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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First it was the 'pill mills'. States are getting stricter on them and there are plenty of systems that prevent those that go doctor shopping from being able to get multiple prescriptions from different doctors. So, with pills becoming harder to get and the fact that the pills are expensive, what does the addict do? They start using heroin.
Where does that heroin come from? Well, Afghanistan is one of the worlds leading producers of poppies and opium. At some point it's all turned into heroin. How does the majority of it, get smuggled into the good ol' US of A? Mexico. Imagine that. We don't need a wall. We don't need a tighter border. WTF-Ever!!!!
well, if these systems are in place, why do we need to spend our $27Million? Let's go get $27 million instead. How about we start holding pharmacies accountable? Hey Mr. Pharmacist, how'd you go from $40K to $3M in sales in a town of 40? Or we could get even more creative, Hey Mr. big pharm, why did you ship 5 million pills to a town of 40? 'cause y'all are going to genpop for a long time. No minimum security for you.
It is almost as if we are providing a farm subsidy to heroin producers by guarding their fields....
At least &*(^*&! legalize Heroin and allow OUR FARMERS to raise it WITHOUT a subsidy ( saving MONEY and BLOOD ) and produce it domestically.
Trump was dead right when he said "Boy are WE DUMB!"
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.
It’s like driving a car and it start running like crap so you fill it with premium which helps a bit, but isn’t going to fix whatever is wrong with the engine.
Don’t get me wrong, modern medicine is impressive, but when they put people on a half dozen pills at once it has gotten retarded.
The US Soldiers Guard the Opium in Afghanistan, that gets shipped to Mexico that get smuggled across our porous border into the US to get distributed by the black market dealer who sells it to an Afghanistan War Vet, who was previously addicted to synthetic opium by an incompetent doctor who was treating him for an painful injury he got Guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan...
It’s the globalist multi-national freeking CIRCLE OF FREEKING DEATH!
Well, our govt looked the other way while billions of dollars worth of drugs were smuggled across our porous borders. What did they expect to happen? And of course, it’s our most vulnerable, the kids, who are the victims of those idiotic policies.
Politicians do this for show and all they know how to do is to manage and control people with prisons and there’s talk of a pharma industry product to ‘help’ opioid drug users.
The politicians are in the pocket of the pharma industry so watch out for the “emergency” to justify taxpayer expenditure on pharma products to treat opioid addiction.
Duuuuudddddeee... legalize it, man.... tax it mannnn...
Opioids will be to rural America what crack was to the inner cities.
"Our Kids" need "medical" marijuana. There's no chance of escalation in highs-seeking. < /s>
Yeah, but! The war on drugs is the problem. If we just legalized drugs then we could tax it and make the gov’t whole again. We’d have control and everybody would be “happy”. /s
Lower the drinking afe back to 18, get fewer junkies.
Summary execution of drug dealers caught in the act is looking better and better....
Opioid emergency? There is a solution for that; ask China how it works.
Its not just “ the addicf” anymore
Just this past weekend FOUR college kids in a Johns Hopkins fraternity house OD’d - emergency services was able to save all of them with narcan which price has skyrocketed - so who is profiting from that?
Of course it’s all paid for by just funny money the local responders are getting from increased govt programs
But what is the cost vs benefit of having 4 teenage college students alive this week imstead of being buried?
Bad decisions? Yes. That is something young people make, some live to learn from them. But the opoid dealers target the kids increasingly middle class and above, because thats where they make money
Narcan
Skyrocketing cost
The history of drugs and culture always has the same ending. Death penalty for manufacture and distribution. India, China faced this a thousand years ago and went through the tortured logic of legalization while their societies declined into mayhem and chaos. Outlawing drugs with death penalties was their solution.
Hello, and yes, I was just thinking the same thing. It appears there is a cyclical nature to what SJW and that type have identified and sensationalized as social ills.
I remember the drug propaganda of 60’s and early 70’s, I believe the cycle of drug culprits were, opium/heroin to pot, to cocaine to meth and now back to opium. With about 10 to 12 years of campaigning for each substance, that appears about right.
Hummm, interesting way to fight a drug war, it appears the war has made more people rich, than alleviate a problem; but is that not a liberal claim about the reason behind war.
I know simplistic, by the way drugs can kill you (I have seen it happen too often), at least they will have tremendous effect your life in negative ways, in most cases. In all Truth, drugs are NOT a good idea.
Modern medicine is great for trauma intervention but nearly useless or, in some cases, even counterproductive for treatment of chronic disease.
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