Posted on 09/30/2017 5:33:36 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
FULL TITLE: Supply of Opioid Painkillers NEARLY DOUBLED Under Obama, Trump Is Working to Reverse This Trend and Save Lives
The opioid problem in America has reached a fever pitch wherein the abuse of prescription drugs is now matching the level of outcry and desperation that many Americans are feeling regarding this growing epidemic.
Under the Obama administration, quotas for opioid distribution just about doubled and pushed a massive level of supply into the pharmaceutical system. The Trump administration is taking active measures to reverse the damage done by Obama, with the current administration officials calling for a 20% cut in the production of many of the commonly prescribed opioid painkillers by 2018. The focus specifically being on hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine, and hydromorphone.
CBS News reports:
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins advised the commission that the agency is looking to build partnerships with researchers across academia, government, prescribers and patients to “cut in half the time needed to make available prescriptions that are non-addictive.”
He said areas like developing “potent but non-addictive drugs” for pain relief and offering new avenues for treatment would become a top priority for the partnership.
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I’ve heard similar things. Several kids my son knows died of overdoses. They came from good middle class families too. Several more made the local paper either getting caught under the influence or selling to undercover cops. Any way you cut it, they have wrecked their lives.
I’ve often wondered if the reason for all of this is that there are no real struggles for them to deal with. Real life has been too easy and they get bored and do stupid things.
Cost has come down, however, they steal. Many nice neighborhoods have to keep garage doors closed. They come in, steal a purse from the car or inside your house.They also start to deal drugs. Many of the kids steal out of their parents wallet until they are caught.
I have come to believe its overabundance of supply. Kids have no problem getting it and they treat it like its the same as getting alcohol. I am lucky my kids confide in me. They are mature beyond their years. They see classmates do such destructive things. Parents are oblivious and schools no longer fight it or punish for it. Honestly its such a big problem I think schools have lost control and stopped trying.My sons baseball team drug tested and that worked, however, many college teams dont or warn in advance ..wink wink.
Agreed. You don’t need quotation marks.
“A quotation is a word-for-word repetition of written or spoken language. Quotation marks directly before and after the material tell the reader these are the exact words of the source.”
So just leave them out next time you are paraphrasing someone and you’ll avoid this common error.
This is effing ridiculous media driven hyperbole
And it’s having an effect for those of us who get pain meds and cortisone shots
The states want to get tax money to fight this so called crisis
The cops want that cash as usual for their jobs and toys
The politicians want that power
Freepers just like anything that controls behavior they don’t like
It’s a pain in the ass
We have a huge aging population that is a big chunk of it
You don’t know anything about pain management do you?
It’s not like that whatsoever
That's the way the doctor-patient is supposed to be. You have mentioned pressure. Make no mistake: there is pressure coming from all sides, not just the pharmaceutical lobby.
However anyone may wish otherwise, the DEA is a Tyrannical abomination, and it is driving many of the forces which are causing heroin and other street drugs to become so widely used, with the predictable consequences, as people get squeezed out of the "legal" channels for "managing their pain".
The doctor-patient relationship is sacrosanct. Decisions regarding treatment and medication should begin there, and end there—not with the DEA, not with the pharmacist, and not with the insurance companies.
And there shouldn't be two tiers of service and liability: one for the affluent and connected—people like Rush Limbaugh, for instance—and another for the middle class and those who face the full Tyrannical weight of Contraband Law.
I'd rather there be higher levels of dependence and addiction than having people OD'ing on street drugs of unknown strength, or facing 10 year minimum mandatory sentences for having the wrong medication in their pocket.
With respect to pharmaceuticals, a person has to make a serious effort to end up dead, because the strengths are precisely known. In my 52 years, everyone I know of who has ended up dead from an OD has done so because of street drugs—not pharmaceuticals.
In a free society—with all of its inconvenient challenges—education and rehabilitation are the answers to this societal woe—not Prohibition and draconian threats of incarceration. We've seen how that worked with the worst drug on the face of the earth—alcohol—whose evils exceed those of all other drugs combined when considered fully.
So it's not about supply—it's about demand. If someone wants to sit at home in a stupor and drool on themselves due to alcohol, opiates, or benzodiazepines, let them. They are responsible for their own actions, and their families and health care providers can worry about the rest. Thugs with automatic rifles and no-knock warrants don't belong in the equation...
In 2016, 2 million Americans had an opioid use disorder. That's bad - but is it an "epidemic"? Does it justify leaving patients in pain?
And why is there not a peep about the 15 million Americans with an alcohol use disorder? If opioids are an epidemic, alcohol is a plague.
Whoa. Making it nonaddictive may (may) slow the addiction issue, but it will double the problem - and the overdoses.
This is only a good idea if you dont understand human behavior and the very nature of addiction and abuse.
Trump doesnt even drink. I doubt he understands this issue.
Just because one doesn’t do something or other doesn’t mean you can’t understand the situation.
Just because one doesn’t do something or other doesn’t mean you can’t understand the situation.
One does not have to abusively consume any of them to understand the path of cycling they all walk on. Dieters quit, caffeine junkies quit, and on and on and many go back to it, any stop several times.....still the same story.
However drugs will most definitely "eat your mind"....
Reagan cracked down on oversupply of addictive medications. The industry lobbied to overturn Reagan’s policies under Clinton and the next two presidents didn’t do anything about it.
America consumes an insanely high proportion of the world’s opiate pain killers. It just can’t be legitimate.
Exact quote is: Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.
Thanks. That’s a pretty shocking quote. I found an article claiming he was just using that as an example or difficult health care decisions, but the fact that that was the example that popped into his mind shows the mentality of that administration toward painkillers.
Terrific post! Making people who have chronic health issues suffer when there is relief available is institutionalized torture. Yes addicts die, and coincidentally more die whenever we have assets in Afghanistan and the opium yield rises, but why do “conservative” drug warriors throw out logic, reason and compassion?
The war on drugs claims more lives than drugs themselves, and the decades of government intervention (so like the war on poverty) has only exacerbated the problem while riding roughshod over the Constitution.
Drugs are one of the worst scourges on mankind; however, let’s remember nothing has killed and enslaved more people than unbridled governments.
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