Pain Management Clinics - Legal Pain Relief
Once upon a time (pre-1914), Americans were able to obtain any drug or remedies they
selected without permission from any other individual or government agency. You were responsible for the substances that you ingested into your body - opiates, cocaine, or the most recent patent medicine. Somewhere along the line we must have become too thick to act on our doctor's recommendation in our own best interests.
Some years ago when Peace Corps Volunteers served in South Korea (me among them), one could purchase all legal drugs without a prescription.
If you had a terrible cough, you might soothe it with codeine cough medicine. A little bottle ran about $.80. Amphetamines were obtainable from approximately 6 cents a pill. I never tried them, although they were nearby if I wanted them.
All Korean drugstores were off-limits to U.S. Military Personnel. I guess soldiers are expected to suck it up and endure the pain.
Politicians have long sense given up on following the Constitution. At least they knew before 1914 that the Constitution did not permit the federal government to ban plants and natural pharmaceuticals. The first big law - the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act - is a TAX statute.
The Act provides:
"Chap 1. - An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes."
Still technically lawful for personal use at that moment in time, some doctors who prescribed opiates to addicts ended up being arrested and imprisoned since addiction was not considered a "disease" a medical professionsal could treat in "the course of his professional practice."
For fear of losing their licenses to prescribe drugs - the foundation of most modern medical practices - many doctors will not prescribe the best pain killers, even when they know it's the best choice for the patient.
Treatment for terminal cancer patients including liquid heroin has been available in England, but even that government is pushing for methadone instead.
Unfortunately, in a effort to arrest and jail drug users, the US denies the world's best pain medications to citizens in need of pain relief.
In my mind, pain management is more medical art than medical science. Any time you believe you are a citizen instead of a subject, remember that the government has determined you cannot use the best pain killers because you are weak and might become addicted.
Pain clinics come in several forms:
- individual pain clinics owned by MDs
- separate departments in hospitals and large medical facilities
- chiropractors
- acupuncturists
- physical therapists
- psychiatrists/psychologists
Alternatives:
- clinics that readily prescribe pain killers - "pill mills"
- yoga
- hypnosis
- medical marijuana
Chronic pain targeted in one area of the body might be dealt with more effectively through one kind of pain center than another. Chiropractors, for example, are a normal destination for people with persistent back pain. But back pain is complex, and may possibly require your family doctor, physical therapy, or even acupuncture.
Main categories of pain involve:
- cancer
- arthritis
- sciatica
- back
- neck
- leg
- foot
- headache
Insurance companies complicate pain management and treatment. Failure of insurance companies to approve treatment for chronic pain drives many sufferers to specialized pain clinics where they must pay out-of-pocket.
Anticipate paying your own way. Most pain management facilities do not accept insurance.
"No More Pain" Clinics is a new website set up to consider alternative treatments available for chronic pain.
Tags: pain management centers,pain centers,sciatica
by: C F Lamm
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