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Estimating the Actual Death Rate Caused by Prescription Opioid Medication and Illicit Fentanyl
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons ^ | 041618 | John D. Lilly, DO

Posted on 04/16/2018 1:23:33 PM PDT by grumpygresh

The U.S. is said to be suffering from a crisis in deaths from opioid overdoses, prompting legislative and other efforts to clamp down on physician prescribing of these drugs. This article is an effort to identify the causes of these deaths, using data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)through 2015, and the Wonder database compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

(Excerpt) Read more at jpands.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addicts; crisis; darwin; fentanyl; junkies; karma; opioids; wod
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Exactly.


21 posted on 04/16/2018 2:24:17 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: grumpygresh; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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22 posted on 04/16/2018 2:29:26 PM PDT by bitt (We do not need the electric chair - we need electric bleachers!)
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To: servantboy777

I’m surprised that the Native American nations haven’t tackled this. Host their own prescription and Medical services for their own Sovereign Nations.


23 posted on 04/16/2018 2:39:03 PM PDT by BOBWADE (RINOs suck)
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To: grumpygresh

24 posted on 04/16/2018 3:01:14 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: grumpygresh

I’ve been shouting this since the beginning.


25 posted on 04/16/2018 3:32:03 PM PDT by blu (Save us the time of explaining the links...read the article...unless you're Lazamatz.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Unfortunately, many conservatives are all for this. Some right here. Tucker Carlson is a perfect example.

I predicted this would happen. It was so obvious from the beginning, wasn’t it?


26 posted on 04/16/2018 3:34:07 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: grumpygresh

Kind of like that wildly successful prohibition thingy?


27 posted on 04/16/2018 3:36:42 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: grumpygresh

Being a Freeper with a chronic pain condition, I can say that those who are legally prescribed opioids are having their dosages altered with no change in symptoms, some only receive one week of pills at a time, some are being denied pills by the pharmacy because they are only allowed to dispense a certain # of pills per week. These changes, as irrational as they are, are made even more irrational because they are totally random.

People who live in pain are under much stress wondering whether the next time they go to pain management their script/dosage will be changed. Pain management offices are printing new contracts for patients to sign.

A woman in my support group had her meds cut in half. The reasoning was that the dr would lose his license if he didn’t. What we have has no cure. RSD/CRPS. It also has no standardized treatment. These random rule changes are cruel and unusual treatment that they wouldn’t do to an overdosing addict.

What other meds that are legally prescribed impacted by the way they are abused by addicts?


28 posted on 04/16/2018 3:38:27 PM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: grumpygresh
This is exactly what I would expect of medical doctors.

This was addressed somewhat by an earlier post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3647886/posts

and I applied my own colorful commentary there:

"But the takeaway from MOTUS should be a very Conservative reaction:

Question EVERYTHING the government says, especially when special interests are driving things. It will take generations for the damage wrought over the past 70 years to be reversed...if action began TODAY.

But the problem governs not government action. Nor the medical community. It governs personal responsibility. I fault everyone suffering from this so-called “opioid epidemic” for their own poor choices. That includes not asking “why” they have the pain in the first place. Who the hell actually trusts their doctor implicitly? That’s as crazy as “settled science.”

Sadly, I doubt I will live to see a medical name applied to the condition from which I recovered and which I believe afflicts 2/3 of the country, as this “climate change” debate is a red flag for the state of science...applicable to all areas, not just health."

It's a lot more complicated than MOTUS describes, but at its core it's a lucid analysis.

29 posted on 04/16/2018 3:59:27 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: miss marmelstein

The one tell tale sign that the fix was in on how to solve the opioid crisis was that both parties, aka uni-party, was for it and all in on it.

The Deep state needs a vigorous illicit drug trade. The DEA profits by not interdicting drugs. Sure, they’ll do some high profile busts for PR, but they get their cut by partnering with cartels and money laundering banks. Then we have the prison industrial complex which is great for State and local governments when it comes time to dole out contracts for cheap prison labor, construction and services.

So, when the public sees opioid deaths go up, they can blame the usual suspects: pain patients, doctors, and the pharmaceutical companies that make opioids. The public doesn’t care about pain patients, doctors are easy to villianize, and the producers of opioids are lumped in with big pharma.


30 posted on 04/16/2018 4:37:40 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: grumpygresh

Great post, grumpy. The public will care once they find out their doctor can’t stop their agony.


31 posted on 04/16/2018 4:47:17 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: grumpygresh

I greatly appreciate this thread. I have been dealing with chronic pain for 12 years due to a collision. I was on fentanyl for about 18 months until my last surgery 11 months ago. The surgery helped. I had no issues at all ceasing the fentanyl tho I am still on other milder opiods. It is an embarrassment to admit these days to be taking these medications, especially when I was on the fentanyl patches and people would ask what they were. But, without them I would be in debilitating pain despite 3 surgeries to alleviate damage. I still have days I can’t get off the couch, cook supper for my beloved husband or play with my grandbabies but thanks to modern medicine most days I function well enough to do those things. I have found many natural products and therapies that help but when it comes down to brass tacks, I am mobile thanks to a fabulous spinal pain management specialist who can still prescribe opiods. Us baby boomers are worn out and many of us have aging bodies that give constant pain and yet we are a generation which has embraced life. We don’t want to stop enjoying life because the blasted gubmint leaves us in pain!

Thank you for posting this article. It did me good to read and I’m also relieved to see so many of my fellow FRiends understanding comments.


32 posted on 04/16/2018 7:32:58 PM PDT by Wneighbor (A pregnant woman is responsible for TWO lives, not one. (It's a wonderful "deplorable" truth))
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To: Wneighbor

More corroborating information. Opioid deaths up and opioid prescriptions down.

http://www.wiscnews.com/news/state-and-regional/opioid-prescriptions-down-percent-in-wisconsin/article_8f9d8f92-a246-55a8-8243-6f21bd1563b0.html


33 posted on 04/16/2018 8:11:12 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
See if you can get the ice water pump for after your surgery.

The cool keeps the swelling down and that speeds the healing. Because you have a soft steady coolness rather then the freezing cold of a cold pack it is less of a shock to the system.

34 posted on 04/16/2018 8:20:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: antidisestablishment
it is not a deception....too many people are taking too many drugs, period...

the more you take, the more you need....

it does not end, but it sure doesn't have to start...

35 posted on 04/16/2018 9:45:45 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Are you capable of reading, logic or compassion?

The government is skewing the numbers (lying) about this “crisis.” The increase in deaths is directly attributable to fentanol—not prescription pain relievers. I don’t know you, but many people live with chronic, debilitating pain and it’s not the government’s place to decide they don’t need serious medication for pain. There are some conditions where nothing else allows people to function. Withholding that treatment is the same as purposefully inflicting that pain. Are you a sadist or just a power-hungry liberal?


36 posted on 04/17/2018 3:18:04 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: antidisestablishment
You are absolutely 100% correct and for the record I am not one of the people that need pain rereif. I just know a government lie when I see it.

When I see my 35 year old DIL live in horrible intractible pain I want to cry and do cry. 35 years old and all she has to look forward to is increasing pain.

37 posted on 04/17/2018 3:23:33 AM PDT by muggs
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To: AnalogReigns
yes, or increase deaths due to suicide.
38 posted on 04/17/2018 4:13:13 AM PDT by muggs
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To: muggs

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejp.970


39 posted on 04/17/2018 4:19:11 AM PDT by muggs
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Wim Hof


40 posted on 04/17/2018 5:18:09 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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