Doctors 'creating a nation hooked on drugs so they can make more money ': Addictions to codeine, morphine and other drugs have reached dangerous levels

Addiction to opiod drugs is reaching dangerous levels, top doctors warnAmerican Academy of Neurology says painkillers do more harm than goodFrequent overdoses and side effects mean GPs should stop doling them outThere were more than 60million painkiller prescriptions in the UK in 2012This was a rise of 30% over five years, with 32,000 addicted to the drugsStrong painkillers doled out by doctors in their thousands are doing more harm than good, according to a respected medical body.Addiction to codeine, morphine and oxycodone, and other opioid drugs is reaching dangerous levels, the American Academy of Neurology has said.Frequent overdoses and a boom in serious side effects in the US means doctors should curb their use of the prescription drugs, the society said.+3Addiction to codeine, morphine and oxycodone, and other opioid drugs is reaching dangerous levels, the American Academy of Neurology has said (file picture)It called for random drug screenings for patients who are prescribed the medication in a bid to tackle addiction.The statement, which highlights concerns about overprescribing in the US, will be examined carefully in Britain, experts said last night.There has been a rapid rise in painkillers taken this side of the Atlantic, with more than 60million such prescriptions written in 2012, a 30 per cent rise in five years.Charities estimate there are 32,000 painkiller addicts in Britain, mainly those who initially took the pills to ease a minor ailment.Dr Gary Franklin of the American Academy of Neurology, writing in the journal Neurology, said: ‘There have been more deaths from prescription opioids in the most vulnerable young to middle-aged groups than from firearms and car accidents. Doctors, states, institutions and patients need to work together to stop this epidemic.‘More than 100,000 people have died from prescription opioid use since policies changed in the late 1990s to allow much more liberal long-term use.’Dr Franklin said 50 per cent of US patients taking opioid painkillers for three months are still on the same drugs five years later.Opioids such as codeine and morphine are strictly controlled in the UK. All but the weakest doses are available only with a prescription, with just 8mg of codeine allowed in over-the-counter forms.But doctors are concerned about rising numbers of stronger codeine pills and other opioids prescribed by GPs.Professor Roger Knaggs of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said: ‘Like the US, there has been a marked increase in opioid prescribing for pain in the UK … it remains unclear as to whether the harms … of this increased prescribing are the same.’But Professor David Nutt, the former government drugs adviser, said: ‘It is all very well them saying that in the USA, but they have access to medical marijuana which we do not in the UK. When people are in constant pain it would be inhumane to remove their pain relief. We need an alternative.’A spokesman for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, which forms British drugs policy, said it would look carefully at the US research, adding: ‘Opioids such as codeine and morphine are scientifically proven, effective medicines for pain relief and their benefits outweigh their risks for the majority of people.‘There are already strong warnings in the product information for all opioids about the known side effects, including the risk of tolerance or dependence.’Regular use of codeine can heighten sensitivity to pain, research has found.A study found codeine gives much less initial pain relief than morphine, but results in the same increased sensitivity to pain over time.Researcher Jacinta Johnson, of Australia’s Royal Adelaide Hospital, said: ‘In the long term it has the effect of worsening the problem.’Professor Paul Rolan added that it ‘could be detrimental’.READ MORE @http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2774300/GPs-creating-nation-hooked-painkillers-Addictions-codeine-morphine-drugs-reached-dangerous-levels.html

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Big Pharma's Money Ties To Doctors :
The Obama administration unveiled a website Tuesday that will shed some much-needed light on Big Pharma's relationship with doctors. Just not quite today.

Called Open Payments, it's a tool authorized by the Affordable Care Act that offers details on payments that drug companies and medical device makers give to physicians and medical school teaching hospitals.

The aim is to enable people to discover whether the doctors and hospitals they visit may have motives other than patients' best interests when they choose one drug or medical device over another that may be better or cheaper. Drugmakers have even been fined for making illegal payments to doctors to promote prescribing their medicines.

It's the largest attempt yet to reveal the financial ties between medical providers and the health care firms peddling their wares, and includes compensation that those companies give to doctors and hospitals in things like speaking and consulting fees, travel to industry conferences, and free meals.

For now, the database only includes a few months' worth of payments, and has other shortcomings that won't allow patients to fully vet their doctors and hospitals.

"This is an opportunity for the public to learn about the relationships among health care providers, and pharmaceutical and device companies,” Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a press release.

This first release of payments information reveals drug and device makers made 4.4 million payments to 546,000 doctors and more than 1,300 teaching hospitals from August through December of last year. In total, the payments were worth about $3.5 billion. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will add more numbers in the coming weeks, according to a press release. The first full-year accounting of payments won't come out until June. Drug and device companies are required to disclose this information under Obamacare.

The idea for Open Payments originated as the so-called Physician Payment Sunshine Act, the brainchild of lawmakers led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and then-Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) in 2007. Eventually, patients will have a clearer understanding of where their doctors' and hospitals' financial interests may lie.

In addition to promoting transparency in general, making these payments public also may serve to reduce potential conflicts of interest by making health care providers think twice before accepting money from those companies.

But the first set of numbers in this huge new database only includes payments from a five-month period, which limits patients' and researchers' ability to track how closely tied one doctor or teaching hospital may be to the drug and device industries.

What's more, flaws in the data, which forced President Barack Obama's administration to delay the publication of these numbers, persist. As a result, there are payments not included in the database, and other information is listed without the names of the providers.

In short: You can search for your doctor or local teaching hospital, but the information you find might be incomplete, or even inaccurate.

ProPublica, a nonprofit journalism organization that maintains its own database of health care company payments to medical providers, offered a list of important reasons to be cautious about the numbers released Tuesday. The American Medical Association expressed similar misgivings. The AMA had called for the launch of the database to be postponed, as did the drug and device industries.

And if you do decide to start punching names into Open Payments, don't expect a Google-like experience. This is ProPublica's Charles Ornstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning expert on data journalism and the subject of pharma and device payments to health care providers:

Read More @http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5908732

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Lisa Barnthouse-Fraser October 4, 2014 at 3:56pm

There has been veegans that got ill with different things like Ebola ecoli as a matter of fact all humans carry ecoli in their bowels
Michael October 3, 2014 at 4:26pm

humans omnivorous ?..............where did you read this crap ?
- Michael > Michael October 4, 2014 at 8:19am
  
  guys ~!~.......................healthiest folks around this planet , at least , throuout our own history here as humans and today , are the ones who follow the natural law, the one that requires a diet of veggies and fruit , active life style and plenty of good excercise ,sunshine and good fresh air , plenty of outdoors activities and so forth.....................human anatomy is nowhere near animals that feast on other animals flesh. and our teeth make up support that claim. we are not omnivours that will feast on anything...............please
- Acute Observer > Michael October 3, 2014 at 4:41pm
  
  There are multiple sources for that info, but I'll give you one that comes from your own people, The Vegetarian Resource Group. :)
  
  https://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htm
  
  Humans are Omnivores -- The Vegetarian Resource Group
  
  Vegetarian nutrition information, recipes, books, and a magazine. The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educa…
Malcolm October 1, 2014 at 11:03am

KRISHNA, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT WITH THIS EXTENSIVE ABUSE PROBLEM OF OPIATES. I do internal medicine as an RN, and I am noticing that there have been more and more complaints of constipation over the past few years with patients with pain management problems, and constipation is a side effect of excessive opiate medication use. The U.S. Army is currently working with acupuncture as an alternative medicine approach, and reportedly with good results.

Word to the wise: use opiate pain killers as prescribed and use them only for pain when such arises, and not as a crutch to help deal with stress. If you have to go to the hospital (and your opiate use appears excessive in the past database records), you will not get the same amount prescribed in-house as you were prescribed before your admission to the hospital (and you will be peed off!!!!!!)
Suiris October 1, 2014 at 1:50am

It's just a dream, so try to don't get hooked up inside all those issues and negativity, unless you like it. Even in full consciousness, it will be still a dream, unless... well.

It doesn't work that way, you know.
Acute Observer October 1, 2014 at 12:42am

Just do me one favor.

When you get ebola and try to fight it out in your own home without any contact with doctors, make sure you have a sign on your door that warns people of what they'll meet if you fail to cure yourself and need someone to pick up your corpse afterwards. No mortician would enjoy being infected with ebola just because you didn't trust the doctors for your treatment. ;)

Can you do this for us? ;)
- Michael > Acute Observer October 1, 2014 at 1:40am
  
  its funny as only meat eaters get all these sicknesses, .........................go vegan, go raw or frutarian if you want to get better, in mind and body...................
  - Acute Observer > Michael October 1, 2014 at 2:04pm
    
    Who told you ebola only affect meat-eaters?
Krishna Kalki October 1, 2014 at 12:32am

Big Pharma's Money Ties To Doctors :
The Obama administration unveiled a website Tuesday that will shed some much-needed light on Big Pharma's relationship with doctors. Just not quite today.

Called Open Payments, it's a tool authorized by the Affordable Care Act that offers details on payments that drug companies and medical device makers give to physicians and medical school teaching hospitals.

The aim is to enable people to discover whether the doctors and hospitals they visit may have motives other than patients' best interests when they choose one drug or medical device over another that may be better or cheaper. Drugmakers have even been fined for making illegal payments to doctors to promote prescribing their medicines.

It's the largest attempt yet to reveal the financial ties between medical providers and the health care firms peddling their wares, and includes compensation that those companies give to doctors and hospitals in things like speaking and consulting fees, travel to industry conferences, and free meals.

For now, the database only includes a few months' worth of payments, and has other shortcomings that won't allow patients to fully vet their doctors and hospitals.

"This is an opportunity for the public to learn about the relationships among health care providers, and pharmaceutical and device companies,” Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a press release.

This first release of payments information reveals drug and device makers made 4.4 million payments to 546,000 doctors and more than 1,300 teaching hospitals from August through December of last year. In total, the payments were worth about $3.5 billion. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will add more numbers in the coming weeks, according to a press release. The first full-year accounting of payments won't come out until June. Drug and device companies are required to disclose this information under Obamacare.

The idea for Open Payments originated as the so-called Physician Payment Sunshine Act, the brainchild of lawmakers led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and then-Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) in 2007. Eventually, patients will have a clearer understanding of where their doctors' and hospitals' financial interests may lie.

In addition to promoting transparency in general, making these payments public also may serve to reduce potential conflicts of interest by making health care providers think twice before accepting money from those companies.

But the first set of numbers in this huge new database only includes payments from a five-month period, which limits patients' and researchers' ability to track how closely tied one doctor or teaching hospital may be to the drug and device industries.

What's more, flaws in the data, which forced President Barack Obama's administration to delay the publication of these numbers, persist. As a result, there are payments not included in the database, and other information is listed without the names of the providers.

In short: You can search for your doctor or local teaching hospital, but the information you find might be incomplete, or even inaccurate.

ProPublica, a nonprofit journalism organization that maintains its own database of health care company payments to medical providers, offered a list of important reasons to be cautious about the numbers released Tuesday. The American Medical Association expressed similar misgivings. The AMA had called for the launch of the database to be postponed, as did the drug and device industries.

And if you do decide to start punching names into Open Payments, don't expect a Google-like experience. This is ProPublica's Charles Ornstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning expert on data journalism and the subject of pharma and device payments to health care providers:

Read More @http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5908732

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