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I'm aware of that. "freedom" includes the freedom to enslave oneself. It cuts both ways.
The really sad thing is that the creators of Oxy originally marketed it to doctors as something that only led to addiction in < 1% of people.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
Oxycontin: How Purdue Pharma Helped Spark The Opioid Epidemic | IFLScience
I agree that Oxy is abused and like many such pain drugs is more addictive than their makers claim. The advantage of Oxy was said to be it's timed release feature to give a more consistent dose over a longer time, but many of it's abusers crush it to get a stronger effect over a shorter time. Oxy was not available when I had my orthopedic surgeries and the suggested dosage of prescription pain meds left lags between one (4-hour) dose trailing off and the next (4-hour) dose kicking in - that was what Oxy was supposed to help.
I've also had surgeries, and I also deal with chronic pain. I'm very familiar with the lag you mentioned. I was given one prescription for Oxy following rotator cuff surgery in 2009. I only took 2 or 3 of them. After that the pain got to where I could deal with it using hydrocodone and ibuprofen. I didn't like Oxy because it DOES last a lot longer, and so does the insomnia side effect.
My favorite was Vicodin 500mg or 750mg (it caused me the least side effects and it was still decent for pain) but my doctor(s) kept rotating the prescription pain meds types (brands?) on a 5 day basis explaining that with such rotation I was less likely to experience addiction.
Vicodin = Hydrocodone.
I have a prescription for that. The drill in FL is you go to a pain management doc (mine is a neurologist) once a month. They can prescribe you 30 days worth of meds. You can be asked to take a urine test at any one of those visits.
I only take the stuff when the pain gets really bad. I would rather keep my tolerance low, plus my job requires me to use my brain - being drug addled hinders that.
The OP is misleading, the opiate epidemic is not limited to red states. Buncha BS:roll:
I have never been on them for more than three weeks, usually having extra doses left by then. I too took them as infrequently as possible - pain is your friend to an extent since it lets you know when you have overdone it while still healing.
What is the problem is bigger than anything "people and their friends/family" can deal with on their own?
With the country in the throes of an epidemic, communities across the nation are being forced to confront the harrowing, and often fatal, effects of opioid abuse. But solutions — such as creating intervention programs in Ohio, providing access to treatment in Alabama, or investing in prevention initiatives in Missouri — cost money.
The Department of Justice recently announced it would award almost $59 million in grants for programs addressing the opioid epidemic across the country. Nearly 60,000 Americans died because of drug overdoses in 2016, with the majority of those deaths attributed to opioids, according to the DOJ.
"These grant awards have primarily been directed to states and communities hardest hit by the opioid epidemic who are experiencing significant increases in the number of overdose deaths and non-fatal overdoses," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
About $24 million of the money awarded will go to 50 local governments that are fighting opioid addiction through a variety of measures aimed at prevention and treatment.
Here's a look at three counties that received money, what they're doing to curb opioid overdoses in their communities and how these grants will affect their efforts to save lives.
So I just found this:
Justice Department Awards $59 Million To Groups Fighting Opioid Epidemic : NPR
59mil isn't much in the overall scheme of things, but maybe they can find a good way to deal with the problem using these test beds and then enlarge it.
Which kinda makes me wonder why the Justice Department is involved in health and pharmaceutical issues. Health is not synonymous with justice in my dictionary. It seems like most bureaucracies enjoy mission creep, as long as it makes their budget grow.
"Stories today are another reminder that addiction crisis knows no boundaries," Gov. Scott Walker tweeted Wednesday. "Prayers for all in the fight."
The search of Sidener’s condominium and vehicle turned up four guns; six drug pipes; Oxycodone, Adderall and other pills; suspected marijuana; suspected crack cocaine; needles and other drug paraphernalia; two digital scales; and a ledger and notebook with names and dollar amounts in it.
Almost no one was even talking about this before Trump came along, because the people who are dying the Elite Class are happy to have die and go away.... have some patience please, plans must be devised which takes time.....not knowing what the health system will look like does not help.
THey found in states where medical pot can be prescribed for pain, both opiod addiction and deaths dropped drastically.
The Opioid Crisis | Castlight Health
Uh, no. This was heavily covered for at least the last 10 years. You may have missed it. My GF used to counsel individuals and families from all strata of society who are affected by this menace. My niece got caught up in this addiction about 10 years ago, she was lucky, she got help and she is clean now. You have no idea...
Nobody does but at least we are finally working on it. Near as I can tell Obama never mentioned it till fall of 2015, after Trump had been on the trail talking about it, and before that the Fed Gov been barely concerned with the problem at any level, it was the locals and maybe a few states only who saw this coming in any reasonable time frame.
Reminds me a lot actually of how we ****ed up Ebola in Africa last go around....just really bad performance from nearly everyone till the crisis was huge.
No....Ebola was spreading and Obama sent in the US military to assist, and the epidemic was controlled. You think Trump would send in assistance during an outbreak? Hell, he hints at stopping assistance in Puerto Rico, and that is an American territory.
We were extremely late to deal with Ebola the last time, just as we were here, through negligence.
The descendants of Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, a pair of psychiatrist brothers from Brooklyn, are members of a billionaire clan with homes scattered across Connecticut, London, Utah, Gstaad, the Hamptons, and, especially, New York City. It was not until 2015 that they were noticed by Forbes, which added them to the list of America’s richest families. The magazine pegged their wealth, shared among twenty heirs, at a conservative $14 billion. (Descendants of Arthur Sackler, Mortimer and Raymond’s older brother, split off decades ago and are mere multi-millionaires.) To a remarkable degree, those who share in the billions appear to have abided by an oath of omertà: Never comment publicly on the source of the family’s wealth.
That may be because the greatest part of that $14 billion fortune tallied by Forbes came from OxyContin, the narcotic painkiller regarded by many public-health experts as among the most dangerous products ever sold on a mass scale. Since 1996, when the drug was brought to market by Purdue Pharma, the American branch of the Sacklers’ pharmaceutical empire, more than two hundred thousand people in the United States have died from overdoses of OxyContin and other prescription painkillers. Thousands more have died after starting on a prescription opioid and then switching to a drug with a cheaper street price, such as heroin. Not all of these deaths are related to OxyContin—dozens of other painkillers, including generics, have flooded the market in the past thirty years. Nevertheless, Purdue Pharma was the first to achieve a dominant share of the market for long-acting opioids, accounting for more than half of prescriptions by 2001.
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