Why are PK's so difficult to find on IOP's and DNM's?

[Junia]

And they wonder "Big H" is on the rise... I wonder.... "street dealers" are just lovin this crack down... Our good ole "Gub-Mint" is turning honest hard workin folks into back alley clients...

People will do what they have to in order to find even an inkling of relief... They wil never be able to make everything illegal, but they try... However, no matter how hard they try, they will not be able to legislate the human mind...

They's come off better with managing addiction than trying to stop folks from their own selves... Cannot be done... Just because sometime IS legal, doesn't mean everybody is gonna do it... For God's sake, hand gliding, mountain climbing, parachuting... That's legal and can kill ya, but I'm not hurring to jump from a perfectly good plane just because it's not a crime!!...

Sorry... Sometimes I get on a tear with our system...

Ice

I'm right there with you Ice!

Prohibition was a great success!  And how many college kids chug toxic amounts of whatever concoctions they willingly allow their peers pour into them?  Even upside down?  Not that's extremely relevant, but still.

My guess is revocation of licenses and threats of malpractice don't yet apply to skydiving. Ergo, physicians on the alert.

And yet, the Docs can't write methadone and suboxone scripts fast enough. Big pharmas PR campaign is to continue to line their pockets by switching addiction from PKs to suboxone. Dependence is dependence. Sheeps clothing?

And....that's my rant for the day

Junia

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I work in an emergency room in Florida,  you still see people getting scripts for pks,  but never anything bigger then  p 10s. But I will say there is a big variance from doctor to doctor on who strong and how much.  I have seen broken bones sent home with ibuprofen

Here's an example of PK phobia...

My brother was just in the hospital for possible brain cancer.. it turns out to be a brain abscess infection and he had surgery. Do you know what they had waiting for him when he woke up after surgery?  Two extra strength Tylenol's and one 2mg Dilaudid pill....  

Well, that didn't really do the trick and he needed a pain pump fairly soon afterward... How's that for PK restrictions...

Had a similar experience earlier this year Shaun. My husband has lung cancer.  He had part of a lung removed.  In ICU, they gave him vics 5. Seriously!  He had scalpels through his tissue, nerves, lung, tubes 1 1/2 in diameter protruding from his body. And they're asking him to rate his pain from a chart with emojis? God help us all!