Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors

Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by lr4444lr on Friday August 18, 2017 @05:35PM (#15049925)

I think you're raising an interesting point, but I disagree with your example - what pain that is so bad its sufferer needs "to lay in bed in agony" can be relieved by ibuprofen, acetaminophen, or any other OTC pain reliever? The Great Binge[0] ended long ago - perhaps for the wrong reasons, but ended nonetheless, until recently when legal opioid prescriptions spiked.

This is about doctors putting their patients at risk in the process of treating them for routine problems which did not result in opioid addiction rates as recently as 25 years ago, and certainly were not prescribed with any other side benefit as far as I've heard.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Binge

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Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by mnm1 on Friday August 18, 2017 @05:51PM (#15050040)

Headaches can easily be that bad and relieved with ibuprofen. Otherwise yeah, it's lay in bed and try to sleep and hope they don't last into the next day.

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Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by abakker on Friday August 18, 2017 @07:25PM (#15050528)

Or, sometimes, they're not. My wife gets bad migraines. For the most part, nothing works.

She has not tried, and is not interested in trying opioids for them, though.

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Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by GordonS on Saturday August 19, 2017 @02:58AM (#15052081)

She should try sumatriptan. Works amazingly well for me.

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Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by stephengillie on Friday August 18, 2017 @07:56PM (#15050656)

Tangental - having never heard of The Great Binge described before, it's interesting to note the time period begins just at the end of the Opium Wars. Almost as though it was just a shifting of focus.

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