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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I don't think many doctors prescribe <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>hydrocodone</SPAN> and <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> for minor aches and pains. They usually prescribe them for severe pain. As the elderly population increases, the number of pain <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN>prescriptions</SPAN></SPAN> will also increase. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">My left hand was crushed in an accident. I feel pain their a lot of the time and there is a major nerve that is pinched. I don't get any narcotics for it, just <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>ultram</SPAN>, AKA <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>tramadol</SPAN>, a mild pain killer. Taken with another OTC pain killer it works well, isn't addictive, and doesn't impact thinking. There are different levels of pain medications for different levels of pain. It isn't all or nothing. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Pain killer is a misnomer. <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Hydrocodone</SPAN> would not have prevented you from feeling pain. it would just make the pain less bothersome. Being bothered by pain greatly after <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5><SPAN>surgery</SPAN></SPAN> can slow recovery because you will not be willing or maybe even able to move about as much as you should and get your body operating properly again. There is nothing to be gained by suffering. Some doctors will place a "block" (like a <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6><SPAN>Novocain</SPAN></SPAN> effect on a body part) on you during surgery that will last a few hours after surgery. They did this when relocating the parts in my hand. This is the only thing I know that prevents you from feeling pain or <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-7><SPAN>anything</SPAN></SPAN> for that matter.
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"> I have found, if the doctor tells you to take a medication, you should take it. If he tells you not to, don't. Don't try to be a better doctor than your doctor. If you have a doctor that doesn't work for you, get another one, don't try to play one yourself or second guess your doctor. If people did this, people would live longer healthier lives. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com>; Art Deco <art.deco.studios@gmail.com>; vision2020@moscow.com <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, April 6, 2012 7:13 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?<BR></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>I will elaborate on this a little further. I am not advocating the suspension of prescribing pain killers. In cases of severe pain they should be used. I am only saying that
for lower level pain, live with it. My mother had a living will. She did not want any extra effort made to keep her alive, except for pain relief. When I had a hernia operation I did not take any pain killers, because I wanted to know when it hurt.<BR>Roger<BR><BR>-----Original message-----<BR>From: lfalen <A href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" ymailto="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</A><BR>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:55:12 -0700<BR>To: "Art Deco" <A href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</A>, <A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?<BR><BR>> This is a problem, but there is an over reliance on pain killers and they are too frequently prescribed. I have arthritis in my left hand. It hurts all the time but I live with it. I do not use
any pain killers. I put a heat pad on it once a day. That helps quite a bit.<BR>> Roger<BR>> -----Original message-----<BR>> From: Art Deco <A href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</A><BR>> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:26:21 -0700<BR>> To: <A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?<BR>> <BR>> > Painkiller sales spike, fueling addiction Overdose death toll from<BR>> > <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>opioids</SPAN> rising<BR>> > Chris <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Hawley</SPAN><BR>> > Associated Press<BR>> > <BR>> > NEW YORK – Sales of the nations two most popular prescription painkillers<BR>> > have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis<BR>> > shows, worrying
experts who say the push to relieve patients’ suffering is<BR>> > spawning an addiction epidemic.<BR>> > <BR>> > From New York’s Staten Island to Santa Fe, N.M., Drug Enforcement<BR>> > Administration figures show dramatic rises between 2000 and 2010 in the<BR>> > distribution of <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN>, the key ingredient in <SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>OxyContin</SPAN>, <SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Percocet</SPAN> and<BR>> > <SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>Percodan</SPAN>. Some places saw sales increase <SPAN id=misspell-17 class=mark>sixteenfold</SPAN>.<BR>> > <BR>> > Meanwhile, the distribution of <SPAN id=misspell-18 class=mark>hydrocodone</SPAN>, the key ingredient in <SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>Vicodin</SPAN>,<BR>> > <SPAN id=misspell-20 class=mark>Norco</SPAN> and <SPAN id=misspell-21 class=mark>Lortab</SPAN>, is rising in Appalachia, the original
epicenter of the<BR>> > painkiller epidemic, as well as in the Midwest.<BR>> > <BR>> > The increases have coincided with a wave of overdose deaths, pharmacy<BR>> > robberies and other problems in New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Florida and other<BR>> > states. Opioid pain relievers, the category that includes <SPAN id=misspell-22 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> and<BR>> > <SPAN id=misspell-23 class=mark>hydrocodone</SPAN>, caused 14,800 overdose deaths in 2008 alone, and the death<BR>> > toll is rising, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.<BR>> > <BR>> > Nationwide, pharmacies received and ultimately dispensed the equivalent of<BR>> > 69 tons of pure <SPAN id=misspell-24 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> and 42 tons of pure <SPAN id=misspell-25 class=mark>hydrocodone</SPAN> in 2010, the last<BR>> > year for which statistics are available. That’s enough to give 40 5-mg<BR>> > <SPAN
id=misspell-26 class=mark>Percocets</SPAN> and 24 5-mg <SPAN id=misspell-27 class=mark>Vicodins</SPAN> to every person in the United States. The<BR>> > DEA data records shipments from distributors to pharmacies, hospitals,<BR>> > practitioners and teaching institutions. The drugs are eventually dispensed<BR>> > and sold to patients, but the DEA does not keep track of how much<BR>> > individual patients receive.<BR>> > <BR>> > The increase is partly due to the aging U.S. population with pain issues<BR>> > and a greater willingness by doctors to treat pain, said Gregory Bunt,<BR>> > medical director at New York’s <SPAN id=misspell-28 class=mark>Daytop</SPAN> Village chain of drug<BR>> > treatment clinics.<BR>> > <BR>> > Sales are also being driven by addiction, as users become physically<BR>> > dependent on painkillers and begin doctor shopping” to keep the<BR>> >
prescriptions coming, he said.<BR>> > <BR>> > <SPAN id=misspell-29 class=mark>Opioids</SPAN> like <SPAN id=misspell-30 class=mark>hydrocodone</SPAN> and <SPAN id=misspell-31 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> can release intense feelings of<BR>> > well-being. Some abusers swallow the pills; others crush them, then smoke,<BR>> > snort or inject the powder.<BR>> > <BR>> > The AP analysis used drug data collected quarterly by the DEA’s Automation<BR>> > of Reports and Consolidated Orders System. The DEA tracks shipments sent<BR>> > from distributors to pharmacies, hospitals, practitioners and teaching<BR>> > institutions and then compiles the data using three-digit ZIP codes.<BR>> > <BR>> > The AP combined this data with census figures to determine effective sales<BR>> > per <SPAN id=misspell-32 class=mark>capita</SPAN>.<BR>> > <BR>> > A few ZIP codes that include military bases
or Veterans Affairs hospitals<BR>> > have seen large increases in painkiller use because of soldier patients<BR>> > injured in the Middle East, law enforcement officials say. In addition,<BR>> > small areas around St. Louis, Indianapolis, <SPAN id=misspell-33 class=mark>Las</SPAN> Vegas and Newark, N.J.,<BR>> > have seen their totals affected because mail-order pharmacies have shipping<BR>> > centers there, said Carmen <SPAN id=misspell-34 class=mark>Catizone</SPAN>, executive director of the National<BR>> > Association of Boards of Pharmacy.<BR>> > <BR>> > In 2000, <SPAN id=misspell-35 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> sales were centered in coal-mining areas of West<BR>> > Virginia and eastern Kentucky – places with high concentrations of people<BR>> > with back problems and other chronic pain.<BR>> > <BR>> > But by 2010, the strongest <SPAN id=misspell-36 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN>
sales had overtaken most of Tennessee<BR>> > and Kentucky, stretching as far north as Columbus, Ohio and as far south as<BR>> > Macon, Ga.<BR>> > <BR>> > Per-<SPAN id=misspell-37 class=mark>capita</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-38 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> sales increased five- or six-fold in most of Tennessee<BR>> > during the decade.<BR>> > <BR>> > “We’<SPAN id=misspell-39 class=mark>ve</SPAN> got a problem. We’<SPAN id=misspell-40 class=mark>ve</SPAN> got to get a handle on it,” said Tommy Farmer,<BR>> > a <SPAN id=misspell-41 class=mark>counterdrug</SPAN> official with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.<BR>> > <BR>> > Many buyers began crossing into Tennessee to fill prescriptions after<BR>> > border states began strengthening computer systems meant to monitor drug<BR>> > sales, Farmer said.<BR>> > <BR>> > In 2006, only 20 states had prescription drug
monitoring programs aimed at<BR>> > tracking patients. Now 40 do, but many <SPAN id=misspell-42 class=mark>aren</SPAN>’t linked together, so abusers<BR>> > can simply go to another state when they’re flagged in one state’s system.<BR>> > There is no federal monitoring of prescription drugs at the patient level.<BR>> > <BR>> > In Florida, the AP analysis underscores the difficulty of the state’s<BR>> > decade-long battle against “pill mills,” unscrupulous doctors who churn out<BR>> > dozens of prescriptions a day.<BR>> > <BR>> > In 2000, Florida’s <SPAN id=misspell-43 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> sales were centered around West Palm Beach. By<BR>> > 2010, <SPAN id=misspell-44 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> was flowing to nearly every part of the state.<BR>> > <BR>> > While still not as high as in Appalachia or Florida, <SPAN id=misspell-45 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> sales
also<BR>> > increased dramatically in New York City and its suburbs. The borough of<BR>> > Staten Island saw sales leap 1,200 percent.<BR>> > <BR>> > The American Southwest has emerged as another hot spot.<BR>> > <BR>> > Parts of New Mexico have seen tenfold increases in <SPAN id=misspell-46 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN> sales per<BR>> > <SPAN id=misspell-47 class=mark>capita</SPAN> and fivefold increases in <SPAN id=misspell-48 class=mark>hydrocodone</SPAN>. The state had the highest<BR>> > rate of opioid painkiller overdoses in 2008, with 27 per<BR>> > 100,000 population.<BR>> > <BR>> > Many parts of eastern California received only modest amounts of <SPAN id=misspell-49 class=mark>oxycodone</SPAN><BR>> > in 2010, but the increase from 2000 was dramatic – more than 500 percent<BR>> > around Modesto and Stockton.<BR>> > <BR>> > Many California addicts are
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