Posted on 12/12/2016 6:53:49 PM PST by DBCJR
Interviewing Dan Cross, CEO of Advanced Recovery, an opioid treatment program in Oklahoma City, also known as a methadone clinic. Advanced Recovery is at 4901 S Pennsylvania Ave. Their phone 405-605-4005 and their website is http://advancedrecovery.co
1. How bad is the problem? Quantitatively and qualitatively?
a. Quantitatively – 245,000 use opioids for non-medical reasons, not counting heroin.
b. Qualitatively – Most powerful addiction and why. Photo of man falling from window in hospital gown in PowerPoint example, slide 5.
2. Why are current approaches not working well?
a. Current approaches are almost exclusively “supply-side” , slide 7.
b. Current treatment provided:
i. Traditional
ii. Prominent Medication Assisted Treatment
c. What happens when powerful DEMAND meets with rapidly diminishing SUPPLY?
d. Spike in heroin epidemic predictable.
3. What needs to be done?
a. Fund effective treatment options at Federal & State levels.
i. Write & call legislators.
b. Community response plan:
i. Prevention
ii. Treatment
1. Identify and catalogue best treatment options.
2. Identify and catalogue wrap-around services need to support treatment.
Planned. Open the borders, politicians are bought and paid for (we work with one of the cartels, btw, and that’s been documented), and flood the streets with heroin targeting white people. It’s genocide through drug addiction.
Oklahoma City is no different than the other United States ~ This is a National/Global Threat!
Pray for Trump & Pence...
I took 6 lortabs a day for nearly 10 years. They actually had little effect on me and did not seem to ease the pain but just a little.
The Dr. stopped prescribing them and I seem to do just about as well on over the counter pain killers. Actually none of them do much good.
When I had my first cataract surgery they had us lying on a gurney. It was sort of an assembly line. I was beginning to really ache. Just before the surgery they put something in my iv and all of a sudden all my aches and pains were gone.
I felt fine. I still wonder what it was.
Maybe morphine.
I had that for severe pain after surgery.
I now understand how people can get hooked on it.
It felt really good when it went to work.
Propfol and or a little Versed.
Conventional addition treatment programs have about a 15% success rate. Given that miserable effectiveness, the key is to make sure people are educated so they never start using these awful drugs. Several days ago on the FNC one of their resident MD commentators said that we have to de-stigmatize heroin use. My view is the polar opposite - stigmatize the hell out of it.
I think this helps explains why the suicide rate of white women in the US has increased for the first time ever. These pills are usually the way women choose to check out to my understanding, especially if they are addicted. I wonder what % are over 60 and childless.
Doctors
Neither propofol nor Versed relieves pain. More likely fentanyl.
Ah, yes...Versed! I had a double shot of that just before a stent procedure last year. That stuff was fantastic.
Neither Propofol nor versed are pain killers by definition, as they do not act on the mu receptors. However, they will due to their anesthetic effect alter one’s perception of pain even though you are not unconscious. Propofol in higher doses will render you unconscious as would versed. For minor surgery propofol is a great drug.
Neither Propofol nor versed are pain killers by definition, as they do not act on the mu receptors. However, they will due to their anesthetic effect alter one’s perception of pain even though you are not unconscious. Propofol in higher doses will render you unconscious as would versed. For minor surgery propofol is a great drug.
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