Spain has become one of the countries with the highest opioid consumption in the world. The medications are prescribed without order or concert by doctors without assessing the repercussions that their consumption can have on people. Now, opioids, such as fentanyl, mainly used in patients with clear oncological deterioration processes, are being prescribed in a way to treat muscle diseases associated with pain, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue or irritable colon syndrome.
The SEFH, Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy, through Beatriz Salazar, member of the Neuropsychiatric Pharmacy Working Group, says the following: The fear of prescribing major opioids such as fentanyl has been lost. Until now they were prescribed for cancer patients, in which they are indicated, but they are also prescribed in pathologies that are not oncological, especially of the skeletal muscle system, such as chronic pain, lumbalgias or osteoarthritis. (1)
The Aina Perello Heer doctor, a doctor of Cap Larrard in Barcelona, ​​and an expert in pain treatments, categorically states that these opioids should not be the first requirement to treat these ailments, especially because of the number of residual sequelae it causes. (2)
People, and especially women who consume this type of products, should know that fentanyl can cause muscle deterioration and death in a short space of time, if their consumption is not moderate and very punctual. In the world, fentanyl is known as The zombie drug. Only in the United States this opioid, for providing a data, caused more than 70,000 dead in 2021.
It has also contrasted that the continued use of these opioids shortens life. On the CDC page (disease control and detection) you can read the following in reference to this product:…a Synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. (3)
Dr. Perello herself categorically states that what doctors know how to do is a medicine, when certain patients-ups under the bottom should be treated by physiotherapists. And even more record it turns out that the same doctor affirms that the lowest social classes could be discriminated against, when these opioids are prescribed. Apparently the long waiting lists make it easier to prescribe a pill that causes rapid relief, without delving into certain causes, especially in women mainly of low income. Middle or high middle class women could be going to the physicist at a private level and the psychologist, seeking not so addictive formulas of pain treatment. (4)
However, what is not said is that the control agencies of the different health areas certify that, although the last resort (more and more frequently used) is opioid, it is evident that its long -term utility is reduced and that the risks are increasing and well known.
Patients who are prescribed said product are not given any type of information about these risks and they are only treated in an excessive way so they do not feel pain. The relief of pain does not cure, it only hides the reality of what happens to us. Doctors should be clear that their optimal purpose would be to save lives, to facilitate a more therapeutically feasible existence, where the patient does not suffer in excess, while teaching him to live with his illness.
More and more voices are telling us in texts the overmedation we are living in broad areas of our life and that, in the face of so much medication intake, we are increasingly and more intoxicated.
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Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
