There is a concerted effort to make US pharmaceutical companies into monsters. Be careful what you wish for. Yes, too many people get opiods, but there are also many people who need them. Any time you see the media start a crusade, you can be sure it will turn into a witch hunt.
The very first thing we need to do is take effective pain control away from veterans. Veterans receiving pain relief at taxpayers’ expense is the real scandal.
Opioids fill a need; families like the Sacklers don’t.
I bet the Democrat positions sound perfectly reasonable when you’re doped up.
“The rash of broken homes and deaths caused by their over-prescription...”
I’d bet you wouldn’t think they were “over prescribed” if you got them for some excruciating pain you were enduring.
There are people who are in pain. They need very strong medicine.
The Fentanyl that is sold on the street is not being dispensed or created under the eye of the FDA in any case. It is being imported, usually from China into Mexico and from there across the border.
Because of this apparently the Pharmaceutical companies should not come up with pain killers.
If this drug gives the right "high" then it is going to be on the streets inside a year no matter what the FDA says.
If somebody invented (and they will) a pain-killer that is not addictive, impossible to overdose on, much more effective than anything available now, etc.,, these vipers would still be against it. Just like the crusade against e cigs.
I’m on deck for a total hip replacement. I checked to see if my regular scripts were ready for pick up and noticed I had an order for narcan for 126.00. This is a nasal spray used for overdose of pain killers. I didn’t have the surgery yet nor do I have pain killers. I questioned the doctor who prescribed them and was told anytime pain killers were to be prescribed to a patient the doctor must, by law dispense an overdose script. I told the pharmacy I didn’t want it, I don’t plan on overdosing.
Drivel. First opioids are not by definition an “epidemic”. Epidemics are caused by transmittable diseases. I’m pretty sure we won’t turn into a junkie just by coming into contact with one. Second opioids are the ONLY way to control severe pain. NSAIDS have a maximum dose threadhold where no matter how much higher the dose you take the pain relief doesn’t improve. Opioids have no such limitation. Third the pharmaceutical companies are not trying to create addicts nor is the medical profession. For every sob story where some poor unsuspecting “victim” find himself wanting to continue the drugs after the initial prescription there are far more who simply scored the stuff to get high.
From personal experience with several major surgeries unless you enjoy severe pain you need something stronger than Advil for the first couple of post surgical days, but you really have no desire to continue the stuff once you can manage the pain with NSAIDS. For one thing they constipate you and that may seem funny, but it isn’t. And second if your pain is severe this totally counteracts any high you could possibly get.
Addicts to be referred to henceforth as junkies are not victims. They get into their condition of their own free will, and blaming anyone else for their condition is a form of lying. The have only themselves to blame
Prescription opioids have declined signicantly since 2013, but opioid related deaths are still increasing.
The idea is to continue to demonize doctors and pharmacutical companies instead of laying the blame on drug trafficking at SW border. Sure, there were very bad doctors and unscrupulous companies, but this has largely been wrung out of the system. What company wants to make opioids and face lawsuits from AGs across the country? What doctor wants to risk prescribing opiates and risk their liberty or license?
But fentanyl and heroin are still cheap and available. Big Pharma and doctors have nothing to do with that. We should all know the answer by now. Congress, top officials at FBI, DEA, DOJ are being paid via money laundering banks, so this cannot stop. Of course, no one will ever be able to prove this because the government benefits from criminal activity and is in control of the legal process.
So, why not put out a story that diverts the publics attention away from the government sponsored drug cartels. At least, we can pretend that there are people in govenment fighting for the people’s safety. What BS.
An epidemic? I’ve always been skeptical of the triggering language used by every news outlet.
Its largely NOT an epidemic, though it does target some communities in greater numbers.
“Five percent of U.S. adults say they have abused or been addicted to opioids or prescription painkillers, up from 1 percent in 2017, possibly reflecting a greater awareness and willingness to talk about the problem.”
from:
https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/nearly-one-in-three-people-know-someone-addicted-to-opioids-more-than-half-of-millennials-believe-it-is-easy-to-get-illegal-opioids
The war against drug companies geared up for 2020.
It’s the only thing that helps congress make it through the day.
pain is completely subjective....tell people they need this idiotic new drug, they will find the “need”...
In all hands, rat poison is poison - does it follow that the feds must decree how much "America" "needs"?
the FDA thinks that what America needs is an opioid ten times stronger than Fentanyl.
It's quite possibly what a class of patients needs.
How did such a collectivist screed get on Townhall?
What? Give me a break, "opiod crisis" was not even a factor in the election.