restriction on pain killers

Some people think that there are too lose of restrictions on not as strong doctor prescribed pain killers. These people are nervous that they are being abused and need to regulated better. While other people may argue that the restrictions would be an inconvenience to the patient.

These regulations seem innocent at first. The FDA is going to limit the amount of refills a person can have on their medication, which mean the patient would have to go into the doctors office more to get a refill on the drug. Their argument is that many people only use these type of pain killers for about 14 day but the are prescribed 5-6 refills that can last the person 6 months. This excessive amount of extra pills allows teenagers to get a hold of them or other people. With drug over dosses being about %70 from prescriptions from the doctor, they FDA is trying to limit this and bring down the amount of deaths per year. Another part of the regulation would be that the patient would have to go into the pharmacy to get the prescription filled instead of the doctors office just calling it in.

Some people are not happy about this. They know that they will have to go into the doctors office twice as much to get their medicine than they regularly  would have. This will cost the patient more money in doctor visits and is inconvenient to them.

What I think is that their should be stricter regulations on prescription medication because I am a teenager and I see it abused all they time. May teens go into their parents cabinet and get their left over medicine and no one ever really notices. They get addicted to these and they some even die from it. If even a few less deaths happen because their are stricter regulations then I think it is worth a shot. But the fact that people will have to pay for doctor visits more because they need their medication is not fair, if someone does not have that type of money then they may go without and that is truly not right. The regulation that the doctor can not call that prescription in I think is ridiculous because the doctors office is going to be able to tell if you are who you say you are a lot better than a pharmacy is. This may give people more leeway on abusing the drugs.It makes me think that the doctors offices are understaffed and they are trying to compensate and get the FDA to approve it so they do not have to do as much work.