it's crooked Dr's proscribing opioids when they shouldn't is the problem now the junk is cut wi fentanyl and they are dropping like flys
Posted on 02/13/2017 9:37:43 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Heroin town USA: Louisville is hit with 52 overdose cases in just 32 HOURS as opioid epidemic continues to ravage America
Louisville, Kentucky, has become the latest American city to have experienced an alarming cluster of heroin overdoses, with 52 drug-related emergency calls coming in during 32 hours last week.
According to Louisville Metro Emergency Services, it was more than double the number of overdose calls that came in during the same time period the previous week.
The agency said the 911 calls started coming in at around midnight on Thursday and continued through 8am on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The article didn’t mention where the heroin came from but commenters did - Mexico and Afghanistan, but so do other countries where there is limited or no govt control of heroin-growing areas such as Burma/Myammar, Communist Laos, and the northern parts of Vietnam, plus Red China (Yunnan province according a Red Guard official I interviewed in 1971).
Fentanyl is reportedly made largely in Red China.
Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
“a lot of “desperate chronic pain patients” are simply lying drug addicts btw. I deal with these people all the time.”
90% of them. I do, too. So does my wife. One in the medical realm, the other in the criminal.
Takes three things to be either a junkie or a criminal: selfishness, immaturity, lack of foresight.
I work in an ER. I have seen plenty of people that have had hundreds of ER visits just in my ER. And the doctors don’t hesitate to medicate. It ought to be a crime.
My ex was.destroyed.by “pain management”.
We’ve been guarding Afghan opium since G.W. went to war there.
Yes, the people are making themselves junkies. And the doctors prescribe the stuff, the pharmacy sells it, and the drug companies ship it. All of this will be reported to the relevant state and federal authorities. The question is, who is responsible for throwing the off switch?
In cases like this, it looks like an underground economy based on trafficking in prescription narcotics has become a quasi-accepted way of life.
it's crooked Dr's proscribing opioids when they shouldn't is the problem now the junk is cut wi fentanyl and they are dropping like flys
Hillary connected maker of the anti-overdose drug used in ER’s across the country has raised the price of their drug by over 600% ...
Correction - a lot of DOCTORS are pill pushers. You don't just walk into a pharmacy and buy narcotics without a prescription written and signed by "doctors".
Or Heroin laced with other crap.
What is so bad is the propaganda coming out of all this. There are 1.33 Million Chronic Pain Patients who have incurable diseases or health issues that only pain meds keep comfortable. They will die of those diseases eventually, but why can’t they be kept comfortable? Some aren’t life threatening, but so painful the person can’t work with out some pain relief that Tylenol or Advil can’t provide. They are responsible patients. Yet they are now treated like street junkies and docs are afraid to script for them. Many are forced into useless Pain Management that cost $300 per month. These people are not Specialist in the disease.
Believe me I’m one of those 1.33 Million people. It’s taken 9 different Peripheral Neuropathy drugs to find 1 that won’t send me to the ER with A-fib. My ruined Gastro track is due to their horrid OA drugs. Lyrica, Neurotin, Cymbalta are all more ADDICTIVE and have more horrid side effects than 10 mg of NORCO does, it is less effective than the original Lore tabs because the FDA thought it had to much Tylenol in it and ordered it reduced. Yet they want me to take FDA FLAGGED/Black Boxed Osteoporosis drugs, OP which their Nexium FDA approved GERD treatment caused.
Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/02/doctors-curtail-opioids-but-many-see-harm-pain-patients/z4Ci68TePafcD9AcORs04J/story.html
Sharp Rise Reported in Older Americans’ Use of Multiple Psychiatric Drugs PATIENTS DIDN’T NEED THE DRUGS!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/health/psychiatric-drugs-prescriptions.html?_r=0
12 TSA Agents Arrested in Massive Puerto Rican Cocaine Scandal
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/justinholcomb/2017/02/13/12-tsa-agents-arrested-in-massive-puerto-rican-cocaine-scandal-n2285374?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
I want to know why GWB didn’t burn and keep burned all those poppy fields in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been a scorched earth policy on that. It fuel the terrorist funds. And brought more drugs into the USA.
And why are multiple drugs being given when the patient has NO NEED? I’m one of 1.33 Million Chronic Pain patients, I don’t take any Psychiatric drugs, just enough Valium to control a level 9 to a level 5 pain for Fibromyalgia and Peripheral Neuropathy. Lyrica and Neurotin sent me to the ER with A-Fib.
Sharp Rise Reported in Older Americans’ Use of Multiple Psychiatric Drugs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/health/psychiatric-drugs-prescriptions.html?_r=0
A few people will be deeply saddened. Fewer crimes. Fewer addicts. What is your solution?
“Buy the Naxalone by the gallon.”
According someone I met who ran an ambulance company, the first thing that happens when you administer Naloxone to a junkie who has OD’ed is they are pissed that you messed up their high.
This is tilting at windmills. Once you put responsibility on society (to administer Naloxone), not the drug user, you get a geometrically exploding problem with no solution.
It’s very likely these people will die if they are not immediately incarcerated.
If you cut off the drug supply you will have exploding crime.
If you don’t cut off the drug supply you have a growing user base
If you treat them, they’ll be dependent on society forever and still probably use street drugs whenever they can.
If you don’t treat them, they will use whatever they are sold on the street.
Drug addiction is a long-term gig for government, which makes it so appealing to put junkies “on a program” which will never end, and the participants can pretend they care about people more than you do.
Every option is costly to society - except for letting them seal their own demise through the inevitable overdose, and even that one can be costly when children are involved.
No effective solutions are possible.
No sir. No charmer here. Just an old man who has seen much of life. Twenty one years ago today I quit smoking. Totally. Although I will still get downwind from a good cigar.
Seriously, what is your answer?
A secured border is a start.
secure the border and empower the police for starters. Once the supply is cut off, things will get really interesting.
The dosage for heroin is in milligrams, Fentanyl, micrograms, so one can smuggle in thousands more doses per run. But the problem is cutting the pure fentanyl into packages that a junkie can handle. It’s hard to handle microgram quantities so it is bulked up with an inert substance like lactose. A poorly mixed batch results in overdoses. The dealers are not exactly adhering to established quality control standards.
Double the previous week? 26 in a week isn’t newsworthy ? Where the he## am I living?
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