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David Reiss, M.D.: Purdue Pharma's paying $8.3 billion is not enough; any help is useful but compared to what's needed? It's a drop in the bucket. It's impossible to put a number on what's needed b/c it's the entire psychiatric program.
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David Reiss, M.D.: A side effect of the whole system is that patients who truly need help managing their pain are not getting the help they want b/c doctors are reluctant to prescribe pain meds.
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David Reiss, M.D.: It was partly a different attitude towards treating pain; also, we were initially told that Xanax & other meds were non-addictive. Cartels didn't have to go to the streets, they could just go to the people who had those prescriptions.
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David Reiss, M.D.: If your doctor needs to learn medicine from you when you've seen a commercial ["Is this drug right for me?!"], then you need to find a different doctor!
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David Reiss, M.D.: I've refused to see any pharma reps for probably two decades. They were literally recruiting cheerleaders to be drug reps b/c they had the presentation to the drs that was useful.
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David Reiss, M.D.: I remember receiving an apple in the mail to encourage me to prescribe a certain medicine. Why spend that money to mail apples?? Use that money for more practical purposes.
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David Reiss, M.D.: Even looking at the number of prescriptions each doctor prescribes isn't giving a completely accurate picture.
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David Reiss, M.D.: Some people have a physiological propensity for addiction while others have a psychological propensity.
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David Reiss, M.D.: Unless it's comprehensively organized to provide opioid treatment, it might be wasted. Some treatment facilities have pushers waiting outside the doors to catch people as soon as they're released from treatment.
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