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This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need.
· Chronologies showing the events that led to Prohibition and its repeal, of drug use through the ages, and of the political history of drug policy in the United States and worldwide
· Six line graphs and eight tables conveying important information about pain relief as well as the War on Drugs
· Includes a thorough bibliography of works cited in the book
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Over 70 million adult Americans suffer from chronic pain, which costs the US economy $61 billion a year in lost productivity, not counting medical bills. Left untreated, chronic pain gradually kills its victims while ruining their lives. The only effective way to manage many cases of chronic pain is with opioids, yet fewer than half of all chronic pain sufferers in America get adequate pain relief from their doctors. Why? Physicians fear that if they prescribe Schedule II opioids in accordance with AMA-approved standards of titrated pain management, they will be hounded and criminalized by the DEA.
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Guy B. Faguet is retired professor of medicine in hematology/oncology at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, where he practiced, taught, and conducted research for 30 years.
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- PublisherPraeger
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1440835845
- ISBN 13 9781440835841
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need.Pain Control and Drug Policy: A Time for Change focuses on America's national crisis in pain management caused by the widening divergence between the enormous contributions of opioids ("narcotics") to pain management in the clinical setting and the mistaken belief that they are dangerous, highly addictive drugs. After dissecting the strategy and tactics of the War on Drugs from medical, historical, legal, socioeconomic, and geopolitical perspectives, Guy Faguet MD indicts the 40-year-long War on Drugs for having failed to stem the supply of illicit drugs in America despite expenditures of half a trillion dollars, despite violating the basic human right to pain relief of tens of millions of American chronic pain sufferers, and despite fomenting organized crime, government corruption, racial injustice, and social disruption in both the United States and the producer countries. He concludes with a clarion call for the abandonment of the War on Drugs, disbanding the Drug Enforcement Administration, and encouraging Congress to repeal the Controlled Substances Act.As a clinical and research oncologist responsible for the chronic pain management of thousands of cancer patients over the course of his 30-year career, Dr. Faguet knows that the most effective and safest way to manage most cases of chronic pain is with opioids. All modern pain-management textbooks advocate "titration to effect" in cases where opioids help: that is, gradually increasing the dosage until either the pain is acceptably controlled or the side effects begin to outweigh the pain-relief benefits. Yet the vast majority of doctors don't practice what the medical textbooks teach and instead prescribe opioids very reluctantly and conservatively. As a result, only half of all chronic pain sufferers-and fewer than half of all cancer patients-get adequate pain relief from their doctors. Why do physicians radically undertreat pain that is susceptible to opioid analgesics? They fear that if they prescribe Schedule II opioids in accordance with the professional standards of pain management set by such medical bodies as the American Pain Society, they will be investigated by the DEA, stigmatized, prosecuted as criminals, stripped of their licenses, and sent to jail. Visit Guy B. Faguet, MD's website here: This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781440835841
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