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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Yeah, no real pain pill commercials besides off the shelf stuff of course. But I do see I plenty of ‘opioid related constipation medication’ commercials. That’s fairly new I guess. If they are playing that stuff you know there must be something going on that is different with opioids/heroin fairly recently.
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The public is getting wise to the inflated cost of upper education that leaves students and/or parents in debt for 25 years after graduation. When will the public wise up to the huge money grab for a futile "drug war" that has put and is still costing billions in tax dollars trying eradicate addictions? Seriously? Does anyone seriously believe that the "law" can rid society of addictions? From the beginning of time, man has used substances to get "high". Grapes, plants/herbs, corn...anything and everything that can be distilled, dried, or dug out of the ground to get "high".
In Tennessee, the drug czars of the legal system has made it next to impossible for physicians to prescribe pain pills, and have successfully knocked people with chronic pain to be switched to ineffective anti-epileptics and anti-depressants for their pain and told it's those pills or you can do yoga, accupuncture or "mindful" meditation to ameliorate their pain from post polio syndrome, fractured backs (osteoporosis, etc), severe injuries due to combat, etc. Congratulations to the law makers and the LE. Since, they have eradicated legal, qualified prescriptions for effective pain relief, we now have a tsunami of deaths from heroin. True, we had a few people die from oxy, etc., before the crackdown (probably more died from car accidents, heart attacks, cancer, acetaminophen poisoning, etc than oxy overdoses). Now, however, OD have doubled or tripled from fentanyl and heroin (black mkt).
If we got rid of pot, everything will be great. If we got rid of Quaaludes, everything will be great. If we got rid of cocaine, everything will be great...yada, yada, yada. What a cash cow for law enforcement. There's always a catastrophe to exploit and make money off of to enrich the police departments and drug rehabs. I'd just as soon take a hundred dollar bill and light a match to it. Futility.
Hmmm, do YOU suffer from intractable pain? Probably not is my guess. Easy to bloviate about something you don't personally experience. Live with pain for more than 3 months with no viable relief, bet you'd be singing a different tune.
BINGO!!!
On the contrary, I have suffered for many years at a time with constant pain, I finally defeated it without medicine, if I had depended on doctors I would have become addicted to painkillers as many that I have known have done. I had an accident on the seventeenth of March, less than two months ago, that left me with a broken small toe on my left foot and a compression fracture of my first lumbar vertebrae. I was up on my feet within two minutes, walked one hundred yards to my front door, took a hot shower and rode to the emergency room in my own car with a neighbor driving. I was back at my part time job thirteen days later. I took less pain medicine than many people take for a headache. The first of June is my seventy third birthday.
Building the wall and in otherwise cracking down on illegal aliens would greatly reduce this problem. One truly odd trait of the black tar heroin dealers is that they are on orders to sell only to whites.
[ Yeah, most doctors these days are “raised” in medical school to push a pill or a drug to “fix issues” without understanding the underlying cause.
You know this for a fact because you attended what medical school? ]
An appeal to common sense vs. an appeal to authority.
Good luck on your “milgram exam”!
When doctors are prescribing a drug to fix something then another drug to counter side effects and a drug on top of that to deal with the side effects of the first two drugs interacting..... this happening to people I know too. Me having to fight a few people in my life to go to a different doctor getting off the excess drugs and in the end doing better those who were not convinced still struggling with issues....
Nah, you’re exactly right, I should just leave the site because I don’t have a political science degree I shouldn’t be discussing “poly-ticks” at all.
I guess it is back to sitting on the porch with a piece of whittlin’ wood and blank stare for me....
You know until i get muh fancy pants politkal degree...
Maybe you think the government should license out your internet access and only allow people who have been to medical school to have opinions on medical matters?
You are part of the problem with the country, people who appeal to authority as a knee jerk reaction. Please re-evaluate yourself before you do damage to yourself.
Most addicts don’t start on the street. They start in the Dr office and in the classrooms. All legal.
You made a generalization about doctors and brought forth NO evidence to back it up. Further you said that they were taught this in medical school. How would you know that if you didn’t attend medical school. Don’t dump your opinions on the rest of us and expect them to go unchallenged unless you have something other than a “feeling” to back it up. Your assertion is exactly the opposite of my experience - see post 35. Your attitude reminds me of the trump haters - they hate him, but they don’t know why.
No I think you're an excellent example of the Dunning Kruger effect who spouts opinions without any facts to back them up. Further I think you're trying to deflect the argument away from your complete lack of facts to support your assertion. Again how can you assert they're taught to dump out pills in medical school without attending or knowing someone who attends and told you that?
Conservatives don't - they believe in limited government.
Have you heard of Hillary Clinton with her illegal private server conducting State Department business, Clinton Foundation, George Soros, Barack Obama (who has vowed to take action if Trump steps over the line, whatever that means) Awan brothers (Pakistani spy ring employed as IT congressional staffers to this day, by Debbie Wasserman Schultz), FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe refusing to investigate Anthony Weiner’s laptop to which official State Department communications were forwarded or synced by Blackberry technology, and on and on. That’s only a fraction of the “deep state”. Ever notice how James Comey protected Hillary Clinton? What do you think that’s all about?
I never heard Trump was a CIA employee . . . have you?
Well if you blame Clinton and Bush because they were President when it was happening, you obviously must blame Trump because the same thing is still going on while he is President.
A few days past 100 days, I am waiting to see who he picks for FBI Director . . . time will tell if he is serious about or able to drain the swamp.
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