Minisode 40 Opioid Management 360

Patient education on post surgical expectations of pain,
living with low grade pain, 30 day treatment cycles with 4 different specialties
are all aspects of how to reduce the opioid crisis.

Dr. Justin coming at you with the Minisode version of a
doctor's perspective, Episode
40. More moving right along. If you're curious, not every episode of every
podcast I listened to, I'm going to summarize like, I've listened to a few as I
man, this isn't, I don't have much to say about this, or I thought about like
one episode, one series I listen to they're only like 10 minutes apiece, as
well. I guess I could listen to four or five of them and then make one episode
out of that. I just haven't done it.

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Today’s episode is the move forward PT, opioids. Yeah,
opioids. 2.4 million people are misusing them. 131 people die per day, I'm
gonna repeat that 131 people died per day on opioids. This is the first time in
the last decade, not the decade, 30 or 40 years, probably the life expectancy
has dropped by two years. Two years. So that's not good.

They did a panel they had, they had influential people in PT
government officials. And then a couple of patients who, you know, patients,
family victims of people who've died from opioids, and they were just didn't
even see it come in, like normal person went in for surgery, got addicted to
the painkillers and life spiral down. And now, I don't know if I just hadn't read
the research or what it is.

But it's interesting, like some of these people, it's not
like they were drug abusers to begin with, or alcoholics or whatever, but
somehow they get on this drug. And I don't know if it just ease the pain of
life that they weren't talking about, or was just really was just this chemical
thing that happened in their brain and just like, Whoa, this is a great feeling
or like, no, it doesn't feel great, but then I just mess with me so much like,
I can't get off of it like now that pain increases, you know, like they would
draw thing. But anyway, they said the pain that these people are going through
is real.

The pain is real, just why they're on it. And it's hard to
get off of it because they still have pain, like the withdrawal symptoms.