Good article from The Washington Post but they left out the most important part:
“When cops practice medicine, overdoses increase, drug cartels get richer, and patients suffer.”
“Ami Claxton’s birth control method — an intrauterine device — expired 14 years ago. But she has been too scared to have it removed because of the excruciating pain she experienced the last time she had it replaced.
This summer, the 55-year-old asked her gynecologist for options to help manage the pain during removal, but was told there weren’t any. “So I said, ‘Forget it. I’m not going to get it out,’ ” said Claxton, of Chandler, Ariz.
While it has been well documented that many patients experience severe pain when getting an IUD, less is known about how those painful experiences affect reproductive health care. Some women say that their worries about pain have deterred them from getting IUDs removed or replaced when needed, and they have become reluctant to return to the gynecologist, even for different procedures.
Last week, federal health officials weighed in on the matter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for physicians to be more responsive to patient concerns about pain during IUD procedures, and to give women more information and options to deal with it.
Most patients fare better when their health-care providers are transparent about the procedures, the possibility of pain and any available pain control options, said Nichole Tyson, a clinical professor and division chief of pediatric and adolescent gynecology at Stanford University.
“Everybody wants to know what’s happening with their body,” Tyson said. “No matter how you look at this, you’re in stirrups, you don’t have your underpants on. It’s a very vulnerable time. I think that’s a legitimate thing we all have to think about and be compassionate about.”
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The Washington Post
Their IUD procedures were painful. Now they’re scared to have it removed.
Some patients are delaying care because of pain during an IUD procedure. Now federal health officials want providers to be more responsive to patient concerns
August 13, 2024 at 7:10 a.m. EDT
The Sacklers brought the war on drugs to White people
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“Fifty years ago this summer, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Today, with the U.S. mired in a deadly opioid epidemic that did not abate during the coronavirus pandemic’s worst days, it is questionable whether anyone won the war.
Yet the loser is clear: Black and Latino Americans, their families and their communities. A key weapon was the imposition of mandatory minimums in prison sentencing. Decades later those harsh federal and state penalties led to an increase in the prison industrial complex that saw millions of people, primarily of color, locked up and shut out of the American dream.”
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By Aron Morrison, Associated Press
July 26, 2021
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THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH
“While her policy prescriptions may be flawed, Dr. Durbhakula deserves praise for having the courage to point out that the war on drugs is also a war on pain patients. Alas, courageous doctors are in short supply these days. Most doctors keep their heads down and follow the cops’ instructions.
After I read her essay, I wrote the following (unpublished) letter to the editor of the New York Times:”
“The DEA maintains a schedule of substances it controls, and it categorizes them based on what the agency determines to be their safety and addictive potential. The DEA even presumes to know how many and what kind of controlled substances—from stimulants like Adderall to narcotics like oxycodone—the entire US population will need in future years, setting quotas on how many each pharmaceutical manufacturer may annually produce.
The DEA restricts pain management based on the flawed assumption that what they consider to be “overtreatment” caused the overdose crisis. However, as my colleagues and I showed, there is no correlation between the opioid prescription rate and the rate of non‐ medical opioid use or opioid addiction. And, of course, as fear of DEA reprisal has caused the prescription rate to drop precipitously in the last dozen years, overdose deaths have soared as the black market provided non‐ medical users of “diverted” prescription pain pills first with more dangerous heroin and later with fentanyl.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health found that overdose fatalities have been rising exponentially since at least the late 1970s, with different drugs predominating during various periods. Complex sociocultural, psychosocial, and socioeconomic forces are at the root of the overdose crisis, requiring serious investigation. Yet policymakers have chosen the lazy answer by blaming the overdose crisis on doctors treating pain.
When cops practice medicine, overdoses increase, drug cartels get richer, and patients suffer.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey A. Singer, MD, FACS
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
When cops practice medicine, overdoses increase, drug cartels get richer, and patients suffer.
Reprinted with permission. Dr. Singer's original piece can be found here on the Cato Institute website”
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The War on Drugs is Also a War on Pain Patients
By Jeffrey Singer — Apr 02, 2024
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HBO’s THE WIRE was frightening to me. The Baltimore Streets look exactly like many of the streets in Coatesville. Narrow streets where I waited until a drug deal was finished so I could drive on. People in Coatesville I know cleaned blood from their sidewalks, the city doesn’t wipe up the blood.
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Slingers in Coatesville watch "The Wire". They have their favorite characters.
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