SocratesJohnson

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  1. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    That is really frustrating. I don't mind working really hard to control a given patient's pain. I don mind it when, despite heroic attempts at pain control, you've accomplished little due to the...

  2. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    It's always nice to meet a fellow PACU nurse. From what I can tell most PACU nurses think that the pain scale we're required to use often widely inaccurate. I've heard many patients who don't appear...

  3. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    I agree completely about pain being assessed on an individual basis.....Blanket approaches, such as the ones we're now using, don't work. In many cases talking to patients really helps them control...

  4. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    That isn't a matter of opinion. The fact is that if one patient lies about their pain the statement: "A patient's pain is always what they say it is" becomes untrue. I'm required to take that...

  5. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    That is very true. Most patients don't have problems with opioids. There are enough that do to constitute a very serious

  6. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    facts and statistics]Addiction Help | National Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Information Center (NASAIC) . Percocet and other prescription pain medications comprise a growing percentage of the total...

  7. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    http://www.painmedicinenews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Policy+&+Management&d_id=83&i=October+2011&i_id=770&a_id=19212...

  8. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    I request that you support or retract that accusation. What have I said that is untrue? My views are completely based on fact. The fact is that the patients pain isn't always what they say it is....

  9. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    If the experts were aware that people lie about pain they wouldn't assert that the "patients pain is always what they say it is". All it takes is one exception to disprove a statement like that. Of...

  10. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    It's not that simple. Chronic opioid use makes pain worse in many cases and, consequently, in many cases the medication is a major source of the crippling effect. Maybe they should but they aren't...

  11. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    I'm not researching a paper. I've been a PACU Nurse for a long time and I've watched things get progressively worse with respect to the number of patients with major pain control problems (pain...

  12. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    It's funny.....The ones who lump all patients in pain patients together are the ones who say: "the patients pain is always what they say it is." I'm the one pointing out that the reality of pain...

  13. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    It doesn't mean that. The fact is a lot of chronic pain patients are in a very bad way due to all the pills they take....Not all by any means but is a serious

  14. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    I see far too many patients who are chronic pill poppers. In many cases it could have been prevented by sensible pain control policies. I do too. I'm doing nothing of the sort. I'm just pointing...

  15. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    That's a good question. Because they have dramatically increasing pain and not long to live. They are different than a 35 year old with a huge Percocet habit who is otherwise

  16. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    The point is to stop creating addicts. I understand those terms perfectly well. Would you call someone who spends all their waking hours worrying about how to get more pills an "addict"? There...

  17. Pain Management Experts Have Caused A Lot Of Addiction

    SocratesJohnson replied to SocratesJohnson's topic in Pain Management

    Physical dependence can't realistically be separated from psychological dependence which is why I use the term "addiction". I don't mind using other terms but I do mind pretending that physical...