Posted on 09/13/2019 3:39:06 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Stop being a government shill.
DEA pumped up drug pruction in 2012 by 40%. There has been no reduction in overdoses since DEA was founded. Prescription drugs are way down now over 30%. Suicides are way up.
It’s the heroin and fentanyl stupid.
http://www.jpands.org/vol23no1/lilly.pdf
It’s the DEA stupid. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/05/opioid-production-us-epidemic-drug-enforcement-administration
The art of war is deception.
Oldest trick in the book..
We had a member of our extended family addicted to oxi in 2006. We had to rescue two kids from CPS. In the course of that, I learned the identity of the Dr. who was peddling scripts to all comers for $100 a shot. Every morning there would be a line out his office door into the parking lot. I called the State Police and gave them the info,but it was more than three. years before they shut him down. The police and politicians were at fault in this too.
What kind of corruption led the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies to spread the lie that opioids weren’t addictive?
That lie pervaded medical and nursing schools 15 years ago. The Joint Commission (hospital accrediting agency) played a part too, although their website is full of denials now.
I think many institutions were captured by that lie, although individuals at the patient care level retained their common sense and questioned it.
So did that lie spread like some inexplicable fad, or was there a money campaign pushing it all the way?
It was known within a couple of years that people were crushing the pills for an instant high. It was also known that people were selling the pills they were prescribed.
Of course there is a legitimate role for opioids in the treatment of both acute and chronic pain, but it was way over prescribed - 30 pills to take home post surgery. 30 pills for a kid with a sprain - don’t miss next weekend’s game. No counselling about the risks. And then the pill mills.
The American Indians haven’t adapted well to alcohol in 300 years. Who knows how long it will be until nearly everyone can take it or leave it when it comes to opioids.
Recently I had a pacemaker implanted and the surgeon nicked a corner of my lung and partially collapsed it. It has sine been healed but the pain was unlike anything I'd ever experienced. because fluid had built up in my chest I couldn't lay down in order to sleep. I had to sleep sitting propped up with pillows on my living room couch. In addition to sleeping pills my doctor prescribed he proscribed Oxycodone, not Oxycontin but Oxycodone. I'll tell you, the look that woman pharmacist gave me when I went to have the prescription filled you'd think I just mugged her or something. It's a Shop Rite pharmacy five minutes from my house, I've been getting scripts filled there for years and yet this woman was looking me up and down like I was going to rob the place. I was so tempted to get in her face ans say "IS THERE A PROBLEM, YOU'VE BEEN CHECKING ME OUT FOR THE LAST FIVE MINUTES LIKE I"M GOING TO PULL A STICK UP!. But we know where that kind of thing would have ended me up.
It’s awful how these evil people stuck those needles in the arms of the innocent victim addicts.
Every strong painkiller ever developed has proven to be addictive if not used properly. Nobody coerces the addicts to misuse them. The lawsuits involve business misdealings, and have nothing to do with "Oxy", and they are having their day in court.
The Sacklers aren’t having their day in court, they are, in effect, trying to settle out of court to the tune of $3 billion dollars (+/-) along with relinquishing control of their company. And about their “business misdealings”, it’s more that they intentionally lied about their product. From all I’ve read about Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers are a vile family who deserve all that’s coming to them. This in no way condones the heavy hammer of the government, or the benefit of properly dministered pain med, it does, however, acknowledge the obvious; the Sacklers suck hard.
I tend to agree. Why buy Oxy on the black market at $60 a pill when $5 gets a seal of Fentanyl laced smack.
How, exactly, did they "lie about oxycontin"?
Nothing ever improves once government is involved and begins 'regulating' which it does instead of resolving the problem i.e. open borders etc.
I'm sorry I misunderstood your comment.
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I can’t speak for what happens in the rest of the world, but in my area, Meth is the drug that is destroying lives. I know of two families who have children that have become METH heads. Both families have about bankrupted themselves paying for rehab.
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