Warnings on medicines

[Bananas5]

bbc.com/news/health-4808273...

[johnsmith]

Thanks for the reference.

[Itsallinthehips]

They should legalise cannabis for chronic pain and other disorders that require these medications and we wouldn’t have half the problem and they would make so much money back in the process

[Itsallinthehips]

Cocodamol already has paracetamol in it so please don’t take those both together, they definitely shouldn’t of given you both.

I hope your knee gets better soon x

[cyberbarn]

"My ‘going home’ meds’ included 30 days supply of 60 mg Codeine t.i.d."

Yep. there is research that shows the conversion rate from post op opioids to addiction. This is the sort of low hanging fruit that could save the NHS a lot of money. But instead they are doing things like the blanket role out of social prescribing without adequate definition of social proscribing, in the hope that it will take the pressure off GPs resulting in more available GP and other health care professional appointments. Even if you did need the codeine they should only have given you a few days of it.

Additionally there is the nocebo effect. Like the placebo effect but it is negative; if a patient is given opioids to last a month after surgery, then they are more likely to think that they will have pain to match that, and then have pain to match that. If it was explained to them that they are unlikely to need stronger painkillers, but if they do, to contact the GP, people would expect that their pain with icing and elevation would be tolerable, and just get on with it, visiting the GP only if needed.

[Ritchie1268]

Looks like this country is finally waking up to the dangers.

As you know the reason for the opiate epademic in the US is what destroyed my life.

It's such a very fine line with opiates & the amount my Dr had me on should've killed me & almost did.

OxyContin was the only thing that helped my pain, but after 5 years of being on it, then 3 years of Methadone to get off it, along with the initial problem of why I was put on it in the first place, I have numerous health conditions now that long term & high dose OxyContin daily is responsible for.

I feel so sorry for those who have had their medication taken away who are left to suffer that cannot see anyway forward.