Posted on 10/27/2017 10:45:49 AM PDT by ColdOne
Former Fox News commentator Eric Bolling’s son died of an accidental opioid overdose, the anchor announced Thursday.
Bolling wrote in a post on Facebook, “Just received some tragic news from the Coroner in Colorado. Eric Chase’s passing has been ruled an accidental overdose that included opioids. Adrienne and I thank you for your continued prayers and support. We must fight against this national epidemic, too many innocent victims.”
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So incredibly sad.
One thing you need to be VERY careful of is bad injuries (sports, accidents) and the doctor prescribing opioids for pain. A normal prescription might be 3 or 4 opiod pills, but the doctor prescribes 30 pills because he is getting a kickback from the manufacturers. A week on those pills and somebody is addicted. Having made it to their 20s doesn’t necessarily mean your kids are home free. Be ever vigilant!
That’s pure B.S. I’ve been practicing medicine for 42 years and have never been offered or received a kickback for any meds I have prescribed. Hmmm, maybe I’m missing out. /s
Interesting and sobering. Thanks for posting the link.
My daughter suffered through 2 ruptured discs. She was given a heavy duty pain killer but ,I guess, fortunately for her they made her very nauseous. She managed to recover just fine without them.
Just saw a documentary about opioid abuse and for many young people it starts with having their wisdom teeth removed.
“Since Our President came out yesterday with this very thing, I would suggest Eric Bolling would be great on this committee...”
Agreed. I feel so sorry for Eric Bolling and his wife. Don’t see how they’ll ever have another happy day.
“That’s pure B.S. I’ve been practicing medicine for 42 years and have never been offered or received a kickback for any meds I have prescribed.”
Happy you made that point. I figured that “kickback” thing was a canard. Can you imagine if doctors really got “kickbacks” for writing scripts?!
Question for you, Doctor — general question, not one regarding Eric Bolling’s son in particular — could it be particularly dangerous to take opioids, drink alcohol...then go to sleep? I am wondering if college kids are vulnerable because, on top of taking these meds and drinking booze, they go to bed. Does going to sleep increase the danger of mixing these drugs with alcohol? (Again, I am asking about this in general, not asking you to speculate about the facts surrounding Eric Bolling’s son’s death.)
Innocent victim?
Sorry, but those who get high on opioids aren’t exactly innocent, in fact they’re fully aware of the risk in most cases.
I have a nephew who is on his second term in prison over his heroin use. He stole from everyone in our extended family to support his habit. Same old story as most. He’d get out, promise everyone he was through with dope and then slowly but surely go right back to it. He isn’t an innocent victim of his own bad behavior and I have a feeling Bolling’s kid wasn’t either.
Sorry for the Bolling family but it’s a vicious addiction that can and does cause people to make very bad and very dangerous choices. But drug addicts are not forced to take drugs and illegal drugs don’t come with warning labels.
“Innocent victim” is kinda’ out the window here, IMO.
You are wise
Much stupid and vicious in this thread
Yes
Thst is what killed our son
Combo was deadly
Probably same shivk and grief as the Bolling family
They have a hard ling road ahead as this was their only child
God Almighty, so sorry to learn you lost your son. May God bless his soul and May God comfort you in your grief.
I wonder if Trump had a heads-up on Bolling’s death and timed his opioid speech to help the family through the grief.
I also wonder if it really was an accident after he got his dad in trouble with his fake posts.
“When a person takes a bunch of drugs and an opiod is one of them, it’s not the drug’s fault.”
I don’t know how he died, but it might not be due to taking a bunch of drugs at the same time.
My wife almost died of an opioid overdose ... she wasn’t a junkie. People assume she was hearing this story, but I can assure you she isn’t. She was prescribed vicodin for pain. She was taking tylenol for pain on top of that (very bad back pain).
The length of time she was taking the crap did get out of hand, I’ll concede that, but she was nowhere near what you’d call a junkie (I hate to sound so defensive, but I want to emphasize that I am not in denial :-) ).
Anyway, she was acting strange and fell very ill. I took her to the ER. They noticed her kidney functions were a bit off and wanted to keep her for monitoring. About two days later, her liver started failing. She was about 8 hours away from total liver failure and they rushed her to the ICU. I’ve never been so terrified in my life ... and I’ve been terrified before.
To make a long story short, she miraculously survived w/o a liver transplant. Her kidneys fully recovered as did her liver (no damage to the basal cells). It was a combination of the vicodin and the acetaminophen that caused the overdose. About three years later, she gave birth to my son :-).
I’m not one of those reformed idiots that preach about opioid use and how they’re evil. We all know what they can do when abused or used improperly. My wife will tell you it was her fault.
Don’t rush to judgement when you hear about these opioid overdoses, please :-). In a significant number of instances, the people who succumb to these drugs didn’t realize they were killing themselves ... they were using a bad mixture of prescription and OTC drugs. I guess I’d place my bets on illegal opioids since that’s a majority of these cases (i.e. the crap that’s infecting the USA from south of the border), but there is also a chance the kid may have been taking a prescription medication that led to his death.
I am not going to jump ugly on you about the chemical basis for opioid addiction. Clearly, you are either not interested in hearing that or you just don’t understand the chemical process in the brain.
That said, if for no other reason you want to get rid of of the extra expenses attached to your local, state, and federal tax for the costs of fighting this epidemic.
And I do not mean the cost for treatment. I mean the basic cost of sending an ambulance and paramedic to the scene. Figure the cost of sending a life support transport staffed by at least one certified Paramedic, the cost to the community is about $200-$500 a trip. In most decent sized towns that is three or four trips a shift.
My city of about 30,000 people is spending nearly half a million dollars a year to go out and pick these people off the ground.
If for no other reason to get ahold of this problem, it is the fact that we are spending tens of billions of dollars a year.
Do some research on the Stark Act and Medicare Laws.
Drs or anyone getting kickbacks are liable to lose ALL medicare reimbursements and face huge fines, loss of license, and jail time.
You read too many internet blogs and don’t challenge what you read.
I thought I read before that Mr. Bolling was very close to his son, implying that he was not neglected.
I bring that up because the usual reason kids abuse drugs are absentee or abusive parents.
It doesn’t seem so in this case.
I wonder if there’s any indication he didn’t take these either knowingly or willingly. Something like that happens fairly often, as some kids think it’s ‘funny’ or ‘harmless fun’.
It’s not technically suicide but it is suicide.
That statement is one of the reasons we have an uncontrollable problem.
I work with drug addicts every day. None of them are victims, and none of them are innocent.
"The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names" - Confucius.
“We must fight against this national epidemic, too many innocent victims.”
I’m not sure about the innocent part - more like stupid.
Lie.
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