Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs

OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone

A report by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission has concluded that prescription drugs have outstripped illegal drugs as a cause of death.
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I just want to add that in order for deaths to decrease in FL, we need ALL physicians' prescribing opioids' under scrutiny......mandatory education for all prescribing opioids, along w/ the rx monitoring system, practice implementation of diversion tactics and a monitoring system linked to all physicians' prescribing opioids.This is a MUST!!! The state of FL is in crucial need of restructuring pain management to make a safe environment for TRUE pain patients'. My clinic plays a large part in setting high standards and implementing diversion tactics, but we are only one out of thousands' that have absolutely no standards at all in place for tackling diverters'. We try to do our part everyday to help stop diversion, but its' not enough. ALL pain clinics need to have MANDATORY strict guidelines, education and monitoring.PainFree

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i believe it is fine the way it is. stricter guidelines or not people will still manage ways to get drugs that are not needed by doctors. its how it is now and always will be friend.now aint that a bitch?

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Try to stay in recovery people. Addiction is a Bittch.

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DaveO

There's also a lot of legitimate undertreated pain patients out there that already find it difficult to have their pain medicated. You're wanting to make it harder on people with legitimate problems, while drug addicts are still going to be able to find these drugs if they try. These drugs will always be diverted, and if there's a vaccuum in the market, the international heroin trade would be happy to fill it. Opioids have been used for thousands of years and will be for the forseeable future. As I said, you're looking for someone to blame. Your family member chose to take whatever it was that killed them. It wasn't a doctors fault. It wasn't a drug dealers fault. And it damn sure wasn't a terminal cancer patients fault. I'm sorry for your loss but you need to face the facts. Your family member made a bad decision, but it was THEIR decision. These changes are happening, and it's forcing these patients to "suck it up and deal with it." You shouldn't punish people with legitimate problems just because someone else is abusing the same type of medication. It's ethically and morally wrong.I'm not scared of any thing. I don't know what you're assuming or getting at there.

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