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Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« on: March 04, 2023, 04:24:57 pm »
Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
 
BY SHAUN BOYD

UPDATED ON: MARCH 3, 2023 / 3:02 PM / CBS COLORADO


Seven years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines aimed at stopping the over-prescription of opioid painkillers, patients who need those medications to ease chronic pain have been left suffering, some to the point of suicide.

Now, state Sen. Joanne Ginal is stepping in with a bill to help.

"We've done a great job at reducing opioid addiction but we need to pay attention to those people who need opioids in order to just live a normal life," she said.

According to the CDC, chronic pain impacts 20% to 30% of the population and 60% to 70% of people over age 65.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado/news/lawmaker-introduces-bill-provide-easier-access-opioids-chronic-pain-sufferers/
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2023, 04:26:15 pm »
Every junkie in Colorado will develop chronic back pain. :beer:
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2023, 06:45:10 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on March 04, 2023, 04:26:15 pm
Every junkie in Colorado will develop chronic back pain. :beer:
Yeah maybe, then again maybe chronic pain sufferers will be able to get relief after clueless Aholes started their war on Opioids and made it so hard to get pain meds.
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2023, 07:18:18 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on March 04, 2023, 06:45:10 pm
Yeah maybe, then again maybe chronic pain sufferers will be able to get relief after clueless Aholes started their war on Opioids and made it so hard to get pain meds.
. Typical government overreach and not thinking the problem through.
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2023, 09:35:11 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on March 04, 2023, 06:45:10 pm
Yeah maybe, then again maybe chronic pain sufferers will be able to get relief after clueless Aholes started their war on Opioids and made it so hard to get pain meds.

I am with you on that. It got so bad jumping through hoops that I finally walked off.
It got to where all the bullcrap wasn't worth it.

Imagine. All stove up. Can't hardly move. But I had to show up in person for a hand written prescription, a prescription good only for a few hours...
Which means after all the pain of going to the doctor, I had to immediately go stand in line, again, in person, to get the prescription filled. And no long prescriptions. 10 days, then 2 weeks and then finally a month... but no more.

Prescription day was holy hell for me.
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2023, 11:56:07 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on March 04, 2023, 06:45:10 pm
Yeah maybe, then again maybe chronic pain sufferers will be able to get relief after clueless Aholes started their war on Opioids and made it so hard to get pain meds.

And that is the problem CO is trying to address.  I wish them luck and I hope other states jump on this.  The mindless pencil pushing bureaucrats need to get their ears pinned back.
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2023, 12:44:47 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on March 04, 2023, 11:56:07 pm
And that is the problem CO is trying to address.  I wish them luck and I hope other states jump on this.  The mindless pencil pushing bureaucrats need to get their ears pinned back.

Amen! 
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2023, 08:08:58 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on March 05, 2023, 12:44:47 am
Amen!

Legitimate use of Opioids is a hot button issue  for me, and I think it is for you, too.
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2023, 08:45:28 pm »
It’s a very difficult subject, because there are valid arguments on both sides.
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2023, 09:05:30 pm »
Wife used to keep a few kids for a very dear friend of hers/ours, the kids belonged to her daughter and daughter's bad druggie husband that always found ways to steal drugs from someone... the kind of folks that would rummage through your bathroom closets looking for drugs to steal. He (father) was a slow witted tall fellow with rotten teeth that he was constantly having worked on when he wasn't in court. Lovely children that just needed some balance of order in their lives, and I actually enjoyed their company. The 2 kids were good when they had free time from their studies (we home-schooled them also) to visit me in my workshop and ask questions and want to help.

Anyhoo, have seen the damage to families more than once... Another neighbor is raising their granddaughter (pretty little red-head girl with a mean case of diabetes) that tells the same story... We keep that Shirley Temple doll some too and homeschool her through the week. Drugs are a devil when in the wrong hands...

Agree that it is a difficult subject... people that legit need them should be able to, people that abuse them make that hard.
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Re: Colorado lawmaker introduces bill to provide easier access to opioids for chronic pain sufferers
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Quote from: rangerrebew on March 04, 2023, 04:26:15 pm
Every junkie in Colorado will develop chronic back pain. :beer:
Law of unintended consequences.
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