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Originally Posted by SnikPlosskin
I wish. They have this thing now called the NarxCare Score. It’s a ****ing nightmare for people that need class two drugs. It is a system that sucks up all your health data (violating Hiipa) and assigns a score if you take:
Antidepressants
Pain meds
Anxiety meds
Sleep meds
ADHD meds
Change doctors
Change pharmacies
Get raped (seriously)
The higher your score, no drugs for you. So if your doctor retires, higher score. If your pharmacy ****s up amd you have to go to a different location, higher score. It’s supposed to predict likelihood of overdose. However, studies show it does nothing in this regard.
People rarely overdose on legal drugs.
The problem is it is based on raw data. There is no mechanism for a doctor to put a note in like “this patient had their spine crushed in a car accident”
That person would not get pain meds. This kept secret from patients.
Ask your doctor if he uses the NarxCare score. Then ask him why.
The guidelines say it is not to be used to make prescribing decisions. It is to “initiate a conversation”. That’s not what is happening. A lot of chronically ill people are suffering badly because of this.
Now, DJ, about that heroin...  |
Well, I'm sure Biden will relax all that shit. Trump responded to the "opioid crisis" by tightening up and putting the fear of God into docs to not prescribe them, even for people who actually need them. I'm sure Joe will want the populace spaced out and stoned.....docile, just alert enough to vote Dem. every two years. I don't blame businessman Trump, who was presented with a problem and made a business like decision. Of course, decisions often come with the law of unintended consequences, which, in this case, means deserving people like Snik can't get the meds they genuinely need.
I have a friend in a similar situation. She has a bad back, and is OK if she takes it easy, but if she actually goes and does physical stuff, she suffers horribly, and her doc is hesitant to write scripts for her. Hey, you want invasive back surgery? C'mon in! Prefer to take a more conservative approach and just treat with pain pills occasionally when you over do it once in a while? **** no!