An In-Depth Look at America's Opioid Crisis

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  • Опубліковано 19 лис 2024

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  • @ElvenLogic22
    @ElvenLogic22 3 місяці тому +20

    At least a dozen people from my graduating class in HS have OD’d in my small town. It’s so common it’s like we don’t know who will be next in the obituary, the scariest and saddest part is they leave behind a generation of young children who suddenly have one parent or are orphaned entirely.

    • @Kat-tr2ig
      @Kat-tr2ig 3 місяці тому +2

      I graduated in 1997. The number of classmates who have OD'd is insane, and now it's their kids who are OD'ing.

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      damn big pharma

  • @michaelkozlosky3919
    @michaelkozlosky3919 3 місяці тому +52

    I was prescribed opioids for 25 years, my doctor said I would be on them for the rest of my because there is no cure for my disease. Suddenly my prescription was taken away and was replaced with NOTHING. I was a good patient that obeyed all the rules and I got screwed by the system. When the pain medications were taken away from the chronic pain patients, society created a pain medication market. That's why the USA have a fentynal problem today. This is the same thing that happened during "prohibition" in the 1920"s. People with unmedicated treatment for chronic pain are commiting suicide today and society seems to be OK with that. Chronic pain patients have been thrown under the bus by society. Because I cannot get relief for my chronic pain, I'm in search of a fentynal dealer because society has put us in the streets for pain relief.

    • @idontcare-sf1vb
      @idontcare-sf1vb 3 місяці тому +6

      Have you tried wild letttuce instead it’s supposed to cover the same receptors and be nearly harmless it’s also legal to grow your own please try that first I’m so sorry this happened 😢

    • @michaelkozlosky3919
      @michaelkozlosky3919 3 місяці тому +3

      @@idontcare-sf1vb I look for wild lettuce. Thank you.

    • @emmyali920
      @emmyali920 3 місяці тому +4

      This happened to me as well. There are so many of us who followed all the rules and legitimately need the medication. We have been left to suffer with zero concern for our wellbeing.

    • @michaelkozlosky3919
      @michaelkozlosky3919 3 місяці тому

      @@emmyali920 I hope you're managing well. Our healthcare today is being dictated by insurance companies and their lawyers. Doctors today can't practice medicine anymore. They follow flow charts that have been given to them by the insurance companies. Prior to Obamacare the United States was ranked #1 in the world for healthcare, today we are ranked 69th. We currently have the most expensive healthcare that yields the worst results. If The USA keeps going down the socialist path, our healthcare will get even worse.

    • @pixality7902
      @pixality7902 3 місяці тому +7

      Exactly. How they handle pain now is absolutely unacceptable. Especially when the huge overcorrection is occurring everywhere when certain areas were much worse about prescribing too many opoids. Florida in particular.
      I had a tooth so infected, the anesthetic didn't work. This woman lectured me about opoid addiction when after 3 days I took a tiny amount of codeine so I could sleep and actually make it to the dentist. I told the dentist I took a Tylenol 3 in case it impacted anything. I shouldn't have said anything and have learned my lesson. It was unlikely to be impactful as it had been 6 hrs.
      She told me ibuprofen was just as effective. That's interesting because I took it many times before I broke down and took it with the tylenol 3. She sounded so cookie cutter I knew she must be quoting a study (and I'd heard the same exact line from another dentist). I looked it up and am really troubled by the lazy approach of taking its conclusions as fact. It was sponsored by an anti opoid organization and tested ibuprofen and hydrocodone separately. Most people I know take them together. Its also asinine to parrot that to a patient telling you they are in pain. Statistics do not matter to individuals.
      My actual dentist ended up prescribing me something when I called later. Didn't matter and I ended up suffering and risking more trouble by smoking weed to sleep, because the pharmacy didn't carry the right size and it was Friday evening. Still hurt the next week but was tolerable enough I just took off of work and suffered. Regardless no one is going to convince me that laying there stressing out my body with intolerable pain was somehow better for me than actually having access to medication.
      I asked if her if running into traffic to end it all would have been a better solution or less risk. Therein lies the problem. They do not consider the risks or consequences of leaving patients in pain. They dont really have to care because they want to manage their risk of liability rather than health risks for patients. Its easier to let everyone suffer and make it clear that asking for pain meds will automatically get you branded as a drug seeker.
      I will smash my own face in before I ask a doctor for pain meds. They cannot be trusted to care for anyone as they do not care about suffering. They should not be fucking over millions of people to overcorrect for a problem they created. Somehow they've managed to be on both wrong sides of the issue. People should reconsider ever having any medical procedure because they do not manage pain. Don't even get me started on the barbarism they display during iud insertion. Its sick. Whats even sicker is the difference between how patients rate pain and how doctors do. Maybe some patients are overdramatic. Doctors should still care because it's their experience of pain.
      Never be honest about your medications. It will only bite you in the ass. Wonderful amount of trust doctors are fostering.

  • @LordMarcus
    @LordMarcus 3 місяці тому +7

    The opioid crisis is not caused by patients who responsibly take their prescribed opiate medications. The opioid crisis is either irresponsible prescribing (failing to prescribe a prudent quantity while lecturing on the chemically addictive nature of the medications-e.g. Purdue literally touting Oxycontin as "non-habit forming", or the dentist who dispensed 20 days of propoxyphene to my dad well after the narrow therapeutic range of the drug was known to pharmacology; or by people who are deliberately misusing any opiate drug).
    The whiplash is so severe that after my pain doctor retired, the next one I saw cut my tramadol dosing by 2/3 and then firing me when I complained vociferously. Even after seeing a narcotics abuse specialist, I am somehow blacklisted (despite NOT authorizing any medical records to be released from that failure of a clinic), so I'm having to eke by by confirming myself to a bed on the highest dose my GP is comfortable providing, because FUCK the state of Arkansas.
    Fuck this whole "crisis". Fuck all the bullshit. And most of all, fuck me, right?

    • @pixality7902
      @pixality7902 3 місяці тому +5

      I had a young dentist lecture me about the dangers of opoid addiction when I told her I took a single Tylenol 3 overnight because I had to sleep if I wanted to get to the dentist without crashing (my mom gets them in canada). It took the edge off just enough to sleep 3 hrs but I was still in pain. It had been like 3 days of pain so intense I sat in a hot shower all day slamming my fists on the ground. I literally told her it was less risky than the urge to run into the street to end it all that the pain was causing. Teach them to treat the patient in front of them. Not a hypothetical patient in a textbook.
      My tooth was so infected, the anesthetic didn't work. I told her to just do it because I couldn't bear the thought of waiting any longer. This woman looked into my crying eyes during said procedure and still thought it was fitting to lecture me about opoids.
      I don't think the overcorrection is acceptable. I literally refuse to ask for pain medication because I know what they will assume. They will say otherwise and say people should always tell them, but why would we if they will do nothing? Its a waste of time and money. Its also terrible for mental health when your doctor makes you feel like a criminal with no provocation. It also turns people away from doctors entirely.
      Whats worse is I see this same behavior with surgeries. People will have major surgery like a c section and not be given appropriate pain relief.
      It sucks that other people struggle with addiction. However, it should not be so impactful for millions of people already suffering from a medical issue. Honestly I'd prefer it lean toward overprescribing than not. While drug addiction is a medical problem, there is still some element of choice. Because they make poor choices, everyone else gets fucked. It's not acceptable. Unfortunately docs feel guilty about it and also want to cover their asses.

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      yeah, it was definitely from irresponsible prescription practices with naive people who didn't know better
      of course, there was preexisting addicts beforehand (and there will always be addict) but know it seems to be swinging too far in the other way. where honest chronic pain patient are left to dry because everyone is seen as a lying addict (come on, we don't lie about everything)

  • @GD1_3
    @GD1_3 3 місяці тому +4

    I got clean 12 yrs ago I'm 41 now. I've been on suboxone for that time. It along with the birth of my daughter helped me get and stay clean! It wouldn't wish withdrawal on my worst enemy. The stigma needs to change in society. Hopefully together we can stomp out this pandemic of opoid abuse. Too many young kids are dying especially now with fentanyl being found in everything

    • @janycebrown4071
      @janycebrown4071 3 місяці тому +2

      I was on Suboxone for 7 years. It saved my life ! Its been a year since my last dose, and I haven't had any cravings 🌝Keep up the good fight 💪 ❤

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      Ibogaine seemed to have helped me

  • @lourias
    @lourias 3 місяці тому +5

    The NUMBER ONE way to PREVENT addiction is to REMIND patients that though the prescription may say "take every 4 hours" does not mean that you must. Remind patients to take ONLY WHEN NEEDED.
    Furthermore, hydrocodone is notorious for giving "rebound" pain. It happens when the medication first wears off, then the pain suddenly spikes. To make sure the pain is real or rebound, wait at least 30 to 60 minutes to see if that pain disappears.

  • @mosessupposes2571
    @mosessupposes2571 3 місяці тому +12

    We don’t have a justice system. We have a legal system.

  • @mustbeaweful2504
    @mustbeaweful2504 3 місяці тому +9

    Connecting to this topic, have you guys talked about lack of trust in healthcare? Are medical organizations or practitioners taking steps to regain that trust?
    I've lost trust in my family doctor because of his over prescription of opioids towards my mother - and indifference towards her decline - that led to her repeated, intentional OD's.
    I've also worked with those who are homeless, addicted, and/or have mental health issues who strongly distrust medical practitioners. There seems to be a communal breaking of trust with the current opioid epidemic being a new wave of it.

    • @CountJeffula
      @CountJeffula 3 місяці тому +1

      I have zero trust in the American healthcare system. They’d sell you poison if it’s profitable and they won’t get sued.

    • @michaelkozlosky3919
      @michaelkozlosky3919 3 місяці тому

      Our healthcare is in the hands of insurance companies and their lawyers. Doctors today simply follow a flow chart given to them by the insurance company. Doctors don't "practice medicine" anymore. We have the most expensive healthcare in the world that gives the worst results.

  • @3lfruler
    @3lfruler 3 місяці тому +3

    Yup #CRPS #atypicaltrigeminalneuralgia
    Failed brain surgeries and failed back procedure. Started at 26 (5 years ago now) I have tried many different things. And the only thing that works was the 24-hour ketamine drip. They even did that after my surgery's to get me out of the hospital. Not fentanyl or morphine or Dilaudid would touch my pain. And of course outside of a hospital setting it's $600 for an infusion... I have zero support for my family and everybody I thought I thought we were friends left. I'm nearing the end of my rope... What I'm being prescribed now from falling 24 ft at the beginning of the year is fairly strong and I'm not finding many people and pain Management that will want to work with medication management. I totally understand you have to come a chronic pain from multiple angles but the fact is if someone can't even walk 10 ft to the bathroom from uncontrolled pain no other thing is going to help.

  • @kristensorensen2219
    @kristensorensen2219 3 місяці тому +10

    Rehab only works when the addict is tired of being sick and tired. Or less than 15%.

    • @DanielAusMV-op9mi
      @DanielAusMV-op9mi 3 місяці тому +6

      Imagine somebody with pain going to rehab for his pain meds

  • @dylangreen6075
    @dylangreen6075 3 місяці тому +4

    Dude!! You made a meaty video!! About damn time man!

  • @idontcare-sf1vb
    @idontcare-sf1vb 3 місяці тому +5

    Any people considering purchasing street drugs You could try wild lettuce instead it’s easy to grow legal in every state and touches on the same receptors much safer if you are in pain and need relief

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      theres also akuamma (Picralima nitida) and kratom (where legal)

  • @jnzkngs
    @jnzkngs 3 місяці тому +5

    I keep saying that if a large portion of popular culture didn't glorify getting high, it would have been easier to more quickly put the blame on the manufacturers instead of having the easy scapegoat to pin the blame on and delay making real progress on the issue.

  • @arielespindola8084
    @arielespindola8084 3 місяці тому +5

    At 8:15 it's your drug dealer explaining how the pills work.

  • @weirdsciencetv4999
    @weirdsciencetv4999 3 місяці тому +8

    Rhetoric like this is killing chronic pain patients

    • @blondy2061h
      @blondy2061h 3 місяці тому +1

      Yep. I’d be suicidal for sure without my medication. I have an untreatable, chronic condition. I use Oxycodone twice a week more or less when everything else in my toolbox is failing. I can’t imagine not having that option on my bad days.

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      i guess it a good thing kratoms mostly legal almost everywhere in America
      i was also thinking of trying wild lettuce (since it seems to grow everywhere and is free (unless you buy it online)) and if successful it would be something to cycle off and on with everything else with

  • @ElijahPerrin80
    @ElijahPerrin80 3 місяці тому +10

    It is only a crisis if you are not in pain, for us with chronic permanent pain were left without any relief from pain, thanks for nothing.

    • @idontcare-sf1vb
      @idontcare-sf1vb 3 місяці тому +4

      You could try wild lettuce it’s easy to grow legal in every state and touches on the same receptors much safer if you are in pain and need relief

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      theres also kratom and akuamma (Picralima nitida)

  • @Skaldewolf
    @Skaldewolf 3 місяці тому +14

    I think, a big reason for overprescription of opioids in the US comes from a cultural problem. Easy, superficial fixes for problems are preferred over radical (adressing the root of a problem) treatment and preventive care. And it's not only management of pain, it's mental health, dental health and can even be seen in the decay of infrastructure.

    • @therrydicule
      @therrydicule 3 місяці тому +3

      Some have called it "potholes economics."
      Stop putting money into easy maintenance until the potholes are so big that it needs an urgent fix. And it was more money.
      I'm not sure if this is true with real potholes, but that's a term I saw about it... It might be like the boiling frog thing to me in terms of names.

    • @rustyshackle917
      @rustyshackle917 3 місяці тому +4

      Our healthcare system is based on profit. You think it's profitable to have healthy people that don't need to see half a dozen specialists, get their pills, etc? The doctor does not want you healthy because then he can't afford his boat payments.

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      there also was a giant money hungry company that did a pretty good job at convincing doctors that opiates were actually safe and non addictive

  • @lisaschuster686
    @lisaschuster686 2 місяці тому

    An opioid crisis? What opioid crisis? You mean when a dentist prescribes a week of Vicodin and the pharmacist won’t fill it?

  • @Drug_Design_Nabrosov
    @Drug_Design_Nabrosov 21 день тому

    There is important information,

  • @phizzhead53
    @phizzhead53 3 місяці тому

    20:27 actualy the nalaxone in suboxone is not absorbed into the blood if taken as direct but is if you shoot up

  • @Anthony-ru7sk
    @Anthony-ru7sk 3 місяці тому +2

    It’s turning into a xylazine crisis now

  • @dcseain
    @dcseain 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you for this deep insight of a problem I am well insulated from due to living in the urban NE US.

  • @KellyDyer-t8l
    @KellyDyer-t8l 3 місяці тому +2

    Media bias why is this still an issue ? No pain when having cbd in our system ?

  • @wildhare-i5g
    @wildhare-i5g 3 місяці тому +1

    I think drugs won the war on drugs a long time ago

  • @danielgolarz2117
    @danielgolarz2117 2 місяці тому

    When will we cure blindness caused by retinol vein occlusion

  • @kristensorensen2219
    @kristensorensen2219 3 місяці тому +4

    Sad to say the CDC sucks!

  • @frankasafscimone3920
    @frankasafscimone3920 3 місяці тому

    Why is it that heroine is smoked or injected in clinics in many European countries and the addicts there are for the most part healthy and normal? Half of addicts don't have sufficient endorphin levels and the other half became addicted due to pain or traumas. It is a medical problem. The widespread addiction crisis in the United States is the result of a dysfunctional society.

  • @DanielAusMV-op9mi
    @DanielAusMV-op9mi 3 місяці тому +4

    Addiction/Dependance means this medicine works so well for the patient that of course he wants treatment with this medicine. The UN have confirmed drug consumption is a human right. Also you are always dependent on medicine if you need it haha
    Its so funny and sad cause people die because of our decision to fight drugs and many families are getting destroyed because we fight against drugs, which are medicines, dependence only results from medical need, again by defintion you are dependent on everything the doctor gives you. Its also funny cause its literally so obvious its funny and its hurts a lot

    • @CountJeffula
      @CountJeffula 3 місяці тому +1

      Yeah, no. Masking pain with a drug that makes the pain go away and makes you high is not medicine. It’s a bandaid. Making the pain actually go away or fixing the underlying problem would be medicine. We have a sick care system, not a healthcare system in the US. It’s about $.

    • @idontcare-sf1vb
      @idontcare-sf1vb 3 місяці тому +4

      @@CountJeffulapeople dealing with bone cancer etc need something for the pain while they attempt to treat the problem.

    • @CountJeffula
      @CountJeffula 3 місяці тому +1

      @@idontcare-sf1vb people with cancer should seek to be lucid to spend their remaining limited time with their families. That’s what most of my dying relatives attempted to do. The doctors, however, wanted to keep injecting my grandfather with opioid pain medications to, “make him more comfortable,”potentially relying on the double effect and causing respiratory cessation. Not a way I’d like to go!

    • @whatwhat9519
      @whatwhat9519 3 місяці тому +1

      @@CountJeffula and sometimes there's no fix for what caused the pain. once it's there it's there till the end (in some cases, you can't expect being literally blown to hell and back again and not expect a life without pain past that point)
      and when dealing with chronic daily debilitating pain i would rather pop a pill then a piece of lead

    • @CountJeffula
      @CountJeffula 3 місяці тому

      @@whatwhat9519technology has created new elements. I think we should all demand such progress, not merely expect it.

  • @Liptensupe
    @Liptensupe 4 дні тому

    They should just stop the bs and make opium legal that way people can comfortably dose themselves and live healthy lives.

    • @SteveHarry-l7i
      @SteveHarry-l7i 2 години тому

      *Pain patients are neglected because the system don't see nothing wrong in generalizing the word addiction to dependance, I'd recommend u to this reputable psych store i obtain o.xys, x.ans,a'ddys & other meds. They're well facilitated & ship discreetly anywhere*

    • @SteveHarry-l7i
      @SteveHarry-l7i 2 години тому

      *@SYNCERELAMP, that's the handle*

    • @SteveHarry-l7i
      @SteveHarry-l7i 2 години тому

      *They're on telegram*

  • @ColossusBall
    @ColossusBall 3 місяці тому +11

    This thumbnail needs to be changed immediately. It implies the opioid crisis is something that has past by. Please don't be so misleading.

    • @healthcaretriage
      @healthcaretriage  3 місяці тому +17

      Thanks for the feedback; it's a fair point, and we've changed it. The intention was to acknowledge it was a "look back" at our previous videos, but agree the wording could have been better. Thanks again!

    • @booteeGobblin
      @booteeGobblin 3 місяці тому +9

      My man needs a chill pill 😂

  • @36mio
    @36mio 3 місяці тому +5

    Very informative!