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.
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Lol.. I should have really reviewed my post.
No. You said pharmacists do, I said pharmacists don’t. There was no mention of pharmaceutical companies.
Great post. I will pray for you that you get the meds you need to ease your pain.
My insurance company stopped paying for my Xanax. I suffer from severe anxiety and panic disorder due to issues from my past. Xanax helps greatly with my panic attacks.
A couple of months ago, my insurance company stopped covering Xanax because they didn’t want people to get addicted. That angered me that they were playing doctor because if I don’t have my Xanax, I’ll end up in the ER with panic attacks.
My Doctor recommended that I try Ativan for a month to see how that worked. Tried it, didn’t work. My insurance would pay for Ativan for some reason, which makes no sense because it is a Benzo just like Xanax. But, it’s weaker.
I finally decided to pay for my Xanax out of pocket. Luckily it’s only $10.
I pray that you get the help you need. I hate that the drug war is hurting innocent people who truly need pain meds.
I’m glad you can keep your Xanax. When a med works there is really no replacement.
I’m currently taking 900mg of gabapentin 3 times daily. It helps get me through the day but I need extra pain med to let me be able to sleep.
There is help out there.
Somehow I’ll find it.
Maybe an Amish doctor with some old fashioned medicine will have something.
Insurance companies and politicians need to get out of the doctors offices and let them treat their patients.
Pharmaceutical companies don’t employ pharmacists?
Really?
Look in the mirror people...
whole cultures use alcohol without any problems at all....
and, its tiresome to repeat the same old lines about alcohol use worse than drug use...
most people can have a sip or two and be perfectly alright...
not so with heroin or meth or bath salts...
unemployment, life disability payments for bad knees or "stress"...
welfare...food stamps..free phones...
there is no reason to work or be responsible...
so why not just be drugged most of the day...YOU GOT THE TIME...
you are full of it....
I remember this exactly..
drs and hospitals were under the gun due to JACCO demanding that we treat pain until its gone and we had to be sure we documented it and no matter what...
and you could not use common sense or your medical knowledge you had to depend on the patient and what they "felt"....
so many especially the younger ones learned very quick to always say they were a "10" in pain , and wanted their Dilaudid, their Phenergan and their bendaryl all IV and all at the same time, and btw, push it fast....
JCHAO not “jacco”...but I have other words for them as well...
people that have an agenda can pull all sorts of stats to make their side look good...
but with Xanax 1.5, I never even knew it was happening...
Look, pharmacists dispense medicine that doctors prescribe. Pharmaceutical companies produce those drugs. Pharmacy means the place where drugs are prepared for public dispensation.
There is a vast difference in a pharmacist and a pharmaceutical company. You should know that before making slanderous accusations.
Look, pharmacists dispense medicine that doctors prescribe. Pharmaceutical companies produce those drugs. Pharmacy means the place where drugs are prepared for public dispensation.
There is a vast difference in a pharmacist and a pharmaceutical company. You should know that before making slanderous accusations.
Was this happening BEFORE 1973?
Before 1973, abortion WAS criminalized, and the available evidence says abortions did NOT happen in the millions.
gee...how many more deaths from auto accidents?..or bus crashes?...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3280359/posts: "Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows"
or domestic violence?...
You tell me.
or lung cancer....
Beyond requiring disclosure of risk - which can be done only in a legal regulated market - self-harm is not govenrment's business.
people that have an agenda can pull all sorts of stats to make their side look good...
I have an "agenda" but you don't? Why should anyone believe that?
And if you'd bothered to read the post to which I was responding, you'd see that I was simply pointing out that the evidence is against the claim that the nationwide increase in opioid overdoses was caused by marijuana legalization.
Name three. Our culture has many problems with alcohol: alcoholism, DUI, cirrhosis, just to name a few.
most people can have a sip or two and be perfectly alright...
not so with heroin or meth or bath salts...
Perhaps not - but definitely so with marijuana.
And crap like bath salts becomes popular among users during the period when they're legal (unlike safer alternatives like pot) - and there's always such a period because the basement chemists can always come up with a new drug the law doesn't even know about yet.
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