Comments on: California Institutes Statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring

By: Ken123

Ken123 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:11 +0000

This simply illustrates that at some point in time, during a period of sobriety, one must make a decision that doctors treat symptoms, not root causes and therefore patients run the risk of dependency. Once the patient realizes this he/she can seek out a doctor that practices real medicine and not that determined by big pharma, whose goal is profit as opposed to real health, true relief is possible.

By: BUSHRA JAVED

BUSHRA JAVED — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:59:06 +0000

Pain Management is realy a big problem for the doctor.When the patient is in pain Doctor

has no choice Because he is responsible to remove the suffering of the patient
If the patient is going to the different Doctor for prescription Nobody can stop him or her doing this.When the patient is in pain He become desperate .Moreover most painkiller drugs loose their effectiveness with the time.That why patient is running after one prescription to another

By: Sandy Eisner

Sandy Eisner — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:23:36 +0000

Big pharma, big government. Makes sense. I’m tired of both! I’m a chronic pain patient who can’t get anything that helps because of the very slim chance of addiction. I don’t have an addictive personality or history. Just pain (8-10) due to surgery 6 years ago. I’m tired of hurting and can’t get any help.

By: Cookie

Cookie — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:17:14 +0000

It is a good idea to have some sort of database set up so that your own doctor can monitor what medications you take and what medications you can’t take.
I feel that this sort of system would deter “patients” from doctor-hopping to get their “medications” (several Rx from different doctors)

By: Ken Garrett

Ken Garrett — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:43:25 +0000

The way I see it is people rely too much on government and government is too wiling to “Help”. Yeah right, they’re willing to help in order to increase revenues and spending that winds up in the wrong hands.

Makes no difference at what level of government we speak of whether it be your city council, county, state or federal. In the end as long as we the citizens remain quiet, we’ll continue to take it on the chin. Government entities no longer pay any attention to the Constitution nor do they care.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:10:23 +0000

Does the citizens of California truly expect that the government is going to keep their medical record private? Yeah Right. Too many people with hidden agendas will use that information against someone else. Just because a couple of high profile druggies (Jackson, Smith) die shouldn’t dictate that the rest of the citizenry have their right to privacy jeopardized.