The Opioid Crisis: These Are the Mental Health Impacts
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Overcoming the opioid crisis starts with understanding the mental health impacts. Kyle and a MedCircle doctor break it down in this interview.
130 people die from an opioid overdose every day - and 80% of all heroin users started with a prescription opiate. In this educational video, MedCircle doctor Dr. Dom explains why the opioid crisis has become such an epidemic. He describes why the addiction is so prevalent. He explains what demographics are most affected, why the addiction began in the first place, and why certain people are more prone to opioid addiction. This education is for anyone affected by the opioid crisis.
In the full MedCircle series, Dr. Dom covers:
The causes of the opioid crisis
The science of addiction and the neurology of opiate use disorder
The risk factors and prevention strategies of opioid addiction
How to recognize the 11 diagnostic criteria of opiate use disorder
How to approach a loved one displaying the physical & behavioral signs of opioid use
Why opioid overdoses are so common & how to handle the aftermath
Opioid addiction treatment options and how to help a loved one through steps to recovery (from detox through rehab)
How to find long-term happiness after recovering from an opioid addiction
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@@BrokePencil I'm glad you spoke up about this. This is the truth.
@@BrokePencil Nobody gets better.
If like to see you stop taking that shit and see what happens
This interview needs much more exposure! Coming from a heroin addict, he is spot on! He was able to articulate exactly what I went through, how I felt, and my thought process. I acknowledge that he is a doctor. But, he gets it. And, he explains it in a way that I believe will allow people to be more understanding/sympathetic.
Correct!!
The way that you guys are addressing the issue is so black-and-white. There are people that have many severe conditions in excruciating pain that they are literally on functionable. We have doctors winning people off several medications that have been being prescribed for hundreds of years but now all the sudden the doctors are told that they can’t prescribe them together meanwhile they have been being prescribed together for years with people doing just fine. Yes there is definitely a fine line between addiction and being dependent on your medication but coming across on the side of someone who has had such severe pain I’ve been housebound for most of the past 10 years and now I’m having trouble just getting doctors to want to treat my chronic health conditions that’s becoming a problem
Here's the thing though, people like me who suffer from severe spinal stenosis, a previously broken back, a tib/fib break in thirteen places and a total of five different breaks, collectively, in the ankles, do not get any kind of relief.
I was on Norco for several years and it helped. I slept better and had a social life. In 2014, Kentucky started arresting doctors. So, I was sent to a mental health institution for drug abuse! I was traumatized. I signed myself out. After being unable to get Norco without going to pain management I just gave up on it. It is 2019 and I have taken nothing stronger than Tylenol unless I was hospitalized. I have never purchased drugs from anyone other than a pharmacist in a drug store. I have never doctor shopped.
I think that doctors are doing harm to me by not alleviating my pain. I am in constant pain. I rarely leave my house.
Speaking of dentists, my teeth are cracking due to medication. So, I have been having oral surgery about every six weeks with nothing but novicaine and Tylenol. I am allergic to NSAIDs.
I would love to be able choose to take opiates or not.
I have unbearable withdrawal from Cymbalta. Should I be cut off from that too.
Donna Noe if you can get the meds you need from a pain management doctor then why not go? If you are truly in need of them then that’s who should be treating you anyways. I guess I’m not understanding why you want go to pain management if you so desperately need the pain meds....
Ive been put on cymbalta i been taking it awhile. Is it really addictive? It gives you withdrawald?
I also think there are cases where medicine is needed, but maybe from the beginning it s good to try as less as possible, and also try alternatives in between.
Sadly Donna, when Big Pharma profits run out on Cymbalta they will take it away. Say it is addictive and a problem but they have a NEW WONDER DRUG!
@@BrokePencil Yes I’m aware. I used to have to go the pain management. But if someone is in desperate need of pain relief you think they would do what they could. I was just so confused why she wouldn’t try? My pain was so severe I would have seen any doc they made me see to give some sort of relief.
I’ll tell you the problem, there are people like me who are not abusing their medication but are all lumped together with opioid addicts, who are stealing family members medication, with people abusing their meds. Unfortunately there are people like me who are absolutely physically unfunctionable without medication. I have severe chronic health issues and deal with extreme pain. We are now treated like addicts by doctors or the medical community. Doctors are afraid not only to prescribe meds but are refusing to treat patients that have severe chronic health issues. I know a woman who was in her 80’s she had been on opiates for her pain for 20 yrs and her doctor was forced to bring her off her pain medication, unbelievable. I also have people in my chronic pain support groups who have committed suicide because of the severity of their pain while doctors were weaning them off their pain meds
Im glad u wrote this, yes the US is a free country u should have access to something that fully stops ur pain for a couple of hours etc ..even if it shortens ourlives, that's a choice..when it comes to guns they dont talk like that
I was shocked when just this last month they quit giving my dad, who is 80, pain meds, that he had been on for years and years. No weaning, just no more!! He is having more trouble walking and has been very irritable, both are understandable. The thing is, his prescription strength/dose had not gone up AT ALL. It had been enough and he never asked for more. Damn, let's wait til he's 80 years old and see how far we can push him!!! Insensitive morons!!
@@MimiMcWil how evil. Try to talk to them
I’d argue that the people on street opiates are also using because of a pain. A pain similar if not much much worse than yours.
Eg just look at what they are willing to do to medicate said pain.
I would guarantee anyone of those people you are talking about wishes things where different and would happily take your physical pain over their physical and or emotional pain.
Yes this makes me sick! What about the people who really need it for quality of life, you’re killing another group of people!!!
Anyone notice how at peace the dog is?
took a couple oxycodones with his kibbeles
Addicts r the most empathetic people
Were the overdoses caused by patients being cut off from their prescriptions and forced to go elsewhere for relief? Finding substances that are not approved by the FDA and THEN overdosing? Where is the research on how these overdoses are happening? Are they actually overdosing on prescription medication that they got from a doctor and a pharmacy?
A lot of the medication I've seen produced is counterfeit. It's either fentanyl mixed with heroin
If you listen to how he explains the progression of an addict....... it starts with prescriptions.... either being cut off or the pills no longer work enough so they go to the street to get more pills and then it moves on to heroin. Which causes a lot of overdoses. 80% of heroin addicts started with prescription medication. So wether the overdose was because of using heroin or not most addictions start with prescription opioids.
@@SupahTammy that's what doctors are there for to keep us from harm so we don't have to go to the streets for treatment ?
YEAR OF THE ROOSTER You are missing the point. Pills for some people stop working. Meaning they don’t get that feeling they want. Well the doc isn’t going to give them more or even when a doc does cut the person off but they still feel they need the meds they turn to the streets. The doc isn’t going to keep you safe then. And also a doc isn’t there everyday to make sure you don’t forget that you just took a pill so you won’t take another. Because opioids keep you from thinking straight. A doc can only do so much.
Look at it this way. They knew when they cut their patients off there would be a higher number in statistics of people dying
My family has not been impacted by opioids addiction, but the other kinds of drugs (including psychiatric medication) addiction and codependent relationships. Codependency and addiction, from the perspective of a person that have a loved one struggling with this conditions, is like seeing your loved one being possessed by a demon. The early stages, you vaguely see the addiction taking power over them. Middle stages, you can see the addiction in certain moments, not so big, but concerning. At latest stages you only see the addiction converting your loved one into a dead human, a zombie, sometimes a glimpse of their personality comes, but is basically living with a zombie... every day less of your loved one is remaining, they die in front of your eyes and unless you're strong enough to cause them the pain of recovery and endure with them if they really want to get better, the best thing you can do is get stronger, more than the addiction. Do not fall into the manipulation, they're not thinking straight. Save your relatives/friends/partners from their demise or yours the fastest you can.
I'm tired of doctors and addiction specialist saying that the symptoms of opiate withdrawal only last a week or so. Its just not true. I've been addicted to opiates for about 10 years now, off and on, starting with prescribed painkillers and progressing to heroin. I've tried countless times to detox, trying different methods, and each time the physical symptoms of withdrawal lasted at least a month, AT LEAST. The mental and emotional effects last longer, I don't know how long or at what point they start to fade as I have not yet been able to abstain longer than about 8 months, so longer than that. I've known people that were clean and sober for 5 years and ended up relapsing for whatever reason. I am currently doing medication assisted treatment (MAT) with methadone and it helps me with the cravings and mental/emotional instability. It has helped me immensely, although I know that until I get help for my issues (depression/anxiety/trauma) that I was avoiding by using opiates in the first place, I will always be at risk for relapsing. When I first started using I had no idea what it does to your brain chemistry, and now I will probably have to be on some kind of medication for the rest of my life. Being an opiate addict is a very bleak existence with little to no light at the end of the tunnel, which I think is a huge contributing factor to the deaths or overdoses associated with opiates.
One more thing I would like to offer is that what they say about opioid addiction being nondescriminant is absolutely true. Nobody is immune, and it could literally happen to you, and you wouldn't even realize it's happening until it's too late.
It takes awhile and it seems like methadone and suboxon are even worse. If you come off suboxon cold turkey i didn't think i was going to make it.Took 6 weeks before the chills went away ,i could sleep normal started to get around normal and its best to not be around no one thats for shure
Thank you so much for this helpful information. I’ve heard the term “opioid crisis” for a few years now, and I’ve been wanting to learn more about it. It breaks my heart to imagine what life must be like through the lens of an addict. ❤️🙏🏼 Much love and strength from God to anyone trying to overcome!
It is literally the devil in your ear.
I am free from the slavery of daily drug use but I am still on drug maintenance opiate medication.
I want nothing more then to have my life back free from having to take brain chemical altering medication and I mean that with 100% of every fiber in my being.
If I miss a day of my medication especially because I am reducing the thoughts I hear in my head and the actions I want to take Do not come from a rational mind. It is horrible. Id argue The life of an addict can be one of the worst there is obviously everything is on a spectrum but those towards the most chronic side of things have it really hard.
Opiate addiction is like a possession by an external force/entity, because there is the person and then there is the addiction, they’re not one in the same I am not my addiction.
I don’t think anyone in my life would believe me at first if I told them opiates have been a big part of my life for the past 5yr without offering proof,
I do regularly see most of them, I’d say on average once per fortnight.
I used IV for 2yrs start to finish 5+y ago. I have been on a opiate maintance program for 3 and a bit years. It all started because my mum forgot my birthday (I’m 30 years old female only child), I wanted to get a bit of weed and my partner wanted his preference which I didn’t realise was heroin. I’m not gonna go into my story much more than that but it grabs you and it grabs you quick and it doesn’t let go and it is scary.
On a positive, I have reduced (almost halved) my medication and travelling quite well but still kinda living in fear of the discomfort associated with withdrawals and coming down further.
I can understand how 99% of people do not recover from this poison and I can see how some people justify throwing their life away to just sit in the gutter chasing a high.
Comparatively speaking I had a relatively brief stint with the street life and what that entails.
It’s so fucked up I want to get away from this shit with all of my being. But if I miss my medication I am literally fighting off voices in my head urging me to take the pain away.
Most people are drawn to opiates in the first place are more inclined to have a painful living existence in the first place for them to want to seek out the numbing that comes from opiates, so having a painful existence as is then adding the discomfort of withdrawal is horrendous and a sad and lonely existence.
I do I have a small and very self centred family, so I think that has aided in my flying under the radar.
Love from Canada. The opiod crisis is mainly controlled to the West coast here, but it is spreading to the rest of the country, and it is still so bad that we needed a before-prom speach on how to use anti-opiod medications.
I know some abuse and take opiod meds when they don't need them and then others take more than needed. But there is a legitimate need for these meds. They just need to be monitored better by doctors, not over prescribed like some do . NOT made unotainable or more expensive. That's why we are seeing problems.
@@BrokePencil Absolutely. Made to feel ashamed and like theyre thinking youre a junkie. I dont drink or do drugs, I just have legitimate pain in a damaged spine. The system is a joke.Doctors getting richer from more appts and pharma making more from raising the cost.
This epidemic is destroying our nation. I thank you and your team for bringing increased awareness and the aspects of mental health that go along with it!
It’s important to know that the anger, frustration, and negative emotions you’re feeling towards the person struggling with addiction, they’re feeling all of those things and much worse about themselves. No one plans on becoming or enjoys being an addict. It is the most physically and emotionally painful way of “living” one could imagine. Addiction does not discriminate!
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@@jessie330 💕
This is wonderful information, it's helpful for those that are wealthy and have the time to run behind a bad behaved addict. The poor and the 20 percentage that started using from a recreational point will never get into rehab! Where is their help?
I am an recovering opposite addict currently in a suboxone treatment plan. Thanks for video
My husband got into a car accident in 2010 and was prescribed Vicodin for neck pain. I didn’t know how addicted to opiods he is until he got into another car accident under the influence and is in the hospital going through detox. He is in critical condition because of his rapid breathing. Everything the dr said about the personality of my husband. I thought it was him, not the drugs. This is extremely helpful
Hello. Thank You Very Much to you guys for doing this video as it brings up several points that aren't often addressed. One of them being that anybody who has been doing opiates for any significant amount of time (I'd say roughly a year or so) isn't doing them for entertainment or to get high. It quit being about that quite a while before then. I got addicted to heroin back in '99 and have been ever since. I started doing it for recreation and fun as it was a popular thing to do amongst those I hung out with. My heart really goes out to the people that got addicted for legitimate pain reduction reasons. They are true victims whereas I brought this onto myself for no good reason other than seeking pleasure. Anyways, after a month of daily usage I was already experiencing withdrawal symptoms, but when I used it still continued to bring pleasure as well. But after a year I was solely doing it so I didn't get dopesick (severe withdrawal) and it's been for that reason alone I have continued to use the last 19 years. Addicts are often accused of putting getting high ahead of everything else in their life such as family, friends, work, etc. That isn't the case. We are putting our fear of being so miserably sick above our families, etc. It truly is the very definition of misery to go through opiate withdrawal. On top of that you have to deal with the fact that you are tremendously letting down everyone who cares about you and in a way ruining their lives as well. You are very aware that you are throwing your life and opportunities away on top of the shame you feel for hurting those who love you. This guy was spot on when he said it is hard to like an addict because they seem like extremely selfish people.
I don't really even know what point I am trying to make here, but I just wanted to thank you guys for making this a topic on your channel and explaining the plight of many addicts in a way that isn't often addressed. Thank You....and for those who are currently suffering through this, hang in there, try to do the right thing, and let those around you know that even though you may not often express it, that you love them and that they really do mean a lot to you. Take Care!
@@BrokePencil I completely agree with your comment about how Rx opioid generally don't have as severe withdrawals. But, that is a broad paintbrush. Many people do become seriously dopesick. It depends upon many things - like your own pain/discomfort tolerance to whether you were taking your prescribed medications AS prescribed. Not snorting, smoking, etc.
@@BrokePencil I worked in medicine most of my adult life & I CLEARLY remember discussions in various committee meetings with regular primary care, ER docs & surgeons were all talking fir months about how "these days" (early 1990s) there is no excuse anymore for having patients in pain. And that became the USA-wide standard of care. They were handed out like candy with no real thought about what the future might bring. And, now, we suffer. And yes - I've SEEN people crush & snort oxycodone and hydrocodone. Tell you what, I keep mine well hidden in many places. After 30+ years, a lot of people know I probably have it. Is bat-sh** wacky. Thank heavens I never got a point that I ever had to take it to feel "normal". That's the barb on the hook.
Sir
I suffer from hypertension and I am medicating on AMLODIPINE and LOSARTAN. IS IT HARMFUL?
I KINDLY REQUEST TO GIVE ADVICE.
My experience with prescription opioids has been good. Nothing like this guy describes.
I find this soo gooddd to just openly talk about this issue.
Above all i think the best is to go to the core of this problem. Finding the core always helps more than just loose experiences.
And here 's my main question:
'How come it s out there on the streets and so easy to find, when it's forbidden???
Luckely awareness and openess on this toppic is starting to appear.
I think this prevents and cures. We have so many alternatives we don t talk about to live a better life. And i also think that the pharma industry doesn 't have to lose one dollar, just start looking into and investigate for other natural alternatives to just make people feel good and cure.
Than one thing that always pops up in my mind is the loss of values. We have to admit that this fast and competitive winning loosing world we re creating is not good for our heart and the superficiality of this happiness in bottles and fast food also empties our heart of love (our main source of happiness) and instead fills it up with invisible pain and emptiness and than the addictions come waving over and over again.
'eh , if u want to i got what u need'
We create more and more problems instead of finding human long lasting solutions.
So problems don t get solved in a lasting way, although 'yes we can' find and create more solutions than problems. This is my believe.
Honesty and transparency and less speed solutions should be our main goal to create a better and more conscious world for us and the generations to come. Because all of this is not so fashion, well i think we can create new fashion of that now...in everything around us. Food, medicine, values, job creation, job environment, (not only safety and more practical organization but also a healthy respectful way of communicating etc. Etc)
More healthy family dynamics and bounderies if needed. It s not because it s family that it s a best friend s party.
Those are just some toppics of so many.
More prevention than curing is for sure ond of the good paths to walk on.
Those were just some of my mini thoughts i felt like sharing here.
Great Video! Please continue to educate everyone on how very dangerous these opioids are! Never discriminate, It can happen to anyone. Doesn't matter what color your skin is, How much money you have, it just doesn't discriminate!
60,000 persons died in a year by this here in America .....unbelievable! Any kind of addiction is so scary.
and untrue. the facts are unclear.
Thank you for bringing this up.
Im from Europe, about to go to rehab, and clean for 2 months, and rehab under 1 YEAR does not work, and also agree in lot of things, but stigma of decise is what is the worst,also your brain becoms your worst enemy, and it is heard but it depends on suport you get around you, I think my case was just about.. THE COMPANY U KEEP,... Mixed with my every Day fears of failure etc, it is very easy to get hy, but hard not to do it, but Im proud to do hard, but FAMILY IS EVERYTHING, AND GOOD DOCTORS
I was on Panadeine forte for 10 years and never took a full daily dose. I did exactly as the doctor prescribed. I have Arachnoiditis and nothing else really works. I am now on Palexia which helps the Chronic Pain but not the Acute Pain. If I couldn't get these pain reliefs I would have eventually kicked the bucket.
excellent explanation! Bang on with everything he said. this video needs more promotion
I’ve been on pain killers and I didn’t like the way it made me feel.
Lucky
11:25 I have a question I am needing to learn about this my husband is a below the knee prosthetic patient and he has been prescribed the medication for 20 years. Drs have prescribed the medication for years. Please help me understand why?
Can citrus fruits take care of post prescription addiction as it does for alcohol hangover?
Thank you for this insight. Does this info also apply to prescribed opioids for long-term pain?
I am a biochemist, and no, it doesn't.
good lord that doctor's dreamy! 😍😍
Crystal Goes I know Brains & Beauty
Very helpful ❤ keep it up 👏👏👏
Bless this Dr. Bless him.
Thank you for this people need to be educated on this...I've been there your speaking FACTS! I've been on suboxone maintenance for almost four years clean thank God!
Speaking from experience, how often do you feel like you're addicted to suboxone now?
Taking suboxone in place of heroin is hardly something to be proud of. You are still reliant on a drug and the fact that people convince themselves that they are too weak to go cold turkey and continue to simply, exchange addictions is more than discouraging.
@@ashleymarie4532 Let people do what they want to do. If Mimi feels she is living productively than she is doing fine. Are you without vices? Clearly judging others makes you feel good.
Thank you so much 😊 very helpful information ❤
The dog had the foil in his paws no pun intended now on the nod
This is one of the best series of med circle. It was explained so well and it was good you guys discussed the slang terms as well so that people are aware.
It’s a life and death battle..
In my country they only give opioids during hospital stays and not to take home, or if you are under palliative care (cancer or old age, usually).
It seems to me like American doctors over prescribed those medications, and now their way to "fix" that mistake is to abandon their patients. Quite cruel, in my opinion.
Plus, now it seems like it is damaging people with serious pain condition as well :/
Your country, in this regard, is a nanny state. We are a liberal democracy with libertarian leanings. We do not like top-down control which in our view crushes the human spirit. Drugs can cause problems no doubt, but there can be No Doubt in my view that infantilizing a society is dangerous, cruel, and sad.
I love these episodes..... great job everyone! P.S. - Please administer naloxone to the dog asap.
There are are also the issues that remain after. I was on prescribed opiates for years. I've been off of them for 3 years now. I have had to find a way to deal with the pain from my disintegrating spine..while I'm trying to pay my rent and I cant work...since I cant work, I have no insurance ..no insurance, no doctors, so since I cant see a doctor..social security said basically because I didn't see the doctor enough. I didn't complain enough. I lost my home, my marriage...all this happened to me...I took them like I was told. When I couldn't afford a doctor anymore. I stopped...I went through the process myself..I'm just so tired.....so ready to just give up
I'm still fighting, still cant work. At this point in time, I'm keeping it together. I have an amazing husband who has supported me through it all. I just wish I could work.
I am going through that feeling with no help. I'm not the same person as I was when taking the subs. 2 months I don't know who I am any more. I'm not shore I'm going to make it if being honest.
Spot on!
What about ace's? Trauma, epigenetics?
I`m from UK , is Dihydrocodeine bad for me ?
I was prescribed it in tablet form for back pain , I`ve been on them for 11 years now , I only take what I'm prescribed every month but it's double of what I was originally prescribed. I keep requesting my prescription earlier and earlier so that instead of 12 prescriptions per year I probably get 17 to 18 . I originally felt that warm fuzzy feeling mentioned in the video from just one tablet but now I take two sometimes three at a time and I still don't get that original feeling , instead, I feel like I`ve taken amphetamines, a definite "buzz." I become very talkative and animated plus instant mood changes from calm to aggressive , very aggressive in fact !
Try to reduce it if you feel it's making you aggressive and combine it with an anti inflammatory
@@protohass Thanks for your reply. I know I need to reduce them but I'm afraid to. I`ve become so reliant on them and that's what frightens me the most. Your comment has made me finally realise that I need to speak with my doctor especially in regards to the aggressive mood changes as they`re so bad that I frighten myself at times. Thanks again for showing your concern
I would like to request information about geriatric patients who are addicted to opioids. They are surprisingly prescribed them easily & provides don't seem to be concerned about the past 20 yrs of addiction. And now the pt is 82 & still on vicodin all day.
So? If it isn't bothering them, then leave them alone. Gees. They're 82 years old. They probably have chronic pain and NEED the meds to function. I'm a biochemist. DONT take away someone's pain meds if they're needed!!!! And opioids DO HAVE A VALID MEDICAL PURPOSE!! Don't be one track minded. Chemotherapy is dangerous too but it has a purpose. Your 82 year old most likely needs the meds for pain, and it's biochemically impossible for a true chronic pain patient to get addicted to the opioids. So be at ease.
@@frankiegiltner6163 First of all, we used to think that, back in the day, that a pt in pain can't become addicted. It's 100% false, educate yourself on this. Second, I'm speaking about my Mother & was inquiring for the expert to discuss geriatric addiction from being offered narcotics for headaches, Valium for sleep, because many yrs ago, that's how medicine was often done. Now, generations of addicts & overdoses. I'm a nurse, a geriatric case manager & have worked with addicts.
Opiates can help with chronic pain but in some people it might not be a good long-term plan when their pain can be resolved by alternative means it varies from person to person it can make you lazy and not try any other means to help their pain that's when addiction comes into play and the pain is secondary
Opioids saved my life. But make no mistakes, getting off of opis is hard.
Fantastic series
Blame the disease don't blame the person thats real asf
14:50 that “wow” effect was so immediate on me, I was like: This fixes everything, this is what I need to cope with my life atm… that was scary hearing that…. Forgot to mention that I was always a person who hates pills, they were scary. And now it just a normal part of life… but it only took this one time: I had a severe headache and someone in my family offered a 20mg oxy…. I was very hesitant and rejected multiple times because I for some reason hated pills (heard so much about it), but my pain were so severe that I gave in and thought… fuck it, only 1 time can’t damage….. booom
I am have serious chronic pain I am prescribed by my physician because I have osteoporosis and osteogenesis imperfecta I’m 30 years old I wish this opioid epidemic never happened because it’s affecting patients who suffer from pain especially when doctors like to judge patients even the ones who are not addicted to the medication all because there prescribed it’s really affecting the ppl who suffer from actual pain there’s a lot of ppl who take the medication just not to feel physical pain especially like me I keep fracturing my spine and I don’t understand how I am but I’m told it’s cause my bones are compared to a 90 year old when it comes to my spine according to my bone density scan
Opioids should only be used for ACUTE pain and only for short term and for cancer patients who are dying...use of these drugs for chronic pain is not a viable treatment! Much better and safer modes of treatment exist and should be available to people who need to learn to live with chronic pain.
So your saying you can live in pain ?. What if it kept you out of a wheelchair. Then would you take it. I say yes you would. Because that is slanderous thinking if you say no.
Sharon, I have debilitating, chronic pain. I've tried a multitude of different treatments for chronic pain, and for me and a large percentage of people unfortunately they don't work. It is a falsehood that there is always good, viable treatment for chronic pain patients. I and so many other pain sufferers wish there was. In this day and age with the treatments available the only way that some pain patients can get any significant relief from their intense suffering is from opiates. For many chronic pain patients it is the only thing that gives them a decent quality of life.
For some people it allows them to continue to work and/or be active participants in their life. The majority of chronic pain patients never have a problem with opiate addiction. Dependence, yes. No one should be swiftly cut off from opiates. Without it they are disabled. Not from addiction but because of their condition.
I do absolutely agree though that there needs to be more insurance support for treatments that can help alleviate pain. Depending on the disorder - myofascial release, body work, massage, biofeedback, meditations, can HELP relieve pain to a degree. For some people with minor chronic pain this might be all that is needed. For others it might help to a degree that allows a reduction of pharmaceutical medications or opiate dose but not eliminate the need.
Acute pain patients are no longer being treated.
Sharon should decide what is good for Sharon and should stop the shoulds and merely offer her opinion
Trying to get a committal on a family member to evaluate for drug addiction is impossible these days.. they say they can only address mental health issues. I agree that there is no separating the two. They'd rather see these people die on the streets than go to the expense of treating them. Interesting idea.. legalize and regulate all illegal drugs.. use the proceeds to treat people that want to overcome drug abuse and addiction. Drug addicts will get the drug whether it's legal or not.. make the system work to address and treat the issue. The money made available will create the finest treatment facilities.
Don't touch opioids kids, LSD/shrooms is a safest option out there - no physical/psychological addiction no harm for your health. Just make sure you don't have mental illnesses running in your family and you are safe.
People need strong pain killers and you'll should not try to stop it, addition is an extreme case u can be addicted to flipping anything in the world !! Stop it, u have got way more issues to talk about
I have a question. Are youngsters just out of college wanting to make huge money through salaries for their jobs only to pay for drugs they are addicted to?
Nobody talks about doctor's biceps?
is "grey rock" some made up word to... formulate, ground, uplift, and present to society?
do you think humanity is about coming up with terms that separate one another?
do you think certain movements perhaps are productive for humanity?
do you think MedCircle is doing good for humanity despite not being transparent at all with everything that they do?
do you ever think about looking into the past and wondering if people debated or discussed or wasted time worrying about trivial social issues?
do you think it should matter if MedCircle is open with everything about themselves?
who even am i to define what a narcissist is?
shouldn't we feel empowered about ourselves and be able to express it, somehow...?
is narcissist a productive term at all for us to use if it just dampens us?
shouldn't we focus, as a human civilization, to create and establish the best possible parameters for life to blossom, including granting them the ability to express themselves?
if not, do you think art should be universal, to the point that our lives are a grand display of the cosmos?
do we make society separate from these behaviors because those take up the personality of a modern day seeker?
are organizations exploiting humans?
what organizations are exploiting humans?
do other forms of life exist, if genetic variation exists, if genetic silencing exists, if genetic modifications exist to incorporate all of the variety of life and nature?
why is it that initially we defined illnesses at near optimal levels of definition, only to have it move slowly over time away leaving medical care closer to only severe case coverage?
why are we letting our people suffer through their lives and live sub-optimally?
why does it take a fancy advanced diagnostician to define what illness a person has or doesn't has?
why does MedCircle believe that we should let the doctor define who all of the specialists are?
why are we letting this broken society define everything, from who and what we are, considering even i don't know what i am anymore?
do you think it's reasonable to call a psychiatrist your therapist?
why do psychiatrists not want to deal with patients and just want to sit comfortably in office?
why do these people just sit and browse social media all day to learn about people?
how many of these people have access to special information only known to the individual, or groups like the government?
why is there a need to create a distinction between the fields of prescriber and non-prescriber?
why are we obfuscating the process and forcing us to go through multiple series of steps?
why does it feel like you are all trolling around?
why does care need to be on a ladder, why isn't care itself justified and allowed to permeate through the layers of society?
why do several organizations do this?
why have we let capitalism take control?
if we have all of this information today, why can't we allow people to use it themselves if they think they have some condition?
why are we experimenting on forms of life continuously, including humans?
why aren't we studying nonphysical phenomena more, instead, in order to achieve innovation and understanding of this universe?
why do you dislike psychedelics so much, is it because they fix issues in a way that big pharma can't capitalize off?
do you think identity dissolution should be applied for everyone?
do you think schizophrenics are immune to capitalism?
do you think people should open up their mind and stay true to themselves?
do you think people should try psychedelics, including the naturally produced dimethyltryptamine, which is illegal for not a single good reason?
why does MedCircle start serious conversations with "believing in something for debate's-sake" to get people to debate about the wrong things?
why does MedCircle like to get people to debate issues that can be solved using trivial forms of reasoning?
do you understand the distinction between logic and reasoning?
why is MedCircle advertising the fact that medication comes in multiple forms, when it's not even essential since it's going to affect our chemistry, anyways?
why are we creating various modes of transport with synthetic medicinal though they all pass through the same digestive system?
why are we wasting resources investing in things that aren't necessary?
why are we pushing opiods for chronic illnesses even though they cause serious social, addiction, biological problems for all of society?
Can opiates lead to mental disorders like schisophrenia?
No. Schizophrenia is a brain disease, and is likely hereditary.
Who's that handsome puff on the floor?
By the looks of the time of posting, rooster was able to post his rant early. He got his worm! By his and a couple of others, it seems that they live on the De-Nile river in Eygpt. Do they not watch, read, see out their windows what is going on? Did they not listen to the above video? 150 people dying everyday doesn't get their attention? Of they had watched the video they would have heard them cover the point about people who are in chronic pain. This is not about them unless they have the misfortune of becoming addicted to opioids. I don't understand these people. They need to see the video and pull their heads out of the sand.
What can a mother do when her son Willnot get better, just watch and wait enable can cause overdose, getting hurt go to jail hitting rock bottom is the same so do you just sit and wait, 4 times detox two Interventions, all you can do is wait and hope.
I would like to clarify something the doctor said: "60,000 who died "last year" of OD (2018? Doesn't actually matter.) is actually "more people than the total amount who died in the Vietnam conflict". That is misleading rubbish. We don't actually know how many died in that war, also considering that conflict had been going on for decades with the French before the USA picked it up out of 'communism terror'. BUT the number of AMERICAN MILITARY who died there was just under 60,000. So, that misrepresentation excludes all N. Vietnamese, VK/VC (S. Vietnamese sympathizers), S. Vietnamese and other allied forces such as Australia, not to mention the civilians who were killed. It is comments like this that essentially force intelligent people in your audience to disregard everything you say, due to poorly researched or poorly presented propaganda. Yes - there is no doubt there is an "opioid problem" worldwide. But has there actually been any known time in human history that there was no dependence on SOMETHING to ease pain? Clarifying the ONE statement to say American servicemen would have allowed you to maintain your intellectual integrity.
What are they giving to the pooch?
Meds are the cure for drug addiction.
$10 a pill.... more like $30-40 😂
Then your being ripped off... And who knows if it's really what you think it is, unless you're the one who is selling it
@@craig265 😂😂 I wouldn't pay that! But yes, not unusual around here to see people pay that much for a blue.
@@goesknows ... 10 years ago you could get a rocker for $15-$25, depending upon the dealer, your relationship with them and if you have something prescribed that they want. Most of the time, buying a 10 pack is much cheaper because you would be able to get a 10 pack for $100-$150.
This is what I've heard, you know? 😉
Interesting that the epidemic began right after we invaded the middle east. Like "The Wizard of Oz" and the poppy seed field, the middle east was filled with the ingredients for Big Pharma to create opioids and then create a solution for the withdrawal as well, methadone or suboxone! So it's a win win for them in the end. Unfortunately, I've lost half of my friends from high school in the past 10+ years. Every month at least, was another overdose. Sometimes, a couple would pass away in a day. Shows the greediness of humanity, lack of empathy or remorse for the repercussions that effect society negatively and as a whole and more importantly it shows how people have no issue in voicing their opinions on social media regarding the "waste of time and money spent on Narcan to save someone who overdosed" .... UNTIL, they are on the receiving end of the same exact situation, watching a family member/loved one turn(s) into a volatile, unpredictable, unable to be trusted anymore, stranger. Then they sing a different tune.
That individual who "isn't worth saving" because one looks down on the addict and feels superior to them must realize that they don't know if that addict has a PhD or a law degree and was once extremely successful and fell into this black hole abyss. Also, that's someone's mother, father, aunt, uncle, brother, son, daughter, sister, cousin, best friend, etc. And just because one is a close-minded, judgemental person who doesn't even bother to try to help the addict because it's "a waste of their time", shame on you types! You're not superior to anyone and should be very careful in the hurtful statements spewing from your mouths because karma really is a bitch and she does come for you in the end!
What is a rocker?
1$ per mg
Not 100% true . The 50% who took to the heroin had less mother connection as a child
Kratom is great for chronic pain.
Kratom is under attack as well. :( Even though from all evidence it is shown to be truly safer than opiates, it has been demonized. Some states have made it illegal. The FDA pushed to make it a schedule 1 drug even though it didn't fit the criteria. But if there wasn't an outcry from the many that safely take it, it would have been scheduled.
This is the most ridiculous discussion I’ve ever heard. You people are the reason why people who are NOT addicted but are really in terrible pain. I am one person who can tell you the truth. Addicts Are overdosing from bad street drugs not medication prescribed from a Dr . I had a terrible car accident and went through 3 back and neck surgeries. I needed pain meds to get through over 2 years of terrible pain . When I was finally over my last surgery I was wiened off the drugs. Today I never even think about them. Addicts are addicts cause they want to be. And when working people have pain we don’t need the government stepping in and people like you telling Drs to stop giving us the meds we need. Get real and stop generalizing. It’s ridiculous
Gail, I absolutely agree that the statistics show that street drugs are the real problem. Because of the lack of alternatives, I also do support the careful use of opiates for severe acute AND chronic pain. But addicts are not addicts because they want to be. As this video states there are some people that have a real and severe issue with opiates. Until we have a true viable alternative for pain treatment the use of opiates for pain needs to be protected. But there needs to be more thought and support to individuals (through no fault of their own) are biologically susceptible to opiate addiction.
@@TheRenwmn Susceptibility does not mean inevitability. I was susceptible to cigarette smoking addiction. For twenty years I thought it impossible to quit. I finally did many years ago. Three packs a day was a lot. Today I can say with absolute certainty I will never smoke again. If God came down and said I had one week to live, I wouldn't touch a cigarette. I made a decision, and never looked back. Most narcotic addicts that have recovered will say nicotine addiction was more difficult to beat. No one said life was easy. It's very difficult at times but we do have choices with addictions.
I really like your channel, all the content,
but this stage looks so clean licked prepped up, it's like a caricature of an american advertisement that wants to sell me something fishy. Tone it down a little again. "Natural" can already be achieved by just not going over the top with artificiality.
Think about the difference between Star Trek (unnaturally clean and designed) and Star Wars (OT, natural people and sets and props that look like everyday use and wear and tear) as extreme examples. You're very close if not above Star Trek in this one. The others, like those with Dr Ramani are much more natural and approachable.
Call me superficial, but the more this looks like a sterile stage, the worse; and as much as I like that cute furball you have there, he ads to that effect of pretentiousness so much you could be selling snake oil instead of knowledge.