Question by Reddevil: Is it the Doctors or patients fault that the patient got addicted to narcotic prescription drugs?
I believe it is 90 percent the patients fault because no one forced them to take and they were weak minded about the pain
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Answer by pisces_pirate7
It is partially the patients fault for letting the drug control them like that. However, the doctor is to blame for continuing their addiction if they keep supplying high amounts of medication and writing perscriptions often and not doing anything about it.
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it’s the doctors’ fault if they’re prescribing addictive medication and not monitoring their patients’ reactions to it.
if a doctor keeps prescribing a drug with the side effect of destroying the liver, then the doctor should keep monitoring the patient’s liver to make sure the damage is not occurring. he knows what tests have to be done. he should perform them.
if he’s prescribing an addictive drug, then he should monitor the patient’s use of it and watch for the side effects or symptoms of addiction.
well you would be wrong.Have you had chronic pain not a broken bone i mean chronic pain.It has nothing to do with weakness it wears you down it makes you want to die.Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about.Ive seen it up close.then doctors give pain meds because they cant help you,well these drugs are addictive.I guess its true what they say “ignorance is bliss”I have to say though it makes me want to give you some pain and see if your as tough as you say.
You are right, pain meds should be temporary until you can learn to cope
Good question, I don’t agree with 90%, more 50-50. Patients should take responsibility
Unless you’ve suffered severe pain, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Even if you have, and you – in all your glory – were not ” weak minded “, you should remember some people are not capable of enduring pain as well as others.
It is not their fault if they become addicted. It is a narcotic. Narcotics are addictive. The doctor knows this. The patient knows this.
Stop pointing fingers.
There are alternative treatments, such as Pain Management Clinics, that teach pain patients to use biofeedback and other methods of coping with pain. As well there is massage therapy, acupuncture, hydro therapy etc however most insurance companies, and the Canadian Medical Plan will not pay for these.
They will pay for drugs. Many patients dont believe there are alternative methods that do work and have been raised in a society where if you have a pain you take a pill, if you arent happy all the time, you take a pill, if you want to lose weight you take a pill etc.
Drugs are seen as the “traditional treatment” for pain. If a person is diagnosed with Fibromyalgia Dr’s want to give them pills for the pain, pills for sleeping, pills for depression, more pills for the stomach problems they develop and on and on.
Understanding that chronic severe pain can be so horrible that people will kill themselves to escape it, that people are often screaming in pain from which there is no relief without intervention, it is also understandable that when someone says “here take a pill, you will feel better”, that most people dont seek alternative treatments. A pill is also easier and the relief is immediate.
A person who has never lived with extreme chronic pain has no understanding of what it is like.
When a friend of mine said another friend should suck it up and stop being such a baby I asked her how she had felt in hard labour – Would she have been able to suck it up, get up and go to work and carry on with a smile IF that pain never stopped and she had to live with it everyday for the rest of her life? I dont think so, people need intervention of some kind when they have extreme chronic pain.
But I do agree that drugs should not be the ONLY intervention offered to people – they should ALL be made available.
Drugs do create additional problems IMO . So I wont use any.
I was lucky, because I had a work place accident Workers Comp paid for a Pain Management Clinic for me.
The fault lies with the patients, the doctors, the insurance companies, and society IMO
I can only give an example from witnessing my late MIL’s habits. She,
we learned, was addicted to prescription pills, and also to Codeine.
She would use a doctor, until he wouldn’t perscribe what she needed
and when she needed it. So then she’d go to another doctor and still
one more, seeing two at the same time, in order to not run out of her
favorite drugs in any given month. We learned this, when she was
sent to ‘dry out’ at Loma Linda Hospital, in California.
Later while we were visiting for a few weeks, in their southern
California home, I over heard her call in an “order” to her pharmacist.
And I heard her say she needed this pill and that, as if she was giving
him a grocery list. She also would go to the nearby ER and tell them
she had another migrane, and she needed a Codeine shot to ease it.
This had been going on for some time. And after she returned from
the ER, she would be in a drunken stupor and want to sleep and
not eat. She would be drugged for days. Sleeping between a bed and
the couch.
While we were there, we did some checking and learned that the
pharmacist in question, was being investigated for his unusual and
criminal neglect on over filling patients perscriptions. He apparently
got a cut from these and increased his income. There were many
complaints about that pharmacist, who worked hand in hand with
the doctor who OK these refills. Or maybe he didn’t. The investi-
gation was trying to prove that only the pharmacist was going
against the law and re filling without authorization from the doctor.
We didn’t stay down there long enough to learn the outcome.
And before we left, my MIL seemingly OD’d on some of her
meds,and passed out in a chair in her living room, and could not be
awakened. We called 911 and naturally everyone came with
horns and blaring lights on their vehicles. The cops said she’d
OD”d looking at her eyes with a flashlight. The paramedics said
her vitals were going nuts, so to speak. They decided to take her
to the ER, and then she’d be committed for a 48 hour surveilance
in the drug ward for substance abuse. She regained her composure
after 48 hours and was released. Only to threaten the life of whoever
put her in that hospital and had her stomach pumped. She was
madder than the proverbial ‘wet hen’. She threatened to shoot
whoever it was, with a stored gun, we didn’t know about. My FIL
warned us to stay away after she came home. She went into a
facility to dry out from drugs we were told. And during that time,
my FIL had a fatal heart attack and died. We never saw his mother
again as she was in a very unstable mind. And the doctor who
had treated her the last time, said confidentially, that she was
certifiably crazy, in his opinion. We felt very unsafe to see her
again. She died a year later, by suspicious circumstances. My
husband’s cousin believed my MIL was murdered and covered
up, by the mobile park manager who had managed to get power
of attorney over her estate. And her mobile home was ransacked
after her death by unknown persons. It was very strange and
curious. One of my husbands second cousins somehow was
given their mobile home to dispose of. And evidently he got the
money from that sale. None went to my husband as the only
next of kin, or to our son who would have been next in
line. And yet, that second cousin, wanted us to buy a head stone.
And we told him, he sold the mobile home, let him buy the head
stone. We never heard from his side of the family again.
In 99% of cases, it is the patient’s fault. There are many written warnings on meds. These aren’t put there just for fun. The Dr. or Pharmacist almost always explains the possibilities.
When a patient is unable to understand the possible problems with meds it is because they are in a health position not to. (just out of major curgery, etc.)
For over a year I was on a narcotic for pain. I respected the problems that could occur. I managed my meds and had no lingering aftereffects.