Posted on 08/08/2017 12:55:41 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
IIRC, Obama was asked at a Townhall in 2008, whether a woman's 98 year old mother would be allowed to have a pacemaker inserted, after his health care plan was implemented. The woman said her mother still had a joi d'vivre and did not want to die. Didn't Obama reply 'well, maybe sometimes you should just take a pain pill'?
“there is no evidence to suggest that the severity of physical pain is worse in some areas of the country”
Florida has lots of construction.
Florida uses heavy masonry blocks to build things.
So Floridians are more prone to pain.
There is also the lawsuit lottery problem.
Pain is the ticket to a $,$$$,$$$ settlement.
By the time a case gets settled, the injured party has a new problem: addiction.
Opioids are very effective for numbing REAL pain
It separates your mind from your body
It is not pleasureful. Heroin. Tar. White pills
It should never be used for any recreational purpose
THC and alcohol are the only safe substances in moderation but only one is not toxic
Now you need a lot of alcohol to outright kill someone
Not so with pharmaceuticals. Death is very easy. Esp mixed with booze
In short one should not need anything to alter the mind state to be happy
For sure the lies that surround the “pleasure “ about junk and the opiate class need to be debunked It’s death and numbness
Cheers. Truth over power
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Find out where the opioids are coming from, and ask why our DOJ enabled Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s friends, the Pakistani Awan spy ring to access all levels of classified and top secret information.
How convenient: ACA demands rationed healthcare, and then pushes opioids to ease the pain - the solution revealed by that genius, Barry Sotoero. Drugs trafficked into the U.S. to ensure addiction. Follow the money.
So, bricks in Florida are more heavy than the bricks in Colorado?
I was about to post just the opposite.
After our attempts to destroy forty percent of Afghanistan’s economy by eradicating their opiate production, we find ourselves swimming in opioids. Part of the problem might be with those who think suffering from pain is noble, so long as someone else has to do it. There’d be no black market if doctors prescribed whatever is necessary without being scolded for doing so.
They are not the same drug.
They are similar drugs.
Compare the structures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin
Its easy to say - these are all opioids of one kind or another, and addiction is addiction no matter what. But do all (or even a few) "abusers" of oxycotin for pain wind up on the street injecting heroin cut with fentanyl?
Participation trophies and robots is what set up this tragedy - I feel sorry for those kids, what have they been taught about work ethic, making yourself better, striving and sacrificing...nothing...and now their jobs are going to robots.
I thank the Lord I am getting old and will be checking out in 20 or so years.
Nope.
It started with a law suit for inadequate pain treatment. Doctor and hospital lost the case. This was followed by panic among docs and insurers which led to pain as the 5th vital sign and a requirement. Later payment to docs was tied to patient satisfaction.
The system was rigged to pay docs to give narcs and keep them happy or to put docs at significant risk of being sued for non-treatment of pain with the bonus of decreased payment for services by insurers.
The ship is starting to right itself but this has been more than 20 years in the making.
“The company that makes oxycodone lost a 650 million-dollar lawsuit because they covered evidence that it actually was addictive. Gee what a shock.”
This is what the DEA believes:
“Schedule II/IIN Controlled Substances (2/2N)
“Substances in this schedule have a high potential for abuse which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
“Examples of Schedule II narcotics include: hydromorphone (Dilaudid®), methadone (Dolophine®), meperidine (Demerol®), oxycodone (OxyContin®, Percocet®), and fentanyl (Sublimaze®, Duragesic®). Other Schedule II narcotics include: morphine, opium, codeine, and hydrocodone.”
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/
The real Tragedy are going to be a the thousands of people that will needlessly suffer because doctors won’t be allowed to prescribe opioids to people with chronic pain because of this garbage.
“Like I said in another thread it was supposed to only be for cancer patients. But enough palms got greased.”
Once a drug is approved by the FDA, a doctor is normally free to prescribe it for what he/she thinks is an appropriate use.
If you were is constant pain, you might like to have constant pain relief.
I also know for a fact there are a great many Doctors and Pharmacists who belong in prison.
“So, bricks in Florida are more heavy than the bricks in Colorado?”
We use 8x8x16 concrete blocks, they weigh about forty pounds each.
A standard brick I think weighs about five pounds.
The path to being a junkie is not relevant.
“great many Doctors and Pharmacists who belong in prison”
Doctors, yes
Pharmacists, no
Pharmacists simply put pills in bottles per doctors’ prescriptions.
And what percentage of the people in Florida are employed laying 40 pound bricks?
Cause you know me and know I had a TBI 10 years ago with incredible headaches.
I took that garbage, all it does is make you high for a few minutes.
but keep babbling
And yet they were handed out like candy for decades. Great.
Elderly folks with the pain old age brings make up a lot of Florida’s population. That may be why the state has a higher usage.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.