Doctors
For Equal Rights For
Physical And Mental Pain
8409
Carlynn Dr. Bethesda, MD
20817 alensalerian@gmail.com
dralensalerian.blogspot.com
Founding members:
Siobhan
Reynolds Kevin Byers Vanessa Mullin Alen J Salerian Solange MacArthur
DEA Should Chase Drug Lords Not Practice Medicine
Alen j
Salerian MD
March
20, 2015
Not a
week passes without a false alarm from DEA: a warning about the dangers from
heroin or prescription pain medications .
Sadly
without any fact checking our traditional media and lately MEDSCAPE have taken
the bait to disseminate misleading and inaccurate information.
Any
misinformation is harmful. MisInformation about potentially crucial medications
for people with chronic mental and physical pain is very harmful to millions.
A
large group of medications are classified and called controlled substances or
narcotics. This is an error partly because of classifying diverse classes of
medications as if they were the same.
LSD,PCP, cocaine. Intravenous use of amphetamines are associated with brain degeneration. In general this is not true for endorphins or
endorphin agonists ( endorphin friendly
substances) such as morphine, heroin, methadone, oxycodone, OxyContin ,
oxymoronphone, fentanyl etc.
It's possible to develop tolerance and dependence with endorphin
friendly substances and experience physiological withdrawal responses
upon discontinuation.
Animal studies are most useful to distinguish
harm from cocaine versus heroin. Rats on cocaine self destroy and
die eventually. Rats on heroine
gain weight and after reaching a minimum level to eliminate withdrawal symptoms
and maintain themselves on the same dosage.
It's unwise for a police agency to cross the line ,start practicing
medicine and offer medical advice.
It is profoundly dangerous when DEA practices
medicine and without fact checking New York Times Washington Post or Medscape repeat
the same lies.
We
neither have a heroine epidemic nor an epidemic of deaths from prescription
pain medications. These claims are statistical misrepresentations and
misinterpretations. DEA should go after the cocaine cartel
not after pain doctors.
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