Posted on 02/26/2017 6:05:00 AM PST by Religion and Politics
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that nearly 5,000 more people died from opioids in 2015 than in 2014. Both heroin and opioid use have exploded in the US, after decades of doctors over-prescribing painkillers in the 1990s and 2000s. A report from the CDC released Thursday found that the drug problem has become so deadly that heroin deaths outnumbered gun fatalities last year for the first time in US history. Until 2007, gun deaths outnumbered heroin deaths five to one, according to the Washington Post. But 2015 saw 12,989 people die from heroin and 12,979 die from gun homicides.
How could I forget that?
“That’s all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood.”
— Clemenza
lol Agreed. And Ellison never gets that movie!
Remember pseudo-ephedrine? Screw the nannies.
“But the PC types can’t make this connection (open border = heroin deaths) because that would be ‘Racist’. It’s easier to blame it on the doctor (easily stereotyped as an old, rich white guy) pushing pills on his unsuspecting patient.”
From the research I’ve done, most heroin users got started on prescription pain killers.
Heroin deaths vs. Gun deaths
Yes, Heroin is an opioid and many get hooked on pain killers. But, there are many who use pain medicine responsibly. Maryland is passing a law that a new rx’s need to be picked up and filled every week (instead of every month) unless the pain medicine is used for cancer related treatments or end of life situations.
However, there are still issues with people who are disabled who may not be able to get to the physicians every week. They can not be called in.
But, it’s a good start to finding ways to weed out those who are buying hundreds every month thru rx’s via cash from basically dealer doctors. Just a shame that they are putting legitimate patients in a bad situation because of addicts.
A lot of the heroin abuse and overdose among young people occurs from self-medication for depression and other psychiatric conditions once the prescription meds lose their effect.
I can’t say I would believe these numbers to be accurate, like the 1 in six children are starving. I do not believe as I know more than 6 children, none of them are starving...
You have to thin the herd some how....
Yep, if you manage to avoid every day you’ll be OK. But they hand them out like candy. I had an oral surgery they prescribed me a dozen vicoden, I took a total of 3 advil to deal with the pain. And I ain’t tough, that wasn’t me being all brave, that was just a dumb prescription.
Yeah, but Purdue Pharma stock is up, so it all evens out.
I was on Fentynal for 6 years, prescribed by my doctor for a terribly messed up back..
I had to be hospitalized for 3 days on Suboxone to get off the stuff..
I have never understood how junkies get high off this stuff. It gave me a quality of life that no other pain med came close to since.
I would shoot myself in the head before I would ever go back on it.
Now Sudafed doesn't work at all.
I know this is a problem but I know an 80 year old who basically bedridden who has horrible constant pain. Opioids take away a little bit of the pain. There is nothing else that does anything. They keep cutting down on the dose and making it harder and harder for her to get some relief. When she asks for more help they just shrug their shoulders and say their hands are tied with the new regulations.
Nothing more than the herd thinning itself. /s
I would not have believed it, but topical marijuana actually works for my chronic severe back pain. It’s not legal, but should be. I have never smoked the stuff.
Don’t forget the mandatory cap-lock on all opioid prescription bottles to prevent accidental ingestion.
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My wife and I sign a little form, once a year at the pharmacy stating that we don’t want “child proof lids” on any of our meds, including opiates.
Uh huh but pale in comparison to deaths by abortion, alcohol and tabbaco
Sorry, I know that there are people out there with addictive personalities, and they abuse opioids and some die, but come on, those people will always find a drug or beverage to abuse and some will die, always.
There are too many people that need the use of pain meds to just get through the day and do manage to use them without abuse or addiction.
Humans throughout time have found or invented ways to get stoned and there have been and always will be those that abuse them.
“Now Sudafed doesn’t work at all”
Have you been asking for the kind behind the pharmacist’s counter ? I was in a hurry, and bought off the shelf stuff, might as well have taken a sugar pill. Went back the next day, took the little “product card” to the Rx counter, dutifully showed my driver’s license (ouch), and the stuff they gave me worked as in olden times. I have been using it, as needed, since 1974.
Best of luck, to you, in the future.
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