The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) to combat widespread prescription painkiller abuse. How will it impact patients who take prescription medicationf for chronic pain? Here, the facts to help you work with the FDAs painkiller abuse strategy.
From the White House to the doctor’s office, it’s a common held belief that prescription drug abuse is epidemic. It has replaced illegal drugs as the number one drug problem in America. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is working on a plan t cut the rate of abuse by 15 percent within five years. Along with other agencies and organizations, the FDA is developing strategies to tackle this problem and meet the White House goal.
Their newly announced REMS will work to educate patients and doctors on proper use and prescribing of extended-release (long-acting_ prescription pain medications, like Oxycontin, Fentanyl, Duragesic and extended-release Morphine. Surprisingly, an FDA advisory committee voted against this specific plan because they didn’t think it went far enough. They wanted to include short-acting pain medications like Vicodin and Percocet too. The FDA decided this first educational step, which is designed to help make doctors and patients aware of abuse potential, keeep prescription pain drugs out of the hands of potential abusers, and help them with safer prescription and pain management plans. The FDA will provide educational materials to doctors and pharmacies, and a medication guide that uses consumer friendly language to explain safe use and disposal. They won’t however, require doctors or patients to participate in educational programs.
Updated: June 27, 2011
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So now they are sending more money up the same tree they've been using for the last 40 years. And it is a waste of money and resources. But they won't stop because people's jobs depend on their chasing this same concept. Think about all the US attorney's offices, drug abuse officers, and now FDA personnel who depend on the chasing of prescription drugs.
The real cause of drug abuse is toxicity. In homeopathy there are 4 miasms--psoric, sycotic, tuberculinic and luetic. Luetic is the worst, where the body breaks down with ulcerating or sclerosing diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, cancer. We reach this miasm by years of increasing our toxin load. People are inherently one of the 4 miasms when we are born, but that can change over time. Through stress and diet, we build up our toxicity, which leads us to luetism earlier now than it did in previous years. Some babies are being born luetic. One of the main characteristics of luetism is alcoholism or drug abuse. So basically people are first drug abusers by nature, then they find the drugs, not the other way around.
Another cause of drug abuse is the changing of our genes. Conventional medicine has always believed that your genes are inherited and unchangable. Wrong. We change our genes by our environmental experiences. Alternative practitioners have known this for ages. Finally conventional research is starting to accept what we already know. The culprit is the epimere. It is a piece of DNA that is attached on your chromosome based on what you have experienced. Bottom line is, when we use drugs, we pass that tendency (or need) on to our children. So drug abusers that have children are making the next generation's drug abusers.
Doctors such as me are completely innocent in this, and are actually preventing the drug abuse cycle. When I practiced, I refused to start young reproductive age patients on any opiate or nerve pill, and I explained why. If they came to me already on drugs, I explained to them that they should never have any more children. If there is a group of doctors, however, that are to blame for the drug abuse in this country, it is the pediatrician. Through their wrong dietary recommendations, and their use of drugs like antibiotics freely and inappropriately, they have started the dysbiosis and the toxicity in the individual. Without cleansing, this makes people move to Luetism earlier in life.
I will continue discussing this article and its repercussions tomorrow. Stay tuned.
