Comments on: Connecticut Sues FDA Over OxyContin Warnings http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/connecticut-sues-fda-over-oxycontin-warnings/ News, Comment and Conversation Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:10:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Diana http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/connecticut-sues-fda-over-oxycontin-warnings/#comment-313381 Diana Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:01:11 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/connecticut-sues-fda-over-oxycontin-warnings/#comment-313381 Cheryl, I am sorry for your loss. I can't imagine any worse pain than to lose a child. My grandchild has an illness with a prognosis that is grim. My heart dies a little every day so I can only imagine what you must be going through. As gently as I can say this, the amounts you are speaking of sound like standard amounts written for chronic pain conditions. Although it may sound like a lot to you, it doesn't sound like a lot to me for a chronic pain patient. That would be 2 pills in the morning and 2 pills about ten hours later. The Vicoden is for any pain that breaks through the time-released medication she was on. I'm sorry your daughter struggled with mental illness and drug addiction. But you didn't say what chronic pain condition she had that she was being treated at UCSF for and I am curious, if that isn't intruding too much. If she was being treated for a chronic pain condition, even with her past addiction problems, she had a right to treatment for her pain. Has anyone told you anything about what was going on in her life and health? If all of this is going too far, I apologize for the intrusion. I know you are angry and if I can point you to a couple of websites, you might find some information that will help you understand: one is the American Pain Foundation at http://www.painfoundation.org/ and the other is a blog at http://journeytohope-lilianna.blogspot.com. (There is a forum where you can talk to all kinds of experts and other pain patients at the American Pain Foundation and the blog talks about chronic pain.) Again, I am truly sorry for your loss. Sincerely, Diana Cheryl, I am sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine any worse pain than to lose a child. My grandchild has an illness with a prognosis that is grim. My heart dies a little every day so I can only imagine what you must be going through.

As gently as I can say this, the amounts you are speaking of sound like standard amounts written for chronic pain conditions. Although it may sound like a lot to you, it doesn’t sound like a lot to me for a chronic pain patient. That would be 2 pills in the morning and 2 pills about ten hours later. The Vicoden is for any pain that breaks through the time-released medication she was on.

I’m sorry your daughter struggled with mental illness and drug addiction. But you didn’t say what chronic pain condition she had that she was being treated at UCSF for and I am curious, if that isn’t intruding too much.

If she was being treated for a chronic pain condition, even with her past addiction problems, she had a right to treatment for her pain. Has anyone told you anything about what was going on in her life and health? If all of this is going too far, I apologize for the intrusion.

I know you are angry and if I can point you to a couple of websites, you might find some information that will help you understand: one is the American Pain Foundation at http://www.painfoundation.org/ and the other is a blog at http://journeytohope-lilianna.blogspot.com. (There is a forum where you can talk to all kinds of experts and other pain patients at the American Pain Foundation and the blog talks about chronic pain.)

Again, I am truly sorry for your loss.
Sincerely,
Diana

]]> By: Cheryl Ellis http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/connecticut-sues-fda-over-oxycontin-warnings/#comment-303160 Cheryl Ellis Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:08:23 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/connecticut-sues-fda-over-oxycontin-warnings/#comment-303160 My daughter is coming home today in an urn from a mortuary in San Francisco. Just another "junkie"? She was a brilliant, beautiful woman. She was also mentally ill and began her long career as an addict at thirteen years of age. She was 44 when she died. Her body was discovered March 30,2008. Overdose or suicide? I call it murder by prescription. She was being written 120 tabs, 80 mg a month as well as Vicoden for "breakthrough pain". Her partner (who was seeing the same Doctor), was getting 80 mg Oxycontin, TT PO q 6 and Vicodin 5/500 120 TT PO q 6. This was no "pill mill". These were written by a Doc from the UCSF Medical Center. There is no way I can find even a trace of any national database tracking these kinds of prescriptions. This is a national crisis. Thank you, Perdue. My daughter is coming home today in an urn from a mortuary
in San Francisco. Just another “junkie”? She was a brilliant, beautiful woman. She was also mentally ill and
began her long career as an addict at thirteen years of age. She was 44 when she died.

Her body was discovered March 30,2008. Overdose or suicide?
I call it murder by prescription. She was being written 120 tabs, 80 mg a month as well as Vicoden for “breakthrough pain”.

Her partner (who was seeing the same Doctor), was getting
80 mg Oxycontin, TT PO q 6 and Vicodin 5/500 120 TT PO q 6.

This was no “pill mill”. These were written by a Doc from the UCSF Medical Center.

There is no way I can find even a trace of any national database tracking these kinds of prescriptions.

This is a national crisis. Thank you, Perdue.

]]> By: nathan harris http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/connecticut-sues-fda-over-oxycontin-warnings/#comment-240675 nathan harris Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:16:42 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/connecticut-sues-fda-over-oxycontin-warnings/#comment-240675 Every state in the U. S. has this problem . It is too bad that Purdue got off so cheap. The costs associated with OxyContin addiction are going to be felt for a decade or more. States are not only bearing the costs of drug detox and drug rehab but also prescription drug monitoring systems, doctor shopping investigations, and pharmacy robberies. Attorney General Blumenthal has my support. Every state in the U. S. has this problem . It is too bad that Purdue got off so cheap. The costs associated with OxyContin addiction are going to be felt for a decade or more. States are not only bearing the costs of drug detox and drug rehab but also prescription drug monitoring systems, doctor shopping investigations, and pharmacy robberies. Attorney General Blumenthal has my support.

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