Posted on 01/28/2018 7:37:25 AM PST by JP1201
‘Healers become dealers’
Opioids kill first by slowing down breathing, then by depriving the brain and body of oxygen, the very stuff of life.
By 2009, drug overdose deaths had become the leading cause of accidental deaths in the U.S., surpassing traffic fatalities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that the nation faced an opioid epidemic.
Overprescribing has fueled much of this epidemic, said Dr. Anna Lembke, an associate professor of psychiatry, behavioral sciences and anesthesiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
“So how did healers become dealers?” she asked.
It happened as medicine became an industry, she said, with doctors practicing “assembly-line medicine” in “health care factories.”
Factories do well with things like knee replacements, but the system breaks down when it comes to addiction, said the psychiatrist, who runs Stanford’s Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. “I can make more money spending five minutes with a patient and prescribing a pill than I can spending an hour with the patient in psychotherapy.”
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When Obama left Iran expand their Opium Sales into the USA.
The Dirty Secret No One Talks About, Tehran’s Heroin Drug Trade / its Narco -War Against America
Although it goes into a lot of details, it is a March 2015 article.
a little perspective on drug relayed deaths
In 2014, opioids were involved in 28,647 deaths — 61% of all US drug overdose deaths — and 10,574 were related to heroin
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the inspector general in 2008 reported 180,000 deaths by medical error among Medicare patients alone.
An estimated 88,0008 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women8) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States
But, but, but......gun violence. Right?
Abortion kills even more.
Drugs kill more Americans than guns, cars and AIDS.
Right...and the Excrement eating democrats don’t want to build the wall. Vote-whores. They don’t care about Americans. All the care about is getting elected to their cushy do- nothing chair warming jobs. Mdisgusting degenerates.
I spoke with one of my doctors regarding the current opioid problem here in Pennsylvania.
She said a large part of it was her superior’ attitude.
They were telling her that if a patient came to her in pain, why would she deny them relief. That if she could help a patient feel better, she was obligated to prescribe medication that would help.
You can buy all the drugs you want on the internet. lot’s of Opiods and heroin available. Delivered to your door. No Script required.I have emailed the Whitehouse 10 times, Hannity, Rush
and no one cares to respond.
It really exploded AFTER we took over Afghanistan. Opium production has gone up every year since. The worldwide illicit drug trade is a 320 billion a year business. Intelligence agencies and banks get a healthy share of that. Governments get a doped up populace.
That’s why we have a dope epidemic.
Who benefits?
From your link....
....The Federation of State Medical Boards, which received up to $2 million from drugmakers, recommended doctors not face punishment for prescribing large amounts of opioids and called on those boards to punish doctors who “undertreated” pain.
By the 1990s, juries awarded more than $16 million to patients and families whose loved ones suffered from pain, concluding that the nursing homes, nurses and doctors that failed to give opioids were guilty of negligence.
***healers become dealers***
I remember back in the 1970s and 80s when some pill pushing private practice doctor’s offices had lines around the corner of people wanting to get in to get prescriptions for various drugs.
Oh and alcohol is just as bad.
/Sarc
obama.
At least there are recent reports of us blowing up their labs.
We do not teach people how to deal with their feelings and emotions. This is why drug and alcohol use are at all-time highs.
Don’t deal with your feelings, here is a pill that makes you feel good.....temporarily.
Don’t deal with your pain, here is a pill that makes the pain go away....temporarily.
Then, those people need more and more of the crutch.
Medicines and drugs have their place, but only when people are in control of themselves.
Society’s lack of understanding and control over emotions is why we have snowflakes, vagina-people, deviants, pedophiles and many criminals.
Our crime rates would plummet if people understood and could control their emotions.
But nobody wants to talk about this....it is part of our mental health crisis and it is what fuels the drug trade.
“Abortion kills even more.”
Exactly.
Most heroin comes here from Mexico.
Build the wall.
Overprescribing has fueled much of this epidemic, said Dr. Anna Lembke, an associate professor of psychiatry, behavioral sciences and anesthesiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
“So how did healers become dealers?” she asked.
Government interference in Doctor Patient and pharmacist relationship, propaganda. In Canada I walk into a pharmacy and purchase codeine cough syrup $15. In the USA I go to a hospital where their emergency room is being used as a weekend clinic due to a flu epidemic they charge $1000 hospital and doctors emergency fee cause I have insurance instead of a clinic visit to get a scrip of codeine I buy for $20 at a pharmacy. Is it better I support the black market for drugs?
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