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Trump says we got a Mexican drug problem, that's the purpose of the great wall. Problem is, where are these folks getting all these opioids? I have an idea, from a pharmaceutical giant, a supplier. "The problem is that as opioid prescribing rose across the country, prescription opioids became the recreational drug of choice. "Pill mills" like the Sav-Rite Pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia — which reportedly doled out 3.2 million dosage units of hydrocodone in 2006, according to Salon — thrived in the state, dispensing the drugs to anyone savvy enough to complain of pain to a doctor" businessinsider.com/why-the-opioid-epid... "An investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail found drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in six years. The Gazette-Mail says McDowell County, population 28,000, received 9 million hydrocodone pills, and 3.2 million oxycodone tablets over six years, according to U.S. Drug Enforcement Records." pbs.org/newshour/rundown/another-west-v...
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Chet Ruminski Wrote: I wonder if $4000 a month for vs $30 a month for Arthritis pain medication has anything to do with the war on opioids. I keep hearing these commercials about Xeljanyz having these bothersome side effects. So I looked into it and came across the almost $4000/month cost for Xeljanyz. Are the cheap opioid prices driving pain relief druggist crazy? Forcing them to look for government help. No war on drugs has ever worked so why this? I'm confused here. What does a non-opioid based pain medication for arthritis have to do with the opioid epidemic? The opioid epidemic is most certainly the fault of Big Pharma generally and Purdue Pharma specifically. They created Oxycontin in the early 1990's and spent billions of dollars lobbying doctors around the country to prescribe it for pretty much any chronic pain ailment. The doctors then began prescribing this opioid at astronomical rates, which then created an entire generation of addicts. Doctors and the government finally woke up and began dramatically limiting the number of prescriptions for opioids, but they had already opened a Pandora's box that they could no longer contain. Millions of Americans were suddenly without a valid prescription for their pain (either actual or mental) and so they turned to the black market to get help. The vicious cycle will never end until we have a more compassionate way of working with drug addicts and move away from a criminal mindset and towards a mental health mindset.
I also can't help but notice how we as a country talk about the opioid crisis versus the crack-cocaine crisis. It's sad how we saw no problem locking up hundreds of thousands of addicts who smoked a rock, but now somehow see the light and want to "help" those addicted to heroin and fentanyl. Can it possible be because those who smoked a rock had a different skin color than those who are addicted to heroin?
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jaredsxtn Wrote:Chet Ruminski Wrote: Note to Trump and Sessions: Instead of wasting money on people who don't care if they live or die, spend it on people who want to live. Health care. You don't care about the druggies, You call them losers. What's going on with that money? Who's pocket are you lying for? Its obvious who you won't help. This is one of the most mean spirited statements I have ever read. People who are addicted to drugs aren't addicted because they don't care whether they live or die; they are addicted because the chemicals that make up the drug they are addicted to make it extremely hard to function without them. We have to move away from this "let them all die" mindset when it comes to working with drug addicts and instead transition to a compassionate mindset where we treat these individuals like human beings who are sick. And this is one of the dumbest responses I have ever seen. My post was a note to Trump and Sessions. It was a sarcastic contradiction to their policy toward poor people and health care which is "let them all die . Every post I have made regarding drugs and alcohol and people here and everywhere is that people can't help themselves. My reason for bringing up Xeljanyz is that big money is behind all that is bad using insurance to get their huge profits. Almost just like the initial government insured student loans started skyrocketing the cost of college education without a proportionate increase in the value or quality of the education. And looking again at "mean spirited" and " let them them all die". Isn't that what we have in health care today with people that can't get insurance or have insurance and use it. Millions of people are getting deprived and that means suffering and dying.
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Chet Ruminski Wrote:jaredsxtn Wrote:Chet Ruminski Wrote: Note to Trump and Sessions: Instead of wasting money on people who don't care if they live or die, spend it on people who want to live. Health care. You don't care about the druggies, You call them losers. What's going on with that money? Who's pocket are you lying for? Its obvious who you won't help. This is one of the most mean spirited statements I have ever read. People who are addicted to drugs aren't addicted because they don't care whether they live or die; they are addicted because the chemicals that make up the drug they are addicted to make it extremely hard to function without them. We have to move away from this "let them all die" mindset when it comes to working with drug addicts and instead transition to a compassionate mindset where we treat these individuals like human beings who are sick. And this is one of the dumbest responses I have ever seen. My post was a note to Trump and Sessions. It was a sarcastic contradiction to their policy toward poor people and health care which is "let them all die . Every post I have made regarding drugs and alcohol and people here and everywhere is that people can't help themselves. My reason for bringing up Xeljanyz is that big money is behind all that is bad using insurance to get their huge profits. Almost just like the initial government insured student loans started skyrocketing the cost of college education without a proportionate increase in the value or quality of the education. And looking again at "mean spirited" and " let them them all die". Isn't that what we have in health care today with people that can't get insurance or have insurance and use it. Millions of people are getting deprived and that means suffering and dying. In spirit I am deleting my above response to jaredsxtn. I have never said anything even remotely perceived as not caring for anybody with a problem. My response was generated out of forum rage.
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TJ Wrote:I just watched something on Facebook but got called away. I hope to go back and find it. I will copy the link if found. The point was - there was a crack problem in the past and criminal action was taken. Large numbers were sent to prison. Children sent into foster care. Lives were torn apart. Because there's a difference in the demographic.... treatment at rehabilitation centers is being suggested for many caught up in the Opiod crisis. Post the like if you can track it down. HBO has several good documentaries in drug abuse and a couple of focus strictly on Opioids addiction. Raised my awareness significantly and made me much more reluctant to take painkiller medication (ie kidney stone). In one of documentary, they profile normal middle people with no history of drug\alcohol problems that suffer from some kind injury where the doctor provides them pain medication and within a year they are using heroin. One guy explained it that without his daily fix EVERYTHING is painful. Can't brush his teeth without feeling unbearable pain, which is what drives them to lie and steal from anyone and everyone. Steal from work, steal from family, steal from stores, force their children do unspeakable shit for money, etc... We think we would never do anything like that, but most of us have never experienced the that level of pain (akin to severe torture), so we really don't truly know how we would handle it.
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