Although many of these laws exempt patients with chronic or cancer pain, in practice they often affect those with long-term pain, like McAneny’s patient. Some insurance companies and major pharmacy chains, like Walmart, Express Scripts, and CVS, also have mandatory restrictions on the opioid prescriptions they will fill. In addition to imposing supply limits, insurers and pharmacies are increasingly using the CDC’s dosage guidance (the equivalent of 50 to 90 milligrams of morphine a day) as the basis for delaying or denying refills for long-term pain patients, even though the CDC guidance is intended to apply only to patients who have not taken opioids before.
The Drug Enforcement Administration and some state medical boards are also using this dosage guidance in ways that were never intended, such as a proxy or red flag to identify physician “over-prescribers” without considering the medical conditions or needs of these physicians’ patients. As a result, some physicians who specialize in pain management are leaving their practices, while others are tapering their patients off of opioids, solely out of fear of losing their licenses or criminal charges.
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Large quantities of psychiatric brain-chemistry altering drugs are pushed unto our children and infants…by daycares, teachers, social workers, therapists without MD.s, Some Doctors, Parents and Big Pharma…and profiting professions.
Where is the out cry!
This is criminal!
More Infants Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs to Address Behavior
An increasing number of children age 2 or younger are being prescribed psychiatric drugs to address their violent or withdrawn behavior, The New York Times reports.
Experts say there is no published research on the drugs’ effectiveness and potential health risks for this age group.
Among the antipsychotic drugs being prescribed for infants are risperidone (Risperdal) and quetiapine (Seroquel).
These drugs are typically used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults. Almost 20,000 prescriptions for antipsychotic medications were written last year for children 2 and younger, the article notes.
https://www.ncadd.org/index.php/blogs/in-the-news/more-infants-prescribed-psychiatric-drugs-to-address-behavior