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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if that's the answer, but doctors really do need to limit their prescriptions.
I had minor surgery last week.  No significant pain at the hospital (I was asked about a million times)  They gave me prescription strength ibuprofin just in case, which made sense and for which I was grateful.  They sent me home with two prescriptions - one for 24 of the prescription ibuprofin and one for TEN pills of oxycodone.  Keep in mind that not only did I not request that, but that I specifically said I wasn't in pain and that the ibuprofin was doing a fine job of managing it.

I didn't end up taking any of the oxycodone and turned it in this weekend at the drug take back events (good timing).  But [b]why in the world did I get it at all[/b]?  And why did I get 10 of them instead of just one or two?  My doc had told me before surgery that I'd probably be able to go back to work the next day, so it's not like I had some kind of miraculous recovery.

The whole thing was really startling to me.[/quote]I'm in health care, and can tell you that. Back in the old days, I could give someone a prescription for ibuprofen and maybe tylenol#3, and know that if those meds didn't control pain, I could call in a different medication. The DEA etc decided a few years ago that oxycodone, vicodin, percocet etc could no longer be called in to pharmacies, but required a [b]written[/b] rx. So if a patient calls me at 9 pm at night, in pain, my recourse now is to sent them to the ER or urgent care, where they incur extra costs.  I'm not going in to the empty office at 9pm to give a patient a physical prescription; that's not safe for me. I may tell the patient to hold on to the prescription paper for the opioid until they figure if they need it or not. I also tell them that those prescriptions expire, which they do. So the DEA's effort to limit prescriptions actually leads me to write more opioids than I used to. SAD but true  :cry: [/quote]

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