Posted on 07/02/2019 10:06:43 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
This is what I’m afraid of. Ignorant and evil people will destroy our brilliant pharmaceutical industry and as I get older, I fear greatly the results.
Those who have oral surgery, a fractured hip ( which CAN happen at people any age ), etc. legitgimately need pain killers.
Some of us Americans have lived in other first world countries and are humble enough to acknowledge our societal weaknesses.
Common ground should be found from this perspective with Trump’s bringing home manufacturing. It is idiocy that we pollute and waste so much by shipping massive amounts of food to and from China.
We should instead concentrate on the health and diversity of our own food supply. Not quite the current volume game for exports, but more room for profitability for what is produced.
I have had terrible neck pain and sciatica for several months now, and finally went to see a physician just the other day.
He offered physical therapy, muscle relaxers and painkillers, and asked what I wanted to do. When I said I would start with muscle relaxers and painkillers and go to therapy if it didn’t improve in a week or two, he asked what kinds of painkillers I had taken with no problem in the past.
When I said I have taken Oxycodone with no problem, he kind of sat up and stammered “Umm...that is way more than I would be allowed to give you, it is...”
I had to interrupt him and say “I didn’t say “OXYCONTIN”, I said “OXYCODONE”!”
He relaxed and prescribed it for me. The point is, his reaction is typical in the organized medical field. If you are in a hospital setting, the mere concept of overprescribing opiates of ANY kind and subscribing to sensible and safe dosing is hammered into them through mandatory education and enforced via observation of prescribing habits.
I am sure there are quack doctors out there who over pre-scribe for kickbacks...I don’t doubt they exist.
But people who rail against opiates as primarily some kind of money making scheme between “Big Pharm” and Hospitals have no idea what they are talking about. None whatsoever.
And they piss me off because the idiots want to drive pharmaceutical companies into bankruptcy-they are all for it.
Then, when they have something bad that NEEDS real pain relief, they will whine that what is prescribed for them is too expensive and doesn’t kill their pain.
I am just sick to death of it.
Yes I agree mainly, but just as how Boeing and the state-run FAA are closely tied with regard to aviation oversight, I see that corporations are themselves tyrannical entities, and the State beholden to their lobbying power.
I agree. But sadly the State and corporations are one in the same entity these days. Look at how much pharmaceutical companies donate to Democrats the likes of Cory Booker for example.
Or the $10 million dollar donation Boeing gave to Obama’s new library even as they were outsourcing precious engineering jobs to $9 an hour workers from India.
Agreed. So much wrong right now.
It is no surprise to me that many of these same people flunked out of Chemistry I and Intro to Biology. Not to mention being deprived of basic critical thinking skills.
I spent a lot of years traveling the world. What I saw in too many places were malnourished people, mainly children, and so many others suffering from afflictions that our government and industry have long ago eliminated. My work forces me into encounters with know-nothing and arrogant elitists who think they know what's best for these people while working to deny them what they need - for their own best interests of course.
As most people with two working synapses to rub together know, it is with the best intentions that the worst work is done. I hate elitists.
Any American traveling to other 1st world countries who is eager to acknowledge our societal weaknesses should probably spend more time in those countries because they haven't learned enough yet to make such acknowledgements. In my humble opinion, of course.
I am for shipping every single one of the 40 million illegals here currently home.
But it is indeed our own food supply and dietary habits doing far more to foul the health of Americans than is particularly the incoming illegals. Think cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Yup. They will kill the golden goose so they can have access to price controlled pharmaceuticals. They don’t care about innovation and they never learned about the profit motive. As long as they get theirs, to hell with everybody else. It is as evil as it is ignorant. We know this is the prevailing wisdom of the Left. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon on the right today either.
Taking too much aspirin and even Advil, can cause far more harm ( internal bleeding ), than good for many people.
Please name them.
And which nations, on the face of the earth have NO "social weaknessess"?
Boys are well. My oldest graduates this next school year and is doing the college visit and application shuffle. He's quite the scholar and will have numerous opportunities - hopefully that we can afford. No doubt that he'll be a scientist, like dad, and he is spending his summer doing research into technologies that can mitigate algae blooms like we experienced last year.. My youngest is starting high school and every quarter we have to pull him over the finish line. Hopefully, he's a future entrepreneur. As for me, I need more energy. Thank goodness I married someone younger!
All have their own weaknesses, just might be different from ours. There are lessons they can learn from America and vice versa.
Proportionally speaking, the Opioid epidemic is unique to the U.S.
But sadly the State and corporations are one in the same entity these days. Look at how much pharmaceutical companies donate to Democrats the likes of Cory Booker for example.
Or the $10 million dollar donation Boeing gave to Obama’s new library even as they were outsourcing precious engineering jobs to $9 an hour workers from India.
Regardless, as a Christian my faith is ultimately not in even the best of doctors or advances in science, though those are blessings too and have their place. Every human institution is ultimately subject to corruption and failure. All I can do is steward the body God gave me with the resources I am blessed to have at my disposal in the most informed way possible. And leading a healthy lifestyle is a part of that.
I do believe the current opioid crisis is one of psychological and spiritual nature, rather than physical, and yes Satan does like to prey on the weak. And we as a society are broken in more ways than one. Merely pointing out the brokenness shouldn’t invite namecalling hysterics or tribal conflict. We should have a mature dialogue about how to proceed forward.
Blessings!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your post. You said it all.
NP: some smart people still here on FR!
Merely pointing out the brokenness shouldn’t invite namecalling hysterics or tribal conflict. We should have a mature dialogue about how to proceed forward.
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I’ll remind you that your original post had nothing to do with spiritual emptiness and all to do with evil Monsanto and GMOs which then led you into complaining about pharmaceutical companies. You were taken to task about all of that as you deserved to be.
The Right continues to fall for the Left’s lies and shibboleths. It’s disheartening.
The evils of Monsanto fall under spiritual brokenness and placing our trust and faith in human institutions, whether in corporations or the State, are all symptoms as well.
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