When you ask for a pill for relief, you are most likely to get
NARCOTICS PAIN RELIEVERS like Hydrocodone-APAP, Lortabs, Oxycontin, Opana, Vicodin and even Methadone. Common medical class for these pills is called “OPIOIDS”. In the United States, 46 deaths occur every day from an overdose of opioid or NARCOTICS PAIN RELEIVERS.
According to an analysis of prescribing data from US retail pharmacies, healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions in 2012 for opioid or narcotic analgesics, or enough for every adult in the United States to have 1 bottle of pills.
The South has 10 of the US states with the highest rates of prescriptions for opioid or narcotic analgesics, with rates highest in Alabama, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
Compared with Canada, the United States has twice as many opioid analgesic prescriptions per person.
Higher rates of opioid analgesic prescribing are linked to more deaths from overdose.
To lower high-risk prescribing practices, states should also consider laws, regulation, and other policy options applying to pain clinics.
In Florida, for example, statewide legislative and enforcement actions in 2010 and 2011 led to a significant reduction in the number of opioid prescriptions and associated deaths.
If you are prescribed NARCOTICS PAIN RELEIVERS, tell your family to watch you.
If your doctor takes you off these drugs (as now the laws are being enacted), do not go to someone else for the same pills unless referred by your primary MD. Do not resort to Heroin.
We provide Acupuncture treatments which may be highly effective in treating the addiction to NARCOTICS PAIN RELEIVERS and also cut down your pain.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/relieving-pain-with-acupuncture
http://www.brazosdoctors.com/2012/06/24/acupuncture-fact-or-fiction/
If you suspect someone had Overdose on NARCOTICS PAIN RELEIVERS, here is a card produced by Anesthesiologists working with US Government. http://asahq.org/WhenSecondsCount/resources
Mahesh Dave MD
