OxyContin patients, then and now
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2012
- Videos of patient testimonials sent to doctors in the late 1990s reveal how marketing trumped science as more and more prescriptions for chronic pain were written. The patients and their families speak out then and now.
A patient cured is a customer lost.
Vaccine
@@sainttube5214 sure pal
@@sainttube5214 lmao u didn't even try to say something stupid, just vaccine xD
@@lazaruschandler3750 yeah sure
Yep cancer has a cure wonder why there still racking in donations by the 10s of billions, 90 billion in total
I still think the major problem with this drug .. wasn't the fact that it is addictive .. it was the fact that they lied and said that it wasn't.
The biggest problem is they weren't giving it to me.
They pushed it hard too. Purdue was pulling in $35 billion in revenue. Nothing will happen to sackler family and it’s a shame to the hundreds of thousands that died because they lied.
@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 do you still hate sf? I miss it. I haven't been in 4+ years to Cali, SF is the only place I miss.
Indeed. These medicines can be life savers. I hate blanket statements and people that swing with the pendulum. When my mother was 75 she developed a lot of back pain. The pain was the only thing on her mind. She managed to have a decent quality of life after she began taking moderate amounts of opiate drugs for a period of a few years. Finally she learned of a friend's success with back pain after a laminectomy. None of her physicians ever directed her in that direction. Finally, she had the procedure and within a month she had made an absolutely easy withdrawal from the oxys. She had never got drowsy with taking them either. I took two by accident thinking they were my Beano pills and could barely stay awake. I do understand that there are people out their with emotional pain especially along with their physical pain that are strong candidates for addiction and there maybe suitable alternatives for short term pain but it is a crime to withhold these drugs from people with serious and chronic pain. We can think outside of the box a little and come up with solutions in order to both prevent addiction and yet to also give a decent quality of life to those with serious chronic pain. Another thing we can do is start realizing that the pharmacological industry, especially since the days of the AIDS epidemic has become too powerful and unregulated to our detriment. In some cases there are avenues to prevent certain diseases associated with pain from simple supplements and repurposed drugs. Because of the way the industry is set up currently there is no motivation to explore alternative treatments to chronic diseases. I was on my way to becoming an asthmatic and was offered steroid drugs, etc.. My asthma was cured in one measely week with the purchase of a $5 bottle of vitamin D3. Yet not a single doctor ever suggested testing vitamin D levels or getting out in the sun. There are alternative treatments to rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. I suggest that people seek out consultations with multiple functional medical providers.
@@sam7259 I left San Francisco about two years ago. I love it. But the cost of living? Ridiculous. I say it’s easier to leave than to come. lol
My dad was prescribed OxyContin after a simple dental procedure, back in 1999. Within 2 years, he had lost his 6 figure job, totaled his car as well as my brothers car, had our home put into foreclosure and drove my mom, me and my two brothers to pack up and move on. He died in 2008, I spent my 13th birthday at his funeral, because of the evil bastards at Purdue.
I’m sorry you went through that trauma and lost your dad at a young age. But the blame isn’t just on Purdue Pharma. It’s also the FDA that didn’t require warning labels or crack down on the marketing of addictive opioid drugs. Anytime a corporation screws someone over and gets away with it, it’s likely because the government was either complicit or incompetent.
my father also was prescribed oxycontin but luckily stopped. cant imagine life if he didnt. sorry you had to deal with that as a 13 year old, may your father rest in peace 🙏
I'm so sorry 😢
Its not your dad's fault m8 it happened to me ,im from the UK.Had no idea until documentaries come out ,dramas such as dopesick I was prescribed 150 mg oxycontin 600mg pregablin spoke to doctor They cut me off cold turkey it's horrific after 8 days I tried to take my own life.Your dad's life would have been a misery on this drug he'd have prayed to God he didn't take it in the beginning.Your government didn't take action until it was clear it wasn't the users fault doctors, solicitors,judges ect and hard working manual labourers with chronic pain.Remember you dad didn't stop loving you and felt guilty after use .By the time you realise it's to late.
I’m so sorry
My dad was prescribed an oxy pain reliever after he was almost killed in a bicycle accident in 2003. It was extremely beneficial to his recovery at the time, but when our neighbors found out about the accident they started visiting our home to offer “condolences”. Sadly a few of our neighbors were simply scouting out the medical cabinet in the bathroom.
My babysitter and one of our neighbors slowly began stealing my dads pills. He didn’t notice at first but overtime it became increasingly obvious that one of the people close to us was an addict and had been inconspicuously stealing.
Oh yes I had this happen after having surgeries
It a sad thing. Addicts will sometimes literally try and sell their soul to make that sickness stop. It's a feeling I can't hardly find the words to explain what pain you go through. I stole Dilaudid from my aunt that had a morphine pump inside of her but it still didn't stop her pain. She got off all those pain meds without any help. When I saw her strength she was the reason I did the same thing bc she was in so much pain with these strong pills and she quit cold Turkey. She gave me the strength I needed and we have been closer than I ever thought we would ever be. She tells me alot how strong I am and how proud she is that I came through that bc she knows how hard and miserable it is. You want to die sometimes. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I had a serious bicycle crash in early 2022 and spent 4 days in hospital with bleeding in brain, dislocated ribs and 30 stitches in my face. The only opioid given to me was a single shot of morphine when I was leaving the ER so that I would relax during the CT Scan of my head.
After that, it was cataflam and panadol every 4 hours until I was discharged.
What ended up happening to that person? Did you guys confront them or??
@@ianchandleyU ok now?
Oxy ruined my life. Thankfully by the grace of God, I’m sober 8 years.
EDIT: 9 Years now! Praise God!!!
EDIT #2: 10 Years now! Praise God!!!
I just came up on 11 years!!! Keep it up💝
Congratulations brotha man good work I’m trying to quit smoking cigs
Amen
Praise God! That stuff is horrible!
I uaed crystal meth for a short time after stopping opioids, didn't leave the house for weeks. since i was going through bad withdrawals anyways. Meth withdraws are short term siI helped get me off everything thank god
The fact that no pharmaceutical executives went to prison for this is a travesty of justice.
@@PersisPno it was the lies. The deceit. The hiding of its addictive nature
Rich people rarely go to jail.
No but they were otherwise destroyed. It reminds me of big tobacco when they knew what was happening.
Have you considered how many people it helped? Saved so many lives.
they praise the drug because they are addicted to it... it gives euphoria
they wont consider a different drug might help them, only the exact one they are already addicted to...
@@briankeenan1340
I think the key to take away from this video is that people with legitimate long term pain can certainly benefit from opiates like OxyContin. Purdue was not wrong for making an effective pain reliever, what they are guilty of is incentivizing doctors to prescribe it to anyone and everyone for even the most minor acute pain symptoms and then bonuses for keeping them on it and titrating up. The way they marketed and pushed it on the doctors and patients was where they really screwed up.
Yup. This can be such a good send drug for those suffering with excruciating pain, i.e. cancer. They screwed up big time, last I read Purdue pharmas attempts to settle by declaring bankruptcy was blocked by the Supreme Court. I really hope they’re held accountable..
@@AM-dp9tv same here. I see absolutely nothing wrong with treating true chronic pain patients with strong opioid pain medications. Especially if they’re terminal. I think we have a huge problem with ethics surrounding pharmaceuticals in the US and it has got to stop. When corporations are allowed to put profits over people they are absolutely going to take advantage of that.
I’d like to congratulate you both for having one of the only calm, rational, respectful conversations in this entire comments section. Nicely done!
I think you missed the point. All of these people needed a pain reliever, the problem is, that if u continue to take it for pain, your body will get addicted. It's not a choice, ur body will literally rely and live off these. People blame addicts, but this medicine is the start of an addiction
Sorry you can't benefit from an addictive drug as there is no way you could take it long term. And if your problem is chronic it only makes it worse.
when i was 18, i had been addicted for 4 months. i woke up one morning, looked around me and really saw where my life was at and where it was going. that one moment of clarity saved me. i packed up my apartment that day, and moved 14 hours away where i knew i wouldn’t be able to find the pills. Been sober for 13 years now. my roommate at the time, who was also using, passed away 5 years ago due to drug addiction. I’ve lost 3 other friends to addiction and so many friends who are lost souls now.
i’d rather feel the pain my body has then ever be that person again.
Amen.
Did you take more then you were prescribed ? Or did you strictly take it how you were supposed too?
@@2genders-tk2ueProb didn’t even have a script
You weren't really an addict. You dabbled for a couple months.
@@OrwellianDystopia1984both true and untrue
Nobody:
UA-cam: wanna watch the devastating long term effects of OxyContin?
I know
Right...
The algorithm doesn’t lie
Same 🤣
i would at least say the oxycontin allowed me to live way more normal than without...they let me get out of bed & the house when i couldn't before so yea, there's a tradeoff but imagine if all i did was sit inside the house since the 90's?
Insurance won't cover physical therapy, does cover oxys
Fuck it wont cover PT. Mt baby mommas used insurance for her pt
Depends on the insurance I’m sure
Oxy is a lucrative treatment to mask the issue, p.t. actually addresses the issue. Treatment is more profitable than a cure. It's not much different than planned obsolescence. Things aren't manufactured to last anymore, they want you to come back for more.
Doctors here dont prescribe oxy. They can get in bug trouble for it. Thanks to all these codeine junkies, its hard to get t3's for back pain .
@@codykirk2818 that sucks it should properly monitored, cause it does help people manage pain. They just kinda gave it to everyone when it came out, and now alot of people are in the gutter, and abusing the system.
Lauren 2:10 is the only one who beat the game. She clearly went through hell but she kicked the addiction, and I think her sharp mind and healthy glow is her reward. That's one tough lady.
i'd say the one that beat the game is the one that never got addicted in the first place and lived a great life with no pain and kept her job
I've seen her story before; She used titering, and slowly replaced with kratom to kick the withdrawals...Everyone on every site cry's about their addiction to opiates, while no one talks about solutions to it...
I find myself coming back to this video every so often. I’m celebrating 4 years clean from opiates, after being addicted for about 6 years. This video didn’t necessarily save me but it helps. To everyone in these comments who’ve overcame drug addiction just know how strong you are, and to the tigers still struggling, just know how strong you are as well ❤️ it’s hard
Congrats of 4 years, im so proud of you ❤
That blonde lady was taking 160mg a DAY. Girl was up in the clouds.
thats an understatement! Girl was up there with God lol
SIKE: i take 5-40mg pills every 8 hours & you can't even tell im on any meds.
i dont get high i get relief... those that chase the high would always demand a higher dose every doctors visit. ive been taking oxys since the late 90's & here in 2020 im up to 600mg per day.
That's not much at all in that world. I was at a clinic where 80mg 3x a day plus 20 to 60mg 3x to 4x per day for breakthrough pain was common and many were also on fentanyl patches. It was unreal really. These pain clinics were everywhere in late 90s early mid 2000s and I mean everywhere. I watched people who had nothing wrong with them walk in and move up to that type of dose I mentioned above withing 3 months. That stuff generated billions if not trillions for doctors and Purdue. Biggest money making scheme ever in my opinion. What's better from a sellers POV than a product that once you start taking you seriously cannot live without. What's sad is that all those trillions that were generated are now gone and society is left to pick up the broken pieces while another elitist family is set for many many generations with little to no consequences.
Ben Lawrence are you fucking stupid?
Yea but they are extended release so she’s not really on 160 all at once but still that would put u to sleep for days on end if u had no tolerance
The UA-cam algorithm throwing me a curveball here.
Still interesting. Humanizes the problem.
Yuh fr
Totally...
WTF am I watching?
That part seven years later. UA-cam bored or people aren’t being as creative anymore
Speedball*
Painkillers on Netflix really opened my eyes, especially working around the medical field… salute to everyone who over came this scary addiction.
That last lady's worst fears have happened. People who are in legitimate pain are forgotten and left to suffer or unalive themselves. There has to be a balance.
So many people pretend to have pain so they can not work, and be prescribed opiates to sit at home all day high. It’s basically a cheat code, they get to legally be in constant bliss while having 0 earthly responsibilities. More than half of “pain” patients are full of shit and just want an easy life handed to them. And it works. When someone complains about back pain I can’t help but doubt, they totally tainted the image of patients because often I write them off as people leeching off the system
That lady suffers for me with arthritis, like myself. She has severe joint deformities, and despite surgery, and every other type of intervention and medication, there is still so much pain that proper use of these medications can be beneficial to maintaining a quality of life
It would be nice if there are balanced. Chronic pain is definitely life damaging just as much as it is when someone gets addicted to medicine they didn't need or they misused.
Seriously, 100%.
I don't care what this says, quality of life is so important
Amd, THAT is why Sackler belongs in prison!!! Dr's are too terified of losing their licence prescribing it, now...
The executives of purdue that covered up how addictive oxy was deserve the death penalty for the millions of lives they ended/ruined.
@@hughhefner7569 I agree.. The Wests' addiction is to drugs broadly but its real addiction is to government intervention.. People have lost the ability to take responsibility.. to make decisions in their own best interests.. and we are very close to being completely at the beck and call of The State.. WE have to wake up.. trust no one outside good family and good friends!
Idiotic statement. The only "millions" are the people whose quality of life has been saved by these fantastic meds!
They feel good, so some morons will abuse them.. Then start playing the fkin victim!
@@SKYSAW59 perdue said only 1% of patients became addicted when in reality 100% became addicted. It was their selling point for oxycontin and why many doctors prescribed them for minor pain. Do research before you call someone "odiotic".lol
@@SKYSAW59 you mean idiotic.. yes you are.. over 400,000 deaths are a direct result of prescribed drugs in US.. never mind the multitude of life limitations these prescriptions create..
Wrong. Abuse is abuse. Simple. Like i said MILLIONS saved from a miserable pain wracked existance. Open your eyes!. I take 10mg, 4x a day, and THATS IT! Im thankful and dont get silly with it.
And BTW.. for 30 yrs!
I started using oxies as a teenager for fun. Ended up a full blown heroin and fentanyl addict by 24. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I’ve been clean for five and a half years. Sobriety is beautiful.
@@alexfriedman2047 I never even set foot into an NA meeting for that very reason. They don’t consider you “clean” if you’re in maintenance, to which I say, fuck that!! I worked really fucking hard to stop using. I was lucky enough to know a group of older junkies who all told me not to get on the done, but get on the subbies instead because it has so many less side effects and now I still have all my teeth lol. Im from Sydney, Australia. We don’t have a serious epidemic here, and Heroin isn’t really the in thing. Instead, Sydney is filled to the brim with ice users (which I also used heavily in my late teens). Im seriously blessed to have been a junkie in Sydney (as weird as that sounds) we have some really helpful programs. They give out free fit boxes at the chemist. It’s this little black box with a few clean needles, a plastic spoon, cotton filters, sterile water and alcohol wipes. It’s even got a little compartment for storing used needles safely. We also have some good programs where you can go into this room and a nurse watches you while you inject yourself, or they inject you themselves the. They let you just sit around on some bean bags and chill in front of the tv (you can’t leave until you’re deemed somewhat sober though).
Do you guys have any programs like this where you’re from? Where abouts are you from? Do you have any family that can support you?
@@alexfriedman2047 Lean on your family for support - that’s what I did and that’s what family is for. I wouldn’t have gotten through without those beautiful people. You are not alone. All I can say is take care of yourself, realise that you *deserve* happiness, you *deserve* a life that isn’t filled with heartache and feeling sick all the time. I know that’s corny af, but it’s true. Oh, and it’s a reachable goal! You can be clean and sober, you have it in you - trust me! I never, ever thought I’d stop using drugs.
Please, take care of yourself out there.
@@alexfriedman2047 see, that’s like the opposite of what it’s like here, if someone was shooting up on the street, people wouldn’t have it - which I totally understand!! I wouldn’t want me niece and nephews to see that. It really fucking sucks that those folks have no where else to go, that’s the saddest part of it.
And loool yea, Aussies are pretty cool. We’re quite a laid back bunch - especially in comparison to Americans. Americans are much louder, like you all have the volume turned up to 100 (which I love about you guys).
To your point about men. This, I absolutely agree with. Men have it much harder than women in regards to friendships and relationships. Mostly because men aren’t socialised the same way women are. Women are socialised to be very have lots of friends and close relationships and be very social. Men aren’t socialised in this way, and it’s at a detriment to you all.
Ps. You’re not disgusting. You seem really lovely. If anyone says otherwise, I’ll fight them for you 😆
I apologize for the very long reply. Your story struck a nerve and I'd like to share my story and thoughts. Congratulations on five years of active recovery! It's a fight that yes, is one day at a time or even 15 minutes at a time. It's also a fight that heals and of self-discovery. Keep the fight going!
I also did Percocets in my teen years here and there for fun. I *loved* how oxycodone made me feel. It was like the perfect drug. Fast forward a few years and I was a full-blown IV opioid user. Oxy was the main offender, but also Dilaudid, Hydromorph Contin and morphine. Tack on my use of prescription amphetamines, benzos, MDMA and everything else "fun". My use was at the point where I'd have syringes ready to go for when I first woke up and had "The Sick" as I call it. I'd have loaded syringes marked with their dose on me so that I could boot up without having to prep. Scamming, stealing and scheming kept it all going. I needed two 80s and usually a 40 or a few 20s as boosters to get through the day. I'd often do 5-6 80s per day and I'd do 12-15 80s (plus both powder and crack cocaine) when on a binge. I used throughout undergrad, albeit not intravenously or nearly as intensely. Things went nuts in grad school. Oxy was easier to get than cannabis. It was *very* cheap at 35¢-50¢ per mg; cheaper if you knew crooked pharmacy staff, which we did. Oxy and other opioids were saturating the streets thanks to them being heavily prescribed due to my home city being single-industry industrial. That and very crooked doctors, good doctors becoming slingers for the money and a whole lot of doctor shopping with double or triple doctoring and no monitoring systems. It wasn't insanity like the South Florida pill mills, but still bad. Thankfully there's now a controlled med monitoring system and very strict new regulations for the doses and sizes of opioid prescriptions for non-malignant pain. Exceptions are only made in cases of very severe pain. The days of large prescriptions for controlled drugs are over. It's now 30 days and methadone is being used more often for chronic pain, but with . There are still pill slingers, some of which sell themselves as addictions physicians who also manage pain. Key word there is sell; they're in it for the money and know the loopholes. I've worked at a large addictions clinic and a couple of the doctors were candymen. It was sickening.
To the point, I was doing my MA with a pile of books in one arm and a needle in the other. I was also homeless for a nice chunk of its second year. Everyone except for me saw how bad I was. It all changed on the night of 16/10/2010. It was after a major binge. I was dopesick. I had no money for pills and was out of filters to "wash" for a filter shot. I got a sudden jolt to just come clean with it or I'll be dead within a month. I was medically detoxed because to the severity of the addiction. I was heavily abusing multiple drugs in addition to opioids. I was supposed to be put on methadone. I was put on Suboxone instead by the most incredible addictions doc you could ever imagine. He was compassionate, good humoured, very wise and an amazing storyteller whose stories always gave you new insight into what you were talking about.
Recovery isn't easy. It's a challenge that most couldn't even understand. You can't become complacent and say "I got this". I put a lot of work into my recovery and had a gifted counsellor. I was very lucky to have the care that I did. I'm in Canada, so the addictions doc was free to see, as were outpatient programs. My Suboxone prescriptions were covered by a provincial drug coverage program that you can join and only pay a manageable deductible every 3 months. It has its flaws, but it gets people essential meds. Methadone is also covered as are alcoholism meds. I never went to residential treatment or to a recovery home (they're different). I made my choice and chose to never return to that world.
I'm tapering off of Suboxone. I'm at 8 mg; down from 18-20 mg at its peak. I'm married to the most compassionate, understanding and caring woman one could ever have as a wife. I'm also an addictions worker by profession. It's my passion and I've been told that it's my calling. I've been told that I'm an "excellent" and "gifted" counsellor. I tune these overboard compliments out. I just do what I do. It's not for accolades, recognition or anything like that. I found myself in recovery and just want to give back. My clients and working to guide them in empowering themselves are my top priority. I've worked in detoxes, an addictions clinic, treatment programs, a hospital addiction medicine unit, peer support in the ER and different homeless services, including an emergency shelter for homeless youth. The clients whom I've worked with were mostly good people with major trauma and/or a mental health disorder. Only a very small few weren't good people. It's not about where I've worked; it's about giving a damn about those who've been forgotten and chucked aside. They're awesome people whose courage, resilience and tenacity are inspiring. So many of them were/are very bright, extremely creative and very caring. Despite our inner scars, many addicts are often still *very* caring people with big hearts and *SO* much to offer. I've had clients who were/are outright gifted. Their brilliance and intellect were exceptional. I'll never forget how one wrote in a beautiful and flawless cursive like you'd see in the 18th-19th centuries. It's all about giving back and bringing silver linings to dark places. It's also about learning from each other. I learn from every client. They have great insights, observations and knowledge. For me, paying it forward is an integral part of my recovery. That and it's just so damn enjoyable working with clients.
That's a very brief overview of where my recovery journey is. We each have our own recivery journies and there's no one size fits all in addiction and recovery. I want to congratulate you again for five years of recovery, wish you the very best in the years to come and that you continue to find yourself in your recovery.
To anyone reading these comments, recovery that's on your terms and in a way that works for you _is_ very possible. Stigma, guilting, blaming and shaming makes us suffer in silence. We get tired of being the scapegoat. People see the drug; not the human being being controlled by it. They don't see the many positive traits, abilities, talents and gifts that those with addictions have. Forget what others say and let them eat your dust as you progress in your recovery. If you get knocked down when recovering, keep recovering. If you have a slip or relapse, it's not the end. Self-reflect about it, learn from it and grow stronger. If they want to bring up your past to guilt, blame or shame, bring up your present and feel proud, not ashamed when you're telling them about your accomplishments. You have the resilience that all addicts have. This resilience will be a gift that keeps you fighting. Keep getting up and back on your bike when life throws you bumps in the road. Build that circle of supports who'll assist and guide you. Most of all, keep fighting. Don't listen to percentages saying how low the long-term success rate is. Keep fighting. Those percentages become a lot higher if you are actively recovering, choose to make change and when motivation to change come from within. Keep the fight going!
hitting bottom is scary for many but a must otherwise methadone just prolongs the agony...
I was 16 the first time I tried Oxy, my friends & I would snort them and then we'd listen to music and hang out. By age 21, I was a full blown addict. I remember celebrating Christmas in a homeless shelter when I was 23, shortly after I was arrested for Oxy and was placed on probation. Getting arrested was a blessing in disguise. I'm 15 years sober now, I have a career and believe it or not I own my own house. My Oxy addiction nearly took my life, I buried a few friends during that time and now I realize how lucky I am that I made it out alive. If you are struggling with addiction, there is hope, there is life on the other side. I had nothing to my name (well, arrest records!) in my 20s, and now I am sitting in MY OWN HOUSE in my 30s. Anything is possible.
Congratulations on your success. Thank you for sharing your story. Unfortunately, today’s kids are using pills even more often. “Perc 30” is glorified in popular music despite the fact that even the same musicians are dying from them.
Sorry but I don’t believe you. Your story just doesn’t ring true, much like many of these comments.
Weird thing to say, assuming you don't personally know any of these people. 🤔
@@Elena-ru2my My comment has nothing to do with anyone in this video, it's my personal experience with the drug they're referencing.
@@GoldenWave ohh sorry, no, my comment was meant to be a reply to @fifthbusiness1678
I've been on strong pain meds a few times (cesarean, dental work, toe surgeries) and I've always been super scared of those pills. I always took below the prescribed amount and only when the pain was too much to handle. I never finshed a full prescription bottle either. Reading these comments I feel lucky that I am able to have this level of control, maybe I just haven't felt pain like most people here, which is also very fortunate of me. To all of you battling pain and addiction, I wish you the very best, I hope you are able to win the fight.
Same! They were prescribed with my first cesarean. They scared me, the feeling you get, I thought I could get addicted if I kept taking them. I’ve had two more cesareans since and made sure I was only given over the counter pain meds.
@@Aaa17920 I absolutely understand. After my cesarean they had me on 1 percocet and 1 motrin 300 mg 4 times a day. Outrageous. I told the nurse I will call when I'm in pain, you don't need to bring it. I ended up taking 1 dose a day instead of 4. They sent me home with a prescription. One day I woke up and my baby wasn't in my room, my sister had him. She said he was crying and I wouldn't wake up, she was knocking on my door and nothing. So she just walked in, took the baby and let me sleep. I had taken the meds the night before, I was in pain and exhausted. Once my sister told me that, I felt horrible, what if she wasn't there? I never took those pills again, I was so terrified.
Same here, I had toe surgery as well and was prescribed OxyContin. I never even knew people could get addicted to this… I feel so stupid! I didn’t finish my full prescription either and still have 3/4 of the bottle full. They really didn’t have to give me that much medication… it’s like a superfluous amount, quite unnecessary.
Reading all these comments got me thinking how lucky I am and I pray to those still struggling with addiction to get the help they need and to have the strength to fight. 🤍 God bless
It's when they hand you a bottle with 180 Vicodin and say, "Just leave a message for your refill," that it gets you. They really bought into this "Pain is a symptom that must be treated," crap. It was 2004 when I started. I wasn't even 35. A friend I went to school with went to the same doctor. He overdosed about two years ago. I look back and think, "Who the hell would prescribe pain medication like that to someone who isn't even that old?" Sure, I had legitimate diagnosis, but still
@@mkp3824for people with chronic pain pain can be extremely developed potatoes but the doctors aren't supposed to give you unlimited amount of medicine they're supposed to give you enough to control but not render you incapable. They're supposed to see you on a reasonable basis throughout the year for the short time that you need the medicine if you're only have pain as a temporary issue.
Everyone 70mg
Mary is based
That's Mary Dell Chilton. She's in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work with genetically modified plants.
@@BrandinZinck That is very telling
@@BrandinZinck dope af.
That was in 1998. She’s taking a whole gram today.
These drugs ruined my life, family, and marriage. I've been clean for 4 years & 5 months now & have been accepted to grad school for Forensic Psychology.
Oh WOW congratulations!!
Please, may I ask..how old are you?
It takes a damn good amount of guts to go back older.
@@TEMUJINARTS I'm 49
@@psychshell4644 how did you get over the fact that everyone will be much other than you and you'll have alot of rust. Understanding that die to covid there are no classrooms lessons but there will be eventually.
@@TEMUJINARTS I'm not quite certain what you mean by your post. But I'm confident in my abilities. I'm set to graduate magnum cum laude
Congratulations! I hope you are very proud of yourself, Forensic Psychology is something I have always been so interested in. Keep doing what you are doing!
I have scoliosis and I went to a plethora of doctors in Houston to find a solution for back pain. All wanted me to submit to back surgery and fuse a rod to my spine and/or prescribed oxy to manage the pain. I did research on both and refused. I never understood why doctors were quick to give me opiates but I stuck to my guns. I finally found a doctor who told me about yoga. I started the practice and immediately saw improvement not just physically but also mentally. All I needed was exercise and stretching. Ten years later and my back isn’t perfect but I no longer deal with debilitating back pain. My trust in our healthcare system is almost non existent.
What a great doctor
@@wetfart420Yoga is an amazing practice. I’m glad you were able to stand your ground and try a more holistic approach. Wishing you the best!
Movement is medicine! So glad you found what worked for you
This!!! I have scoliosis, and my back has been KILLING me for years now. My doctor doesn't prescribe me anything for it, and all she says is "do physio", but it hasn't helped me. Sadly the only thing that takes the pain away atm is heroin... I haven't really felt the need to stop yet, because it is the only way I can actually get myself to function without being in constant pain. Unfortunately I also suffer from some insane depression, which makes it difficult to actually stick to working out, let alone get up off the couch.
I'd just love to be normal again.
It's good you're not so disabled that yoga is a possibility for you. Some people don't have that option.
My dad was/still is addicted. Everything they’re saying resonates so hard. It never stops. I’ve gotten a prescription for opiates twice after surgery and I can never take it more than once, makes me feel sick and anxious. I dunno how my dad does it. I don’t want it, ever again. But he can’t put it down and it destroyed his life so far, as well as mine and my mother’s. I honestly think this shit’s worse than heroine in the sense that it slips into your life so easily.
Yes, and there is less of a stigma as well. Manny people are ignorant and take the easiest way. Stay critical, seek joy, and try to develop as manny skills as you can and do creative work. Try to imagine your life and work towards.
@@tkosa7323and many are ignorant of the people that it helps that arent addicts and maintain themselves under care of physicians. But you know take that away and what you will get is more junkies and suicides and deaths from fentanyl cause people in terrible pain will look for something. But that's ok to many ignorant people. I bet the majority of these same dumb af selfish people are the ones that fell for the covid vax and mask tyranny too, despite all the evidence against it from the get go.
It’s pretty much heroin just not as pure or strong that’s why so many people do heroin they usually start with otc medication or something trendy like lean
@@__Aiden__I'm no chemist or Dr but I think oxycontin is more pure because it's made by Big pharma
Im detoxing from OxyContin right now. Wish me luck 💗
Good luck. I really hope you never go back. You're way too beautiful for it anyway.
How is it going so far?
Good luck! Stay strong you got this!
I'm with ya sister
Youre way to beautiful for it. Call me xoxoxo
Saddest part "since I've been on the pain medication I haven't missed a day of work, which my boss really appreciates"
Agreed. I was disgusted to hear this. Like commercial 'productivity' takes priority over human wellbeing.
@@BobC250 1984
Then gets fired. And doesn’t have health insurance.
Reject globalism. Reject capitalism. Reject socialism. This is where those lead.
@@ArgonNoble reject existence
11 years clean and sober from these pills! Yay! It was the absolute toughest thing I've ever gone through in my life.
I went through 15 months of hell until I finally felt right again.
As a little boy I watched my mom go from happy perfect mom to complete druggy burnout. Stay away from these, please.
sorry man, how did it start?
I understand, my mom and my dad.
that's awful
I'm so sorry you had to grow up with that. Its not right.
And also Marijuana, my uncle died from that stuff! He used to be normal, but then he turned gay and married a man. I cried alot, and we held a funeral for him.. he isn't physically dead but he died that day on his first smoke. I hate these substance. Illegalize all drugs. And give the drugs dealer death penalty especially pot, that stuff is worst then heroin
“People thought that he was drunk, or that he was high on something... They didn’t know that he was just on OxyContin.” Lol. He WAS high on something! So they were pretty spot on!
People is so fucking stupid
YHey Yusuf I yysdyitf
Was searching for this comment lol insane how utterly clueless some Americans are
@@traviscase415 Yup, and then you have people eating mcdonalds and chewing them Xanax and percs blaming you for smoking a plant
Soooo fuckin high lol
I remember several years ago I suffered from severe depression and mental disorder. I was addicted to illicit pills, alcohol, and smoking until I was recommended for psilocybin mushroom treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly I'm 8 years clean now. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against anxiety and depression.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in New Zealand. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I had the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on Instagram?
This video needs to be shared world wide
70mg? damn my boy johnny was zooted.
LMAO FACTS
*I FEEL GREAT*
Mary took 160mg a day 🤣🤦♂️🙈
One lady was taking 160 lmao
Zooted to the gills!
Don’t kill me here, but medical marijuana helped me kick oxy. I still suffer from chronic pain and while marijuana is nowhere near the pain reliever opiates are, I’ll never go back.
Im in the same boat, broke my back and had head injuries playing HS football, i was 16 and the doctors got me hooked. 7 years later, now after 9 some odd months off opioids and after suffering a mild traumatic brain injury, the marijuana is causing severe anxiety so i have switched to CBD weed, the THC levels are under 9%, and i cannot understate the effecivacy.
Oxycodone, oxycontin, illicit fentanyl in the form of pressed counterfeit 30mg pills, you name it. It was killing me, now that im off i am so much happier and even though i suffered a pretty bad had injury, im having a hard time with pain and anxiety, but there's no desire to go back to the pills.
I think that is a great alternative, too bad it competes with the guvment drugs
And it's still a class A drug smfh....it helped me also but ppl who are still addicted to big pharmas heroin don't want t hear it and neither does the industry. Imagine the money they'd lose if ppl realized they could cut them out and grow thier own medicine?
Stick to Indica stains of cannabis. A good ratio for me is 2 parts cbd to 1 part thc.
Was on tramadol for nearly two decades, quit cold turkey over a year ago with the help of medical cannabis.
As someone dealing with depression & overwhelm this video has been a reality check. My issues are mental, not physical. I can overcome. Thank you for sharing these insights. I wish everyone dealing with these or any challenges healing, peace & support.
I know exactly how they felt in the beginning it’s such a beautiful feeling and your outlook on life is just so beautiful and all the pain (physical and mental) just goes away. You feel so much more in control again, you get shit done. Everything seems perfect until it all crumbles… It’s like a beautiful relationship that makes you feel loved and happy but then it turns very very toxic.
>street cannabis
"thats bad its illegal"
>doctor prescribed, highly addictive drugs
"yes this good"
Marijuana OD’s : 0
Prescription OD’s : 15,000 a year
Government : “weed is the gateway drug it’s horrible it’s ruining young lives. Here take some Xanax”
Ana Paula weed is not terrible lol it’s literally a plant
@@yuuuhhhh707 so is crack
Rong Xin Foo so you can plant crack seeds & pick off crack buds & smoke it directly off the crack plant ? Interesting
It’s not terrible but stoner niggas will say weed doesn’t have (mental) withdrawals when they smoke every day and haven’t tried quitting a daily habit 😂
Oxycontin used to be my god... I've be 9 months clean , life feels like its gonna be longer now , lifes beautiful.
Great job
Awesome job man. You got this.
Nice man, as they say, once an addict, always an addict. The difference is now you have the self control to know what that stuff does. Stay clean brother
Cool story.
Fuck pills
I am absolutely impressed with the journalistic integrity and quality of this video. It is absolutely unbiased and fair, which is something I haven’t seen in journalism in a long time. Keep up the great reporting Milwaukee sentinel!!!
“They would think he’s drunk or high on something. They didn’t know he was just on a bunch of medicine.”
So, he was high?
I’m 25. Oxycontin destroyed my father & my fathers addiction destroyed my childhood. There are many many more like me.
Go long dinkleberg!! 🏈
Daddy Dinkleberg so sorry to hear. Addiction truly is a family disease.
didint have no childhood dont care tho, wish he would be oxy addict instead of alcoholic, atleast i could steal from him :)
Daddy Dinkleberg Same, but with my mother. I’m 21. She just overdosed last September. She was 38. The things I saw growing up and the way I lost her will affect me until I myself pass on one day.
Chandler LaSalle this sounds so terrible and it’s heartbreaking. I’m so so sorry.
So who’s brilliant idea was it to let a guy who falls asleep mid sentence drive a truck for a living?
Maybe he went behind their back
The same people who voted for him? covfefe?
It's called nodding off and it's an opiate side effect. Its what most junkies are after. This guy was nodding off so much he must have been fucking high as a kite 24/7.
It was your idea Einstein!
In America they call a ute/pick up/ a truck. What other countries refer to as a truck is a heavy vehicle used to tow large trailers. In America it is a light weight vehicle with a flat bed on the back
My husband is on pain management. He’s been taking Oxsee‘s for five years now without them he wouldn’t be a part of our lives. His pain is something we deal with every day.
Unfortunately using opiates long term will create opiate induced pain. They are not intended to be taken long term . They Best thing your husband can do for himself is get off that poison and find another way to deal with his pain.
Me too I don't use oxy so I have a different pain meds and without it I would be dead. Pain is so horrible. And now I have a new illness on top of all the other ones in pain is so horrible it's hard to walk and hard to move and hard to sleep and when you're not sleeping good it just makes everything more debilitating I am sorry people got addicted most of them State they misuse the medicine and it sounds like with some of them their doctors didn't monitor them. This hate unpaid medicine makes it so hard for people who really need it and don't abuse it
@@Kelly-qv3wgI have been on opioids on and off for years there's an entire year I stopped them and I was just using a TENS unit at no point did my pain ever a lesson. It was always the same. I had a doctor leave the office in the office kick me off my pain meds and no point even as I wean myself off the medicines myself because the doctor's office were dick bags did I ever have a listening of pain. It was always the same it was always debilitating and always affected my sleep and it always made everything much worse. Going off the pain meds didn't make any better opioid induced pain might exist but a lot of us with chronic pain don't experience that we just experienced pain that we need something to help us with. Most of us with chronic pain get enough medicine to help us but not to take away all the pain and we don't abuse our medicines. I personally have never been high on my pain meds give me something for gut spasms and or Benadryl that's a different story. Sudafed the first time I took it when I was like 10 my mom made me stay home from school cuz I told her I felt really weird and like I was sitting on a cloud that was upside down. The pain meds don't make me high except when I was in the hospital and they gave me Dilaudid it was 15 minutes 15 minutes that I felt euphoric and I did not like that feeling. After that it just relieved that horrible pain from pancreatitis which isn't my main issue I couldn't even take my pain meds while I was there because they weren't prescribing me properly so I just took whatever they gave me which was an IV for horrible pancreatitis that was affecting my liver and it took them two weeks to figure out what was my gallbladder that was the problem. I'm tired of the people assuming shit about others with chronic pain. I would wish I could dump my chronic pain on every fucking opioid hate comment in this group you would all fucking follow the ground crying and horrible pain begging somebody to stop it and nobody will stop it..
Once your pain starts moving from the original spot to all over your body, you're hooked. The medicine stimulates pain receptors, even when there's nothing wrong with it.
Sad how excited all of the folks are early on.
A lot of drugs, even antidepressants, seem wonderful and very helpful at the start. That wonder soon wears off....
No one is ever deficient in a pharmaceutical drug product
@@carolinaraeper the pill thing goes back a much longer way than the 90s.
Cuz they're high as fuck...
They're high in the interviews.
I was prescribed unlimited opiates when I was in a car accident as a teenager. My friend died in that crash, in my arms. The doc gave them to me because of a broken foot and he felt bad.
Five years later I was a full addict. Was popping 30 pills a day while drinking opium tea to wash it down.
Today, 15 years later, I am 3 years sober and just now dealing with the accident mentally. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Never be afraid to reach out for help! Im 7 months clean from heroin and fentanyl. Different introductions, but the addiction is the same man i wish all the best for you brother good luck on your recovery! You're not alone
Have seen a lot of addicts, never really felt pity for them until I started seeing pian clinics opening all across America (I was a trucker), started to see the adds for using opiates for pain treatment, set off a lot of red flags. Then we saw the people who were over prescribed getting cut off, they were told the pills they took were good for them, completely safe. People in pain will do almost anything to stop it, they trusted their doctors, their doctors should have known better. I have nothing but sympathy for those who were hooked on opiates because of this (still hate crack/meth) I am glad you got free, truly am
I am so sorry for the loss of your friend. The emotional pain must have been so hard for you. Drs prescribe for a variety of reasons, but Big Pharma is the pusher who knows what they are doing. I thank God for your recovery many blessings for your future. 💕🙏🏻
Good for you! Keep pushing, I can’t imagine the pain you’ve gone through down in your journey but knowing that you are in a better place is always good
Truly wishing you the best
I got an ad for a pain doctor on this video, nothing changes SMH
Thank you for this video
I'm impressed they used real patients instead of actors.
It was closed distribution to doctors, so the goal is to convince them it works by using real testimonials. Had it been a TV spot for the public, definably would have used actors.
"I just couldn't get out of bed. I had shattered 114 bones in my accident, now I am free....)" Proceeds to show woman riding a horse through rugged terrain... "Don't take Oxycotin if you are allergic and consult your doctor if you're nursing or taking other opioids for pain. Side effects may include....... (Lists 25 effects)".... up to and including death" proceeds to show woman riding bull in rodeo gear with voice over "I'm just glad with Oxycotin I can have somewhat of a normal functioning life, that I don't have to mask my symptoms and pain in front of my children which takes a lot out of me... There is now hope".
@@americancrimejournal spot on
@@americancrimejournal p.s. you will bleed from your rectum all day
I am sure that this is a case study for pharma advertising executives; lessons on what to avoid. If that were my job this would teach me to use real words and real testimonials from patients, but delivered by actors. The identity of the patients would, of course, remain confidential (perhaps even redacted from our records) to “protect their privacy.” The last thing you or your client wants is something this easy to turn into, “exhibit A, Your Honor,” should the medication you are pedaling turn out to be a disaster that ruins people’s lives.
@@JoseGranny i would definitely try kratom man look into it and also weed if you’re into it, i wish you the best of luck on everything my guy, please stay strong
“My boss really appreciates that”
Yeah, just do it for the job. What a sick society. Poor woman.
Yeah so fucked up that people have to work. Everyone should just sit at home and have a check mailed to them from the companies where no one works because they're all at home waiting on a check from the compan....wait a minute....
Ever consider people like to work?
@@tarisco614 quite the leap you took there bud, theres a diffrence between the arguement against "those damn lazy commies sitting at home, wish ben shapiro would be president" and "it sucks that were getting our citizens hooked on pharmaceutical heroin so they can work off those student loan debts while the people selling them the drugs sit in there multi billion dollar ivory tower shitting on us from the balcony"
@@bigwillymcgee5790 Ben shapiro is just as bad, if not worse than those types. He works to grind anyone outside of a tiny percentage into dust to enrich a time group.
@@tarisco614 i was making fun of the outdated nixon era anticommie nonsense your spewing
I was one of the fortunate. After a wrist surgery, I was prescribed that awful medication. I took it for two weeks, and it really helped. After the pain went away, I threw out the pills, knowing that they were highly addictive. That was a mistake as I should have weaned myself off the medication. For about a week I thought I was going to jump out of my skin. Thank God that was the extent of my withdrawal symptoms. This was during the time Rush Limbaugh had his issues.
I had a friend addicted to Hillbilly Heroin (OxyContin) she was never in pain to begin with , but she turned psycho and screamed when she couldn’t find any , just like these people. So sad.
😭😭
This drug killed my father when I was six years old. I'm 32 now, and I've missed him for my entire life.
That's heartbreaking. I lost my dad to cancer when I was 8 (he was 39). I'm now just a little older than he was when he died. It's a really strange feeling.
I'm here because I've lost a few family members to drugs. It's indescribable to watch somebody you love self-destruct. I'm truly sorry for your loss. 💔
Just lost my dad 2 days before Christmas. 😔
@@jaradfurr27 I'm so sorry for your loss. Look after yourself. 💔
And that os why I quit.
I can relate. Sorry to hear this I hope u are healing. Personally after 22 yrs im still trying to heal from my father being taken from this awful shit.
My wife is disabled with CMT which has no treatment other than pain management and I watched these narcotics slowly kill her until she started turning jaundice and couldn't take watching it anymore. We sold everything we owned, bought a motorhome, left Ohio and started heading to California, on the way Colorado made Marijuana legal. We arrived in CO 7 years ago, my wife has been narcotic free since we arrived using THC and CBD heavy cannabis products for pain relief and neuropathy. Her liver started healing itself and her health has improved dramatically. It saved her life.
I’m asking out of curiosity. I suffer from MS and I do have neuropathy nerve pain as well. I take lyrica but I hear others take gabapentin which helps nerve pain. I know they’re anticonvulsants. Was your wife ever put on something like that to help manage pain?
@@allieuncharted yes, I believe Lyrica was the one that gave her extremely bad vertigo, which lead immediately to her falling and hurting herself, falling is specifically the most dangerous part of her condition right now as she has very pronounced drop foot, and the progressive decline in muscle mass due to the atrophy (she is so weak that she cannot carry a gallon of milk from the back of the store) caused by the nerve death means she is almost all skin and bones with nothing to cushion a fall. She fell 2-3 years back and she fractured a hip a her knee was dislocated (her muscles wouldn't hold the kneecap in place at first). So, yeah tried that. She was in a State monitored "Pain Management" program, tried all kinds of stuff, end result was multiple surgeries and before we bailed on Ohio she was prescribed M-Contin 40mg 2 per day, every 12 hours, and Vicodin HP 6x a day every 4 hours. They changed to Norco's right before we bailed because she was turning yellow, same strength less Ibuprofen? After I went to the ER the second time to have them administer an enema from hell because her digestive system shut down again, I felt I had no choice. Watch her die or try something else, so we sold everything we had, and took the long way to Colorado. Side note, she went through horrendous withdrawls in North Carolina, three day awake, crying in pain. Long story short, I laid my hands on some weed called Girl Scout Cookies in North Carolina, she took three hits off of a pipe, by the time she exhaled her third hit her pain was gone. We haven't looked back. I actually got my budtenders license last month and I hope to be spreading the good word soon.
I wonder if the last woman with crippling RA is aware of medicinal cannabis
420 blaze it bro glad to hear it
I hear more stories about weed helping people than I ever have about any pill you can think of except antibiotics. And yet weed still has all these stipulations. Pot heads in prison longer than pedophiles. It disgusts me to no end that we can't take care of ourselves without breaking laws.
Very balanced information thank you
I always come back and reference this video ……I am 33 and been addicted to pain killers through out the late 2000s and 2010s and I felt as good as patient ones first interview …..in the beginning …it wasn’t long ….
What’s sad about Oxy is it makes you feel like you’re always being hugged, a warm sensation fills your body. I could imagine people with childhood trauma, anxiety and stress could be easily addicted... so sad 😞
That's what sucked me in...clean from it a little over 18 months now
@@dealwithit3603 proud of you man. Keep pushing. 🙌🏽
@@billabongah hey thankyou sincerely for taking the time to say a few kind words
You just described my and many people I know experience. Very accurately.
Feel like your being hugged? Nah...I don't feel that. Relief and energy. Not euphoria. It's nice to sleep a few hours because your not waking up from pain. Getting up the steps is great too.
As someone who's broken half the bones in my body, lost a limb, fingers & been through heroin withdrawal, I'd gladly break the rest of my bones rather than go through withdrawal again. It is the most excruciating pain I've ever felt. So when someone in your life is going through withdrawal, please understand that they are in the worst pain, even though they very likely caused this to themselves, what's done is done & please be understanding that it's not easy.
From one recovering addict to another, thank you for that. 👊🏼❤️
Absolutely true. I was on oxy for several years, slowly creeping up in dosage and then it just wasn’t helping the pain. I did get the nice warm high for a little while but depression set in and I had to go cold Turkey. It was the worst hell one can imagine. I ended up back on various different opioid pain meds and now at 70 my new doctor is pretty much forcing me to go on suboxone. I hope to god that the pain from my degenerative discs and my muscle pain and stiffness are helped. I m concerned about the period during the transfer from dilaudid to buprenorphine. Scared to pieces.
Yes I’m 7 years sober and I absolutely agree with this comment, thank you.
From another addict from australia good work brothers stay strong 💪! Was on heroin for 10 years then Methadone for 5 years on 200ml now I am at 40ml going down 2 ml every week agreed with the top comment I’ve broken bones Ild rather break every god damn bone in my body and be bed written for a year then learn to walk properly, rather than go threw methadone/heroin/ xanax wd! Top comment everyone should read and understand it’s not as easy as stop taking medication it just doesn’t work like that! When I reach 30ml I’m going on a injectable bupe so I don’t have to go to the chemist everyday for done and Benzos they inject it in your stomach every month and you slowly go down not their yet but I’ll get their I haven’t picked up a needle for 5 years which my family is so proud for me
@@bobobrien8968 I know we’re your comeing from bro I got to stop methadone til it’s fully out of my system bout 2 days then I’ll be on a injectable bupe don’t worry your not alone! I’m sceard that it’s not gana work aswell seems I’m used to the methadone
I was sixteen when I was prescribed oxy, after a bad car accident.
I took them for a couple days then stopped, it felt like it took the life out of me.
I'm praying for those who still take it..
my dads best friend since childhood was prescribed painkillers back then and he struggled with addiction ever since, he passed away in our basement to an accidental overdose that caused a heart attack or at least that's what i feel like the coroner said to make the blow of the loss not as bad. i literally remember him telling me the night before he was in so much pain and that in the morning if it hadnt gotten better he would go to the hospital. a shame he never made it to the morning.
I was amazed at the one woman getting clean... but tbh I was even more amazed at the other lady taking 160mg a day starting out, and STILL being alive in 2012, that's fuckin nuts man, wowowowow
This drug stole 15 years of my life! At first you think it’s the best thing ever until you realize how addicted you are to it. No one can understand withdraw unless you’ve actually gone through it yourself. Anyone who wins the battle over a prescription meds is a hero.
Thank you
I’m a hero, for getting myself off the hell of antidepressant addiction
What’s really sad is people like y’all make something nature as this seem taboo and dangerous. Y’all fuck it up for the ones who won’t abuse it
@@richardmoores I started antidepressants two weeks ago and this scared me ..So zoldoft have withdrawal symptoms?
They don't understand but hastily judge.
Makes you think twice about any "testimonials" you might see today
Opened my third eye bruh
I always tell people, stay in pain because you will be in a world of pain if you take pain meds
@@JoeKyser stay in T pain because you'll be in a world of T pain if you take T pain meds
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my father was prescribed with oxys, he lived a traumatizing childhood where he was kidnapped on a boat for 7 years, he was taken away from his mother, and he had a crazy father. all the physical stuff caught up to him later in life and he was taking opiates like crazy. luckily he stopped but he still has mental issues from it like insomnia where he needs even more drugs to fall asleep. i hope all addicts from this epidemic can find a way out of it, and may the ones lost to it rest in peace.
I went on this med about a year ago for an adult tonsillectomy, it absolutely helped for the few weeks I recovered along with Tylenol and ibuprofen, if I had missed a dose of any of those meds it was a nightmare, when the time came i weened myself off and I did experience some withdrawal symptoms but I was alright, I could never imagine getting addicted to that medication because it also gave me foggy mindedness and ear ringing.
The first guy shouldn't have been allowed to drive if he's falling asleep mid sentence daily
That's an awful act indeed.
Allowed? Who would have stopped him? Ya know
He wasn't falling asleep. Homeboy was nodding tf out.
Jewji semantics 🚨
Josh Bowman medical records such as your conditions and medication are on file at the DMV.
They call it “medicine” because it’s thru a pharmacy but make no mistake, having been addicted myself for 14 years now, it’s just dope
I was partying pretty hardcore back then, tried it, and said absolutely no way I’m taking that again. I was a kid, but I’d been around the block twice by then. Knew it was too good to be true, but kids see a manufactured pill and have no frame of reference for its high. That idea is so legit and irrefutable, and that company knew that for sure. I knew instantly. That company was evil folk, with what they did to our kids. It shoulda been under the biggest lock and key a drug can have, instead they flooded the country with it.
So is weed. Theyre all drugs/medicine
Michael Huffman it’s no excuse but in the late 80s they were literally threatening to strip doctors of their licenses for UNDERprescribing pain meds to their patients. Thats what started this mess.
@@finchrollah8656 you're an absolute idiot
It's not ”dope” for people with actual physical causes of the pain. I had bone cancer, and I can promise if I wasn't able to have my pain at least partially controlled I would have shot myself years ago.
I only control my pain to the point that I'm not crying or cutting myself elsewhere with a knife to distract myself from the bone tumors. I am allowed to safely take three pills a day. I usually take one, maybe one and a half because I am careful about becoming addicted.
This drug ruined my dad's life in the mid 90s when he was hospitalized for a back injury, and our entire family in the wake of it, mom and two kids, from then on. Even now after my dad's too early death from drug addiction, the three of us left are still affected by it.
It takes strong family members not to be pulled down by the impacts of this. I’ve seen it happen to a family member of mine. A common thread with all of these people is that they had at least one supportive person in their life and they all seem like very nice people.
"People think he was drunk or high on something. They didn't know he was on medicine." This is how uneducated people are about prescription drugs. He WAS high on drugs.
Just because the doctor gave you it doesn't mean it's any less harmful than illicit drugs.
@Rumpel Felt exactly. They should all be legal and people should be expected to do their own research before using them instead of big daddy government deciding
But is ironic pain an alternative?
First guy: “I had to put his socks and shoes for him and shave his face, then I give him his truck keys and off he goes.”
But it is true because it has like a rollercoaster effect on people
Just what I was thinking !
Nodding out
Funny but true.
😂😂 didn't look at it that way😂😂
Good Ira, you have done it, Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
Mary working high af off 160 mg a day lmao
Still poppin till this day, she an OG
The first guy was on 70mg a day and says he can enjoy himself.....well hell yeah, he was high AF so of course he enjoyed himself.
right? then he drove under the influence, we should sue him.
That one lady was on 120 mg a day, you know she was higher than fuck and walking on clouds
Right
I have chronic lower back pain, I'm on 90mg per day. 6 in the morning, 3 in the afternoon. I take just enough where I can actually bare the pain, I never feel euphoric nor high. But I know, if I dont get my back fixed, I'll continuously need more. What sounds like alot to some, is very little to others. I've just had ALIF spinal fusion back surgery 3 weeks ago and dont think my problem was solved since my pain is worse than it ever was. I hope I can have my back fixed and eliminate the pain therefore no longer needing pain meds at all. Trust me please, when someone is in pain, they really need it. So let's all pray for each other.
U gain a tolerance real quick
My mom underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2003, a year before I was born. To manage post-surgery pain, doctors prescribed her heavy- and I mean HEAVY amounts of OxyContin. She became extremely addicted. Started taking all sorts of drugs when she couldn't get enough Oxy. My Dad eventually pieced everything together but by then it was too late and she began to suffer mass organ failure. I don't remember her voice. I only know what she looks like because of old pictures. They took my mom away from me when I was three years old. She died in 2008.
And after 14 years of waiting. Finally. 14 years of trials, court hearings and systems and bureaucracy and bullshit, we finally got that man's medical license. And that's all we'll get. A license for a mother, a life, a family and a future.
I’m so sorry.
Sorry for your loss.
My heart goes out to you and your family. As is with most of these cases, we the patient were given these things to help. Not hinder. And certainly none of us took it knowing that after a week of use we were addicted. So cruel.
The sad part is the doc probably didn't know any better. Big pharma is notorious for lying to doctors about products.
Wow. Your last sentence really hit. He got your mother, you got his license & that’s all you’ll get. It’s truly unbelievable
I really feel torn about these. I have Crohn's disease and used opiates for five years for pain and the slowing of my intestines. It really worked. I never increased the dosage. When the problems with them started to be widely known, my doctor like so many others, discontinued prescribing them.
I had zero withdrawal symptoms. My Crohn's flared and has become the huge problem it was before I took the opiates. I had five good and productive years and my guts did not hold me back from enjoying life. I have no quality of life now. My intestines are worse than before. I wish I could resume my old regimen but my doctor is afraid of being investigated and therefore won't prescribe them. He sympathizes with my situation and knows that I never abused them.
Maybe seek out a palliative care team or a pain management clinic.
It may be worth a try. I hope you can get your quality of life back. Good luck to you.
I hope people listen to that last lady. Some people do take their medication responsibly with no problems. Just remember that the next time you hear people trying to shut down their production because they had a problem. Your experience is not everyone else's experience.
For that woman, losing her insurance saved her life. I had a similar situation, I lost my insurance and went through horrible life threatening pharmaceutical withdrawals. But when you come out the other side you realize the alternative of being addicted and wasting away was worse.
Depends on the situation but yeah, I mostly agree with you.
Not everyone makes it out alive.
A blessing in disguise. I'm happy for you!
@@kimjackels-barbella5009 Well yeah, hence “life-threatening withdrawals” lol
For a lot of people running out of pills is when they make the jump to hard drugs
Selling marijuana?
-Off to jail with you
Selling pain medication that literally ruins peoples lives?
-Wish you the best!
Weed can’t ruin someone’s life? But I get your point.
@Cooper Steven sugar is a drug
The government still sells legal cancer and says plants that help with cancer pain should be illegal.
I literally have 0 faith in the education/honesty of anyone in power based on that alone.
@@jackb8598 I smoke regularly, but I think saying smoking pot will LITERALLY make you a better person is pretty ridiculous..
@@jackb8598 I don’t think any drug will make you a genuinely better person other than psychedelics.
I feel bad for Lauren. Im a bit of a junkie, I've went through opioid withdrawal but i got myself in that situation. It was the most horrible thing ive ever gone through. I couldn't imagine having that put onto you with it being no fault of your own.
Happened to me 150 mg pregablin 600 mg failed spinal surgery.spoke to GP about concerns cut off cold turkey begged for help laughed at by docs after 9 days tried to take my own life.wether medical or used recreational people addiction/dependence suffer
It's a balanced report, well done. It shows how many became drug addicts but it also shows that if this painkiller is provided to those that really need it, it greatly increases their quality of live. These painkillers should be strictly regulated in order to minimize abuse.
ASK THEM NOW HOW THEY FEEL !...THE STUFF IS POSION
So many of our lawmakers are okay giving people a highly addictive form of heroin, but not marijuana. I literally hate our system. I feel horrible for these people and wish their families the best.
Don't even use their propaganda word Marijuana. Cannabis and the contained Endocannabinoids are extremely healthy
i got in trouble for smoking weed at 15/16 years old, but around that same time i was hospitalized for stomach issues and EVERYONE was fine w me being given morphine and oxy ??
just move to a legal state then.
@@jennaperco8947 Smoking while your brain is developing will cause permanent damage, this is an indisputable fact. Memory issues and brain development issues are the main problems with weed.
@@ReeferSmoker I mean you have to always keep in mind that every substance, legal or not, affects everyone differently. Furthermore, almost everything we do is associated with some degree of risk. If you cannot accept the risks you don't partake, it is that simple. Many people use THC products as a form of harm reduction, they have also been shown to help reduce seizures and chronic pain. Recreationally, weed is no worse for you than alcohol. Everything in moderation. I also highly doubt that everyone who smoked some weed as a teenager has significant memory issues.
The fact this drug was marketed as non addictive for years even though they WERE FULLY aware of what was unfolding is absolutely CRIMINAL! I'm so happy they've been held accountable for what they did. 😢
What are you talking about? They were not held accountable. The sackler family profited billions of the slaughtering of countless and not a single one of those involved in the scandal sat a minute in prison. They are billionaires living the good life.
Some kid in the inner city will get the death penalty for a gang shooting, but these demons kill in the hundreds of thousands and walk free. Accountability my ass.
Hahaha Accountable? None of the multibillionaire genocidal drug peddling zionist-apartheid funding Saccler family is in jail…. Purdue Pharma who Fraudulently Created the non addictive myth and peddled the drug which is owned by the Sackler family Was forced to pay a token billion dollar settlement which was basically a tax credit and continue to make outrageous amounts of money off of the drug and other drugs like it.. better believe a minority kid with a couple of diverted pills would do 20 years in jail but never the white Zionist billionaire who killed hundreds of thousands of Americans made millions addicts and made and continues to make billions WILL EVER DO A SECOND IN JAIL!
No one will go to jail
@@julianshepherd2038 Oh I know no one will go to jail. that is my point. this lady says she is so happy they were held accountable. I say no one was held accountable.
@@SludgeMan90 yah I suppose you're right on the jail side of things... I am happy they've had to dish out hundreds of millions to victims though. At least it's some sort of punishment..
I had foot surgery in 2002 and they gave me months worth of pain medication. I was having panic attacks daily at the time but was only 19 and didn’t know they were panic attacks. The pills made the panic go away. From that day on I self medicated myself and became a heroin and opiate addict for 20 years. I have one year in recovery right now. It’s my first time in twenty years having an actual year clean. It’s sad that the lady in this video that was scared of losing her meds probably did end up having to go to a methadone clinic or something.
you are awesome, Jess!
@@DustinMercer aww thank you! That was 7 months ago! I have over a year and a half clean now. Still fighting the good fight ❤️
@@jessrowe1 😇
My Dad is able to function for the past 30 years because of Oxys. Broken back, irreparable. Im sorry for these people that have fallen victim to it - but its been life saving for our family.
Yeah but folks don’t wanna hear the success stories, only the horror! I honestly think we need more stories like your dads and how to be responsible with the meds and what success looks like so people don’t get unrealistic ideas about what the opioids are going to do, like any treatment there is a efficiency zone, go outside that zone and bad things happen, same with chemotherapy, im glad your father has found that zone and has a good doctor to help him stay there!
I was on it for three years for rheumatoid arthritis, until they took it from me. I was getting like thirty 5mg pills every two months. So no abuse! I was a pharmacy tech, so I was familiar. I've actually tried drugs since they took me off. Because the pain is basically unbearable most days. So I wish they wouldn't use addicts as the measurement for this. SMH.
@@chasemcintyre6806Because the addiction rate is so high and it destroys familes. Most people can't handle being high like that and coming back to reality line those two women in the video did. They chase the high instead of focusing on the relief
I have been living with a severely broken ankle for 2 years. I use crutches to walk.I am waiting for surgery. I cannot get anything stronger than Advil because of the addicts. The pain is unbearable most days
Me too
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How'd I get here? Why's this in my recommended?
So true. I was watching a cute animal video and now I'm depressed AF
@@MonsieurLeScoob Awww, go watch more of them. :c
So glad it's not just me😒
Hahaha yeah same, couldn’t resist checking it out 😂🤣🤦
Thats what I was thinking 🤔
This video reminds me of my father. Too many lives taken wether dead or not. :(
I was on several different strong meds for pain from 2007 - 2020. One day my body shut down and I took that as a sign to STOP 🛑 and was given a second chance at life in 2019. Now I am 3 almost 4 years sober with a few slip ups in the past BUT I have been clean with NO slips for a Year. You couldn’t pay me millions to ever ever get back on this stuff.
The only reason I say 2020 is because I got clean closer to 2020. December 2019
What happen to ur body . And how many u took a day
My wife Leanne started on it in 2009. That was the beginning of the end.
By 2012 her condition had worsened to the point where she was incoherent from drug abuse most of the time. She passed in 2015 at the age of 47.
God rest her soul.
I'm so sorry:(
I am so sorry for her suffering and for your loss, brother.
May she RIP
Hang tough Boris, may god rest her soul and watch over you in these scary times
Sorry to hear that.
I'm so sorry, I lost my sister in 2010 to her addiction to OXY and heroin. She was 47. I watched "Dopesick" and the way Purdue pushed this on patients for money is infuriating. They lied and manipulated the data. They are not the only Big Pharma that does this. It's still going on today, be very careful and listen to your body when getting put on any new medication. Herbs are much better and most medicine is derived from the herbal form. I was able to get off my blood pressure medication. I'm in the process of getting off all of my other medications.
"people would think he was high on something but they didn't know it was medicine" you mean high on something?
I think she just meant it wasn't street drugs, it was a prescription given to them by a doctor.
It safe to say he was fucking high as hell
@@mikeprima7555 lmao
Depends how much pain he was in. If you're in enough, you can get the clouded effects but won't get high. I have a collagen disorder, and the amount of opioid I would need to get high is far from above the lethal dose.
Will.J Yeah, it’s just that medicine is seen as something for treatment and not for pure pleasure. It starts out as something to return back to normal, until it takes you over and the ups and downs are so catastrophically different that you can no longer imagine normalcy ever returning.
I'm dying from lung cancer. I take 30mg morning. 15 mg at night and a few 5 mg breakthroughs through out the day. Without this drug I couldn't handle the pain I'm in. Never took pills before this. 😢.
meanwhile there’s tons of chronically ill people who need pain relief… i’m glad this showed a few of those cases where people stayed stable on the medication. these drugs can be life saving or life ending-but i think that can be said for a LOT of drugs (like ADHD meds, depression meds, etc)
“People thought he was high, they just didn’t know he was taking too much medicine” - lmao that’s called being high hunny
That’s the problem right there, there are still so many people, even in this country that don’t understand that the pharmaceutical industry is the largest drug cartel in the world.
@@Bubbles44 fucking A
Lmfao
Ever see those signs on the highway? “Driving while on pills is still intoxicated driving” people legit do not know, particularly older folks
@@squirtle53 wow really? I live in Baltimore Maryland. Heroin capital! And we dont have any driving while on pill signs at all! Everybody just knods out in middle of the street here. Shits sad most of them started from prescriptions. Then drs cut them off. Shits fd up
"If your patient starts to present withdrawal symptoms, that's just pain manifesting in a new way.
Our advice? Up their dosage."
That's actually what Purdue told doctors.
@Ethernaut opioid withdrawal syndrome is painful but it sure is a lot more than just chronic pain.
It doesn't matter.
They got away with it.
Wanna bet a former Purdue higher-up works for Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson and Johnson?
Purdue needs to be sued
@Ethernaut well withdrawals are not identical to chronic pain at all. Withdrawals are identical to the flu. I mean yes the pain comes back ON TOP of the flu (withdrawals are chills, abdominal pain, diarrhea, runny nose, hot flashes, sweats , in severe cases vomiting, etc). So its really not self evident there is a huge difference between back pain, or pain concentrated somewhere in the body and withdrawal symptoms from opioids. Someone talking to a doctor in full withdrawal will show they are obviously withdrawing and know that that is the problem and be able to decipher one from the other. I mean you go to a doctor soaking wet and shivering and they will know pretty quick your in withdrawal.
@@stanzaschulz4339 Withdrawal can cause physical pain too. Like if someone somehow got addicted for awhile without ever having any kind of chronic pain before or that developed during the addiction, pain is a symptom withdrawal could give them. It's not just identical to the flu. There are flu-like symptoms sure, but it's not identical at ALL.
I remember seeing some of these commercials on my aunts tv at night as a kid
I think it depends upon the person and the circumstance. There are absolutely people out there who benefit from the medication, if not suddenly discontinued and replaced.
Hats off to the UA-cam algorithm. We need more videos &/or articles that discredit the reputation of big pharma
However we also need to understand that that homeopathic industry is just anotha face of big pharma
@No One ehhh. Theres natural medicines to just about every natural dis-ease.
@No One Depends what type of chronic pain. Not to sound cliche, but cannabis has a profound positive effect on chronic pain, which is MUCH safer than any pharmaceutical
@No One I completly agree that cannabis isn't as strong as opium. However, it has MUCH less negative effects. Tbh, I agree that things such as opium should be used for things like debilitating pain or surgery, however I just think pharmaceuticals are just way way overused and we over rely on them. They should be used as last resorts because of the detriments they come with.
Most dis-ease can be solved by properly looking after your health (physical mental social), and just a side note, smoking cannabis is not the most effective way to relieve pain or get its medical properties, you should actually buy concentrated CBD oil for that 👍🏿
Have you ever looked in to what companies own shares of the big pharma companies.. your favorite barrage brand might be behind it.
My father died of an overdose about ten years ago. He was given narcotics after a car accident which led to a deepening dependence on narcotics and other illicit drugs to help with the pain. I miss him every day.
I'm terribly sorry for your loss. Wishing you all the absolute best :)
So sorry for your loss. I lost my mom and dad, so I can sympathize with that feeling of loss and how time makes it worse sometimes in that you miss them so much.
GOOD CBD WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT CHOICE.
Sorry 😣.
so terrible. I've noticed Britain seems to give out hard narcotics like candy-- even to young children-- when in car accidents. I was absolutely revolted when I saw it at first; the dude had a fractured leg and they gave him fentanyl. Another one, a child (around 9) had a broken arm and they again, gave him fentanyl.
This is actually fine if you do it as in-patient treatment and dont give the patient any to take home.
I was prescribed oxys in 2013 for a kidney stone. The first time I took one of those pills, I immediately understood how people could get so hopelessly addicted. Luckily my rX ran out before I could get completely addicted, and thank god it did.
I have a coworker who told me that oxy ruined his whole community 😢 such a sad thing they brought onto this world