Interesting to note that the mainstream media professes this much angst over a drug whose effectiveness and side effects might be problematic, while the safety and effectiveness of another drug that we’ve heard so much about over the past two years warrants little else besides relentless cheerleading.
With limited research on its effectiveness against pain, some experts worry the U.S. may be repeating mistakes that gave rise to the opioid crisis: overprescribing a questionable drug that carries significant safety and abuse risks.
“There’s a paucity of options for pain and so there’s a tendency to just grab the next thing that can make a difference,” said Dr. Padma Gulur, a Duke University pain specialist who is studying ketamine’s use. “A medical journal will publish a few papers saying, `Oh, look, this is doing good things,’ and then there’s rampant off-label use, without necessarily the science behind it.”
It gives you numbness and sedation…
and it’s already abused… see: Special K
There are certainly valid situations that require a strong prescription pain reliever. But, a significant number of people who rely on these type drugs are just conditioned to have a very low threshold of pain. Couple that with your society of immediate gratification (thank you smart phones) and it’s a recipe for abuse. Doctors aren’t helping the situation. Too often I get the impression that they don’t know how to say “no,” as their meal ticket will just shoot off to a more cooperative physician if they do.
I guess it’s just part of the pussification of the world. Too bad the same people who rely on these drugs don’t understand how much damage they are doing to their liver.
The other big drug “non-story” is that after all of the hysteria about certain time tested drugs being used off label for Covid, the puberty blockers they are using in large doses to ruin so many kids were not approved for that purpose, only in smaller doses for precocious (early) puberty.
And no one mentions the efficacy of chemotherapy or lack there of. What is it? Less than 10 percent, or so I’ve read doctors have said? One should question everything about the pharmaceutical industry.
Is there really a paucity of drugs for pain relief?
Isn’t it more a paucity of drugs for pain relief that have not yet been acknowledged as addicting.
They want us dead.
When arthritis flares up, and the inflammation has to be controlled to relieve pain I resort to large doses of ibuprofen, it has proven to be effective for me. Whatever damage it might be doing to my old body I could care less, I have been around a long time and one day I won’t be.
Nobody mentions it can be used as an ointment, not injected, which is actually highly effective. I avoided having to get back surgery on a broken disc by using it.
It had no effect on me mentally besides improving my quality of life so much to the point where I could actually walk without pain.
Of course it is incredibly expensive and will probably become illegal. God, I hate this place. Anything that helps legitimately gets taken away for more expensive and less effective and painful methods that take years to even get. Like surgery.
I use DMSO ointment and Dynamint cream for arthritic ,joint and muscle pain.
Both are over the counter products available at your local farm and ranch store.
As Corb Lund sings to his vet…..
“I’m just a layman, I’m not like you,
But whatever she caught, I caught the same thing too.
I can read on the bottle, I can read on the tube,
For human use it has not been approved.”
FPR sings….
No side effects so far I can say ,
With snort and a fart and a neigh.
No muscle pain when doin’ chores,
But I’ve got an appetite for hay.