Gabapentin: States must track drugs prescriptions
Once again demonstrating the disconnect between the federal government agencies who regulate the prescription drug industry and the state agencies who are fighting the battle against those pills, a committee of West Virginia’s Board of Pharmacy is recommending the nerve-pain medication gabapentin become a controlled substance in the state. Such a designation would allow prescriptions to be tracked. Ohio began requiring pharmacies to report sales of gabapentin Dec. 1.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials, meanwhile, are touting the drug as a safer alternative to prescription opioids. Perhaps that is because it has not yet killed quite as many people — but the numbers are growing rapidly.
Addicts are using gabapentin to help produce a euphoric high, often mixed with muscle-relaxers, anti-anxiety medications and even opioids.
“Sometimes they have prescriptions for all of them,” said pharmacy board administrator Mike Goff.
Read more: http://www.newsandsentinel.com/opinion/editorials/2017/01/gabapentin-states-must-track-drugs-prescriptions/
[font color=330099]I take gabapention for diabetic neuropathy and I can't imagine why anyone would use it for an euphoric high. The first few days I got a very mild buzz taking it, but the tolerance builds up quickly so that it would require megadoses to have any type of effect.[/font]
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I tried both neurontin (gabapentin) and Lycria (pumped up gabapentin) as I have peripheral neuropathy as well. I am allergic to both of them.
They make me dizzy and I vomit.
I never noted any sort of a *buzz* from either of these, only nausea.
Welcome to my world.
I guess they'll be drug testing everyone taking either of these substances next at your now required visit every 3 mos. like it or not .... 
