re: Fentanyl deaths up 540% in three years

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probably from the bevy of highly publicized lawsuits concerning illegal kickbacks

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I'm glad they caught those unethical bastards. Wouldn't call two cases from years ago a "bevy" though. I stand by my statement - anyone who thinks the common doctor gets financial kickbacks for prescribing meds is completely ignorant. Your stupid is showing on this topic. Sorry.

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Ain't no kickbacks for any prescribed drugs

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And the mafia doesn't exist. I get it.

Fentanyl lolli pops. Corpsmen always had a few on hand at all time. Takes a man's mind off of extreme injuries almost immediately. I'm talking horrible injuries and guy just laughing and shooting the shot.

Way more potent than morphine

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I wish I knew what the answer was to this problem. That's completely absurd.

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I watched something on it a few weeks ago. I don't know much about the deep web or whatever, but from what I understand, the site 'the silk road'?? was THE site for buying illegal drugs online, but when the feds shut it down... there were multiple sites similar to it that started popping up. People are able to easily order Fentanyl, which I think they order from China and other countries.

If I am not mistaking, they ship it in things like stuffed animals, etc, but it's much easier to come by today than ever before. Until watching that show, I didn't realize how little a person has to take in order for it to kill them.

If in heroin, it gives the user a much better high. Also, sellers will put it in the product from time to time with the intent to cause people to OD, because when users hear that people are ODing in a certain area, they migrate to that area because it is usually a sign of cleaner heroin.

i am the residebnt deep web expert.


there about 1000 deep web websites. silk road was just the most popular. but there are quite a few each specialises in different sit


alpha bay just went down last month. the trade route, dream market, there are countless ones but for the most part, the same vendors sell on all of them.


i can order fent there as easily as i can buy weed, which is after you learn what you're doing, as easy as it is to buy shite off amazon.


i take lexapro and even though i have a script fo rit, i buy it the deep web because i don't like everyhting i do being on my medical records.

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Kickbacks are probably a significantly smaller contributor to the problem than the flooding of false information by Big Pharma.

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I'm happy to see you are stepping back from your ridiculous claim that doctors taking kickbacks is the primary cause of drug addicts overdosing on fentanyl, which is made in china, sold as heroin, and obtained from the streets.

The boogyman Big Pharma doesn't give a rats arse about opioids. They are all generic, cheap as dirt to make, and don't make them any money.

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i know you're partial to your doctors because they accept your Medicaid but they are human and prone to corruption too.

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You're a really poor guesser also. I'm an MD, not a medicaid patient. Let me do some guessing. You have probably been addicted to pain killers at some point in your life and rather than blaming your weakness of character for getting addicted you are blaming the prescribing MD that you begged to Rx your oxycodone.

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Apparently people need to test their heroin before shooting up.

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They should just snort it instead of shooting up. Problem solved

Your current opinion of the opioid epidemic is founded on out-of-date information. The Purdue Pharma settlement was ten years ago for unethical activities twenty years ago. And the fact is, oxycontin when taken as directed twice a day is less addictive than taking immediate release oxycodone several times a day. Sure, they probably should have known idiot hillbillies would crush and snort the stuff to get high and they paid for that negligence.

As an MD I have never seen or taken notice of opioid marketing by pharma since finishing med school over 10 years ago. And the idea that we are getting kickbacks for writing drug prescriptions is also laughable.

Maybe as a young MD I am not aware of the shady happenings a few decades ago. But I can tell you with confidence that today's doctors are fairly stingey with narcotic prescriptions. Our controlled substance Rx are monitored by the state and those that prescribe a large amount get special attention from the state boards.

Your implication that it's greedy corrupt doctors that are responsible for the opioid epidemic is just plain wrong. If you spent one week in the trenches and seeing the manipulators we have to deal with daily then you would agree with me - it's not the doctors, it's not pharma, it's the fault of the individual patients who are looking for a high or an chemical escape from their unfortunate circumstances.

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Probably wouldn't happen if safer shite was readily available.

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I can think of a safer drug, bit the assclown policy makers insist on it being Schedule I.

Yeah, I've had my wisdom teeth pulled, gallbladder taken out, and a broken arm.. Never even taken Tylenol as an adult, told the doctors I didn't want pain medicine. Sure, I had some pain, but the body is pretty fricking amazing at easing it on its own.

I'm a firm believer some just concentrate on any physical pain they have and it just amplifies it. Somewhere along the line people started thinking they should never feel anything.