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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I’ve had two breast biopsies.
Mine were easier because mine were done under anesthesia in the OR. I would hate to have mine done the way yours was. Ugh.
No. I know some older people who suffer terribly because their doctors are afraid to prescribe pain meds.
People in need shouldn’t suffer because some morons abuse painkillers.
“But I knew someone -— a knowledgeable and compassionate person, a CNA hospice nurse and grandmother-— who’d cared beautifully for my father -— who was in bad pain with no relief, from injuries from a fall on an icy street. Right or wrong, I gave her what was left of my meds. Sad to see that, years later, she’d been picked up by the police on controlled-substance charges.”
Are you sure she wasn’t already an addict and you got played? Addicts will lie to anyone, at any time, to get what they want.
I knew Sarah very well, since she had been at my house almost daily during the last 6 months of my father's life (home hospice care). We interacted a lot, and became friends. I know that (like me) took Ibuprofen for her occasional arthritic aches and pains.
Also knew about her fall on the ice, and her awful pain woes thereafter.
But your point is a good one: addicts WILL lie to get drugs. But I don't think Sarah was in that category. Not then. She might possibly have been addicted later, but it wouldn't have been because of "recreational" taking of drugs.
A big part of the problem is the DEA cracking down on doctors, making it impossible to properly medicate pain. The legally manufactured medicine become unavailable, so people get ahold of heroin, which is of unpredictable strength and often adulterated.
Once again, government meddling makes a problem worse.
And there is a vast difference between legally manufactured pharmaceuticals and street heroin.
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