Re:The Opioid Detection Challenge
by schrodinger on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @06:49AM
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That’s how people inadvertently became hooked. The parent is talking about new patients that are already hooked. It’s a different story; you don’t stop being an addict once you’re hooked because your doctor won’t prescribe it.
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Sure, but it demonstrates the problem of "let doctors prescribe whatever they want".
Addicts are not helped by ever increasing doses of prescribed opioid medication. There's an argument to be made for maintainance doses until they're ready to stop, and then medically assisted detox, but neither of those are doctors prescribing with no controls.