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How Did Opioids Become the Next American Tragedy?
8/8/17 | Originalbuckeye

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'?


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I am wondering if the opioid 'crisis' can be traced back to doctors being ordered to just give pain pills, instead of actually treating patients with surgery or whatever else they really need. And of course, the drug companies would be totally onboard with the pill pushing. (PS-sorry for the vanity)
1 posted on 08/08/2017 12:55:41 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye

To a larg extent I blame liberal US foreign policy in Afghanistan where the input of progressivist intelligence agents was to advise enabling of the opioid farms.


2 posted on 08/08/2017 1:01:15 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: originalbuckeye

It’s not a vanity. The company that makes oxycodone lost a 650 million-dollar lawsuit because they covered evidence that it actually was addictive. Gee what a shock. Synthetic heroin being addictive. Like I said in another thread it was supposed to only be for cancer patients. But enough palms got greased.


3 posted on 08/08/2017 1:02:44 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: originalbuckeye
"How Did Opioids Become the Next American Tragedy?"

Because we're a morally weak, wimpy society. We've turned our backs on God, and He's turning His back on us.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

4 posted on 08/08/2017 1:03:34 PM PDT by wku man (Just One Gun, the latest from 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uFqQenIU4)
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The government must do something! ANYTHING!! /stampeded sheep


5 posted on 08/08/2017 1:04:01 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: originalbuckeye

No.

Certain parts of the country have far higher opioid addiction rates than other areas of the country.

However, there is no evidence to suggest that the severity of physical pain is worse in some areas of the country.

If that were the case, people that are in pain would simply move to areas of the country where they would feel less pain.


6 posted on 08/08/2017 1:04:01 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: reasonisfaith

Most people I do not believe do not realize how much impact and influence the Federal Government has on our health care directly. There may not be death squads but the Obama Administration did put out orders how to treat people with strokes that were over 78 and I believe it was to help them rest and not go the full 10 yards.


7 posted on 08/08/2017 1:05:21 PM PDT by Herman Ball (2)
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To: reasonisfaith

You’re talking about chemical weapons of mass self-destruction...However, is it really self-destruction when the intent is to flood the US population with opium-based substances; with the worst-case scenario for us being the objective?


8 posted on 08/08/2017 1:05:25 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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What I don’t understand, unlike pot and heroin. There is a narrow gateway between supplier and public consumption...it is the doctor with a prescription pad. Why is it so difficult to stop this problem?


9 posted on 08/08/2017 1:09:40 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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I think this “opiod epidemic” is actually two parallel, but distinct societal trends

The hydrocodone/oxycotin problem is just another unplanned side-effect of our absolutely screwed up medical system. Doctors can churn patients and crony-capitalist pharma companies can get paid well by insurance and Fed.gov and its massive debt

The street-level heroin/fentanyl epidemic is a parallel problem, due to the failed war on drugs, an increasingly decayed society, increased supply of natural opoids, and of course, the exporting and manufacturing powerhouse of China, who has taken to mass-producing fentanyl because, simply, there’s money in it.

Yes, I believe there is some “cross-over” from people hooked on oxycotin who go to heroin, but its not the direct gateway the media likes to portray. IMHO we are talking about two different levels of junkies who wind up on either path, not both.


10 posted on 08/08/2017 1:10:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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“Yes, I believe there is some “cross-over” from people hooked on oxycotin who go to heroin, but its not the direct gateway the media likes to portray.”

There is no crossover.

They are the same drug and the addiction is exactly the same.

A junkie is junkie, whether they are addicted heroin or OxyContin.


11 posted on 08/08/2017 1:15:12 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: originalbuckeye

This is all part of the illegal’s being allowed into our Country.
End of Story.
America did this to themselves. Thanks goes out to all the Goofy Judges that oppose common sense.

If you voted for Obama, then you have nobody to blame other than yourself.


12 posted on 08/08/2017 1:16:44 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To a larg extent I blame liberal US foreign policy in Afghanistan where the input of progressivist intelligence agents was to advise enabling of the opioid farms.

BINGO!

13 posted on 08/08/2017 1:19:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: originalbuckeye

I watched a documentary yesterday about a guy who had been a heroin addict and imprisoned and was now trying to help heroin addicts.

I think that some of it is body issues.

Young women were smoking to stay thin.

It looked to me like a lot of the addicts were pretty concerned with not being fat.

An observation....every addict on the documentary smoked.


14 posted on 08/08/2017 1:19:24 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: originalbuckeye

Big Pharma has become the drug pushers of the 21st century, except that they are endorsed by politicians.


15 posted on 08/08/2017 1:19:39 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: originalbuckeye
CIA
16 posted on 08/08/2017 1:21:46 PM PDT by SC DOC
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How Did Opioids Become the Next American Tragedy?
17 posted on 08/08/2017 1:27:01 PM PDT by Common Sense 101
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How Did Opioids Become the Next American Tragedy?

A: Eight years of Barack Inane O-hole

18 posted on 08/08/2017 1:27:33 PM PDT by Common Sense 101
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Don’t think so. The DEA was already making it harder for doctors to prescribe pain meds, and continued to do so all through the Obama adminstration. What Obama said usually has very little to do with reality.


19 posted on 08/08/2017 1:27:37 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism wiiohout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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It became a media-driven “crisis” only after Obama was safely out of office and DJT was sworn in.


20 posted on 08/08/2017 1:28:15 PM PDT by Hatteras
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