I posted awhile back about my new prescription problems. They continue, but this is not about that. My friends are also starting to have problems. The Vietnam vet next door has been taken off his painkillers, another friend of mine just lost her muscle relaxer. These are people that have serious medical problems and have been on these prescriptions for decades.
So I have been wondering just what the fuck was really going on. I know there is media hype about deaths and abuse, but that doesn't square with the America I know. The America I know kills 13 people while saving .57 cents on a spring. So I went off following the money.
Starting with Pharma. While I know a lot of the problem is coming from DEA pressure, I figure there is money behind that pressure.
This is from this article. http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/p...n-test-kids-aiming-extend-monopoly/2012-07-03
It's a post about Purdue Pharma running oxycontin trials on kids to get an extension of their patent. The parent Article is interesting. It estimates that the losses from drugs going generic in 2013 and 2014 are going to be in the Billions.
The FDA moves Vicodin and its multiple generic versions up a class to CII, making it more difficult to prescribe, and the DEA starts targeting doctors, even in places that had no pill mill abuses like Florida did. Meanwhile, it approves Zohydro, a newly patented version of hydrocodone that is even stronger than the usual vicodin formula.
The FDA puts out guidelines. My friend was taking Hydrocodone and Soma. They ARE a problem to some people, but she had taken them together for over a decade, and had them in perfect balance with no side effects. Her doctor got a letter stating specifically that patients on both these drugs had to be moved immediately off one or the other, and was given a list of replacements for soma. None are generic. The one the doctor choose isn't even on the insurance companies formulary.
There seem to be a lot of pieces to this puzzle, and I am not sure I have the right picture yet.
But I do NOT believe for an instant that Pharmaceutical Companies act in the best interest of anything but profit. I do think that they have power at the FDA.
Anyway, pisses me right the fuck off. Moving to Colorado
So I have been wondering just what the fuck was really going on. I know there is media hype about deaths and abuse, but that doesn't square with the America I know. The America I know kills 13 people while saving .57 cents on a spring. So I went off following the money.
Starting with Pharma. While I know a lot of the problem is coming from DEA pressure, I figure there is money behind that pressure.
This is from this article. http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/p...n-test-kids-aiming-extend-monopoly/2012-07-03
It's a post about Purdue Pharma running oxycontin trials on kids to get an extension of their patent. The parent Article is interesting. It estimates that the losses from drugs going generic in 2013 and 2014 are going to be in the Billions.
The FDA moves Vicodin and its multiple generic versions up a class to CII, making it more difficult to prescribe, and the DEA starts targeting doctors, even in places that had no pill mill abuses like Florida did. Meanwhile, it approves Zohydro, a newly patented version of hydrocodone that is even stronger than the usual vicodin formula.
The FDA puts out guidelines. My friend was taking Hydrocodone and Soma. They ARE a problem to some people, but she had taken them together for over a decade, and had them in perfect balance with no side effects. Her doctor got a letter stating specifically that patients on both these drugs had to be moved immediately off one or the other, and was given a list of replacements for soma. None are generic. The one the doctor choose isn't even on the insurance companies formulary.
There seem to be a lot of pieces to this puzzle, and I am not sure I have the right picture yet.
But I do NOT believe for an instant that Pharmaceutical Companies act in the best interest of anything but profit. I do think that they have power at the FDA.
Anyway, pisses me right the fuck off. Moving to Colorado