Don't believe the propaganda,; Doctors do not give pain medication like candy.
Ask some of my chronic pain patients.
Most overdoses are from illegal Fentanyl ,Mixing illegal drugs and legal scrpts with alcohol.not prescriptions medicines alone.
Am I paranoid?
Or is it possible we see research finding marching in lock step with Political propaganda .
Assessment of pain is important in daily clinical practice and as an endpoint in clinical studies. Because pain perception is highly subjective, pain measurement is complex. Self-rating pain scales are currently of great importance but have limitations. They depend on many more factors than pain, which could lead to an incorrect assessment of therapies or clinical studies. Therefore, there is need for valid, reliable, safe, and low-cost methods to determine and quantify patients' pain more objectively.
A new federal report
on the Tomah VA Medical Center found that opioid painkillers
weren't being handed out "like candy." The investigation by the Veterans
Affairs Office of Inspector General was spurred by a "series of
allegations" from a confidential complaint.
The investigation took place in 2018 in response to a request from Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and a complainant that alleged that narcotic painkillers were being "handed out like candy" at the Tomah VA and satellite clinics in Wausau and Wisconsin Rapids.
The person also alleged that physician’s assistants were being "forced" to write prescriptions for methadone and other opioids at "dosages and frequencies" they weren't comfortable with. It was also alleged that there were no limits on the number of times patients could change providers in order to "doctor shop" in attempts to get multiple prescriptions for painkillers and that facility management didn’t give adequate guidance and support regarding opioid prescribing.
The inspector general's report didn't substantiate those claims.
Politicians wanting to be doctors?
Ask some of my chronic pain patients.
Most overdoses are from illegal Fentanyl ,Mixing illegal drugs and legal scrpts with alcohol.not prescriptions medicines alone.
Am I paranoid?
Or is it possible we see research finding marching in lock step with Political propaganda .
Assessment of pain is important in daily clinical practice and as an endpoint in clinical studies. Because pain perception is highly subjective, pain measurement is complex. Self-rating pain scales are currently of great importance but have limitations. They depend on many more factors than pain, which could lead to an incorrect assessment of therapies or clinical studies. Therefore, there is need for valid, reliable, safe, and low-cost methods to determine and quantify patients' pain more objectively.
Veterans Hospital Accused of Distributing Pain Medication ‘Like Candy’
AFTER such dramtic headline
the site did not even publish the OIG report findings which took 4 years to come out !
Federal Investigation Finds Tomah VA Not Prescribing Opioids 'Like Candy'
Inspector General Investigation Spurred By Complaint, Requested By US Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Published:
- Friday, March 29, 2019, 5:00pm
The investigation took place in 2018 in response to a request from Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and a complainant that alleged that narcotic painkillers were being "handed out like candy" at the Tomah VA and satellite clinics in Wausau and Wisconsin Rapids.
The person also alleged that physician’s assistants were being "forced" to write prescriptions for methadone and other opioids at "dosages and frequencies" they weren't comfortable with. It was also alleged that there were no limits on the number of times patients could change providers in order to "doctor shop" in attempts to get multiple prescriptions for painkillers and that facility management didn’t give adequate guidance and support regarding opioid prescribing.
The inspector general's report didn't substantiate those claims.
Politicians wanting to be doctors?
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