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Pain Patients & Pandemics
If you take pain meds, “having extra pills” is a warning flag; where does that land you when there’s an emergency?
The standard “pain medication contract” that is now required of pretty much all chronic pain patients taking narcotics on a regular basis usually contains a clause which commits people to come in for “pill counts” whenever asked.
Too few pills?
You are not complying with instructions — and may have your “license to receive” revoked.
Too many pills?
That’s Pill Hoarding — and a potential sign of addictive behavior.
Except . . . as we watch the world come to an end — on screens of whatever size — one of the first pieces of “here’s why you should panic” information we got was:
Most of our medication, and the chemical precursors needed to manufacture it come from China, Covid-19 Central.
Depending on who you ask, you should have a 7–30 day supply of all your daily meds in a Go Bag, in the backseat of your solar-powered get-away Humvee (where left meets right).
“The Opioid Crisis” that I have been watching is made up of people in chronic pain, brutally cut off from medication regimens that had kept them stable for…