re: Honest Question about the "Opioid Epidemic"

Yes they are. Good job

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If you went to see your doctor and they told you to go home and gave you a complete list of natural ways to become healthy, would you do it? Or would you call that doctor a quack bc "You paid to get well and they didn't write you any Rxs!"?

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I would trust that doctor more than any other I'd ever met. He's not just grabbing cash and he's taken some initiaive to educate himself outside of what he's being spoon fed by the system.

The AMA and BigPharma created this in concert with "researchers" at some universities that are plugged into grant sponsors like NIH.

They create the problem with super strong drugs, idiot docs that write scripts rather than treat root causes. Then there's a problem. Surprise surprise.

Now we need all sorts of research done to understand the problem and fix the problem. Cha ching.
Now we need govt initiatives. Cha ching.
Now we need other drugs to get people off the current drugs. Cha ching.
Now doctors have another subset of patients for special referrals, special tests, etc. Cha ching.

Do some reading on the history of the AMA. How it thwarted the growth of medicine that the market was demanding and then its gradual transformation to an arm of the Democratic party (aka its moronic stance on ObamaCare and other measures). Add in the 1965 Medicare Act and you can then understand why we've been on this path for over 50 years now.

Medical care is getting worse and doctors are getting crappier, encounter times shorter, errors more common, life expectancy shorter, costs higher. So much for the Hippocratic Oath.

Oh and for the doctors that want to knash your teeth at this - go reconcile the abhorrent number of medical errors & first do no harm, then get back to me.

This seems mandatory, somehow

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How much blame belongs on the abuser?
100%


I agree. Just like it's all those illiterate undereducated kids faults that they're stupid right?

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That's kind of like comparing apples to oranges...good job. Are people so stupid that they just do what the doc tells them. It's the parents fault that kids are stupid....but it's your fault if you get addicted to pills.

Mostly because of the expansion of Medicaid. Poors getting free stuff from doctors who get paid by the TAXPAYERS!

Not all minds are the same. Some can do coke and heroin and not do them again. Others reward them once and are trapped.

I’m not sure why you started this thread. You believe 100% of the blame is on the individual, and you don’t want to believe anything else. That’s cool.

Nobody here is saying that the individual has zero responsibility. This issue is not black or white like you want it to be.

Addiction is very real, but the effectiveness of opioid medications to treat pain is also very real.

The big problem is both oxycodone and hydrocodone have become generic and big pharma no longer profits from its use. Since the amount of problems is not sufficient to provoke the government into action, lobbyists have combined pain meds with fentanyl and heroin to create an actionable crisis.

Doctors are no longer allowed to utilize effective treatment and patients are no longer able to utilize inexpensive relief.