Comments on: Relieving Pain With Abuse-Proof Drugs

Doctors Turning To New Painkillers That Don't Cause Addiction

[Sandiebuck37]

I am one of the 70,000 plus people in this country who are dealing with chronic pain. I have Degeneterive Disc Disease which has resulted in 5 back surguries that have only made my pain worse and left me with a leg that does not work. I also have RSD and Sciatica. These are just a few of my pain problems. While I understand that there is a growing concern over prescription drug abuse, there needs to be a segment that sheds light on those of us who do not ABUSE meds, we take these meds as prescribed by our doctors, just to try to make it through the day, just to try to live some kind of life. Your one sided coverage makes it harder for us to get treatment that we so desperately need by doctors because they are afraid to prescribe the meds we need just to get out of bed.

[craftcr]

there is a difference between abuse and dependency, outlined on webmd.com

[puzzler125]

All you would have to do to take more than the prescribed dose of a gel is to spread it over a larger area than originally intended or if in pill form figure out a way to open it and spread it. Someone will figure out a way to abuse it.

[r10pn]

Guess who the biggest abusers are? How about the lawyers and doctors who work with accident patients, giving patients drugs they don''t need, so they can get bigger settlements and in some cases the patients don''t even need the meds. These are the people who sell them and/ or abuse them. If you''re in pain all you want is to alleviate the pain, not get hooked on drugs. I live with severe chronic pain and it''s pathetic how the medical community treats you when you even mention "pain". They give you anti-depressants, ant-inflammitories, injections, whatever they can to make a buck! I wonder how many physicians follow the same protocol when they''re in pain! I wonder how many accident victims are really in pain or think they are in order to get $$$ from a lawsiut! It''s time the chronic suffers get the help they need!

[chad55555]

Have any of you ever noticed how the police gives the impression and government that every person is a drug dealer or user.Thjey never take into account that pain is so bad it difficult to live with.EVERY TIME YOU FIND A doctor that understands how pain can destroy a life,he ''s afriad to help because of the fear the gvernment will take his practice away from him and the people that need help NEVER get it.IT''s a lot like the police you see on TV news that push people out of wheel chairs or whatch them gives birth in the back of a car with handcuffs on or whatch aold guy have a heart attack and do nothing,they do smile and think it''s funny to see a human in distress. TOO A PERSON IN SERIOUS CRONIC PAIN IT NO JOKE. MY CRONIC PAIN STARTED WHILE FIGHTING FOR THIS COUNTRY IN COMBAT AND BLOWN UP, AND THE VA WILL NOT TREAT CRONIC PAIN,THEY ACT LIKE EVERYBODY IS A DRUG DEALER OR WORSE,THINK ABOUT THAT. CRONIC PAIN HAS TO BE TREATED DIFFERENT THEN YOUR LOGAL DRUG USER IT''S JUST NOT RIGHT HOW PEOPLE IN PAIN ARE TREATED AND THE DOCTORS THAT TRY TO HELP THEM. THE GOVERNMENT GOES TOO FAR MOST OF THE TIME,HELP THE PEOPLE, STOP DESTROYING THEM BECAUSE OF CONSTANT PAIN THEY LIVE WITH EVERYDAY.

[extremophil]

Abuse-Proof Drugs? Yeah, sure.....and I''ve got the proverbial swampland in Florida for sell, too.

[marymcq]

If anyone thinks it can''t happen to them, your wrong. I was a 34 yr old nurse, never drank, never smoked, never did any drug what so ever, I started getting bone pain all over my body. My doctor prescribed Vicoden ES, 1 to 2 tablets every 4-6 hrs as needed for pain. After taking those pills as directed for 5 days my body and mind were already hooked. The more you take, the more you need to achieve the same pain relief, 5 years later, I was taking 17 Lortab 10/500 every 3 hrs, that is 136 pills a day, the 10/500 means 10mg of hydrocodone, and 500 mgs. of tylenol. One morning I woke up completly deaf, as you can imagine I paniced, No one ever told me that you could lose your hearing from taking too many pills. I had to take that many or I would be in withdrawl, anyway, I lost my hearing (completly, I can''t hear a thing), my gallbladder almost exploded, it had to be removed, my liver and kidneys are damaged, my Central Nervous System is broken beyond repair, which means I suffer nerve pain 24/7. I have been clean since January 6, 2004, and I''m doing great. I got a cochlear implant on my right ear, so I can hear 60% in my right ear, and not at all in my left. I''m back in school working on a degree in Business. In 2006 I was voted Drug Court Graduate of the Year and I was invited to Tallahassee to speak at the drug summit, and I met Gov. Jeb Bush. My point is this, drugs are bad and no one is immune.

[susanhelit]

If the idiot doctors would pay more attention to properly treating the pain, and less to CYA, people like this wouldn''t be driven by pain to abuse the medication. I''ve been fortunate enough to have little of that type of pain in my life, but enough that I do know what it''s like. Or, there''s my great-aunt who attempted suicide because her doctor would not treat her pain - after a long life of hard work, self-sacrifice, the pain was just that bad - and they won''t treat it properly for fear of addiction.

[sheisntreal]

Hi...I have a question for everyone. Does anyone EVER get help/recover/live with severe chronic pain? I''ve had pain over 2 decades, can''t find doctors who''re willing to help.

[joyous88]

and why is our big deal ''conservative'' government,

concerned with what the citizen is taking,

big brother facist government, the republicons

are criminals, four more of the same vote insane mccain