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https://twitter.com/politico/status/926285329979584514Troubling news from my doc about new FDA/DEA guidelines.
Sorry in advance for the length of this post...
The basics about my situation: Bad depression. Hospitalized once for it. Full-on panic attacks and many trips to the ER thinking I was dying. That was about 12 years ago. It took me a couple of years to get the right balance of Zoloft and Xanax that have made me live a fairly normal life, and I have been for a little over a decade now.
So today I go to my doc for the routine med check and new prescriptions for a few months.
She tells me Im taking too much Xanax. (For the record it is a low dose: .25mg up to 3x daily as needed - I sometimes dont even take that much - and 1mg when I go to bed.)
New FDA/DEA guidelines, she tells me, and gives me the form pictured below. She explains this is practice-wide and anyone taking opioids or benzodiazepines is getting this. (I later confirm this when a nurse tells me its been hard dealing with patients who are stressed about it, and then I hear another patient at checkout expressing concern.)
So after ten years of living a fairly normal life, the new plan is to get me off the Xanax. Right.
I wonder how the FDA and DEA are going to deal with the doctor shopping, pharmacy jumping, and illegal market theyre going to create with this?
The fill-in-the-blanks nature of the form is suspicious to me, as well as the blanket should not be used for more than four weeks statement.
I kind of wonder whether this practice is under some kind of scrutiny.
Anyone else getting this news, specifically about benzodiazepines? Has this already BEEN news and I just missed it?
Who had Dustin Hoffman next?
Dustin Hoffman Sexually Harassed Me When I Was 17
The author, who slapped away the star's butt grabs and laughed off his vulgar language on the set of 1985 TV film 'Death of a Salesman,' still feels conflicted: "I loved the attention. Until I didn't."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/dustin-hoffman-sexually-harassed-me-i-was-17-guest-column-1053466
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