im sry I have to DISAGREE with you on this one. I accidentally got hooked on prescription pain pills that my dr prescribed. And i nvr abused them i took as prescribed and its a proven fact u take something on a regular basis everyday n our bodies get used to that n its gna need it if u dont have it. I struggled with it for over 6 yrs but im 4 yrs clean now. These drs really need to do different. But thats them n its hard to not treat a patient when they are constantly sayn there hurtn. They kno kno all the warning signs but they still prescribe

[silver fox]

Addict wrote:

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Im sry I have to DISAGREE with you on this one. I accidentally got hooked on prescription pain pills that my dr prescribed. And i nvr abused them i took as prescribed and its a proven fact u take something on a regular basis everyday n our bodies get used to that n its gna need it if u dont have it. I struggled with it for over 6 yrs but im 4 yrs clean now. These drs really need to do different. But thats them n its hard to not treat a patient when they are constantly sayn there hurtn. They kno kno all the warning signs but they still prescribe

I congradulate you on being clean for 4yr. I am on pain meds, but I don't take them everyday,only when nothing else works.

I haven't been on them for very long, and I was concerned about becoming addicted to them, but my dr. assured me that if I only took them as prescribed that I would not get addicted.

Now I don't take them as prescribed, I take maybe half of that= I cut them into and most times that works. But I had a person tell me that she took 10 to 12 a day.

I don't know of any dr. that would prescribe that many.

But; this thread was about the ones that abuse the system=and they are plenty of them. But there are also people that really need them.
I would hate for that 80yr. old to not be able to have something that will help her pain. At 80 I am not going to worry too much about becoming addicted.

just my opinions.

[Addict]

silver fox wrote:

<quoted text>I congradulate you on being clean for 4yr. I am on pain meds, but I don't take them everyday,only when nothing else works.

I haven't been on them for very long, and I was concerned about becoming addicted to them, but my dr. assured me that if I only took them as prescribed that I would not get addicted.

Now I don't take them as prescribed, I take maybe half of that= I cut them into and most times that works. But I had a person tell me that she took 10 to 12 a day.

I don't know of any dr. that would prescribe that many.

But; this thread was about the ones that abuse the system=and they are plenty of them. But there are also people that really need them.
I would hate for that 80yr. old to not be able to have something that will help her pain. At 80 I am not going to worry too much about becoming addicted.

just my opinions.

I agree totally. I undrstand wat ur sayn

[Blueminer]

Well I certainly do not intend to engage in any debate here, but I just want to make one point.

Taking meds as prescribed can also lead to addiction.
Some, way more than others.

Some rely on sleeping pills to get rest. In a matter of days the addiction starts.

It is reputed stronger pain medications will have someone addicted in no time using them as prescribed. I've heard this about morphine and morphine like drugs.

The Opiates can have one addicted very quickly. If I understand correctly after a standard round of therapy using opiates, some patients have to be treated for addiction. Even though doctors orders were followed completely.

[tinponyrider]

Blueminer wrote:

Well I certainly do not intend to engage in any debate here, but I just want to make one point.
Taking meds as prescribed can also lead to addiction.
Some, way more than others.
Some rely on sleeping pills to get rest. In a matter of days the addiction starts.
It is reputed stronger pain medications will have someone addicted in no time using them as prescribed. I've heard this about morphine and morphine like drugs.
The Opiates can have one addicted very quickly. If I understand correctly after a standard round of therapy using opiates, some patients have to be treated for addiction. Even though doctors orders were followed completely.

Well Blue, I would have to totally agree. I don't take pain meds because I do believe that I could get addict to them because I like that no pain feel. So I only take Ibuprofen only, knowing that I could and would get addicted to them. So I try to not take them, because I like my job better than the medication, humm go figure.

[tinponyrider]

Not for sure "but" I want to say after taking Lorcet for more that seven days you are considered "addicted" to them. Correct if I am wrong,(feel free to do so) but either way is "not" good.

[Addict]

Blueminer wrote:

Well I certainly do not intend to engage in any debate here, but I just want to make one point.

Taking meds as prescribed can also lead to addiction.
Some, way more than others.

Some rely on sleeping pills to get rest. In a matter of days the addiction starts.

It is reputed stronger pain medications will have someone addicted in no time using them as prescribed. I've heard this about morphine and morphine like drugs.

The Opiates can have one addicted very quickly. If I understand correctly after a standard round of therapy using opiates, some patients have to be treated for addiction. Even though doctors orders were followed completely.

Your exactly right. Im certainly one of those