DOT Physical/Neuro-Stim/Scrips

I don't know if you know or not but schedule 1 drugs have NO medical use. Your never find a schedule 1 down at your local pharmacy. Scheduling of medications let the public including doctors and pharmacists know how much this medication is abused. All those drugs used back in the 60's were used to get high. LSD, heroin, weed, and so on are schedule 1.

Now the other medications are place into a schedule by their abuse potential and the DEA and FDA play their parts. Theirs different rules with the schedules. Like a schedule 2 you can not have refills is the biggest restriction. Schedule 3 of course are the most popular medications and schedule 4 you can get over the counter.

Using a scheduling system like this has allowed the DEA to identify the huge problem going on down in Florida right now. They have see many local chronic pain places write out prescriptions for oxycontin. 60 minutes did a segment on what these drug pushers are doing. They go down there and hit several so-called doctors for back pain or whatever to get them filled and bring back to where they are from and sell then. It's mind blowing to see how much money they get. Off a bottle of oxycontin 30 quantity of 240 they get a dollar for each strength of the pill. It come out to be $7200 a bottle. I think the government is going in the right direction but they could do better. Just for FYI.

 

Or we could just make them all legal over the counter and let adults make thier own decisions. People that want to use properly will follow directions and be ok. People who want to abuse them and risk killing themselves have that right. We dont need the government to tell us what to do. Adults can make their own choices. Abusers will get their drugs easily legal or not. The war on drugs is a joke. If drugs were legal than gangs and cartels would have nothing to sell and the government could get a lot of tax money. Drug abusers WILL get their drugs, it cant be stopped. People know the risks, more people will not do drugs if they are legal

 

I can see it. Dropping Acid and hauling gasoline, yeah that's high on the list.

 

Did not say while driving. Treat them like alcohol, do what you want at home. Dont drive or go to work under the influance.

 

Just an FYI- Not sure how long ago you saw that, but in the past 2 years things have changed drastically here in FL re: opiod abuse. They state and feds have cracked down big time, and there have been a lot of changes due to this (some much needed and some not so good for those of us who actually have medical need for them)
Nowadays, MDs have to be specifically licensed by the state to prescribe them, which is a good thing (weeds out the scumbag "Drs." that were in it just for the money). However, unless you already had an existing relationship with a "real" pain management MD, it is terribly difficult for new patients to find one nearby and get an appointment within a reasonable amount of time.

Another change has been that pharmacies are only allowed to dispense a certain amount of each different opiate medication (determined arbitrarily it seems by the DEA) based on their general area and nearby population. This has led to shortages/hardships for those who happen to need a script filled but their nearby pharmacy is already at their monthly limit for that particular drug. I myself have to have 2 scripts filled at one pharmacy, and 2 others filled over 20 miles away at another (all 4 meds are different) just because they were at their allotment at my regular pharmacy. They can petition DEA to get their limit raised, but it's a lengthy process, and in the meantime can be really stressful and even harmful to those less ambulatory patients.

I know that the changes were all for a god reason, but now those of us who are in need have to suffer more, while the addicts who were the cause of all this to begin with have all moved on to heroin, which has made a huge resurgence since the "pill mill" crack downs.

 

I have the same issue plus a broken neck that is worth about a million now. I pretty much use ibuprofen and a tens unit and deal with it. Also I will tell you with a lower back issue even if you can come off meds that the trucking lifestyle from all the driving to sleeping in a small space will cause back problems to others with a healthy back.

 

I love my tens unit for my neck and back pain.

 

You're 100% right about things changing. Lower pain medication were bumped up into schedule 2 which are harder to get. The pharmacies are controlled closer by DEA. It's really bothers me that drugs dealers and users have made the program so hard now the people that really need the medication will not get it. I believe you're going to see more suicides with the chronic pain people and I know that the quality of life is going to go down for people that have no other method to turn to.

 

You've got to lighten up. It was a joke and if you know my postings at all you'll see I'm retired and do no drugs or alcohol.

 

I did not word that well, I did not mean you specificly. I mean, in my opinion people in general can do any type of drugs or alcohol that they want in their free time as long as they do not drive or work under the influance of anything.