Anonymous ID: 0e8c06 Oct. 12, 2018, 11:44 a.m. No.3453186   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3471

Study Finds Opioid Medication Effective for Chronic Pain

May 03, 2018

 

By Pat Anson, Editor

 

Opioids have been used for thousands of years to provide relief from pain. But are they an effective treatment? Are they worth the risk of addiction? And do they improve quality of life?

 

Millions of chronic pain patients who use prescription opioids so that they can work, sleep, bathe and do simple household chores would quickly answer “Yes” to those questions.

 

But that’s a radical concept in an age of anti-opioid hysteria and propaganda. Prominent anti-opioid activists insist that “opioids are ineffective or can worsen both the pain and the long-term outcome." And the CDC's opioid prescribing guideline tells us there is “insufficient evidence to determine long-term benefits of opioid therapy for chronic pain.”

 

Except now there’s a review that says opioids are effective and the evidence was there all along.

 

Researchers at Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine analyzed 15 clinical studies performed for the Food and Drug Administration that looked at the effectiveness of opioids in treating chronic non-cancer pain. Their findings were just published in the Journal of Pain Research.

 

“The recent claims that opioids lack efficacy for chronic pain have created controversy among physicians, prescribers, regulators, scientists, and the general public,” wrote lead author Nathaniel Katz, MD, president of Analgesic Solutions and a professor of anesthesia at Tufts University.

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“This review was, therefore, performed in order to gather together the key evidence to facilitate understanding opioid efficacy within the paradigm of FDA studies required for approval, and to perform a meta-analysis in order to quantify opioid efficacy for chronic pain.”

 

‘Ample Evidence’ Opioids Work

 

The authors are careful to note that they did not try to study or minimize the risks of opioids but were simply trying to reach “an accurate assessment of their benefits.” The 15 placebo controlled studies they reviewed evaluated the effectiveness of hydrocodone, oxycodone, tramadol and other opioids for up to 3 months.

 

What did they find?

 

“There is an ample evidence base supporting the efficacy of opioid analgesics for at least 3 months’ duration,” Katz wrote. “This evidence base is at least as large as that for any other class of analgesics, and analysis of responders demonstrates clinically meaningful improvements.”

 

Nearly two-thirds of the patients (63%) who participated in the 15 studies demonstrated “a clinically meaningful response” to opioids as a treatment for chronic pain. Their physical function only improved marginally, and researchers say there was no positive or negative effect on the patients’ mood. Interestingly, adverse effects were similar in the patients who took opioids and those who were given placebos.

 

In short, the authors found no reason to abandon opioids as a treatment for chronic pain.

Anonymous ID: 0e8c06 Oct. 12, 2018, 11:47 a.m. No.3453215   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3236 >>3280

How can you even call it health care when a patient's condition will never improve, cut their medication in half, or less or in some cases completely….leaving them suffer with no working substitute?

 

They have taken these medications responsibly for 10-30 years. They rescheduled drugs and cut patients off? Why?

 

You can bet those at the top, politicians, high up gov. workers can get their pain meds…NO PROBLEM!

 

They’re Convicting Innocent people, because others abused it or committed crimes.

 

Just a few years ago most of the NOW OPIOIDS weren't even considered opioids! Or Narcotics or were on a much lower level (CSA schedule) for years– almost decades!

 

And since they rescheduled these in the Obama Adm.

 

They are NOW and STILL deemed so TERRIBLE! And we're not even talking about Oxycotin! Good grief people, use some freaking common sense. These people are not taking Oxycotin!

 

The DEA & FDA has cracked down on so many physicians & drugs and chronic pain patients, who have taken these meds responsively for over 20 some years have been cut in half or even less with no other substitute that actually works.

 

You can bet those at the top, politicians, high up gov. workers can get their pain meds…NO PROBLEM! While Chronic Pain Patients and their Doctors suffer.

 

These are your fellow Patriots & Anons and Trump supporters that are suffering because of Oxycotin fraudulently marketed, others behavior, crimes or abuse? Obama letting in illegal drugs by illegals, M13 and China?

 

(Just one of the multiple CSA reschedulings, under Obama) On October 6, 2014, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) decision to restrict access to hydrocodone combination pain relievers (HCPs) went into effect. Medications like Lortab, Norco, Vicodin and generic formulations have been moved from Schedule III to Schedule II.

 

You can bet those at the top, politicians, high up gov. workers can get their pain meds…NO PROBLEM!

 

While Chronic Pain Patients and their Doctors suffer.

 

The problem with the new rules, however, is that patients in severe pain will have much more difficulty accessing needed medicine.

 

Responsible Chronic Pain Patients and Patriots are suffering and dying for real pain management, not the sham the CDC & FDA is forcing on us.

 

It is the same as those who are Depressed, and kill themselves to end the depression, Those in pain will do the same, to end the pain.

 

Do you cut a depressed persons meds in half with no substitute that works?

 

No, the effects would be disasterous…just as it is for those with chronic pain patients.

 

How many of those so-called-thousands of overdoses, were in actuality intentional suicides? But listed as overdoses, not suicides.

 

You can bet those at the top, politicians, high up gov. workers can get their pain meds…NO PROBLEM!

 

While Chronic Pain Patients and their Doctors suffer.

 

Doctors also work in a profession that has the some of the highest suicide rates & they don't use a firearm, same with chronic pain patients. Wake the hell up! End the insanity!

 

These patients don't want POT…they want their pain meds back that gave them a better quality of life than they have now because of these ridiculous asinine rescheduled restrictions.

 

So who's profiting, while chronic pain patients suffering along with their Doctors? And still profiting?

Anonymous ID: 0e8c06 Oct. 12, 2018, noon No.3453318   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>3453248

They're considering making that illegal, too…just an FYI.

 

Chronic Pain Patients just want their meds back that have worked for them with less side effects. Pot is not a cure all….opposite, actually for some types of pain.

 

But thanks for the info…:)

Anonymous ID: 0e8c06 Oct. 12, 2018, 12:22 p.m. No.3453513   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>3453471

Thanks…the majority have taken them responsively…this is partially profits for someone, big pharma, big med, taxable opioids (yes the dems were going to tax opioids fake crisis. and they want to bring in pot for tax revenue…most of this is a farse