Although there are skin patches for slow-release of painkillers, systemic effect of opioids reduce bowel mouvement and tend to make harder and dryer stools.
Still causes less conspitation that taking via pills.
If the doctor has two brain cells he will switch the patient on different painkillers instead of increasing doses ( there is very little cross-tolerance for painkillers acting at different points of pain transmission, and tolerance drops fast so a former drug can be used again later ).
Not sure if patches are still prescribed/sold in the USA. Drug dealers would sell the patches to junkies who would eat the gel inside the patch no matter how foul-taisting they made it. Overblown problem since the near-totality of black-market opioids for recreational use come from China.
''The expert'' solution to quickly-increasing opioids overdoses from imported Chinese fentanyl since 2000 was to take more and more patients off painkillers. Since that didn't work, they were down to arguing we need to take cancer patients off opioids, at which point they finally had a ''are we fucking monsters?'' moment and back-tracked a bit.
I understand the USA and several countries had a massive crisis due to pharmaceutical companies giving kickbacks to doctors for prescribing oxycodone like candy and the above paragraph is a part of the over-correction to that.
Although there are skin patches for slow-release of painkillers, systemic effect of opioids reduce bowel mouvement and tend to make harder and dryer stools.
Still causes less conspitation that taking via pills.
If the doctor has two brain cells he will switch the patient on different painkillers instead of increasing doses ( there is very little cross-tolerance for painkillers acting at different points of pain transmission, and tolerance drops fast so a former drug can be used again later ).
Not sure if patches are still sold in the USA. Drug dealers would sell the patches to junkies who would eat the gel inside the patch no matter how foul-taisting they made it. Overblown problem since the near-totality of black-market opioids for recreational use come from China.
''The expert'' solution to quickly-increasing opioids overdoses from imported Chinese fentanyl since 2000 was to take more and more patients off painkillers. Since that didn't work, they were down to arguing we need to take cancer patients off opioids, at which point they finally had a ''are we fucking monsters?'' moment and back-tracked a bit.
I understand the USA and several countries had a massive crisis due to pharmaceutical companies giving kickbacks to doctors for prescribing oxycodone like candy and the above paragraph is a part of the over-correction to that.
Although there are skin patches for slow-release of painkillers, systemic effect of opioids reduce bowel mouvement and tend to make harder and dryer stools.
Still causes less conspitation that taking via pills.
If the doctor has two brain cells he will switch the patient on different painkillers instead of increasing doses ( there is very little cross-tolerance for painkillers acting at different points of pain transmission, and tolerance drops fast so a former drug can be used again later ).
Not sure if patches are still sold in the USA. Drug dealers would sell the patches to junkies who would eat the gel inside the patch no matter how foul-taisting they made it. Overblown problem since the near-totality of black-market opioids for recreational use come from China.
''The expert'' solution to quickly-increasing opioids overdoses from imported Chinese fentanyl since 2000 was to take more and more patients off painkillers. Since that didn't work, they were down to arguing we need to take cancer patients off opioids, at which point they finally had a ''are we fucking monsters?'' and back-tracked a bit.
I understand the USA and several countries had a massive crisis due to pharmaceutical companies giving kickbacks to doctors for prescribing oxycodone like candy and the above paragraph is a part of the over-correction to that.
Although there are skin patches for slow-release of painkillers, systemic effect of opioids reduce bowel mouvement and tend to make harder and dryer stools.
Still causes less conspitation that taking via pills.
If the doctor has two brain cells he will switch the patient on different painkillers instead of increasing doses ( there is very little cross-tolerance for painkillers acting at different points of pain transmission, and tolerance drops fast so a former drug can be used again later ).
Not sure if patches are still sold in the USA. Drug dealers would sell the patches to junkies who would eat the gel inside the patch no matter how foul-taisting they made it. Overblown problem since the near-totality of black-market opioids for recreational use come from China.
''The expert'' solution to increasing opioids overdoses from imported Chinese fentanyl was to take more and more patients off painkillers. Since that didn't work, they were down to arguing we need to take cancer patients off opioids, at which point they finally had a ''are we fucking monsters?'' and back-tracked a bit.
I understand the USA and several countries had a massive crisis due to pharmaceutical companies giving kickbacks to doctors for prescribing oxycodone like candy and the above paragraph is a part of the over-correction to that.
Although there are skin patches for slow-release of painkillers, systemic effect of opioids reduce bowel mouvement and tend to make harder and dryer stools.
Still causes less conspitation that taking via pills.
If the doctor has two brain cells he will switch the patient on different painkillers instead of increasing doses ( there is very little cross-tolerance for painkillers acting at different points of pain transmission, and tolerance drops fast so a former drug can be used again later ).
Not sure if patches are still sold in the USA. Drug dealers would sell the patches to junkies who would eat the gel inside the patch no matter how foul-taisting they made it. Overblown problem since the near-totality of black-market opioids for recreational use come from China.
''The expert'' solution to increasing opioids overdoses from imported Chinese fentanyl was to take more and more patients off painkillers. Since that didn't work, they were down to arguing we need to take cancer patients off opioids, at which point they finally had a ''are we fucking monsters?'' and back-tracked a bit.