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It's a medical epidemic only in the sense that the taxpayers are paying for others bad decisions.

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!!!!

1 posted on 05/10/2017 11:16:16 PM PDT by qaz123
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there are plenty of systems that prevent those that go doctor shopping from being able to get multiple prescriptions from different doctors

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.

2 posted on 05/10/2017 11:28:45 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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Gee, where could all the cheap opium be coming from?

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!"

3 posted on 05/10/2017 11:36:07 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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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.


6 posted on 05/11/2017 12:04:39 AM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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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.


7 posted on 05/11/2017 1:05:29 AM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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Duuuuudddddeee... legalize it, man.... tax it mannnn...


8 posted on 05/11/2017 1:47:35 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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Opioids will be to rural America what crack was to the inner cities.


9 posted on 05/11/2017 2:28:19 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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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


11 posted on 05/11/2017 2:32:40 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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Lower the drinking afe back to 18, get fewer junkies.


12 posted on 05/11/2017 2:40:15 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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Summary execution of drug dealers caught in the act is looking better and better....


13 posted on 05/11/2017 2:50:22 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Opioid emergency? There is a solution for that; ask China how it works.


14 posted on 05/11/2017 2:50:59 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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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


15 posted on 05/11/2017 3:28:31 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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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.


18 posted on 05/11/2017 3:35:36 AM PDT by honurider (no one is more indoctrinated then the indoctrinator)
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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.


22 posted on 05/11/2017 4:34:44 AM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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The doctors who take patients off these med's need to provide informational handouts for the reprucussions from withdrawal. Patients who have been on these med's over ten years represent a large group which the Fed Govt has determined (last year in February 2016) that they should not be abruptly denied the med's.

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.

24 posted on 05/11/2017 5:16:13 AM PDT by Jumper
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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.


25 posted on 05/11/2017 5:16:54 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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Not in the news ...

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:


30 posted on 05/11/2017 5:37:34 AM PDT by Cboldt
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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.


31 posted on 05/11/2017 5:45:39 AM PDT by JockoManning (Listen Online http://www.klove.com)
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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


33 posted on 05/11/2017 5:51:38 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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Kids have been taught by the culture for decades now that psychoactive chemicals are fun and they don’t really hurt you.


37 posted on 05/11/2017 6:36:30 AM PDT by dangerdoc (disgruntled)
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'there are plenty of systems that prevent those that go doctor shopping from being able to get multiple prescriptions from different doctors.'

Hard to say. If you have the ability, you can get it. Rush was able to serve his addiction that way in Florida.

39 posted on 05/11/2017 8:00:43 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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