Posted on 03/18/2017 9:26:32 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
By about 3 p.m. Friday, a county morgue in east Ohio was already full — and more bodies were expected.
Rick Walters, an investigator for the Stark County coroner's office, had just left for two death scenes: a suicide and an overdose.
From the road, he called the director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency to ask for help. He needed more space, he explained — specifically, a cold-storage trailer to act as an overflow morgue.
As with much of the United States, Ohio is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic that shows no signs of abating.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"As part of an Obamacare initiative meant to reward quality care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is allocating some $1.5 billion in Medicare payments to hospitals based on criteria that include patient-satisfaction surveys. Among the questions: “During this hospital stay, how often did the hospital staff do everything they could to help you with your pain?” And: “How often was your pain well controlled?”
"To many physicians and lawmakers struggling to contain the nation’s opioid crisis, tying a patient’s feelings about pain management to a hospital’s bottom line is deeply misguided––if not downright dangerous. “The government is telling us we need to make sure a patient’s pain is under control,” says Dr. Nick Sawyer, a health-policy fellow at the UC Davis department of emergency medicine. “It’s hard to make them happy without a narcotic. This policy is leading to ongoing opioid abuse.”
In effect, Obamacare PAYS doctors and hospitals for getting people dependent on opioids. (You can't make this stuff up!)
I don’t understand why people sign their posts...
Opium is the religion of the masses, or something.
The VA loaded Vets up with 250-350 MG of SSRI’s on top of pain meds. Now they want Vets on 2400-3600 MG of Gabapentin a day to justify staying on their pain meds. I could not drive on over (3) 300 mg gabapentin’s a day. Try the 250-350 MG of an antidepressant SSRI they load PTSD types up with then see if you can do much.
These deaths are mostly 20-35 year old non Vet druggies .My wife’s 31 year old son stole a female’s car at 4 AM plus $50 bucks. He drove to East Nashville to get his heroin fix and wrecked the damn car. I have not had him in this house in over ten years.
Pain pills used to manage pain along with a 75 mg lyrica BID or Gabapentin TID is not a problem. I am on the same dose morphine as I was in 2000. In fact I cut down 110 mg a day. Do not let a non anesthesiologist put a needle in your spine. I had a jerk put too much pressure on a caudal ESI.
I want to be this dismissive but some of these people do straighten out and become productive to society. Many need Jesus when liberal society is trying to kick Him out of the public square.
It's real, and horrific. People who were brought up on behavior-altering meds and pain killers easily got involved in the drug culture. It's people who never had to work through emotional, behavioral, or pain issues without a pill. Narcan overall seems to have increased deaths....too many people feel less fear about dying from their addiction. Medical marijuana is being introduced here; I'd be surprised if it helps.....a lot of these people who are dying already use marijuana.
I'll go out on crazy-limb here. We were better off when a cigarette was the coping mechanism.
Marijuana is so ho hum now there in that state. Something called tar is the rage now. Ya know pot is good but not good enough anymore for those people. I really think about this crap when I am driving wondering who is aiming their car at me in the oncoming lane.
It is more complicated than that; many of these addicts are people that were legitimately prescribed a painkiller drug, and when the prescription expires (or their coverage is lost) they buy heroin as a cheaper substitute. Lawmakers want to target the initial (again, legitimate) prescribing of some of these painkillers because they too often create a heroin addict out of a totally normal person.
I see nothing here that offends me.
That angle is what makes this different from many other addictions; many of these people are getting hooked by our medical/pharmaceutical industry through legit prescriptions - and lawmakers want that addressed.
Like the crack epidemic decades ago, I see more and more people stealing to support their habits - and that is what makes this dangerous for otherwise-untouched people: the related crime wave.
While my son was addicted, he refused to use in Japan because he knew they would throw him in jail and throw away the key.
I sense a solution.....
And when some grieving loved one takes offense at your hurtful words driven by your sin of arrogance, and culls you from the herd, who will cheer for your demise?
I’ve always found it ironic how the very people who call for the mass extermination of others, fail to meet your own arbitrary set of guidelines for survival.
And they are being quite successful.
DEAD HUMAN STEAKS
That cold storage trailer used to store heroine dead humans will later be reused to transport your steak meats. Lots of thin cracks in the walls should add spice to your meal.
I got put on Oxy after I had a seizure and did something to my shoulder, I couldnt take it after about 4 days, it just left me feeling sick to my stomach... I really wonder how you could get addicted?? It didnt even do that much for pain, seemed about like reg ty to me..
Yes...in my county and the one next door we are experiencing a huge increase with as many as a couple dozen people each weekend. Its not straigbt heroin or opiods. These are strong combinations. We’ve even had news stories about children ingesting it.
The medicaid and Social Security entitlement solution
Yeah...
It was SO much better when we controlled it well!
I’d bet that if street drugs were legalized; in 10 years the ‘problem’ will have solved itself.
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