High prices particularly affect the US, though some other countries have trouble
getting access to the medication in the first place, said Sarah Lucas, the CEO of Beyond Type 1, a non-profit focused on education and advocacy related to the disease.
That includes boosting education for doctors and patients, improving research efforts to discover the various roots of chronic pain, and helping government agencies work together better to ensure that people can
get access to medications that they need — as well as improve the odds that new ones will be available in the future.
«We've had families flying in from all over the country to
get access to this medication.»
But an underlying problem grows with each day that passes, when people can't
get access to medications and healthcare.
Not exact matches
Researchers looking into the abuse of prescribed
medication in a regional NSW town are told elderly people are being targeted by family members
to get access to chronic pain
medication.
Lots of moms also
get really itchy — but both nausea and itchiness can be taken care of with
medication, which you'll have plenty of
access to in the hospital.
Whether you are calling the Addictions Hotline
to obtain information or
to get linked with Stabilization (Detoxification), Outpatient (same day
access), Inpatient, Residential services or
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) the Addiction Hotline Counselor can provide a mini screening
to help determine the appropriate level for you or your loved ones.
David Matia, a drug court judge in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where deaths also have risen significantly, said incentives are needed
to get hospitals
to build more detox facilities,
to encourage physicians
to expand
access to medication assisted treatments and
to encourage medical students
to pursue addiction and behavioral health specialties as their area of practice.
Closed psychiatric hospitals and mental facilities are far from comfortable places
to be kept in, and freedom is removed, but the criminal patient does have
access to psychiatric care,
medication, and other therapies, instead of being warehoused in a prison where they are far less likely
to get adequate care or be rehabilitated.
I hear from patients about how having an on - site pharmacy where they can pick up their
medications right away, or having immediate
access to health care navigators who can answer insurance enrollment questions, has made it so much easier for them
to get the care and the coverage they need.