America’s Crisis with Opioids

Townhall.com ^ | September 10, 2017 | Bruce Bialosky

[wardaddy]

Let’s all handwring together in media hype and give government even more control into our dally lives

No Wardaddy no Percocet for you hoss just suffer in cause I know what’s best for you

We’re in an opiod crisis doncha know?

You’re a racist anyhow so suffer on you damn redneck

I’m so sick of do gooders....all my life listening to the cackle and preen of bossy mosey people

And now virtue signaling to boot

Here have a drink.....we ignore the real problem

The narcotic sky is falling

[mabarker1]

The stupid part is the dea, etc want Patients to see a “Pain Clinic” to get them for any length of time or quantity.

Well Many of Us don’t have any insurance and the clinics I’ve called want $600.00 plus up front for the 1st visit.

I DO NOT HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY!!!

[mabarker1]

Valium are not for Pain. Stupid Doc at ER.

Valium

Generic Drug Name: Diazepam

Valium is a benzodiazepine. Diazepam affects chemicals in the brain that may be unbalanced in people with anxiety. Valium is used to treat anxiety disorders, alcohol withdrawal symptoms, or muscle spasms. Valium is sometimes used with other medications to treat seizures.

Data from: drugs.com

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

I know, FRiend. Not many of us do.

[PigRigger]

It is... across all economic backgrounds.

Almost lost my daughter to heroin addiction. We are an upper middle class, 2 parent family, who regularly attend church and are obedient to God. That was not enough to keep my child from using.

Most addicts have dual problems... mental problems are self medicated by many users of opiates. My daughter's self worth was non existent... this led her down a dark path... and eventually to laying in a hospital bed blind and paralyzed after awaking from a coma.. she was not supposed to live... but she did. Through much prayer... my daughter was spared permanent damage... but she still went back for more....

She is now in recovery... places like Teen Challenge and Women at the Well know that addiction is only in place to fill a void... and their belief is that God is what they need.

They are successful... 70%+ of their "students" do not relapse if they finish the program... secular programs are less than 25%... God Bless them... without their help... my daughter would likely be dead.

The most insidious part of heroin addiction is that it replaces the neurotransmitters in the brain... so if one attempts to stop... the body will get sick and do all it can to convince the user to get the drug. Once a person stops... it takes 8 months for the brain chemistry to return to normal. Thus, long term treatment is a must... 90 days does not cut it...

There is hope... contact me privately if you wish to know more.

Amanda's Story As Posted On Freerepublic

[Kaslin]

Well, like I said he wanted to get rid of me, because I didn't have an appointment.

Thank God the pain went away by it self. But no way would I take a drug that might make get hooked on it.

[cherry]

pain is subjective....football "injuries" as well as other injuries can be treated with TIME, physical therapy, anti inflammatories, etc...

but we prescribe the narcs like blinking an eye...

I've seen a guy with a prescription of 320mg of oxycodone a day, and he still was an unhappy person and needing more..

[cherry]

yes, some pain is acceptable...I have widespread arthritis pain...knees, degenerative disc, herniated neck discs, and significant bone spurs in my heel..and I've got rheumatoid arthritis in my hands now....

I'd love me some hydrocodone....

but you just can't let yourself fall into that trap...

I've experienced terrible bring to tears pain in my lower back...

guess what?...it went away...with PT and a short course of steroid pills, and TIME, it got better...

[cherry]

"And we have a society that has become immoral and immature"

this....

I WANT MY PAIN GONE AND I WANT IT NOW!

[Bryanw92]

See my post 52 in this thread.

[RacerX1128]

My brother is not in physical pain anymore. Using the medicine as directed is cool. But these things bite. They’re evil. They make you feel artificially that all around you is just fine and dandy.They take the edge off, etc. You don’t smell like a vicodin talking to your boss. It’s an invisible and undetectable killer.(mandatory urine testing? nah)

[RacerX1128]

Any wonder God is ripping us up with His mother nature? I really don’t blame Him.

[RacerX1128]

You’re my new hero....:)...Congrats brother

[riri]

Glad to hear she is on the better side of this. Sorry to hear you have had to travel through this.

Lost a very good friend to drugs when I was young. It's pure hell. I can't imagine going through it with a child.

The idea that our communities have purposely been flooded with these life stealing substances makes mt blood boil.

Only someone very ignorant or arrogant could think it couldn't happen to them. All it takes is being in the wrong place, at the wrong time in the wrong frame of mind.

[RacerX1128]

Americans who misuse opioids/have an opioid misuse disorder = 1,900,000

Americans who misuse opioids and nobody know about it: 50,000,000....more???? who knows.

That’s the problem. You can’t look at somebody and judge: “Oh man, he’s on opioids”.

Just does not happen.

[PigRigger]

TY, it has not been easy... But the good Lord has been with us every step of the way.

I don’t know what tomorrow holds... but I know He holds it...

[RacerX1128]

The only people that can help an addict is another addict. That’s why I’m out there 12 Stepping my rear off when applicable.

[RacerX1128]

“brown tar” heroin

This killed my wife 4 months ago.

I tried and cried all through her ‘not to be’ recovery. Rehab, hospitals, NA,every darn thing I could research and think of. I was right next to her(not when she died unfortunately), and there was not one darn thing I could do.

Do you think I hate drugs right about now?

[RacerX1128]

I’m sorry but I rather be insane and sober than sane and not.

[discostu]

The first big change was Oxicontin, and opioid painkiller marketed to doctors as non-addictive, which was a full fledged lie, started being prescribed as the wonder painkiller, and addicted a generation. Meanwhile we keep moving more and more to a relationship with medicine that boils down to: give me a scrip and stop bothering me. Chronic back pain is one of the big ones, lots of people have it, the best cure is get more exercise and drop some pounds, everybody wants a drug or an operation, maybe both. Operations have over a 2/3 failure rate, and the drug will eventually ramp up to an opioid and the person will become an addict.

We’re pushing doctors away from lifestyle prescriptions. No more do you hear “stiffen your bed and drop 20 pounds and let’s see”. We’re addicted to the pills before we even hit the doctor because we don’t accept the “old” answers to a lot of these chronic pain problems, just give us some pills so we can move on. Of course on the other side the doctors through around these scrips like there’s nothing wrong. Get dental surgery? Here’s a scrip for vicodin (also an opioid). Even when we don’t demand pills the doctors assume we will and give them to us instead of just telling us to use an icepack until the swelling goes down.