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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]#NoMorePain or #StopthePain.

Congressional Legislators with morality and strength of character need to introduce the #NoMorePain Bill immediately. The No More Pain Bill would mandate that opioids cannot be prescribed for more than a 10-day supply. After that, any re-prescribing of opioids to the same person within a two-year period, must be administered at the physician's office and under physician supervision on a daily basis.

A universal pharmaceutical records patient database can be established and maintained for opioids only, in order to check that one patient does not repeatedly obtain a single prescription via multiple doctors. And the obligation that a physician administer any subsequent prescriptions on a daily basis, takes away a physician's argument that they just did not know.

The medical profession has already accepted as standard practice the recent, professionally-recommended, and voluntary limits on the over-prescription of antibiotics in order to prevent patient overuse and the subsequent development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The medical profession needs to similarly accept new, legally-imposed limits on the over-prescription of opioids to prevent patient overuse and the subsequent development of drug addictions.[/quote]

No thanks. I have chronic migraines. I get 15 of the lowest strength Vicodin (take 1-2 every 6 hours) a month.  I have taken this dose for 20 years and the use has not escalated. As it is, I have to go to the doctors office every month to get a prescription. They see me, ask if anything has changed. Write a prescription.  I leave. 5 minutes, except the half hour to and from, and the wait. Huge PITA. They cannot call a prescription in. They cannot do refills.  They have to do random urine screenings.  I have to keep a prescription of Narcan on hand.  For enough Vicodin to treat sever migraines  about 3 times  a month.  And I also do Botox.  Nerve ablutions. Take preventative. Use Imitrex. Etc.  Legit, above board headaches.

So now you want me to drive a half hour each way and sit in a doctors office to be handed the pills. And go back in 6 hours for a second dose if I need it. Should I drive with a migraine?  Should I drive on Vicodin? Should my husband take off work once a week and drive me?

Come on. There are a lot of legitimate pain patients out there managing chronic pain. The opioid epidemic is serious. But sometime I can go two weeks without needing a Vicodin. I am not the opioid epidemic. Enough already. [/quote]

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