why do Drs prescribe meds that people can get hooked on an then deni refills after the damage is done?

Question

such as norco. people go out of town to clinics and its ok

Answer 1

Responsible doctors prescribe those medications very, very carefully, in limited amounts, when they are absolutely necessary. When taken as directed for a genuine problem, it isn't possible to get "hooked" on them.

Studies have shown that people who actually experience chronic pain do not get addicted to narcotics.

When people claim to have greater levels of pain than they are truly experiencing and manage to fool a physician into giving them pain medications that they don't actually need, they are responsible for the results - not the doctors. The addicts are the ones who have caused doctors to be so cautious about giving real pain patients the medications we need, though, because of the resulting legal climate.

So thank Rush Limbaugh and others like him if you know somebody who is truly in acute pain, but is being denied adequate pain relief.

Answer 2

A doctor is assuming he's giving you a script for a legitimate reason. Your in reasonable pain. You may possible have a slipped disc which is bad if you've ever had on. He's being compassionate, he gives you a shot of Demerol to help you asp then lets it take affect. This is if someone is with you, then he send you home with a script.
Of course there's no refills, there shouldn't be. Your not going to live of the drugs, you have things to do, you have a follow up, CAT's or MRI's then there's the next doctor the orthopedic surgeon. He knows you have a script and he doesn't think you need another one just yet, he takes more MRI's or three dimensional CATS's and lets you ride for awhile while he's deciding what to do.
After all those, and your out of the hospital you need pain control for awhile. Not everyone is a junkie and, cannot control the drugs. I take Vicodine for my problems. I come in every month on the very day they're due to the time I need another pill.
This has been going on for four years now, will go on for life for me. My daughter shattered a finger, she had it fixed but, she run out of a months script two weeks early. I had to have a talk with her.

Answer 3

It's NOT ok. That is called "doctor-shopping" and it's a felony in most states. I agree....a lot of doctor's either give way too much (or for the poor people with real chronic pain issues--they don't give anything), then the DEA notices it and then clamps-down on them and they have to cut you off. It's a bad situation all around. The DEA watches everyone who gets/prescribes narcotics.

Answer 4

Doctors dont give scripts for people to abuse! Those meds are given to control pain. If you have become addicted dont be mad at your Dr.

FYI: The federal government keep track of EVERY controlled substance that your doctors have perscribed. So even if you go out of town or to another dr, they're tracking it!!!!