There is a estimated 40,000 people commit suicide in our country every year… and there is a estimated 16,000 die of overdoses .. normally a cocktail of legal meds, illegal substances and alcohol and since .. as a country .. we don’t track how many of these deaths are actually suicide by drug overdose.
Prescribers are often taken to task over their pts that die from a drug overdose…BUT… typically no healthcare professional is held accountable for a pt , under their care… that commits suicide by any other means.
Let’s face it… taking more medication than prescribed or taking less than is prescribed is NON-COMPLIANCE..
The end result of non-compliance is the same… deteriorating quality of life and eventually death..
We have seemed to reach a point where we are interfering with certain class of pt being compliant because all of sudden we have become “uncomfortable” in filling legit Rxs of certain categories of medications.
30+ yrs ago… our society was all gung-ho about DISEASE PREVENTION… now we are gung-ho about DISEASE MANAGEMENT… because we miserly failed in helping pts with disease prevention.
Should we rethink why some of us are in healthcare… how many are more interested in their personal financial health… than the pt’s physical health… I recently saw a post by a Pharmacist… stating that s/he had no interest in giving vaccinations and studied pharmacy because that way s/he could be a DOCTOR and wouldn’t have to directly deal with patients..
We were eating lunch at a local restaurant and started talking to the female waitstaff and come to find out that she had got her nursing degree in 2012 and never took her boards… because she said that everyone was so interested in money and places she worked was so understaffed that she claimed that she was unable to do appropriate pt care.
Maybe this why we spend more dollars per capita that other industrial nations and may not provide as good of care ?
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Dr Ibsen – we see so many people who are legally addicted to their meds crossing over to heroin and illegal use of drugs in South Florida. They get arrested and their life really spirals out of control and that is when myself and other criminal defense and family lawyers have to try and help them get out of the mire. Thank you for being so courageous to help. I would also like to suggest that you look into some natural substances that Dr. McCurdy of U of Miss has been researching to help addicts get off Rx opiates and deal with pain – mitragyna speciosa. It is legal, won’t kill anyone and won’t have any harm to their body and you can add it to your withdrawal regime for them. And, it is legal and doesn’t require Rx.
Dr Ibsen has this article published on the www.nationalpainreport.com and the above is a comment apparently made by a female attorney in S FL. The substance that she is suggesting common name is Kratom and according to the above video.. the DEA is going after this substance.. and they won’t be wanting to make it a C-II…. it will be C-I…
This poor attorney and other attorneys have to bill hour$ trying to help these poor addicted souls out of the trouble they are in .. that the same judicial system created for them to fall into.
IMO… another classic example of someone within the judicial system… interfering with the practice of medicine. The judicial system creates a problem (black market) then they go after shutting down the black market that they created… Isn’t it like raising chickens… as long as you don’t kill/eat all the chickens and/or eat all the eggs… you will always have a good supply of chicken & eggs to eat… If you eat half of the eggs laid and half of chickens hatched… you will soon have enough chickens and eggs to sell to neighbors to buy feed for the chickens.