The opioid epidemic, like most diseases, will reach its limit. The market always has its limits. I expect it will reach its limits because the fools running the war on this epidemic are total clowns and many are bought off by the CEOs of the illegal drug industry. These limits will have most of America with the monkey on their back. America will be a third world nation under a dictatorship.
When you have military aircrafts bringing in heroin by the ton into McCord Air Force Base, you have idiots and people on the take. When you have police chiefs and drug enforcement officers being paid off, you have idiots letting themselves become compromised for their own fat bank accounts. When you have mayors lining their pockets with drug money and city officials orchestrating the distribution network, we are a sorry nation with their thumbs up where the sun does not shine. Enjoy the feel because there will be hell to pay.
Not something I understand.
No sympathy for anyone claiming chronic pain. I struggle with most steps a n d have for years.
I labeled the millenials as the beheadable millenials because they are weak and stand no chance against islam. Looks like their weakness is making them off themselves instead. With drugs, a victimful crime.
False.
Almost 70% of opioid-related Emergency Room visits are billed to Medicaid.
Most of these folks are very poor.
Also, about half of prescription pill opioid deaths are suicides, and the other half of prescription pill deaths are caused by the certifiably insane decision to consume opioid pills with alcohol and other narcotics.
Also, the “opioid epidemic” that has suddenly emerged from nowhere is bogus.
The number of opioid deaths has been incrementally increasing for more than 10 years.
In my opinion, this is a politically manufactured “epidemic.”
When the death rate (from all causes) did not decrease after ObamaCare began, and the death rate fractionally increased in 2016, the Democrats and the MSM reached for the first good excuse they could find - the “opioid epidemic,” which, of course, requires MORE ObamaCare!
Notice the article leaves out the obvious, if religion was in their lives.
We have better ways to deal with pain these days but in the meantime, we have created a bunch of addicts by prescribing Oxy for everything. When they cracked down on the Oxy, people went to heroin. Then they laced the heroin with something that killed people.
Some people will walk away from opioid addiction and some will die from it.
My brother passed away at 47 from an accidental painkiller overdose. Absolutely devastating to the family, especially our 83-year-old mother.
Ultimately, he loved the high more than he loved living or loved anything else.
I heard a story on the radio, about lawsuits directed at pharma concerns, for false advertising and false claims made to doctors, about the level of addiction, etc.
I believe most doctors are ill educated, for how to dispense these drugs.
I had a serious shoulder fracture, which took 2 weeks until surgery. So two weeks before surgery and then two weeks after, I was on high powered opioids.
As a recovered alcoholics, I was frightened over the chance of addiction. So I contacted the physician, got the PA, told him I wanted off the drug. He said first get a 1/2 strength supply, in case cold Turkey didn’t work.
I got the supply of 1/2 strength,, but did not use even one. I kicked it on my own immediately.
I can see clearly that many users might not be so fortunate, informed, experienced with addiction.
The stories I hear are about folks that start with a legitimate pain issue, but when the doctor cuts them off, they turn to street opioids or heroin.
Often these types were not your typical “addict.”
My hope is that the medical community takes some responsibility and develops skills fast, to get folks off the drugs, or better not use them to start.
The difference from the lowest to the strongest opioid is staggering. Some of the ODs are merely from getting something far, far stronger than expected or sought.