carol632
08-13-2004, 05:21 PM
PART 2
They come at a crucial time, said co-author David Joranson, pain policy director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School. Fewer doctors are willing to prescribe narcotic painkillers, known as opiods, partly because of the government's high-profile crackdown on prescription-drug abuse. Some pharmacies won't stock them for fear of burglaries.
"In some ways, pain management and the use of pain mediations has becoe a crime story when it really should be a health care story,: Joranson said.
The key message: These are legitimate treatments. They're essential for good medical care, said Dr. Russell Portenoy, pain chief at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and a well-known pain specialist.
With the guidelines, the DEa sanctions that view and is distributing the doctument to agents and prosecutors to help them distinguish aggressive pain management from drug diversion. A lot of opioid-taking patients in a practice shouldn't by itself signal suspicion, the guidelines advise, while long-distance prescribing and lots of premature refills might.
>>>>>>Interesting, no? Can it be true, are the doctors really going to catch on? Those of you having trouble getting your doctors to prescribe can copy this and show it to them. Might save them some sweat!!
Carol
They come at a crucial time, said co-author David Joranson, pain policy director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School. Fewer doctors are willing to prescribe narcotic painkillers, known as opiods, partly because of the government's high-profile crackdown on prescription-drug abuse. Some pharmacies won't stock them for fear of burglaries.
"In some ways, pain management and the use of pain mediations has becoe a crime story when it really should be a health care story,: Joranson said.
The key message: These are legitimate treatments. They're essential for good medical care, said Dr. Russell Portenoy, pain chief at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and a well-known pain specialist.
With the guidelines, the DEa sanctions that view and is distributing the doctument to agents and prosecutors to help them distinguish aggressive pain management from drug diversion. A lot of opioid-taking patients in a practice shouldn't by itself signal suspicion, the guidelines advise, while long-distance prescribing and lots of premature refills might.
>>>>>>Interesting, no? Can it be true, are the doctors really going to catch on? Those of you having trouble getting your doctors to prescribe can copy this and show it to them. Might save them some sweat!!
Carol
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Kissa
08-13-2004, 05:32 PM
Thanks for posting that I've been trying to find what you were all talking about. Might of been easier to just respond to your own post and add the additional info there instead of making multiples.