Posted on 08/13/2019 8:58:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A national panel of health experts recommended Tuesday that doctors screen all adult patients for illicit drug use, including improper use of prescription medications. But the group, the US Preventive Services Task Force, stopped short of endorsing such screening for teenagers, a position that puts them at odds with major adolescent health groups.
The panel, appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services but operated independently, said that its proposed guidelines are intended to combat alarmingly high rates of substance abuse in the United States. It cited a 2017 federal survey that found 1 in 10 Americans ages 18 and older said they were using illicit drugs or not using medications in ways that doctors intended.
The panel’s call for increased scrutiny by primary care doctors is an effort to slow the deadly use of opioids, including street fentanyl and heroin as well as prescription painkillers, perhaps the worst public health crisis in a generation. The experts hope that if front-line health professionals can detect patients’ burgeoning abuse of drugs early, they can help contain or reverse the problems.
A provision in the Affordable Care Act says that services recommended by the task force must be covered by insurance with minimal or no copayment.
There is no upper age limit for screening, said Mangione. While some people may assume that patients struggling with substance use disorders will be younger adults, older patients need scrutiny, too
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Okay. Then what?
Can’t arrest them all — there are way to many and most jails face overcrowding even now.
= = =
I guess just kill them. But we haven’t set up the furnaces yet.
Or, flag them and stop any govt.-connected services; health care, driving licenses, banking, TSA travel, govt annuities (social security, retirement, EBT cards, medicare), gun purchases, etc.
That’s one way to get people to quit using healthcare.
Would privacy protections protect drug users?
“This is just another back door gun confiscation scheme.”
Exactly. Not to mention getting their hooks further into people’s personal lives.
Screen all gay people for HIV mandatory
I imagine that this is Step 1. Step 2 is anyone with a positive blood test is placed on a no-buy list. Step 3 is no gun ownership whatsoever (confiscation).
Eating a poppyseed bagel will give you a positive test result, but good luck explaining that to the tyrants.
If you did use drugs recreationally, would you ever go to a doctor again if there was forced testing?
If cocaine was $10 an ounce at the drug store our problems would be fewer.
I don’t want to live in a world with millions of paranoid nervous people.
Screen all gay people for HIV mandatory
I have a buddy who’d like 10 dollar an ounce blow...
He loves it......when his wife goes home to Europe
He will meet some stripper and get some ...maybe an 8 ball or a Z and go hog wild for a few days
I’ll come down and when he opens the door I know already
I’m like damn dude .....And he’ll be grumpy like “ don’t say anything I know how you feel but you don’t do coke so you don’t know how it is”
Point is I did do coke late 70s when he was in grade school and know damn well how it is....
Anyhow he’ll get pissed at himself and flush 2000 dollars worth down the toilet.....
“I’m like man quit wasting money like that....give it to me you know I won’t snort it.....you have a big house......I’ll hide it somewhere you’ll never find it and in a month I’ll tell you where it is”
Makes sense to me
Cocaine used to be bubble gum smell and spongey and translucent
Pablo’s was indeed the best or so it appeared
Now it’s reconstituted .....no ether wash anymore to use to make cocaine HCL from paste anymore
I’m glad I don’t like it
It can be a major problem and cost money
I also know folks who claim meth is mo better than coke
Now there’s a drug to ruin your life on
I despise these bossy bastards.
I despise these bossy bastards.
I despise these bossy bastards.
Screen the physicians as well; they’re the ones pimping prescription drugs to everyone for Big Pharma.
> A national panel of health experts
I can only imagine the list of unprosecuted crimes by this rogue’s gallery.
This is along the same lines as recommending EVERYONE over 13 get tested for HIV, even if healthy, celebrate lifestyles are apparent.
Misery loves company, and if the deviants can be grouped with others getting tested, they have a place to hide.
Yep. And the results made public.
Like hell you will!
Big Brother is screening you.
Sure, we have billions to waste and every American already gets Cadillac care.
SNORT.
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