DEA takes aggressive stance toward pharmacies trying to dispense addiction medicine

[haele]

8. Pain management specialists are jokes.

Spouse hade a standing prescription for Oxycodone as needed for years, maybe took 50 pills a year when it got really bad. Never got addicted at all. Then he had to go to a pain management specialist, and suddenly, he was monitored, expected to take those pills every day, or he couldn't get the pain meds he needed only occasionally. Within 6 months he was addicted, and needed greater dosages and eventually stronger narcotics to manage his pain, which was becoming worse.
They found out he was allergic to Suboxone. So he just quit slowly, after getting his last prescription and finding an old bottle of his previous casual prescription that got lost during a move.
This, plus CBD butter used to make home made CBD caramel corn and brownies to help him get clean. Six months it took.
After that, he just puts up with the pain, even though there are days he can't get out of his recliner or be a functioning member of the family because of the pain.

I understand lots of people can't handle narcotics, but pain managers appear to be more interested in shuttling people in and out of their clinics than actually helping people manage their pain enough to function.

Haele