Posted on 11/03/2018 7:51:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
America is facing a drug crisis unlike anything it has ever seen before. On average from 1999 to 2016, 115 people died every day from opioid overdoses across the nation — with the total annual figure peaking at more than 49,000 in 2017. If this were a disease or a plague, America would be in a panic, schools would close, and those affected would be in quarantine.
A new synthetic opiate called fentanyl is responsible for much of this carnage. One of the deadliest drugs to ever plague our streets, just 2 milligrams of fentanyl can kill a grown man — making it more dangerous than anthrax. Many times, users have no idea that these synthetic opioids are being laced into marijuana, heroin, and pills that appear to be legitimate prescription medications. In Ohio, roughly 50 percent of the pills being sold on the streets are fakes with a fentanyl and heroin mix. Even though the pills look legitimate, a single one can be lethal. There are no second chances.
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The groups responsible for bringing these drugs into our country are some of the deadliest and most brutal gangsters to ever operate inside and outside America. Violent marauders like the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco Neuva Generacion and the armed street gangs they hire, including MS-13, are moving contraband at a constant rate. Translated, the motto of MS-13 is “kill, steal, rape, control.”
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There is a simple way to fight the daunting criminal networks working against America: a border wall. Not a barrier to stop legal immigrants, but a wall to prevent horrific substances and brutal killers from entering our country. It would be a great start to a long fight to bring down that daily opioid death toll.
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“They were told “I will not agree to let you be discharged unless you agree to sign up for taking the prescription.””
Making up stories I see. Or just repeating them mindlessly.
“But we wouldn’t be so vulnerable with a stronger culture. Too many opiods through our medical system. Too much veneration of drugs in our counterculture-first culture.”
That’s the key. Counter culture has fully taken over.
I know a bit about post op pain having had more than one major surgery Was given dilaudid after most recent. Pain is an antagonist to getting high. But I switched to Advil two days after getting out. So it hurt. BFD. Worse than a little piece of frag in my leg many years ago. Advil made it tolerable. I still didn’t want to get dependent on the shit. And one of the side effects of opioids is constipation which sounds funny but really isn’t. Point being you don’t have to get hooked. And the surgeons did NOT push me to take dilaudid. Told me to alternate Advil and acetaminophen ever couple of hours.
“a border wall”
Even if it was 100% effective, the Fentanyl would simply be made in the USA.
If you’ve seen the amount of traffic passing through the border, you would know control would always be ineffective.
As for killing dealers, dealers kill each other with no due process already in large numbers.
My suggestion is a solution of a drug in large enough volume of liquid so a person can not overdose accidently.
The color of the solution should vary based on the amount of drug in solution.
Green might be a strength where an opiate naïve person could not overdose drinking all they can swallow as fast as their stomach can take in liquid.
Orange might indicate a strength dangerous for an opiate naïve person.
Red would indicate a strength lethal for an opiate-naïve person.
As the color comes closer to purple, the strength would be greater.
You would have to get a blood opiate test from a hospital to buy anything other than a green solution. This hospital test would have to be furnished by the hospital along with your address and copy of government ID to your drug supplier in order for the drug supplier to legally supply you.
You might get up to 45 two-liter bottles of solution delivered to your residence a month.
An FDA tracking system would have to be used by drug suppliers.
And that wasn’t an accident.
“Our medical profession prescribes to many of these drugs and also prescribes too long a period of taking these drugs and by the time the pills are all taken, the patient can be hooked on them.”
Imagine you are injured in an accident.
Do you want to tell the jury that you are taking aspirin, or a medication for serious pain like opiates?
FMCDH(BITS)
I’ll ditto your message as an EMT. Got so tired of the winos/dopers that I got out of the biz. Now is it so bad, the police have to be on scene before ther EMT are released to attend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qje0UuM8-OU
I have to tell you it was something on the radio. I told the truth about what I heard.
I did not say I thoroughly investigated the background, veracity and common practice statistics. For whatever reason the hospital policy was to protect themselves from some kind of complaint or lawsuit, possibly. (Or the person I heard on the news feature was wrong.)
Hospitals my wife and sister-in-law were in last year do the opposite: No you don’t need opioids, see how you do with Motrin,Advil, etc. Larger dosages but still NSAIDS.
The feature had people’s experiences with surprise addictions and then this guy who said he was supposed to take the amount for that discharge day, and then he could use the Rx if he was in severe pain. They may have had many people bothering them soon after discharge. Who knows.
Another was a family MD who stopped freely giving opioids but used to because doctors had been accused of having minimal educational training in pain reduction (that’s when the scale of 1-10 for “how much pain are you in now?” was getting under way. They were said to be perceived as insensitive to listening to a patient in pain. Now he doesn’t give unless absolutely necessary for short time.
If it’s like “don’t believe everything you read in the papers” replaced by “don’t believe what you hear on the radio news stories” then I’m sorry to have mentioned it.
The “repeating mindlessly” remark does apply to me a lot.
I’ll try not to repeat rumor and gossip style stories but then how will I fit in on the internet?
the DS allows drugs to flourish.....other than a nice war sending our best to die what better way to change America then killing off its young mostly white men....by drugs...
We completely ignore the international drug cartels. This has to be the stupidest war on drugs ever.
When I had a cancer operation on my back and I was being released they said I would be in pain and needed a painkiller. I explained I didn't take painkillers even an aspirin but they said I would need one and they prescribed Vicodin.
Taking Vicodin led to 3 of the happiest, most euphoric days of my life, until I realized something was wrong and stopped taking it and put up with the pain. - Tom
To me ibuprofrin is a wonder drug.
I can see why some people in greater pain might need an opioid.
“If I could rule this country by edict the trafficking of certain drugs would have a mandatory death sentence...first offense!”
I would amend that to POSSESSION of certain drugs.
Heroin, fentanyl, so called psychedelics, pain meds WITHOUT a prescription or 50% over prescription amount....cut a pretty wide swath.
And I say this as a pain patient: neuropathy that otc drugs can’t help.
The war in illegal opiates is not possible to win. A guy was busted a few months ago with a 20lb bag of phentynol. Enough for 6 million people to overdose.
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