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Prescription Drug Abuse in the Granite State
By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, August 18, 2009.
Over the past several months, NHPR’s health reporter Elaine Grant has been producing a series of stories on prescription drug abuse in the state. She’s looked at how abusers are buying and stealing pills, the role hospitals and pharmacies are playing in the problem, what’s being done to combat the abuse and the money that addicts are costing the state each year. We'll talk with Elaine and the people she interviewed about the growing problem of prescription drug abuse in the Granite State.
Guests
- Elaine Grant, NHPR’s health reporter
- Dr. Gil Fanciullo, director of Pain Management at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
- Philip Bradley, an assistant New Hampshire attorney general in the Medicaid Fraud unit
We'll also hear from
- Cindy Desrosiers, group coordinator for Allies in Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP), a task force aimed at preventing substance abuse in Rockingham County
- Jackie Abikoff, executive director of the Horizons Counseling Center in Gilford
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As a primary care physician in NH for 25 years I can attest to the absolute need for a prescribers access to a patients history of narcotic use. At present we have no way of knowing what prescriptions patients have received from other providers, thus have no way of knowing who might be abusing prescription drugs.
As providers are becoming more responsible for patient outcomes. The lack of access to prescriptive records may threaten the appropriate use of pain relieving drugs.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important issue.
Sincerely,
Charles Carrier, MD
Im in recovery and am wondering if it is common medical practice to use percocets for migraine sufferers? Im seeing a lot of this, and I cannot understand why a dr would write this for a person w documented history of chronic alcoholism? I have to go to work, and i am for METHADONE CESSATION AFTER heroin detox.... Obviously I have no clincial credentials, but I believe theat benzodiazepines are booze for the alcoholic brain. Another excuse to postpone environmental behavioral n thought overhalls. Its just more denial and avoidance of the uncomfortable and arduous task of being well substance free. I have ocd,ptsd,bipolar, etc have maintained sobreity in a program, w an ssri, outpatient therapy for years, e It takes work and a united front from all r's therapists and treatments centers. The newest local residential treatment cneter needs support, Webster Place, and will be beneficial with a good success rate if addicts to not use it as a vacation destination.
GREAt show!!!Thank you!!
Please dont use my name tx
I have owned a pharmacy and am now working at a pharmacy. I have docs calling every day to get their patients meds--this is common practice in NH. Also, ask for a printout from their insurance company. Their are many ways to find out with very little time. My sister, an ER doc, even calls other ERs, which is OK by HIPPA.
What percentage of Purdue Pharma's (maker of oxycontin) revenues come from addicted users? How eager are they to stem this use?
My daughter is using suboxone in a medically supervised program to treat an addiction to prescription pain killers.
Any thoughts about the effectiveness of these treatments.