The CDC announced today that, in 2015, opiate OD deaths exceeded deaths caused by gun violence.
The alphabet soup agencies feel the Trumpalution in the wind.
Trump is thinning the herd.
The drug equivalent of being driven to drink? I’d be curious to see the demographics of the people most involved here. Probably not a lot of anybody who has a job.
“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that more than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2015, a new record. Heroin deaths were up 23 percent in one year - numbering nearly 13,000 and rivaling gun homicides.
In Philadelphia, fatal drug overdoses also outnumbered murders last year - about 700, compared to 280 homicides. The overdose rate nearly doubled from 460 in 2013.”
How many died from OD and how many died from firearm homicide and suicide? I mean gun violence would seem to include suicide, at least in this comparison as folks aren’t regularly using heroin injections or pill ingestion to murder others. There’s a lot more that die from self inflicted gunshots than die from the gunshots of others.
FReegards
DEA WAR ON DRS
http://www.federaljack.com/is-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-drugs%E2%80%9D-as-phony-as-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-terror%E2%80%9D/
NO CONNECTION TO PAIN MEDS
ADDICTION https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/6/12/there-is-no-epidemic-of-painkiller-overdoses
This one you have to read deep into article to find that those who OD’D were also using other legal or illegal substances. Not just script narcotics.
DEA shortage of pain meds
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13166594/dea-opioid-epidemic-manufacturer-2017-substance-
New DEA rules place more restrictions on popular painkillers
http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/new-dea-rules-place-more-restrictions- on-popular-painkillers/
Pain Management
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/5/the-cdc-and-profit-driven- drug-testing
Chronic health conditions
http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/NHC_Files/Pdf_Files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf
You know what federal employees get? Choice. Lots and LOTS of choice. Check it out...
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/
Dr Peter Gøtzsche Exposes Big Pharma as Organized Crime
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/dr-peter-gotzsche-exposes-big-pharma-as-organized-crime/
Doctors Earn $3.5 Billion in Kickbacks from Pharmaceutical Companies
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/doctors-earn-3-5-billion-in-kickbacks-from-pharmaceutical-companies/