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'?
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.
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.
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!
The government must do something! ANYTHING!! /stampeded sheep
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
“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.
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.
BINGO!
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.
Big Pharma has become the drug pushers of the 21st century, except that they are endorsed by politicians.
A: Eight years of Barack Inane O-hole
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.
It became a media-driven “crisis” only after Obama was safely out of office and DJT was sworn in.
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