" Fentanyl not avail on American market " (or words to that affect)

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/01/31/md-has-37-deaths-from-heroin-fentanyl-overdoses/

I was researching ' Fentanyl ' & found this..

Thoughts on statement (roughly) quoted on this threads subject line??
Am a bit confused .. maybe they are referring to pill form ?

Sorry I cannot remember the exact quote at end of article - I will blame it on fibro fog

Edited to include the quote
" Fentanyl is not available on the American prescription market..."

Yes, more bad / wrong info - further promoting misinformation re: 'legitimate' (prescribed) medications

Several years ago I saw documentary that was about heroin being (maybe still is?) a fairly common recreational drug !! I had always thought of it as, hhmm, guess 'hardcore' is best term.

What a shame..

It is a shame that CP patients can't cause enough loud noise that they make the national evening news. I've heard it said several times that if there were really that many people suffering from chronic pain that they would have made the national news. I wonder as treatment becomes more restrictive and patients aren't able to get adequate pain control, if the voices will get louder ?

I think if people who are severely limited in their ability to function ban together and make it know, it will help. I'm referring to those who can't do basic things like take a shower or prepare a quick meal. The cost of taking care of people who lose their ability to function on a basic level is going to cost taxpayers big time over many, many yrs. Not to mention the health consequences of it. But, the powers that be seem to be blind to that fact right now. Probably because there hasn't been an impact yet.

I believe when Medicare Prescription Part D tightens the controls and more disabled are affected, it may make a difference.But, that will take a few yrs. The new controls are suppose to save huge amounts of money in Prescription Drugs. But, it does no good to save money one place when you end up spending more in another place because of the money you were trying to save. Know what I mean ?

I also know first hand how the media changes the content of what they air/print. What I learned first hand, was more informative than any journalism class. The new media can take 1 sentence out of context and change the entire meaning of it. The will take a sentence and play part of it one place and the other part another place in the story.

You're right, it's all about ratings. Maybe when they do a story on the cost of someone being in a nursing home, only because they can't take care of themselves because they can't get their pain treated/properly treated, someone will listen. Right now the majority of CP patients are receiving treatment, and most of them believe their treatment will continue as it has. But, as new restrictions go into affect more and more drs are going to get more conservative. And the insurance companies are playing a bigger role. The "chronic pain doesn't kill, learn to live with it" mentality is getting stronger.

The only people who are being affected by this new mentality are CP patients. If someone wants to abuse a drug, they will. And those that abuse/misuse have the ability to go and do things physically that those that suffer from CP can't. If someone wants to get high, they will find a way. For those who suffer from chronic pain, we either have the meds or we suffer there is no other alternative.

Post Edited (Mercy&Grace) : 2/1/2014 11:52:43 AM (GMT-7)

OMG, Me Too, M&G!


www.ibtimes.com/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-suspected-overdose-was-fentanyl-laced-heroin-blame-1553042

You are right about that... I was sharing ny concerns with my son and he said I'm worrying for nothing because Phil was using it mixed with heroin (allegedly) and wearing the patch is completely different. He just doesn't understand that this negative attention will only make incidents like the one I experienced at the pharmacy last week, far more common. When Michael Jackson passed away I heard of people refusing Propofal when having surgery... They blamed the drug for hus death and not his misuse of the drug.

The "general public," I fear, simply hear words like "prescription drugs" or the name of various drugs thrown in with "OD" and it's easier, and swifter, to jump to conclusions and blame the drug not the individual.

Sadly, it's not just the general public. It's the drs, politicians, policy makers, etc. And they are the ones you control the treatment we do and don't receive. And about the celebrities, everyday people don't have the money, influence, etc to make a dr prescribe anything they want.

Rest assured folks the heroin /fent mix is nothing new to Hollywood or the rural hollers of KY!!!

If reports are correct and a needle was found in his arm and they tested what was found in the baggies in the room initially at the scene, then this detailed info isn't unusual. When someone makes their living in the public eye, they and their families give up Alot of privacy for that. Look at Michael Jackson and his family, Anna Nichole Smith, Sylvester Stallone & Talia Shires son, etc. It is sad, but it is part of the industry they choose to work in and they are aware of the lack of privacy. But it does make one wonder if he had had to resort to heroin because he couldn't get treatment for chronic pain, how would this have played out in the media. I know this was not the circumstance and that he had a substance abuse problem and I believe had been to rehab as recent as May 2013. It is very scary how powerful the media is. On the other hand, we are the ones who make it that way.