Posted on 04/17/2017 10:45:52 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
Quote the article: "Prosecutors in Belgium have recently announced that executives with pharmaceutical companies based in the country will be charged with knowingly providing drug cartels with prescription drugs that were used to manufacture methamphetamine. . . . accused of providing the Mexican drug kingpin Ezio Figueroa Vazquez with several tons of ephedrine . . . seven executives who were charged with crimes . . . company made two shipments of two million pills containing pseudoephedrine in 2006 . . . big pharma drug Adderall is nearly identical to crystal meth . . .the only place to get massive quantities of a substance like ephedrine would be a pharmaceutical company . . . they are making millions of dollars on the deal."
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“Veterinarians get roped in on the issue because they have access to a wide range of meds that can and do get diverted and misused.”
This is the issue we are facing and fighting right now. Of course I am completely aware that there are bad apples in any group, but by and large DVM’s don’t keep, use, or dispense the opioids that are at issue in human abuse. If a Vet ordered most any of the human opioids, I would expect a big red flag to go up at DEA. Having “access” and actually dispensing those drugs are two completely different things.
I’m with you. I’m a conservative, not a corporatist.
I have a sister that is OBSESSED with both alcohol and drugs among many other things.
32 years of pure living HELL.
How she is still alive is beyond my comprehension.
The effect this had had on the rest of my family members is also beyond comprehension.
It is my hypothesis that the vast majority of the Veterans living on the streets are suffering from drug addictions facilitated by the VA System. As one very familiar with VA Hospitals and Clinics, I can testify that the opioids have been handed out like candy. It’s cheap and easy treatment -— the Veteran feels better and goes away for a while. I have personally been handed bottles of hundreds of controlled substance pills that I refused and returned to the pharmacy -— to the utter shock of the pharmacists who couldn’t believe that I didn’t want them. What starts out as a few pain pills can become a lifelong “monkey” far too easily. As the monkey grows, the legal pills are not enough, so the “medical addict” goes to the street -— where he will live his addiction alone.
With a few exceptions, vet and human drugs are the same. The opioids routinely used in veterinary practice may have packaging restrictions and warnings limiting them to animal use only, but, chemically, they are the same and usually come from the same productions lines as opioids packaged for human use.
“With a few exceptions, vet and human drugs are the same.”
True -— but oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and heroin are rarely if ever used or dispensed in a typical, ordinary Veterinary Practice -— at least not here in Texas.
And then the medical community started teaching doctors and nurses that pain is the fifth vital sign".
Then the government took over the healthcare system.
Now, what I want to know is to what extent is a hospital's Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement tied to the patient's satisfaction with his/her pain control.
And can a patient sue a doctor/nurse/hospital for inadequate pain management despite a pattern of addictive behaviors.
Cartels buy pure ephedrine by the barrel. It eliminates part of the process.
I get that you see a supernatural dimension to the drug problem, and I agree that is too often unmentioned, but drug abuse also has to be addressed on the practical level of laws and police enforcement, controls over access and availability, and prevention and rehabilitation.
Other opioids are used by vets though, and ketamine is especially in demand because there is no routine human medical use but much demand as a party drug.
You throw a lot of unnecessary and dysfunctional-leading stuff into the mix and tell me to accept it as a basket deal.
No deal.
We need to ask squarely: why wasn’t this a scandal in America in 1900. Not that the problem wasn’t a problem elsewhere by then (cf. the China opium wars).
Like minds, first thing that crossed my mind...
NONe of this happens without CIA help and its been that way for along time.
Wonder what in blue blazes the CIA is doing. It’s supposedly laid down some busts, but could it be keeping sovereign countries from hashing out their own ways to answer these problems?
LOL. Your grasp of the situation is so awesome.
There are warehouse meth labs in Mexico, huge organized operations. Which proves the lie that Mexico always claims to be tough on drugs- only if the officials are not getting kickback money.
Yep.
Both are splendid storytelling.
how many docs prescribe opioids and then you’re hooked? Especially at some, cough, VA hospitals.
Ketamine is used to sedate children for moderate sedation procedures-dislocated shoulders for example. It works well for that and is safer than the opiates and benzodiazepines used for adults.
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