https://www.google.com/#q=Opium+Russell+Trust
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=702
Posted on 06/05/2017 5:11:43 AM PDT by GailA
This DRUG is being used OFF LABEL and KILLS, fueling the FAKE Opioid Crisis. PIG PHARMA pushed.
It's called Subsys and it's a painkiller 100 times more powerful than morphine that was approved by the FDA for cancer patients whose agony can't be relieved by other narcotics alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
People in Intractible pain from incurable diseases are being DENIED treatment and being treated like street Junkies. Doctors are being brow beaten, threatened with prison. While Pharma drags it's feet to create a non-addictive pain med and suppresses trials for MMJ research into removing the high factor and putting it in a safe pill form, which would cut into their profits.
DEA has also put another plant based pain reliever Kratom on it's List of ILLEGAL drugs.
It is not just INS companies pushing drugs, but PIG PHARMA. Docs get kick backs for prescribing the latest most costly drugs.
Kratom Drug Ban May Cripple Promising Painkiller Research https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kratom-drug-ban-may-cripple-promising-painkiller-research/
Drugmaker pushed opioid cancer drug on patients with neck pain: state lawsuit
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-subsys-opioid-lawsuit-0826-biz-20160825-story.html
Watch: Insurance Companies Recommending Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/31/watch-doctor-says-insurance-companies-recommending-assisted-suicide-terminally-ill-patients/
Kinda makes you wonder who your doctor works for?
They have a legal duty to put the concerns and care of the patients FIRST, but pharma is bribing them otherwise.
What is it I always say? Oh, I remember - 'Follow the money.'
I’m apparently one of those that morphine does nothing alleviate pain. It makes me nauseated.
The ER staff was surprised as I was a long time ago when I had to use their services.
Anytime medications and allergies come up, I tell the quacks no morpgine.
Thanks for sharing. Love the Pig pharma. They’ve also taken over the VA so watch what they give your veterans. Suicide rate? What drugs caused that in addition to the previous administration driving them to despair?
Article quotes:
But despite the fact that what’s known as “breakthrough cancer pain” is uncommon, Insys Therapeutics — the Arizona-based company that sells what can be a highly addictive drug, and nothing else — has sold almost a billion dollars worth of this medication in five years.
“... a former employee who said she was part of a scheme to get the drug Subsys to patients who never should have had it.”
“The ingredient that gives Subsys so much kick is fentanyl, according to the company’s website.”
“My job responsibilities were to contact insurance companies on behalf of the patients and the doctors to get the medication approved and paid for by their insurance company,” she told NBC.
“Subsys is not cheap. A 30-day supply costs anywhere from $3,000 to $30,000.”
“’Nixon told NBC that her supervisor told her ways to trick the insurers into believing it was “medically necessary.’”
“Within a month, Fuller’s prescription was tripled. And 14 months after she started using the drug, she was found dead on a bathroom floor.”
I don’t know why you believe doctors get “kickbacks” from drug companies for prescribing their medications. Ethics rules have evolved to the point pharmaceutical reps can’t give out pens or post it pads with their logo.
I think people are using (what they think is) something else and when the death occurs, the conspiracy is with the coroners (we elect them, folks) that identify the death as 'heroin overdose'
Every drug came and went during the sixties and just as in any capitalist market, popularity was set by the consumer who chose hallucinogens and speed (many different names so I won't even try).
For doojie to suddenly pop up out of nowhere fifty years later, especially with the much better awareness of drug trafficking in America, is to me .. ludicrous
Just sent a guy to the ICU who was prescribed opiates for his intractable pain. apparently it helped his intractable pain better when he snorted them. just sayin’.
Kratom has been a life saver for many. With the help of kratom many with addiction have been able to wean off of heroin, suboxin, methadone, pain meds, etc. to a less dangerous alternative. Yes there is a small addiction to kratom, about the same as with caffeine. I took a dose of kratom this morning due to pain caused by a SI injury. Kratom is not dangerous for most as long as it isn't mixed with other drugs.
My Father lived some 40 years with excruciating back pain. In the 70's, his neurosurgeon suggested marijuana, once his opiate reactions were observed. In his final years, fentynl was prescribed by his VA Dr. and it worked well and did not cause the severe reactions of other opiates.
Pharmaceutical $olution$ for problems rooted in dysfunctional, crISIS-inducing, worldviews... that are manufactured for profit.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opium+afghanistan
Tata!
we all know those fields should be napalmed. I wonder if Mattis was against that part of Petreus’ COIN strategy? I hope to ask him someday.
Interesting discussion. Thanks to all posters.
The Obamacare angle should not be overlooked, especially in areas where prescription opioids are the larger share of the problem.
Thankfully kratom is still legal in most states but it’s been a battle and it’s not over yet.
She lived to be 92 in good health.
I’ve never noticed any adverse reaction to opioid pain meds, mostly because I’ve been able to avoid them except rarely. I had a piece of intestine removed a few months ago (combined with a hernia repair, since they were already in there), and, like your brother, refused pain meds while in the hospital. Not because I’m so tough, but because they wouldn’t let me go until my gut was working again, and I didn’t want anything like opioids slowing it down, and the pain wasn’t that severe anyway. At my follow-up appointment with the surgeon, he was pleased with my rapid recovery, and I was back at work two weeks after the day of the operation. I was prescribed a bunch of pills, and did actually take one for the 2 1/2 hour ride home, but I will probably keep the rest until they expire (or I do).
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