The Brisbane-based chronic pain patient advocate says he is bedridden without his medication. But in 2019 amid a regulatory push to limit these prescriptions, his doctor decreased his dosage by 25 per cent, before tapering him off them.
Credit:Australia has yet to collect data on the link between discontinuing opioid prescriptions, overdoses and mental health crises. However, Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre Professor Suzanne Nielsen said the international data highlighted the need to “proceed with caution”.
Nielson is “hopeful” the new guidelines will have good outcomes as they emphasised the importance of collaboration with patients, and may help identify patients with opioid use disorder, and refer them to specialist treatment.sought alcohol and drug treatment. “There have been estimates that we needed to double the number of treatment places in Australia to mean that everybody who needs treatment can access it,” Nielson said.
“I tried all these alternative medications but for me, they were horrible,” she said. The medications caused weight gain and fatigue and her pain remained at high levels. “I’ve done all the pain education ... but if you take my pain medicine away, there’s really nothing I can do except lie in bed and feel terrible. That’s not a life,” she said. “When you know there’s a treatment that can reduce that pain and that you can have a life, that people won’t give it to you ... it’s torturous.”
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