Posted on 04/02/2016 11:00:45 AM PDT by Mariner
ACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —The number of overdoses and deaths from street-bought fentanyl has once again gone up in Sacramento County, but the full impacts of illegal distribution of the drug in California are not yet known.
Sacramento County’s top health officer announced Friday that there have been 36 overdoses and nine deaths -- one of those deaths was in Yolo County – due to the drug.
Fentanyl is also to blame for deaths in Orange County, but it’s not clear how widespread deaths and overdoses may be beyond that.
The state’s Department of Public Health does not track fentanyl-related deaths because in some counties, coroners don’t test for fentanyl, said a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health. Instead, deaths are blamed more generally on a class of drugs called opioids. That drug class includes oxycodone and heroine.
Sacramento County Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye said she first learned that fentanyl may be causing overdose and death last week. Her agency received a phone call from poison control officials who were alarmed by a high number of overdoses.
That was March 24.
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Now they are amazed that people who might need pain killers are turning to Mexican Tar heroin?
You don’t understand. Drugs alleviate pain and suffering.
Pain and suffering are noble! As long as it’s somebody else that’s in pain and doing the suffering, that is.
Your graphic gets cooler and cooler.
Quote of the month. The conservatives need less of these who are so quick to judge. I will leave the judging up to my God.
Thanks...
“Drugs alleviate pain and suffering.”
Actually, in the long run they simply turn you into a couch-ridden sleepyhead.
Pain manangement is an area of medicine that needs serious attention with people living longer. The current medications are not capable of doing the job!
It would seem that a way to stop murders in Chicago would be to put up free fentanyl kiosks in the high murder neighborhoods
The only good addict is a dead addict.
Keep up the good work!
“They warned the Doctors they would be watching every prescription they wrote.”
The cowardly bureaucratic filthsuckers are afraid to go after people who shoot back, so they’re going after doctors.
That would be grounds enough for a president to order their arrest and trial for misprision in office.
I was given a pain killer for two situations in the last three years. In both cases, the doctors gave me a hard time about NOT taking pain killers. What’s funny in a morbid way is on a followup visit I was asked “how much pain do you have, 1 to 10?” My answer was that if I had taken the pain killers, how would I know?
” My answer was that if I had taken the pain killers, how would I know?”
In EMS we are try to get pain levels down in the 2-4 range. If you get them down to 0, your patient is going to be snoring in a few moments.
Then we start down the road of having to assist ventilations, sticking ET tube down their throat etc.
Five years ago, before my Dad died, he was 90 and in constant severe pain, the doctor didn’t want to prescribe an effective pain med. When I asked the doctor why he was against relieving my Dad’s pain his sole argument was that he didn’t want my Dad to become addicted. I got really angry, I asked him what the big risk of addiction was to someone that was dying.
Lash the users, hang the dealers.
Simple.
In most of these Fentanyl cases, people just don't know what they're messing with.
And in the case of heroin, of course, unpredictable potency results in more lethal overdoses.
Of course, the illegality itself contributes greatly to the 'epidemic'...
Yeah, we hand out the opiates and say “you need it anyway so who cares if you get addicted” meanwhile using marijuana as pain relief is just encouraging druggies. Definitely a strange set of priorities we’ve developed.
For most folks having to take it every day for months leads to addiction. And once you’re addicted not abusing isn’t really an option. Then the tolerance comes up, and you need more, then you start getting the side effects of taking too much. Then God help you if the government decides to crack down and void your scrip, because now you’re a heroin junky. Wanna know why there’s a heroin problem in this country now, go back to the mid 90s when Oxy started being the most prescribed drug in this country. We made an entire generation of opioid addicts, then started limiting access, and have the audacity to wonder why so many people are doing black market opioids.
What you said. :)
Another ‘punish the class’ solution brewing. Whatever happened to the concept of an addict being responsible for his addiction?
I have witnessed intractable pain as a nurse and experienced it first hand as a patient. I would not wish it on anyone. When intractable pain is the center of one’s universe, there is no quality of life.
and, we’re supposed to believe the libtards when they tell us, repeatedly, that drugs should be legal, becuz, you know, people can make their own sensible choices....
and yes, too many drugs have been prescribed and too many people demanding them, but no, they sure aren't "hooked" ....right.
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