“ensure a healthy drug-free America.”
That has never existed.
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It’s not popular to say in today’s PC culture but there is a FAITH solution. https://teenchallengeusa.org/
How about, just don’t do drugs?
Cartels wouldn’t exist without huge demand. Junkies already know the s***’s bad for them but they do it anyway.
I think it’s high time to investigate the dea. No doubt there is corruption and bribery going on. You can’t be a federal agency operating in de facto secrecy and not be corrupt. They have nothing to show for nearly 50 years except wasted billions.
Don’t believe those dea pics with pallets of drugs. In all likelihood they are being recycled back through the illicit market.
After reading some gossip about Afghanistan and the Ukraine and how high ranking government officials have backwater deals with Afghanistan and their redound opium industry (which the taliban has completely closed down and came back after we invaded).
I can’t help but wonder if this opioid “crisis” and the attempts to de-legalize pain medicine (which has a very real need) isn’t some clandestine attempt to enrich the illegal opium trade by those same government officials.
In the 60’s and 70’s it was heroin. 80’s and 90’s it was crack. 00’s and 10’s it was meth. Looks like the next boogie man is going to be fentanyl. As someone else mentioned, what has 50 years of WOD bought us?
What perplexes me is anyone with half a brain can see the serious opioids come on the black market while the powers that be force docs to be red flagged for daring to write a script for acute or chronic pain. The war is not in the hospitals, it’s in the daguumed streets and a border sieve killing our people one clean needle( government sanctioned) at a time.
I personally know two people who lost adult children to this scourge, in the past six months. And I’m not in a major city or a predominantly Dem region.
Isn’t it time we got serious about opioids? If they are so dangerous, why do doctors prescribe them? Are there no alternatives?
We regulate liquor. We put warnings on cigarettes. Heck, we even warn people that they can get burned if they put a hot cup of coffee between their legs.
I’ll be the last person to recommend government intervention in anything; but that said, the medical profession needs to step and accept responsibility.
Execute drug dealers, from street level to kingpin.
Try getting any pain killer medicine from your doctor or ER. I know two people who had accidents recently and were/are really hurting. They only give tylenol.
Once again, the government is punishing the law abiding citizen with its hysterical reaction to the crisis. It’s just like gun control. Punish the good guys, don’t prosecute all those with guns and no permits.
BTW if you want pain meds, see your veterinarian. Your dog can get all the pain meds and sleeping pills you want.
Just have Beto buy back all the opioids. Problem solved!
yep, lets encourage health and self esteem by giving more people mind altering drugs...
I am 100% certain I will never die of opiod use. I avoid big banks like cyanide, and I do not support the CIA.
There, I did my part.
My contention that opioid “crisis” was a result of the destruction of private health care. Many working and middle class people lost health benefits and could no longer pay for pain medications due to high deductibles. Many were using these medications and were suddenly and abruptly deprived of them. They were forced to street drugs as the alternative.
The lawyers are now blaming the legal drug providers so they can reap huge legal settlement money. This only became an issue when insurance companies refused to pay for legal drugs when all the medical plans were changed. We now have health coverage but not health care. Some of us payed with our lives.
“In 2018 alone over 47,000 people died from opioid-related overdoses.”
Not nearly enough. Every dead druggie is one less that will be breaking in my home and stealing my stuff.
Another friend adopted his wife's 7 year old grandson because the parents are drug addicts.
Another close friend's son was a West Point grad and Army officer assigned to West Point as a class advisor when he died of a drug overdose. While my friend did not want to talk about it, I suspect the addiction began after the son suffered a broken back after the vehicle he was in was hit by an IED in Iraq.
Tons of fentanyl and cocaine are flooding into this country and meth labs are all over the damn place. 4 years ago the son of another guy I know was arrested for running a meth lab in a rented motel room...........2 years in prison.
Fentanyl comes from CHINA.
Do what the Democrats do!! Give away Free Drugs IE Tax Payer funded.. That will clear up the problem in a few years..
Is there any evidence that it was EVER "a prescription problem"?