So patients suffer--it's for their own good!!!
So patients suffer--it's for their own good!!!
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所以病人受苦——这是为了他们好!
DOI:
10.1097/mjt.0000000000000155
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
G. Jay
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作者:
G. Jay
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the agency responsible for the approval of medicationsfor infections, cancer, hepatic problems, and pain, to name a few. It was not too long ago that there was an Advisory Committee that met to evaluate hydrocodone extended release (ER). What surprised me was that the committee did not focus on the drug-good, bad, or indifferent, but essentially they spent their time focusing on opioid abuse, an important and appropriate topic, but not for this time and place. It was reported that the Advisory Committee denied approval of this drug but the FDA, which has the ability to override such committee recommendations, exercised the override process and approved the medication. So, the Advisory Committee that was to negotiate the issues of this drug, dealt instead on the issue of substance abuse and expressed attitudes about the use of opioids, not factual information on the topic (medication) at hand.There is a lot of that going around. In my career, in my first 25 years of practice (I ran a tertiary care interdisciplinary pain and neurorehabilitation center) I saw more than 35,000 patients. No one, not one, overdosed or died. And I felt professional satisfaction doing what I could to help these patients decrease their pain and maintain or improve function. I was not fearful to use medications that would be useful and appropriate. But that was then and this is now: It is the attitude of those who have chosen sides-what is good for patients-irrespective or irresponsive to their needs. I would not go into the PROP versus PROMPT rivalry/contrary views on how to treat patientshow to help patients-or not. One group had its axe to grind and I was impressed and gratified by how the FDA handled this issue-it kept the ability of patients to obtain opioids alive.