A couple I worked with from 2007 to 2014 who lived across the street, the wife died from an accidental overdose of opiate pain pills.
My cousin in OK once told me her two teenage sons did “Karaoke” several times a month.
I thought they were singing.
No. I heard her wrong .
“Carry Okie” meant serving as pallbearers for a classmate who had OD’ed.
I was stunned. I thought that inner city Boston, where I lived at the time, was bad.
There must be one helluva lot of money to be made in treating addicts. About twenty five years ago I broke my back and got addicted to opioids while I was healing.
Since I didn’t enjoy the feeling of being detached from the Earth I had no problem making it a major goal to get of the daily dosage that I was on. It took me about two months but I managed to do it.
Why people desire to float around, disconnected from reality is way beyond my comprehension.
If a prescription painkiller crackdown made things worse, how was it "much needed"?
Bans on consensual vices are much more effective in enriching violent criminals than in protecting abusers from themselves. What's "much needed" is to stop fighting fire with gasoline.
From 6% to what? 20%?
It is astonishing to me the way politicians talk about "treatment" like it was penicillin for meningitis.
Sounds like thevsame money making scam as spring shadows glenn of 30 years ago.
It’s well past time for jail terms for over treating doctors!
For some people, Naltrexone turns off addiction like flipping a switch.
Until you experience having someone in your family develop an opioid addiction, you do not understand the destructiveness of it. For years, the PHD wife of a close relative of ours hid her growing addiction to a pain drug she began using after suffering an accident. 10 years and a child later, it grew to encompass the whole family as the loss of judgment due to the numbing of her frontal lobes made her into an ogre. She felt entitled to everything. She was Queen. No one else had rights. They were only useful as co-dependents. Now, after being forced into excellent rehab and all of the state-of-the-art treatments known to man, she has left a pile of destruction behind her that will never heal. Her child, now a teen, is a mess, her husband is still there, but his life has been damaged beyond repair. She still craves and the family is not sure whether she is still using to some extent. Her behavior is such that everyone knows some brain damage will be her legacy forever and probably will rule out the opportunity to ever take her career up again. My take away from being a close observer of hers is this: Opioid addiction is a problem across the entire spectrum of society and inflicts those at the highest levels of government, academia, industry, religion, etc., the same as it does those in the lower economic levels. When we see undue arrogance and insane hypocrisies and fake news coming from certain individuals in the media, exactly what is behind that? When we see outrageous narcissism emanating from high levels of academia, entertainment personalities, and government, exactly what is behind that? This nation is awash in substances which control and destroy normal brain functioning, normal human behavior and interaction. It is the main ingredient now, I believe, in our dysfunctions, in whether or not we survive as a nation. Maybe our problems are not really ideological and our politics are not really “identity politics.” Maybe too much drug addiction has formed the swamp which needs to be cleaned up. Sorry about the rant but, as a trained medical person who has seen this problem up close and personal in so many of life’s venues, I cannot fail to realize that it has a profound effect on everything around us and it has to be dealt with. It is spreading like a fatal disease and it must be controlled, whatever that takes.
Here in Maryland, Heroin is being mixed with Fetanyl (sic) to create a stronger dose. Deaths from overdoses have exploded.
Report: Homeland Security Officials Took Millions in Bribes to ‘Look the Other Way’ on Drug Cartels
No one has done any studies on the suicide rates that people with chronic pain turn to since their pain meds have been restricted or totally cut off by DUMBO.
Suicide and Chronic Pain
Estimates of the number of people with chronic pain who think seriously about taking their lives range from 20 to 50 percent. It is believed that out of the approximately 36,000 people who complete suicides every year in the United States, at least 10 to 15 percent are people suffering from chronic pain.
http://thepainfultruthbook.com/2015/09/suicide-and-chronic-pain/
Chronic Pain Patient Abandoned by Doctor Dies
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/12/22/chronic-pain-patient-abandoned-by-doctor-dies
http://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=18350
‘My daughter’s relentless pain was so bad she committed suicide
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2961570/Jennifer-Aniston-stars-new-film-living-chronic-pain-one-father-tells-heartbreaking-story-drove-daughter-suicide.html
Chronic-pain patients at high risk of suicide
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-01-24/news/os-chronic-pain-suicide-20130124_1_chronic-pain-patients-chronic-illness-rheumatoid-arthritis
Suicide in Chronic Pain Patients
http://www.regenexx.com/suicide-chronic-pain-patients/
Illegaly brought into country
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/12/26/synthetic-opioids-slipping-int o-via-mail-security-experts-say/23TCEuIES8aEQYAWWHKCiI/story.html
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/12/26/synthetic-opioids-slipping-int o-via-mail-security-experts-say/23TCEuIES8aEQYAWWHKCiI/story.html
Robert Bonakdar, MD, director of pain management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, Calif.
http://www.painmedicinenews.com/Web-Only/Article/12-16/Beyond-Opioids-Surgeons-Explore-New-Approaches-To-Pain-Control/38917
On Assisted Suicide, Going Beyond ‘Do No Harm’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/on-assisted-suicide-going-beyond-do-no-harm.html?_r=0
Obama Commutes Sentences Of Nearly 100 Cocaine Dealers
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/30/obama-commutes-sentences-of-nearly-100-cocaine-dealers/#ixzz4Tg1WI4EI
DEA WAR ON DRS
http://www.federaljack.com/is-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-drugs%E2%80%9D-as-phony-as-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-terror%E2%80%9D/
NO CONNECTION TO PAIN MEDS
ADDICTION https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/6/12/there-is-no-epidemic-of-painkiller-overdoses
DEA shortage of pain meds
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13166594/dea-opioid-epidemic-manufacturer-2017-substance-
Pain Management
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/5/the-cdc-and-profit-driven- drug-testing
How Obama Plans To Combat Prescription Opioid Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/cjarlotta/2015/02/06/how-obama-plans-to-combat-prescription-opioid-heroin-abuse-in-2016/
The 12 Most Debilitating Diseases
http://www.healthcarebusinesstech.com/the-12-most-debilitating-diseases/