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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Exceptions should be introduced for Cancer treatment, and End-of-Life care, though many of those pain treatments are currently administered in a hospital or hospice settings and under medical supervision in any case.

I would amend the proposed Bill so that a physician can order a second 10-day prescription with just a simple office visit, but that a third 10-day represcription within a one-year period is entered into the opioid prescription database, and is subject to review by an independent physician.

The professionally-recommended limits on the prescription of antibiotics has resulted in cases of serious complications or even death where antibiotics should have been prescribed earlier, but were withheld for fear of antibiotic resistance.  However, generally speaking it is viewed as a positive thing for the population at large.

Similarly, there will be examples of persons inconvenienced by the withholding and greater restrictions on opioids, but for the population at large it will be a positive thing.  Just take a moment to talk to the millions of Americans whose lives have been forever and indelibly impacted by the scourge of addiction.

The right thing to do always involves sacrifice by some individuals for the greater good of the many, and it will be hard.[/quote]

I’m not sure I agree with “inconveniencing” people with legitimate pain, peole with serious injuries, people severe, chronic pain, and my 90 year old grandmother who has an opioid prescription and who can’t drive and needs to take an oxygen tank with her when she leave the house, but is not end of life, for the greater good of addicts. I’m all for treating addiction, not jailing people. But I don’t think they should take priority over people legitimately using opioids responsibly. [/quote]

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