Comments about ‘State tries to reduce prescription overdoses’

What are they thinking? The drug companies are going to have a hernia if overdosing is questioned and put under control. The elderly victims of drug companies are their bread and butter. The medications forced on the elderly are causing many of the problems with pain and ailments, doesn't anyone listen to their ads or read the fine print? Even the drugs for simple act of controling colestrol are hazardous and can cause much pain. The drug manufacturing cartels develope pills to offset pills and putting lives and quality of life in peril. Doctors tend to disbelive patients who associate new ailments to medication being prescribed. Then turn around and add another pill to the list, instead of just taking patients off of earlier prescriptions. I see it all the time how drugs and prescriptions have destroyed lives without those taking them realizing it. Drug companies are in business for one thing, profit, and its in their best interset to hide the truth in drugs and their side effects. The FDA just sits back and accepts manufacturers testing and results as real. The FDA should be doing their own testing of all drugs and followups on its use and affects.

who ever has to pay for the drug testing, i.e. the insurance companies is going to have a hernia!

Enough already. It's called the doctor-patient relationship (not the doctor-patient-State of Utah relationship) for a reason. Let doctors practice medicine in peace without hassles that hurt doctors and patients.

Anyone who would suggest that we limit opiates to treat chronic pain patients.. has never had to deal with chronic pain.

Report released this week in WV indicated that 2/3 of the people that died of a opiate overdose - did not have a prescription for any opiate.

IMO.. these bureaucrats should stop trying to protect people from themselves. For the last 100 yrs.. there has been ~ 1.5% of the population that abuses substances other than alcohol & tobacco. This % has remained unchanged irregardless of what the Fed/State bureaucrats have tried to do.

It took us 12-14 yrs to figure out that putting prohibition on alcohol didn't and couldn't work.

This proposal is just going to hurt the 98% of the people that need these medications to help maintain some quality of life..

Pain should not be an option for a humane America. When we talk about possible addiction for patients being the biggest concern, we forget that we can wean people off of drugs if they no longer need them. It is a decision and a risk that is up to the patient to decide.

what about alcohol,,,, people die from over dosing that , if people wish to die they WILL find a way , you who do not beleive in chronic pain should try having hips replaced , backs fused all in an attempt to stop the pain , there becomes a time and place where pain meds both long and short term ARE DEFINATLY NESESARY , i do not disagree with the conytract and testing that has been a part of my life for a vey long time but to limit the use of pain meds in a chronic pain setting is ABSURD,,,, Dave

As a recovering addict I can say that this is absurd. I am being treated for chronic pain, I do not abuse my meds in fact I have developed a healthy fear of my addictive nature and am very careful. Believe me if I wanted to get high I don't need a prescription. I spent 20 years self medicating without one. Now I am being treated by a wonderful, careful, very competent doctor who is well aware of my history. Limiting or removing my pain meds could very well put me six feet under as a life of untreated severe pain is no life at all.

Just another attempt to fix a problem by reacting instead of acting. All this is going to do is make it harder on the legitimate pain patient that already has had to jump through hoops to get pain control more difficult. Addicts will find a way to get high no matter what. We already know this, just like alcoholics will drink vanilla and mouth wash if they can't get anything else. Those of us whose lives have been ravaged by chronic and intractable pain don't need more obstacles. We are the ones following all the rules and jumping through the hoops. Instead of making my life more difficult and blaming doctors who are trying to treat legitimate pain, how about making the addicts responsible for their actions and the choices they make to misuse medication.