More complaining about Ambien [View all]

Right after I commented in April, I went to Cleveland to pet site for my friend. Because of the timing, I knew I was going to run out of Ambien while I was up there. The n.p. tried to get a refill early, but it didn't happen. The day before I left, I went to the marijuana dispensary up the road from my neighborhood and got some capsules. I got some melatonin, too. Between the 3, I got enough sleep to get me through until I got home. The marijuana capsules didn't do much for me. If they had, I would be switched over to them, because I could tell the idiots who changed the classification of Ambien to go to hell.

Fast forward to last week. I had to go in to see the n.p. in order to get another refill later this month. Turns out I have to give a urine sample annually for a drug test. Really? To get marijuana, all I had to do was show my driver's license and pay the nice man.

The government obviously doesn't care about controlling other things that people abuse that threaten health and life. We have alcohol, tobacco, guns, fireworks, freedom from mandatory helmet use. There is little interest in keeping land, air and water safe to use. No interest in slowing the climate change that is killing people daily. But by golly, they are going to rigidly control prescriptions to the point that the control interferes with my ability to move freely, and the same control is denying pain management to people who need it. My relative who died in Feb. spent months in severe pain because she couldn't get pain medicine that she wasn't allergic to and the drs. who treated her wouldn't prescribe the morphine based meds she could take. So she suffered. Her request for the medicine that would have eased her last days was approved the day before she died. She sure dodged the bogey man of drug abuse, didn't she?

I did the urine test yesterday and the nurse called today. She said my n.p. has no concerns at this time. I said, "She should have no concerns, ever." As far as I'm concerned, the attempt to control drug abuse is fruitless. People will find a way to get what they want. What this misguided drug control does is impinge on people who need help with their ailments, embarrassing them in the process, and force them to spend money on useless dr. visits.