That’s nice but what sickens me is that if you’re about to put a bullet in your head from chronic pain and have all the records to prove it they still won’t prescribe you shit.
At least that’s what Canadians in r/chronicpain say on Reddit.
Similar to the US…drug addicts get massive amounts of opioids prescribed to them and the people that are suffering immensely with injury and disease get told to kick rocks
Thats Odd,.....every pain patient I know gets very good scripts. They prescribe Dilaudid for very minor surgeries and injuries where I am. For example, A family friend of mine, an older lady, went to have a mole removed and was given dilaudid. Every person I know with Cancer gets fentanyl patches for round the clock pain and instant release oxycodone/hydromorphone for breakthrough. My close friend is a chronic pain patient with a very bad back and gets a very generous morphine prescription. I think it depends on where you are and who your Dr is. but in my own personal experience (again only MY experience) is that Dr's here are very liberal both in addiction treatment and pain management.
Also, many pain patients dont have 3 near fatal overdoses every week,(the safe suply is a response to the massive epidemic of fatal overdoses from a tainted illicit drug supply,) stemming from unresolved mental health issues dues to poor mental health resources, as most addicts do. contrary to popular belief, Ive found drugs are not the problem in addiction. It's a mental health issue, and drug abuse is a symptom or problem that arises from the untreated mental illness. Im in treatment trying to get off drugs, and Ive realized I dont have a drug problem, I have a ME problem. Simply quitting use and being abstinent wouldnt do anything for my mental health problems. Its has to be treated at the source.
Just a thought, but maybe some doctors feel a massive percentage of fentanyl addicts start out with opioids prescribed to them for pain, and maybe their line of thinking is they dont want to turn these ppl in pain into the mindless zombies wandering the streets on masse in my country. maybe they think its better to suffer a degree of pain and getting lighter narcotics is better than the pain of slowly deteriorating from addiction and ultimately dying. this last statement isnt my opinion, just a suggestion im making about their potential reasoning. My father had never touched an opioid in his life until his kidneys failed and he was put on dialysis. he was given 9 mg hydromorph contin capsules for ER and 4 mg dilaudid for IR. at the end of his life, he was using any opioid he could to avoid withdrawal, and could handle as much as 70 mgs of methadone. Maybe had he lived into the time of the fent epidemic he would have transitioned to street fent. who knows.
Also, this may be an extremely unpopular opinion, and may not be recieved so great by a lot of people, but as far as the chronic pain patients who happen to be the ones who dont get scripts that do the complaining goes......I've found there's typically a lot more to the story many (I stress this, NOT ALL) chronic pain patients omit a lot from the story when relaying these experiences. (being rude to doctors, not knowing how to communicate their needs clearly etc) every Dr I've known was almost always more then willing to hear a patients input into their own care plan. Furthermore, it sucks to hear, but I believe many (again NOT ALL) of the chronic pain patients who endlessly complain to anyone who will listen, are also themselvses closet addicts and are more angry about not getting the narcotics they want rather than the narcotics they actually need. I think many love not just the pain relief, but the accompanying euphoria, and though theyd deny it to the grave, have an underlying motive when trying to procure potent opioids, and become bitter when they cannot obtain what they want. for the people already addicted, e.g, refugees of the Oxycontin epidemic, the damage has already been done. the opioids prescribed to the addicted are actually preventing fatalities, ppl are dying, whereas someone is not going to die from a bad back where a prescription for percocet or tramadol is seems to be adequate for every other patient in the same boat, except for the ones who complain on reddit. If people died from the pain of sprained ankles, obviously there would be far more outrage and im sure strong opioids would be prescribed in the same fashion. Its unfortunate they are in discomfort, but again, I find it odd that i have known those with stage 4 cancer where percocet and/or tramadol was enough for pain, yet there are those in situations much less severe who dont just ask or suggest options to their Dr, they actually demand extremely high powered abusable opioids, and then become enraged when they dont get something stronger than dilaudid.
Im sure everyones pain is different, but i live here in Canada, and both of my parents died from very painful conditions were prescribed adequate meds and never asked for more my mother never went past 20 mg Oxycontins and 10 mg IR oxycodone tabs despit having cancer of the lungs and brain. And again, having lived here my entire life, Its my opinion its not just as simple as "My Dr is a sadist who wants me to suffer". In fact my experiences is the opposite. from the things I read online, I regard our physicians as some of the most compassionate on the planet. How many times have any of us here addicted told our doctors our psychoactive medications just werent cutting it, when they in fact were, but we simply just wanted a higher dose or a more powerful medication because they feel good. I know I have, and know many many ppl who have done the same. I dont think pain patients are exempt from human behaviour and addictive patterns.
Im sure I may recieve some angry backlash to this post, but this is my experience, and my opinion based on that experience, (except for the places I simply made wild guesses and purposed hypothetical reasoning behing prescribing patterns)
and I have no apologies for it