FDA Zeros In on Abuse-Deterrent Opioids

https://edsinfo.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/fda-zeros-in-on-abuse-deterrent-opioids/

[I tried to post this comment at the National Pain Report website on its article for CR845 — twice. But my comment was censored and not posted. Since that’s the first time I’ve been censored on the National Pain Report website, I have to conclude that my comment touched a nerve. After all, who’s afraid of the truth? I’ve also concluded that the website is not really for pain patients — it appears to be a front for the investors involved with CR845. Therefore, I’ve unsubscribed to that website and will no longer be posting there. And I just thought pain patients should be aware of the truth behind the websites they are supporting.]

painkills2
November 11, 2014 at 8:39 pm

At first I thought CR845 was another Celebrex. Then, with a little more digging, I figured out we’re talking about another Suboxone.

From Wikipedia page for “κ-opioid receptor”: “However, KOR agonists also produce side effects such as dysphoria and hallucinations, which limits their clinical usefulness.”

I’m confused. Have these drugs been successful for anything other than the treatment of addiction (if that)? Because most of what I’ve read about this drug’s effectiveness to treat pain is not good (I’m talking about from actual patients, not studies). In fact, I am very interested in hearing from any patients who’ve taken these new biopharmaceutical concoctions.

Additionally, I’ve read that these kinds of drugs are also part of the opioid abuse “epidemic.” I think the worst thing I’ve read about Naloxone was at Wikipedia: “Studies show that to give this to a person in severe pain would be unethical and inhumane.” (Yikes.)

“We really need to find something that doesn’t have rewarding properties that doesn’t lead to addiction,” said Lynn Webster, MD, past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, who was the lead investigator in initial studies of the drug.

For 95% of chronic pain patients, we already have drugs that don’t lead to addiction. And it is within that “reward” effect where most pain relief is found. Regardless, most chronic pain patients don’t get “high,” so that’s not the reason that a very small percentage of us become addicted.

What we’ve got here is a treatment for addiction, not pain. It just so happens that addiction causes pain — but most chronic pain patients are not suffering from that kind of pain.

As for the percentage of the population who suffer from addiction at any given time, they will use whatever drugs are available and affordable — regardless of the sorcery of the biopharmaceutical industry. What, you think doctors and scientists know more about drugs than addicts?

Ya’ll should be studying and researching endocannabinoids — that’s the future. If you’re against the psychoactive effect, then just look at CBDs other than THC — I think there are over 70 of them (so far).