Nevada records show only 2% of overdoses are from prescribed pain pills.... Just 11 percent of the opioid-related deaths in Clark County (47 of 430) involved a single prescription opioid.
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Fourteen of those cases involved methadone, which can be prescribed for pain but is better known as a treatment for heroin addiction. Seven are listed as suicides, and 21 involved complicating factors such as cancer, morbid obesity, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and (in one case) a gunshot wound to the chest.
Excluding methadone, suicides, and complicating conditions leaves nine cases where the only cause listed is a commonly prescribed pain medication: hydrocodone (five cases), oxycodone (two), hydromorphone (one), and oxymorphone (one). That's 2 percent of the opioid-related deaths.
The CDC just released new suicide statics this week. I fear we will see an increase in suicides of pain patients.
PLEASE Remember I investigated chronic pain patients and suicide back in the 1990's when pain was undertreated. I found many suspicious suicides of pain patients.
Some were suspicious single vehicle fatal accidents, a suspicious water accident, and one suicide by cop... He pointed an empty weapon at police. My wife's cousin hung himself here in Kingman years ago after a doctor refused to fill his prescription.
You can only be treated like a drug addict by your doctor and being told you don't need pain medications by your pharmacist, and that you're drug seeking by others.. Many times the addition of all this BS on top of the pain is too much, just too much....
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