Why America's Opioid Epidemic Won't Get Better
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2017
- The opioid epidemic in the country isn’t going to get any better. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you why not. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT: goo.gl/v8E64M
“The White House Office of Management and Budget was not aware of a policy change last year that severely tied the hands of drug enforcement officers going after suspicious sales of prescription painkillers, according to an investigation by The Post and “60 Minutes.” These are the same drugs that have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the country over the past decade.
And why would OMB need to know? Nobody in Congress objected when it voted to approve the legislation last year that would make the change, which made it virtually impossible for the Drug Enforcement Administration to freeze narcotics shipments by requiring the agency to prove “imminent danger.” It slipped by - considered “uncontroversial.”
The Justice Department and the DEA didn’t object to the legislation either. Nor did top drug-policy officials at the White House when they handed it to President Barack Obama to sign.”
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Hey I'm a recovering addict sober 11 years and I had to take responsibility for my own actions and I can't blame a drug company for popping pills & taking more than I should. No company is holding a gun to anyone saying abuse your pain meds. What happened to taking accountability for your actions! SMH
Casandra Bullock, easier said than done.
Joe Simon True, easier said than done, but lots of things in life that are difficult, should be done and can be done, despite being difficult.
Casandra Bullock nobody wakes up and says that they want to be a drug addict. How easy you forget.
Joe Simon people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Ppl I know start off with injury, have to still work, so prescribed pain meds temporarily. Then get cut off meds by drs, still in pain. The pain will also seem worse cause it's been masked by pain meds. So they go to the streets looking for pain pills, REAL EXPENSIVE street value, then they learn heroin is pretty much the same thing and it's cheaper. Then you have ppl lacing heroin with fehntenol, killing ppl. You have ppl on yt bragging they lace this heroin on purpose to kill a certain group of ppl.
So the worst dangerous drug dealers on earth are big pharma corporatists, relaxing on their yachts while small-time weed dealers get 10-20. America!
LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS. Stop the drug war.
Lol...and weed still can't get off the list of schedule 1 drugs. Jesus Christ.
War on drugs moves to the gated communities?
nah...money still talks no matter what the issue...the law stops at the gate
As long as wealthy people are making billions of dollars. Nothing will get done.
remember a time where they told you marijuana would get you hooked on Heroin.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Hentie Dj Marijuana helped me get off of heroin *and* lexapro.
MAKE OPIUM GREAT AGAIN!!!
There's no way to legislate the drug problem out of existence. America has gone past the point of no return.
We need to break the Medical Industrial Complex. Monetizing human suffering is not free market capitalism: it's inhumane. SICK!
Edward Maxwell its for their pocket
I can tell you exactly why!! I'm a bail agent, and the Country makes to much money on addiction...period!!
This is what happens when private corporations are allowed to purchase our government.
lyni50 The corruption is so entrenched, if anyone doesn't know that the U.S. government is in the drug business, who else has a "drug czar?"
The mob.
Mexican Cartels wish they could be as badass as the American Cartels.
What go's around comes around 😂 MAGA that!
I'm sorry guy I became disabled on 2016 whit nerves damage n bulges disc disease n I need those pill for my crazy pain 3 time a day I fallow my doctor instruction I don't abuse those drugs but know choice guys only people that don't have chronic pain talk about opioid yall dont know the pain is crazy is not regular pain I walk up whit a Walker n I could only walk so much a few block is suck living like this n I have to take this oxicode i hate it i never use drug now i have to use drugs so I could feel good n walk around lost my job I had for 21 years I sure miss working anyway only people that don't have this crazy pain do this video about opioid addiction but there real people that are sick I walk up like that when I was going to work is crazy now is worse if I don't take them I'm a waking dead anyway love yall guys God bless yall always watch your show oh n I'm young 43 that crazy living like this can't run walk fast no joke take care guys
Making America Great Again,.... yippee
We don't have an opioid addiction epidemic. We have an opioid dependency epidemic. Instead of taking medications away from people with chronic pain, the medical establishment should focus on relieving their pain. My roommate has severe chronic pain and takes opioids to get through the day. Without opioids he sometimes can't even get out of bed.
Also as a trans person the pre Trump era was much better. I was considered a person then.
Yeah, that's the danger, if you've got a medical condition that needs opioid strength pain killers you don't want to have a situation where you're out or almost out of pills and have to wait an extra day to get your pills. I can sympathize a bit, I've got a chronic sinus infection and have sometimes been inconvenienced by laws restricting the sale of sinus expectorants because they can be used to cook meth.
And yeah, there's a lot of complaints that can be leveled against the Democrats and the system in general, but they're way better than the Republicans. And part of it is there are a lot of different priorities that the democrats have. I wasn't that happy about Obama's focus on trans rights because it wasn't that high on my priority list (I thought he should have focused more on the environment, not that it would matter now if he had), but other people really benefited so I hope those protections can become a lasting thing in the long term.
The US system is so broken.
It’s been broken a long time
Let's not forget that the USA has occupied the opium production center of the world for over a decade. There is a direct link between the opioid epidemic and the Afghanistan occupation.
I'm going to make millions! I sell guns that shoot opioids. It's a win win situation!
he is as stupid, as his picture
lol, instead of draining the swamp. I think Trump is making a bigger swamp
Ken Chang He's turned into a cesspool.
cant wait for Narcos season 5 where pharmaceutical companies are the new kingpins.
I just did a reaction/review video on my UA-cam channel about this episode. It's absolutely disgusting. As an opioid addict in recovery who was primarily addicted to opioids and almost dying, it blows my mind knowing more information about how the government didn't stop this epidemic from going out of control. Everyone wants to blame addicts, criminalize addicts and demonize addicts, but the government had no problem creating these addicts, and now they can't get the help they need.
Aww... Poor rich people.
It came from Afghanistan, the US military bought it in...yee haw!!!!
No, they're synthetic.
We don't need a War on Drugs we need a war on government cuz something needs to change.
Hentie Dj I think you mean a War on Corporations. They're the ones who are making our lives worse.
What happened to the high iq?
black mustard I know
The high IQ Gods has forsaken them
Time to crank up the prison industrial complex Caucasian it's your turn.
Lorenzo Williams 😂😂😂 turnabout is fair play, so they say!
If you follow the money, you can see how we ended up with this public health crisis. A certain percentage of the population is presupposed to addiction and if you prescribe to the masses without warning, you end up wth addicts who will need their pills or when they move to street drugs, we have a pill to help you fight addiction!
Point blank, make lobbying and lobbyist illegal...
Leelo James Bernie “get money out of politics” Sanders 2020.
Less corruption from the top will work miracles.
Leelo James Yes, the government shouldn't be in the drug business.
The Washington Post is now reporting that Tom Marino has withdrawn from consideration as Drug Czar.
Thanks tyt for having the brass bull nuts to cover this story when mainstream news won't. I'm a libertarian and many times I disagree with your views, but I always watch your show to help keep myself politically centered.
It's always about money isn't it?
At this point just throw the whole government away. Can we get a set of new government officials to work for us? 😒😕
The problem is they approve loads of legislation written by lobbyists without reading it. This was passed unanimously under access to prescriptions. The problem is this lobbyist/ donor mentality and that you place a financial incentive on your Doctors to over prescribe. They don't lose their license. We don't have this problem in the UK. At all. A bar will lose its liquor license for continuing to serve a drunk person but not a Doctor.
I'm surprised that I've never seen an opioid lawyer ad on TV. You see injury lawyer commercials for just about everything else, and this corporate profit opioid epidemic seems like it should be a big fat target.
Bob Loblaw!
Politicians are the curse of America
only major drug dealers would want to ensure a law like this. pharma corps are the biggest dealers in america, not the guy on the corner.
Jjjkk
Pay back for mass incarceration ...nature somehow finds a way to correct injustice ...
Black people don't o.d? Okay then.
Colin Dixon not in mass numbers like whites. That’s why there’s an uproar. It’s whites this time.
Colin Dixon
Not like whites.
Yep I love karma and its killing off whites that had no empathy for drug users during the crack epidemic
Young Turks, I would love for you to do a segment or special report on how the opioid epidemic has been treated vs. how the crack epidemic was treated. Thanks!!
Exactly who does this work on? And we should work on a different way for the world.
There is no "opioid epidemic [sic]" in the US or anywhere else.
Similarly, there is no "epidemic" of cancer or heart disease or suicide or ingrown toenails, either.
Only an infectious pathogen, such as Yersinia pestis or Vibrio cholerae can cause an epidemic (or pandemic).
There is instead a crisis (or tragedy) of opioid use in the US, and that's how TYTs should describe it.
An epidemic always describes a bell curve. If it didn't, the pathogen would kill everyone, and that doesn't happen, and it won't happen with opioid use.
--The pathogen is always present in the environment in isolated places, causing some deaths.
--The pathogen periodically spreads to the general population for a variety of reasons.
--The pathogen infects, sickens and kills the most susceptible people.
--The pathogen infects some people who recover and are then immune to it.
--The pathogen mutates into a less deadly form to survive in its hosts.
--The pathogen is isolated by removing sick persons from the general population or by other public health measures.
--The pathogen kills or sickens fewer and fewer people until it returns to its baseline level.
--The pathogen is always an infectious agent.
Opioid use, therefore, does not and cannot cause an epidemic.
Please stop calling it an "epidemic"!
Autodidact2
Knowledge
Autodidact2 it's an epidemic brah
George Bush Sr. is a former director of the CIA. He had two code names assigned to him. One was "The Icepick". The other was "Poppy".
Two Sheds his code name should have been "Rock Head Rob" since the crack epidemic started under his administration. Bush Sr. and Oliver North helped to kick start that drug epidemic with the help of Freeway Ricky Ross (not the rapper ).
Why is everyone acting like opioids are suddenly a problem in the last year or something? It's been an issue for like 10 years. I had friends in 2008 dying from heroin.
Because white people are being hurt now. It's definitely racial. In the 80s when heroin and crack was ravaging black communities, the answer was LOCK EM UP, now it's an epidemic that require treatment.
phanatic215 Drug laws have always been racial, from the very beginning. Sad, but true...
Mike Rotella Yup. Probably half of my close friends from high school developed OxyContin problems by 2007/08 (I graduated high school in 2005), several of which ended up getting on heroin. My friend's older brother overdosed at 18, we were 16, and that was the first death.. I remember the days when you could smash an oxy and snort (or shoot) it. When did they make them indestructible bc of abuse? 2010, 2011, 2012? I can't remember, but it's been years. This has been an issue for longer than ten years, bc I knew kids a couple years older than me who had issues, and that was circa 2004/05, which was when I discovered what OxyContin was. From the day I first heard of it, I never stopped hearing about it. My area (southwest pa/Pittsburgh burbs) was effected by that shit earlier than most perhaps, but yeah, this is absolutely nothing new. This is a part of a conspiracy that runs deep, all the way to the poppy fields of Afghanistan. Believe me...
heroin isn't legal. These pills ARE legal, and that's the problem. Doctors push it, the drug companies push it, and they do not want to hear that it's causing addiction. That's YOUR problem.
Wrong. Because police now use narcon when a drug abuser overdoses and ruins their high they turn to the streets for more potent fentanyl and heroin combo that causes respiratory arrest. Narcon is just another wrong solution to the problem. Legalize all drugs and this goes away.
I don't understand why bribery was made legal, making pharmaceutical companies able to get away with this in America. When I visited America, I couldn't believe that prescription medication was advertised on tv. It's insane. Why do you need to advertise medication to the public that only a doctor can give you?
Wow!!! I never thought about that before... Eye opener!!!
Why do they advertise all day on every channel prescription drugs?????
They pay doctors to peddle these drugs.
The drugs come from Afghanistan too
Short answer: the ones profiting from that situation are fighting change while the masses are too lazy and dumb to fight for change.
I understand there's a problem with over prescribing of opioids in the last few years and I get it that you should yell it out loud but just remember this...Every time the DEA and Congress get together to "fight the drug problem" they go after us, the patients who suffer from actual rare diseases that are extremely painful. They scare the shit out of our doctors and pharmacies and further create an "under-prescribing of pain meds, of which the opioids are the best. I know you think you're always right, enough to publicly, confidently rant and rant about a subject but in this case, you need to research more.
The last time this happened (3 years ago) our meds got interrupted for 3 months while the pharmacies and doctors came up with more, new restrictions and limits to which a patient can get opioids. In my case I have a rare bone marrow disease which fractures the bones in my spine - very, very painful. My doctor got me on the "cancer pain" program which allowed me almost the level I need for pain, but the 3 month interruption was almost not do-able. As an advocate for people with these painful diseases, of which there are MILLIONS of us (prob due to pre-ERA times) and the horror stories from the patients and what they had to go thru 3 yrs ago were heartbreaking. We usually have 12-15,000 suicides a yr., mostly due to lack of enough meds- (Long story of why, you should look into it) so the 20-30,000 OD's from meds isn't as big a deal to us.
Also, our numbers are included in the numbers of heroin and street addicts, which if you separated them would change things, as far as what the actual emergency is here. So please, when yelling and screaming about this "epidemic", try to remember the real pandemic. The under-treatment of chronic, painful, rare disease patients, all because of the DEA needing to show they are doing something and worthy of their jobs. To fact check the numbers go to the gov't site, Nat'l Institutes of Health. Yes the gov't says there are more than 50 MILLLION of us!
And someone above who works In the ER says that because police use narcon it ruins drug abusers high so that they've turned to the streets to get the more potent Fentanyl that is combined with heroin thus causing respiratory failure. Narcon- a solution that creates another problem. How about legalizing all drugs so that purity is high enough to help those who need it and those who don't won't keep looking for stronger drugs.
hmm, and i thought kushner was going to fix it because drumpf says he was going to hire the best, most tremendous people to fix it..
dizzybynature Kushner has more problems than solutions.
PEOPLE DIDN'T TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT HERE WHO BENEFIT FROM PAIN MEDICATION (OPIOIDS) LIKE THOSE OF US WITH LONG-TERM HEALTH CONDITIONS THAT REDUCE AND/OR DESTROYS THE LIVES OF US CHRONIC PAIN, DEGENERATIVE PAIN, DEBILITATING PAIN, & TERMINAL PAIN! There are NO CURES for these conditions. No RETROACTIVE CORRECT for these health problems and breakdowns. These patients (myself included) have a medicine pain regimen where these medications do NOT produce a high! They've thrown pain patients with legitimate health conditions with test results to back up these health conditions. These laws are killing us!
Rayne W Preach!
while it is certainly true that many people do need these heavy-duty opioid based painkillers, the problem is that too many doctors prescribe them when they should not. Anyone who takes opioid based ANYTHING is at risk for becoming dependent. It's just that for people with serious and/or chronic pain, that is a worthwhile trade off. Many people who do not need such heavy handed painkillers get prescribed them anyways, and become needlessly exposed to the risk of addiction. That is the problem. Many people need opioid based painkillers, but not nearly as many as are being prescribed them.
There are always alternative ways
Free the weed. Works way better for pain management.
No way weed helps physical pain. Maybe anxiety, weight gain, nausea, and some neurological issues but not for chronic pain
ktrain420247 not for everyone but you knew that already and most likely don't care. Sincerely, a 27 year chronic pain suffer who was on oxycodone and active, now on MMJ and housebound and suffering.
William Slaughter Well Oxycodone helped with my pain, allowed me to attend my children's activities, I could help around the house which made me HAPPY since I was a part of their lives and felt like father and useful husband.
Now after weaning myself off four years ago and on MMJ for over a year, I can not help around the house, I can not attend my children's activities.
I take three hits per night which costs my wife 200 bucks a month and it helps with the wicked spasms and allows me to fall asleep for a bit it does not compare to the pain medication I took for six years.
MMJ has a place in pain management but some people do require stronger medications to have some sort of life.
Pitting one medication against another and making chronic pain one size fits all is just cruel and barbaric.
I’m currently in the process of getting my hips fixed. I’ve already had the first surgery, and I’ll be having the other one soon (hopefully). They BARELY gave me anything. So I’d love to find these doctors that are just giving these things away.
American Dream:
Become a leader in the pharmaceutical industry.
Make money
Make MORE money
Ensure nothing hinders the distribution of my products.
Dream completed!!
"Drug overdoses have since become the leading cause of death of Americans under 50, with two-thirds of those deaths from opioids.[6]
In 2016, 62,000 Americans died from overdoses, 19 percent more than in
2015, and had killed more Americans in one year than both the wars in
Vietnam and Iraq combined.[7][6] By comparison, the figure was 16,000 in 2010, and 4,000 in 1999. Figures from June 2017 indicate the problem has worsened.[8][9] While death rates varied by state,[10] public health experts estimate that nationwide over 500,000 people could die from the epidemic over the next 10 years.[11]"
Why aren't the people on the streets protesting this in America?
I'm happy I don't live in that horrible country.
Missing the point astro-turfer.
You know Cenk, I can understand one reason why someone might want to protect Obama: He seems like an okay guy. He has at least a little charisma.
TheRedRaccoonDog He carries himself like a grown ass man. It's embarrassing to be represented by an amoral, ignorant person.
miapdx Portland He strikes me as someone I might disagree with but can still talk to. Drumpf is a petulant child.
TheRedRaccoonDog he was the best thing that happened to America
The system makes a TON of money off the drug war and opioids are a hot item...
Came to say the thumbnail is metal.
"It's funny what somebody will do if you pay them to do it." Understatement of the year, Cenk.
Mary Jane or medical marijuana should be legalized you don't hear people overdosing and dying from that.
Nilah Mccarthy It's legal in my state, and a big boost to the economy.
Time to take the "War on Drugs" to the generals.
NC so u want to get the military involved? Wtf?
Johnny, you might notice (if you listened to the story) that the "generals" in this parody of a war seem to be Congress and pharmaceutical lobbyists. We need to "take the war" to them, meaning we need to target them (in the form of criminal prosecutions).
that is literally how we ended up with the largest prison population in the world.
get rid of the DEA, and make weed legal in all states so people can grow their own with no criminal charges, opioid over dose,s will decrease
The thumbnail for this video is the most powerful I've seen from TYT. Scary stuff.
ConcordClark Agree it quite effectively shows the cycle - pills, heroin/fentanyl, death in one pic
Sugar is killing more people than tobacco so we need to FOCUS on opiates.
Does anyone question where the pharma companies get the raw material for their snake oil? Afghanistan.
Taliban stopped growing Opiods..American invaded and told Afghanistan to export Opium..
You grow opiates. Opioids are chemically treated. Otherwise, you're probably right.
I mean Opium...my bad..
They can't maga there way out of this one
Lol ! That was funny. It’s sad but true.
Yet EVERYBODY continues to vote Republican and give one party complete control of Congress
That's why I say let them kill themselves. Less Trump/Republican voters in the future.
That's why I say let them kill themselves. Less Trump/Republican voters in the future.
Drug laws in this country are SO toxic. I depend on drugs like these, it's already horrible, stricter laws would make it SO MUCH HARDER. Stop shouting about freedom in USA. I'm free, just not to choose what I want to put into my own body.
fonkyhonky1979 are you not concerned about the opium epidemic?
fonkyhonky1979 I do believe in legalization. It would make people safer, but the narcotics trade funds our government's black budget. So, that's not gonna happen.
TCt83067695 of course I'm concerned, 1 death is 2 too many, but progress cannot come from such a sick situation as our current drug laws produce. It's a terrible thing to walk on egg shells as the actions of others affects how I'm treated medically and publicly. I've said before that in 1000 years people will say "did they REALLY put people in a prison cage for this?"
Karma police......this is what you get...this you get ....when you mess with usssssssss........
Tom Marino is also against medical marijuana (big surprise), probably because big pharma isn't distributing it. He's sick!
Thankfully it sounds like this report is NOT going all for him, so.... 😎👍
Somebody needs to take the tranquilizer from Ben Carson.
MORE OPIOIDS MORE OPIOIDS PLEASE PAPA TRUMP GIVE EM WHAT THEY WANT!!!!!
Because Conservatives like Rush need their fix?
Whatdya expect. Afghanistan doesn't have any oil. Its much, much deeper.
There is no "epidemic" of opioid use in America today.
Similarly, there is no "epidemic" of cancer or heart disease or suicide or ingrown toenails, either.
Only an infectious pathogen, such as Yersinia pestis or Vibrio cholerae can cause an epidemic (or pandemic).
There is instead a crisis of opioid use in America today, and that's how everyone should describe it.
An epidemic always describes a bell curve. If it didn't, the pathogen would kill everyone, and that doesn't happen, and it won't happen with opioid use.
--The pathogen is always present in the environment in isolated places, causing some deaths.
--The pathogen periodically spreads to the general population for a variety of reasons.
--The pathogen infects, sickens and kills the most susceptible people.
--The pathogen infects some people who recover and are then immune to it.
--The pathogen mutates into a less deadly form to survive in its hosts.
--The pathogen is isolated by removing sick persons from the general population or by other public health measures.
--The pathogen kills or sickens fewer and fewer people until it returns to its baseline level.
--The pathogen is always an infectious agent.
Opioid use, therefore, does not and cannot cause an epidemic.
Autodidact2 great description.
Nope, he's actually made perfect sense, AIP.
Autodidact2 have any of you seen the recent bombing of opium factories in afghanistan? .. I was jw if u think this will have any effect on the opium problem?
Autodidact2 your whole laboured statement is a waste of time because they used the word "epidemic", in this context, as an adjective to describe the opioid crisis.
That's why they call it and "opioid epidemic" and not just an "epidemic".
"Epidemic", stand-alone, denotes that there is a virus or disease or plague. Contextually it's descriptive to explain the attributes of a given occurrence.
For instance; there is a "fidget spinner epidemic" in this country.
That doesn't mean that fidget spinners are viruses or subject to distribution via pathogens, it just means that "fidget spinners" are widespread and the way it's popularity is spreading is comparable to epidemics. There is a noun version of "epidemic" and the adjective definition of a word can be quite different than the noun's definition.
Semantics- You don't like the words Pathogen and Epidemic to be used to describe a wave of contagious illness that spreads via an entity that is not viral nor bacterial. While I don't often hear medical researchers refer to drugs as Pathogens, it's hardly an inaccurate use of the word. Something moving through the population having seriously dangerous health effects. There's nothing in the concept of epidemic that demands that the agent be one w/DNA or RNA. I'd argue that the agent needn't be physical at all, but could be behavioral instead. The attempt to trivialize this horrific situation isn't working for me. Where are you going w/the point that- I'm rephrasing here- "Your so called epidemic, just isn't one if the population, instead of recovering , just totally succumbs and one Really Blue Monday-Boom!, the whole metro area is just dead as a door nail!"... Uhhm.. I'm thinking- you made a wrong turn in Albuquerque!
The subject of drug regulation is always a weird one for me. I support the legalization of virtually all drugs (exceptions for things like carfentanil) but before they're regulated for recreational consumption I think laws need to be tight to reign in the black market. I know where I stand, but it always feels a little bit intellectually dishonest.
100% legalization of the drugs is the answer.
Zulfikar Egzikutor So basically do everything tyt said caused the epidemic. Logic fail.
KingJustice - Do some research.
KingJustice98 no logic fail at all, these people would become addicted legal or not, if it's legal and regulated you're less likely to overdose
Take a look at the Portugal, statistics do not lie.
They need to legalize all drugs and allow people to take as much drugs as they please. If people choose to overdose and die, it's ok. I am sure they were told a million times that they should stop doing drugs before they overdose. The government should stop wasting money incarcerating people and hospitalizing them, they need to stop being a nanny state. We cannot legislate a cure for peoples addiction and stupidity.
The thing is that a lot of people don't get addicted by their own choice but because some shitty doctor who is paid by the pharma industry perscribed them an opioid even though they only had a head ache.
The thing is that opioids are so strong that they shpild only be given after heavy surgery not to stop any pain. Other countries now this and protect their patients. America just doesn't give a shit.
But I agree with you on the legalizaition part. I'm a huge proponent of legalization of all substances as it gets loads of people out of prisons, depowers the cartels and gives a new stream of tax money to be used for the public.
The kids not going to have their parents if they die.
This is why weed is not legal everywhere you need less pill when you smoke weed
Brittany Parnell That's the truest statement I've read so far. Congrats.
Trump is the swamp thing
staffon santiago A monster, more sinister than Dracula, scarier than Frankenstein, and his cult of zombies...it's Halloween every day now.
I admit there needs to issues addressed to handle those who abuse pain meds but remember there are people who really need these paid meds to live normal lives and when they egt caught up in this mess and are cut off and lye in bed hurting and unable to wrok or live and just are forced to deal with paid over and over again the rate of suicides have increased....This subject needs to be handled carefully ...who cant just cut off people who have been taking these meds for 10 to 20 years and be like "oh you are just an addict so your done" my uncle suffered 3 surgeries on this back after a horrible care accident he only got to where he could get back to work by taking pain meds so he did not hurt then he was cut off and had to quit hit job his family lost there home he suffered horribly for a year until he could not take the pain anymore and committed suicide...not only that those who are abusing the system and are cut off now turn to street drugs to get what they want which leads to heroin overdoses and now the heroin epidemic is starting to rise again. I understand the abusers are to blame but punishing those who really need this is a doctor going against his oath to relieve pain and suffering...Yes it has gotten out of hand and yes the bad ones are the cause...but like I said this issue needs to be handled carefully or you are just going to destroy those who really need these meds and may cause what happen to my uncle to happen to others...people do suffer pain and a doctors oath is to relieve that so relieve it dont over over do it just relieve it and dont cut off people and just let them go home and lye in bed suffering till they cannot take the pain anymore and just decide to end it or push people back into street drugs like heroin...
Malkiore Pretorius. You said it very well. I agree totally. I am a pain sufferer & I have NEVER abused my meds ever. But I have to suffer because of people who like them to get high. They need to come up with an option before they cut people like me off.
I am so sorry to hear about your uncle. That is heartbreaking to hear- I'm sure it's heartbreaking to live with. This false opiod epidemic garbage needs to stop.
Best wishes to you & blesssings. Again, I am truly sorry for your loss. I know that words don't replace him, but it's all I have to offer.
Thank you very much and I am sorry also to hear what you are going through and hopefully they can tune down the hype and come up with the right solution that does hurt other people.
I to am in pain management and have been for about 8 years. I would sit in the waiting room month after month listening to ppl say how they needed to be "upped" even though they just were the month before. And I was amazed because most were between 19-25 years old. My Dr finally got smart and weeded out most of them. But now the rest of us are suffering. Being cut back or cut off. There have been a few times when I thought it would just be easier to die than to live in pain. And I'm on medication but sometimes even that isn't enough. The P/A I see even said that there are only about 10%, which I'm a part of, that they can look at the MRI and say. "Yup, that's what causing the pain." The rest they just have to take them at their word. Perdue did some shitty things and are definitely to blame for pushing their medication. But they are a business just like everyone else. But the Dr are the ones who should have seen this coming and stopped it. But they are also a business and they got hooked on the $$. So everyone has their own daemon that perpetuated this "epidemic" they're all to blame in their own way.
Kratom can help solve this issue. I'm in N.H. and it's getting so bad.
JP Vielleux I'm finna pull up on y'all nigga in NH
It’s like 2 puppies fighting under a blanket.
As a recovering heroin addict who has lived the life and been entrenched in it for 10 yrs (3 yrs on Methadone now) I can absolutely promise you, THIS WILL ONLY GET MUCH WORSE. Everyone is literally on drugs now or in and out of rehab their whole lives. The main cause of overdose is not the heroin ITSELF, it is the BLACK MARKET QUALITY that kills.
Imagine your dealer usually gets a batch weekly that is 30% purity, that is what you are use to using. Then imagine all of the sudden your dealer gets in a batch that is 90% pure and either doesn't cut it properly or isn't aware of the purity and doesn't warn you. Bam, now you are going to most likely overdose. Legalize ALL drugs through the FDA, provide consistent purity for heroin addicts, and watch the death rate plummet quicker than you can imagine.
Sun Behind the Sun 777 junky liberal
Daria Thanks for getting it. People don't get it because they are stupid, plain and simple.
It's awful to be an addict or a sick person if your meds come under fire by politicians and everyone goes into a frenzy like this and you're stuck in the middle of a drug war which is really just a war on the american people. and i'ts not just big pharma, notice how every once in a while there would be a bad batch but it was never an epidemic even though all those poor junkies were dropping like flies,it's an epidemic and it's all big pharmas fault now cuase insurance companies don't want to cover the cost of pain meds,now that so many more people are covered, then that criminalizes patients as well as addicts who choose to keep living and don't know about things like kratom. once they're done criminalizing addicts and patients alike they put them in prison if they catch them trying to survive.they can get more money to law enforcement,big pharma (by pushing more expensive ineffective meds on them),the private prison industry, the mental health industry, and all these different industries make money off of sick people dying and this is all a goddamn show so no one realizes it, or not enough people to make a difference and it pisses me off.
Sun Behind the Sun 777 I also am in methadone clinic, I've said it for years now. Legalize, regulate, and add purity laws or standards. Why don't they ( the public and lawmakers) seem to understand this.
Tommy Ramsey Yeah honestly Methadone helped me to stay straight while I was trying to pick up the pieces of my totally broken life. Will I be on it forever? Most likely no. However, I am sort of at the point where I am thinking of tapering or just going to a lower dose. People don't understand this issue of why people use/need drugs because they always bring their emotions and personal opinion into it. They see it as a moral issue, like addicts failed.
They think we are weak, funny because we are SO MUCH stronger than they could ever be. Most of these people with their retarded opinions have had a life of no struggle or crisis ever. To them rock bottom is not being able to go on vacation or having to lower spending on their credit cards. They wouldn't last two seconds in the shoes of an addict.
It's not going to get better BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT NEEDS MOST OF AMERICANs HIGH AND dumb to pull off the shyt they been doing (to us for decades).
Opinionated Azzhole lmao
Be SMART & stay ALIVE! Use CANNABIS!!!
We have to be very careful not to overreact to this legitimate crisis. Right now there is no other way to relieve excruciating pain, so we have to find a way to fix the problem without creating a new one & in the process hurt millions of people by taking away the only thing that relieves their pain through no fault of their own.
Now this is the kind of video that makes TYT so great
Is there a list anywhere of all the people who received money, how much, and then how they voted? Would be nice to have
Obama knew what he was doing....big ups mynig
Fuckin stupid racist fucktard
They need to lock these degenerates up with 5 year minimums
drugs should be legal, and people need more education and rehab access, then there wouldn't be as many deaths from opiods, but at the end of the day, if you want to risk your life taking these drugs......we call that freedom of choice. of course the govt. should be helping the citizens, not the drug companies
The snag is when a drug is addictive or needed to treat a serious illness, then there is a point where using the drug is no longer a choice.
if you need it for medical purposes, drugs should be free. yeah addiction is a problem, but drugs are illegal now and addiction is still a problem. you need rehab and education to lower addiction rates. prohibition and prison obviously aren't helping
TeamPsychoRacing I don't do heroin and crack not due to inaccessibility...i can definitely find someone in Philly that has both, but I know what that shit does to a person so I'll take a rain check on the H.
I understand that there is a problem for people who abuse opioids but this has been horrible for people who need pain medication for some semblance of life. I was in a pedestrian car accident (I was hit by a car) which ruined my life. I've had 7 surgeries, and more than 2 years of physiotherapy. Now my Doctor is giving me a hard time because of this crisis. I don't abuse, sell or I'm not addicted to opioids. My pain is never going to go away. My Doctor knows this, but because others abuse these medications people who need these medications will suffer. I only take Tylenol 3's. My stomach won't allow stronger medications. I ended up with gastric ulcers because of anti-inflammatories. So, TYT can you please tell me what I'm supposed to do once I am no longer able to get much needed pain medication? There are 2 sides to every story. Please take a look at mine. Don't tell me to smoke weed either. The smell makes me sick and gives me a horrible headache.
I just started flexeril today by the way and if you'd like I can report back to you later and tell you how it works
They're not advocating for a complete ban on pain medication, but simply pointing out how insane it is that the DEA has been stripped of its power to track unusually large orders of addictive opioids.
Dlas S Your chances of becoming addicted to opioids are nearly zero. People with addictions were born this way. They have a brain disorder that can be seen on an MRI. It is called MU Disease..
Red Menace I already take something like that. Its called Cyclobenzaprine. Its a muscle relaxant. I appreciate your input though. I take the opioids because I have 2 spinal cord injuries, plus I've had 3 wrist surgeries on one hand and 1 on the other. The bones in each are fused together. The muscle relaxers are for the soft and hard tissue damage I have in my back, neck and shoulders. Yes I'm a hot mess. Lol Have a great day, though.
bear_square Oh I understand what they are saying, but it's becoming hysteria about this opioid epidemic. Doctor's are being held accountable now, so the people who truly need these medications are going to suffer, guaranteed.
I'll play devil's advocate. This is a huge problem that needs fixing, but some people need pain meds and for some people with intense pain stuff like weed doesn't help. So people need this stuff sometimes. Also legalise, tax, and regulate drugs in general. Addiction will always be a problem, just like with alcohol. And alcohol is deadlier than heroin.
What you say is quite true. Opiates can be the right thing to use in some situations (they wouldn't be medicine if all they did was get people high, of course). However, prescription of opiates has risen dramatically in the past 20 yrs, which results in more addictions. That's the real problem here. I agree with the legalize, tax and regulate bit 100% tho.
I'd like to point out... Doctors could put an end to a great deal of this, so they're either corrupt or incompetent as well.
Del R They are also governed by the pharmaceutical industry, the government, and the standards of the day.
Here We Go Again, blame the medication rather than look at the root cause of why people are taking the medication and committing suicide. So once again they'll over reaction and people like me who have dealt with chronic pain for over three decades will have to suffer. because you all are looking for the easy answer rather than digging into the root cause and finding real solutions.
Indeed. Also, we know about the corruption in in government yet people believe the FDA and CDC government agencies regarding stats for opioid use deaths. Any death is sad but how do these numbers (when correct and not inflated) compare to Tylenol, alcohol, smoking or car accidents? Is this "reefer madness" all over again only for opioids? And why is anyone upset if the DEA's power is stripped? The DEA busts millions of people for marijuana use yet suddenly they are "protecting" Americans?
"which places a huge strain upon the authorities re: for those on medicare or medicaid/medicaid" I'm not sure I understand your point. Could you say this another way?
Im just laughing when the tax colllectors run out of money to combat a cause that seems very inevitable
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob...."
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
when did he say that?
jpwjr1199 ...In a speech before the 1936 Election in Madison Square Garden .
thank you - just read it again
Put vending machines in Wal-Mart for people who need 1 screw it
To the chosen vessel why is it we always have to blame someone else for what people do if I want to get high it’s my choice not anyone’s fault but mine bottom line it’s not big Pharma or the doctors fault it’s the individual that’s at fault no one else . Just like guns they don’t shoot people on their own someone has to pull the trigger .
Victor Dasilva do you like to get out the back door before anybody knew you were there..