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re: Even Sesame Street can't avoid the opioid crisis
Posted on 10/10/19 at 8:03 am to financetiger
Posted on 10/10/19 at 8:03 am to financetiger
This shite has gone way too far. The opioid crisis is
a mess created primarily by pharmaceutical companies pushing oxycontin and other opioids to doctors and telling them that it was a non-addictive medication.
Once it was realized how very addicting these pain medications were, the knee jerk reaction by the govt was to reschedule the drugs and make doctors fearful to prescribe opioids for pain. Once the supply of legal pain medications got tight patients sought street drugs for both addiction and pain relief. AS the demand for street drugs grew, the chinese were more than happy to provide large amounts of fentanyl which has caused tremendous problems with overdoses, etc.
I don't know the answer to this problem but the govt and medical community need to come together and figure a way to get pain relief to those who need it while limiting access to opioids to help prevent addiction. There has to be a good middle ground somewhere, where we are now is not acceptable. Too many people dying from overdoses and people with chronic pain are largely unable to get the medications to ease the pain. We have to find a way to do this better.
a mess created primarily by pharmaceutical companies pushing oxycontin and other opioids to doctors and telling them that it was a non-addictive medication.
Once it was realized how very addicting these pain medications were, the knee jerk reaction by the govt was to reschedule the drugs and make doctors fearful to prescribe opioids for pain. Once the supply of legal pain medications got tight patients sought street drugs for both addiction and pain relief. AS the demand for street drugs grew, the chinese were more than happy to provide large amounts of fentanyl which has caused tremendous problems with overdoses, etc.
I don't know the answer to this problem but the govt and medical community need to come together and figure a way to get pain relief to those who need it while limiting access to opioids to help prevent addiction. There has to be a good middle ground somewhere, where we are now is not acceptable. Too many people dying from overdoses and people with chronic pain are largely unable to get the medications to ease the pain. We have to find a way to do this better.
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Posted on 10/10/19 at 8:07 am to LSU2001
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I don't know the answer to this problem but the govt and medical community need to come together and figure a way
You're expecting the people who created the problem to have a solution? How many times you gonna let this pair frick things up? People stopped going blind from tainted booze once prohibition ended...
Posted on 10/10/19 at 8:09 am to LSU2001
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This shite has gone way too far. The opioid crisis is a mess created primarily by pharmaceutical companies pushing oxycontin and other opioids to doctors and telling them that it was a non-addictive medication. Once it was realized how very addicting these pain medications were, the knee jerk reaction by the govt was to reschedule the drugs and make doctors fearful to prescribe opioids for pain. Once the supply of legal pain medications got tight patients sought street drugs for both addiction and pain relief. AS the demand for street drugs grew, the chinese were more than happy to provide large amounts of fentanyl which has caused tremendous problems with overdoses, etc. I don't know the answer to this problem but the govt and medical community need to come together and figure a way to get pain relief to those who need it while limiting access to opioids to help prevent addiction. There has to be a good middle ground somewhere, where we are now is not acceptable. Too many people dying from overdoses and people with chronic pain are largely unable to get the medications to ease the pain. We have to find a way to do this better.
“It too early for dis.”
-a cookie-addicted swatch of blue carpet
Posted on 10/10/19 at 8:41 am to LSU2001
quote:Of course. The addicts have nothing to do with it? Every doctor knows opioids are addictive, they always have. But, opioids are effective and a neccessary treatment. shite happens. Blame those who manipulate for opiates and the relatively few pill mills.
This shite has gone way too far. The opioid crisis is
a mess created primarily by pharmaceutical companies
That doesn't happen, though, because their pockets aren't deep enough.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:52 am to LSU2001
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I don't know the answer to this problem
As someone who struggles on a daily basis battling my addiction, I can tell you one major issue is people not understanding that addiction really is a sickness. It's taken me over 3 years to finally accept that I've done terrible things because of my addiction, but my addiction doesn't make me a terrible person.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:13 am to LSU2001
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LSU2001
Nailed it.
I wrote a white paper about this in 2012 at a think tank in DC.
Only thing you left out was Mexican cartels switching their model from pot to opium in mid 2000’s due to legalization of pot movement in western US.
Recipe for our current disaster.
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