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I have taken darvocet many times, never once with a reaction. My brother died while taking oxycotin which has a much higher associated death rate and a bigger tendency towards addiction, abuse and diversion.
If you dig deeper, you'll find that almost all deaths in which oxycodone is implicated in are due to polydrug use, usually with alcohol.
"A national association of
medical examiners has reported, after reviewing every reported death in which OxyContin was present in the deceased' system, that in all but a
few cases death was not caused by the OxyContin but by other drugs or a synergy from a combination of substances. Why was this buried in the back of the nation's newspapers? I think the answer is that the facts exposed their cynical (or naive) exploitation of OxyContin for what it was - nonsense."
http://www.paincare.org/about/message.php?id=74
Excellent article about the Oxycontin hysteria
Try googling for "oxyconjob" too.
No offence, but you are using a site that endorces pain management centers.
My own Dr was caught up in all that mess. "The Myrtle Beach Eight." All caring, competent, devoted physicans. Dr Woodward was my physician at the pain management clinic for years. While i feel badly for him, i know what he prescribed me was way too much and we argued for a time before he agreed to back off my own meds for fibro.
People who take Oxycontin for long term pain management build a resistance to the drug, requiring stronger doses. There is an inherent risk of dependency. The problem with Oxy is the effects it has on the body and pain receptors. It can block the receptors, telling the brain there is no pain. In my brothers case, he didnt feel the blood clot moving, even though it was rather large and quite painful. An accident on the work site, he fell from a building at a construction site.
I also read the Slate article. Did you happen to read the correction to that article?
http://www.slate.com/id/2097786/#correct
No offense taken. The fact remains that polydrug use is the cause of the overwhelming majority of deaths in which oxycodone is implicated. I use oxycontin; I'm quite familiar with its effects. For me, oxycodone doesn't eliminate pain; rather it attenuates it so that I can live a somewhat normal life. If I took enough to completely eliminate pain, I'd also be asleep, and that isn't the goal for us pain patients.
Dependency is a non-issue. Very very few pain patients become addicted, but dependency is NOT addiction. Also, most people titrate up to a level that they find they can minimize the pain and function normally, and remain there for extended periods of time. I, myself, take 120mg. of oxycodone per day, or the equivalent of 2 10mg percocets every four hours, after having been on oxycodone for 11 years. That is a very stable pattern of usage, but then again, I understand the biochemistry of opioids, and am well aware of how they have been demonized by the same types of people who sought to protect Americans from the Demon Rum back in the Prohibition era.
But you know how to do the research, if you're interested.
I personally belive that opioids are underutilized for pain management.
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