Posted on 05/10/2017 11:16:15 PM PDT by qaz123
Opioid addiction is a medical epidemic, a law-enforcement crisis and now officially an emergency in two states whose governors are taking steps to increase funding to fight it. Last week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency, allotting $27 million in funds for prevention and treatment services for opioid addiction. Florida followed Maryland, which was the first state to declare a state of emergency related to the opioid crisis in March, when it unlocked $50 million in new funding over a five-year period allocated for the epidemic.
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Better yet. Let the pill abusers have as much as they want, but don’t bother treating them when they OD unless they can pay for it. I’ve never been able to figure out why I should pay for someone else’s bad judgment from welfare chilins to ODing addicts to edujumacation fo other peoples’ offspring.
You’re right that it’s coming over the southern border. I had heard that most of the heroin in the US was produced in mexico. Black tar.
You know this for a fact because you attended what medical school?
The symptons are many and people who withdrawl deserve RESOURCES to monitor their return to a drug free life. Counseling at a minimun should be Mandatory along with Forms Signed by all parties.
It’s the “deep state”/CIA opium import and distribution business. Until we DRAIN THE SWAMP and we cut off the source, we are fighting a losing battle.
The people making “bad decisions” are the targets of this business. What better way to collapse a country than from within with drug addiction epidemic? Depopulation and organ harvesting for the transplant business are additional benefits for these bad actors with globalist mind set.
Remember the Clintons, Bushes, and Mena Arkansas? The operation has grown larger.
My ex wife gets 90 Norco 10mg/month for pain. She doesn’t use them but sells them on the street for about $3-$4/pill. I’m gonna guess heroin might be cheaper.
Step back and take a look at the big picture for a minute . . .
Think of all the pharmaceutical advertising pushing pills for every condition on TV, “ask your doctor if xxxxx is right for you”, while all the deadly side effects are mentioned at the end! It didn’t use to be this way.
Well if you ever get really annoyed with her you have a way to put her in a world of legal trouble.
I find those ads really annoying, but they're not directed to the doctors, but to the consumers of medical services. Diabetes treatments are apparently a really lucrative market along with hepatitis C, but I really don't see any ads for pain pills.
President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration
whitehouse.gov - May 10, 2017
President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to be members of the Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis:
- Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey to be designated chair
- Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina
- Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts
- Former U.S. Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island
- Bertha K. Madras of Massachusetts
All those wanting a solution to the massive drug abuse problem would do well to research Portugal’s massively turning their formerly serious problem with drug abuse wholly around. The key turned out to be connection. That’s another way of talking about RAD. IIRC, their solutions have turned out to be cheaper as well as far more effective than the old strategies.
It was obvious & well reported during the Klintoon years that The Company et al were up to the tops of their pointed heads in the illegal drug trade—i.e. our own government. It turns out it’s one of the major funding sources for heavy duty black ops programs. It also helps achieve some other goals of TPTB.
Part of it rest is LSM hype. $$ the biggest issue, most of these deaths are ILLEGAL DRUGS lobbed or carried over the Mex border. China is now sending Gray Ghost which is deadly to touch to Mex to be carried over the border. They also Mail it to the USA.
The 1.33 Million Chronic Pain Patients most go to Pain Management now for lower doses of meds and are closely monitored with drug screenings.
Idiot I had as a Primary wrote Mobic which is an OTC NSAID, as a name brand, I reacted to it badly. 2 weeks later he wrote it as generic, Tricare does track your med purchases the computer system caught it and rejected it. You can’t even get a refill 1 day early, I don’t care what the med is, even if it’s a stool softener.
I don’t hear them screaming about Medical deaths.
Third Leading cause of death in USA, that is over 600 per day (over 600+ Per day)
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us
My response to you was in regards to your comment to Grace and it wasn’t about pain pills.
Pharmaceutical reps leave copious samples with doctors. Consumers see the advertising, and ask their doctor if the medication is “right for them”. It’s big business.
I’ve actually found that doctors I go to are reluctant to prescribe things unless they have an idea of what the underlying condition is. The ones I go to will send you to a specialist if they think it isn’t something they can deal with - case in point torn rotator cuff. Went to doc with really sore upper arm. Told me he didn’t know what was causing it and sent me to orthopedic specialist but only recommended nsaids. Orthopod sent me for MRI - torn tendon which required an operation to fix, gave me 24 oxy after operation which really didn’t help much with the pain, but ndaids before and after that. So I can’t say that any of them were really pushing pills.
Report dated : Dec. 7, 2016
"The research team called attention to skyrocketing prices for the lifesaving antidote, noting:
Hospira (a Pfizer Inc. company) charges $142 for a 10-pack of naloxone -- up 129 percent since 2012.
Amphastar's 1 milligram version of naloxone is used off-label as a nasal spray.
It's priced around $40 -- a 95 percent increase since September 2014.
Newer, easier-to-use formulations are even more expensive -- a two-dose package of Evzio (naloxone) costs $4,500, an increase of more than 500 percent over two years."
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www.businessinsider.com/price-of-naloxone-narcan-skyrocketing-2016-7
In a Report Dated :Aug. 1, 2016
A popular injectable version of the drug has gone from $0.92 a dose to more than $15 a dose over the last decade.
An auto-injector version is up to more than $2,000 a dose.
Kids have been taught by the culture for decades now that psychoactive chemicals are fun and they don’t really hurt you.
Similar situation with stenosis of the neck. I get a week worth of oxy when I tell them I need a refill. My week now lasts almost two weeks since I take it as little as possible while we do PT and injections to work a solution hopefully without surgery. My doctor is not a big pill pusher either. My pain is not chronic and I feel sorry for those who have to jump through even more hoops to get a needed medication to help maintain a bearable living. Chronic pain people are dependent on pain meds to function. They are not addicted and, like so many things pushed by shortsighted politicians, I am tired of normal law abiding people being punished because criminals are abusing drugs and breaking laws.
Hard to say. If you have the ability, you can get it. Rush was able to serve his addiction that way in Florida.
“It’s the “deep state”/CIA opium import and distribution business. “
So Trump is importing opium into the US?
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