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Ohio Gov. John Kasich unveiled a plan that would limit the amount of opiates physicians and dentists can prescribe to no more than 7 days for adults and 5 days for minors. Previously physicians and dentists were allowed to write prescriptions for up to 90 days.
The new rules require doctors to provide a specific diagnosis and procedure code for every prescription they write. Doctors that don't adhere to these guidelines they will lose their licenses. Important note: this rule doesn't apply to those with cancer or those that are currently admitted to hospice and are in the final stages of life. Facts about the drug crisis in Ohio:
My thought: anything that can be done to curb the crisis, I'm all for it. I think this is a step in the right direction to cut off 1 of the ways people are obtaining these drugs. It's not to say that doctors are the main cause of the problem because they're definitely not, but there's no denying that there are corrupt doctors out there that are handing out these pills like tic tacs. This aspect of the epidemic baffled me because I take a sleeping pill and after like a month I have to go see my doctor and have a heart to heart with him, just so that he'll refill my prescription. I'm not sure if that's a Virginia thing or if it's the norm for the type of sleeping pill I take because apparently it's high addictive and my doctor has to make sure I'm not becoming addicted to it. it just baffled me that if I had to go through all that just for a sleeping pill, why isn't that the case for these opiates?
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