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[DebJ]

16. I'd like to see them crack down on the way ER's issue opiod based pain relief

drugs. In our hospital, they give you a prescription for that stuff for a hangnail.... I'm very clutzy, and have
made too many trips to the ER. Without even asking me, 5 times in recent years I got prescriptions for
this crap. I didn't even NEED pain relief. I said I won't take an opiod based drug (bipolar runs in my family
genetics so out of caution, I'm not touching it). The ER doc replied that this was all they had in the hospital
pharmacy..........so, there are like 50 other pharmacies in town........ but he didn't even ASK.


I have a friend who experienced a similar thing in a Maryland ER... and she is a former addict to that crap.
It's like laying out a line of cocaine in front of someone who is finally clean..... and they don't even ASK.
Just hand it out.

Our town has a huge amount of drug issues. No doubt the ER helps keep up the supply!