USA Opioid Epidemic (numbers are in)

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HELLO BIG PHARMA !!!
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This Should Scare You More Than Terrorism: The Opioid Epidemic

Posted by Real Leaders

Terrorists move over. There’s a far worse terror in town that is indiscriminately targeting kids and adults, killing well over 10 times more Americans a year than all terrorist attacks of the last 16 years combined.

That’s correct. While politicians have spent several trillion dollars on foreign wars, they’ve distracted us from the very real threat that can be found in our own homes, targeting our families. In 1997, the United States became one of only two developed countries on the planet that made it legal for pharmaceutical companies to advertise drugs directly to consumers, including children. Since then prescription drug addiction and prescription drug overdoses have skyrocketed – in fact, quadrupled.

We now have a generation of young adults who grew up with a drug dealer living in their homes 24/7 – the television, magazines and internet pushing pills as a solution to every imaginable condition. Eighty percent of opioid addictions begin with a prescription for pain medication at your doctor’s office. It must be safe if a doctor prescribes it, right? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2014 47,055 people died of an accidental drug overdose – 29,467 of those from opioid-related drugs, which includes prescription pain medication. To put that into perspective, firearms were used to kill 13,286 people in the United States over the same period (excluding suicide) with a total of 3,340 killed in terrorist attacks on American soil since 1995 (3,003 in the September 2001 attacks alone).

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Four out of five people who become addicted to heroin start out with a legal prescription from a physician – a result of injury, post-operative care or a medical procedure. Substance-abuse disorders affect 20.8 million people in the United States — as many as those with diabetes and 1½ times as many as those with cancer. Yet, only one in 10 people receives treatment.

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It’s an epidemic that the CEO of CleanSlate, Gregory Marotta, says has crossed all socioeconomic boundaries. Forget about lecturing your kids on the dangers of drugs, white middle-class women are actually at higher risk. “It’s no longer considered a disease associated with race, religion or class,” he explains. “It’s indiscriminate, right across the board.”

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http://real-leaders.com/this-should-scare-you-more-than-terrorism-the-opioid-epidemic/
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Published on May 10, 2017
The Daily Sheeple
Before you can call something an epidemic, you have to define what an epidemic is. Are NSAID related deaths an epidemic in the U.S.?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuPU46fsWsp

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The opiate "epidemic" kills no one who doesn't want to die.

The devils in government LIKE the fact people suffer in pain. Hence, they're "concerned" about opiate pain relievers.

Too bad they're not "concerned" about alcohol or even abortion.

[Neuro]

The opiate "epidemic" kills no one who doesn't want to die.

The devils in government LIKE the fact people suffer in pain. Hence, they're "concerned" about opiate pain relievers.

Too bad they're not "concerned" about alcohol or even abortion.

I don't think that being addicted to and dying from opioids is necessarily an active choice people are making, considering the physically addictive nature of opiates.

After my hip prosthesis surgery in India in 2010, I was given morfine for a couple of days after the surgery, but I think they gave me far to much, because when they stopped I could barely sleep at all for the next 4 days and I was itching everywhere. I knew what it was, opiate withdrawal, so I resisted the temptation to ask for more, but it is easy to get hooked, and very difficult to get out.

Felt very good though while they were feeding me the morphine intravenously...

I think probably they gave me a too high dose, possibly because their average patient with a chronic hip degeneration has a built up opiate resistance. I didn't take any painkillers for my unrelenting hip pain over the 23 years I had it.

[Cebu_4_2]

I resisted the temptation to ask for more, but it is easy to get hooked, and very difficult to get out.


Ding ding that's where my kid is, even tho months out he still craves the shit. In his youth his mother hooked him up with ritalin, that started the whole game.

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I don't think that being addicted to and dying from opioids is necessarily an active choice people are making, considering the physically addictive nature of opiates.


Is there a single documented case of someone in reasonably good health dying from opiates by following the prescription instructions, precisely, including not overdosing, not drinking alcohol with it, and not taking other prescription or illegal drugs with it (if warned)?

Are legitimate uses of opiates anywhere near the deaths, injuries, and destruction caused by "legal" alcohol?

You resisted because you are not an addict. The opiate "epidemic" is pretty much an addiction (and anti-social behavior) epidemic, among those who are addicted to so many other things, including hard(er) drugs.




After my hip prosthesis surgery in India in 2010, I was given morfine for a couple of days after the surgery, but I think they gave me far to much, because when they stopped I could barely sleep at all for the next 4 days and I was itching everywhere. I knew what it was, opiate withdrawal, so I resisted the temptation to ask for more, but it is easy to get hooked, and very difficult to get out.

The difference was will power.

Are opiates addictive. Yes, of course! Do they have myriad legitimate uses for millions of people? Absolutely. Uses beyond what the "we love you so much" types are wanting to restrict them to? Again, absolutely.

I have taken opiates twice in my life...literally two doses...Norco (Hydrocodone/APAP). Man, I felt so fucked up, never again, I dealt with the surgery pain. But I recognize that many people don't have my tolerance to pain, nor do I have enduring pain each and every day, not just cancer patients or those who are terminal (like ghouls like John Kasich want to restrict them to).

IF cannabis were fully decriminalized for pain, I'd be perfectly fine with restricting opiates to the same cases as Cocaine HCl USP is now (Cocaine HCl USP is legal in the USA for unusual cases). But it seems there is a very strong correlation between those who oppose opiates and those who oppose cannabis (and a reverse correlation for those in positions of power who also swill alcohol).

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Is there a single documented case of someone in reasonably good health dying from opiates by following the prescription instructions, precisely, including not overdosing, not drinking alcohol with it, and not taking other prescription or illegal drugs with it (if warned)?

Are legitimate uses of opiates anywhere near the deaths, injuries, and destruction caused by "legal" alcohol?

You resisted because you are not an addict. The opiate "epidemic" is pretty much an addiction (and anti-social behavior) epidemic, among those who are addicted to so many other things, including hard(er) drugs.

What's are the statistics on how many are dying from their addiction of cigarettes and junk food. The deaths may not be as immediate as opioids, but are still attributed to these substances. I bet far more are dying from them.

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my body has no tolerance for opioid... one tablet and I feel nauseous right away.. cannabis makes me anxious... and cannot deal with hangovers, just thinking of it makes me stay away from drinking... I have been pretty healthy for the last 25 years. Could be the high psychic powers of the Rh negative.

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What's are the statistics on how many are dying from their addiction of cigarettes and junk food. The deaths may not be as immediate as opioids, but are still attributed to these substances. I bet far more are dying from them.

Opiates, in particular, the synthetics that are at issue, are very cheap.

Alcohol, tobacco, and junk "food" are all huge moneymakers, both for the regime and for the corporations that make them.

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skype organ dealers making bank on the opi

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/14/497799446/organ-donations-spike-in-the-wake-of-the-opioid-epidemic

Organ Donations Spike In The Wake Of The Opioid Epidemic

His case is one among the nearly 900 percent increase so far in donations across New England since 2010. So far this year, more than 1 in 4, or 27 percent, of donations in New England are from people who died after a drug overdose. Nationally, that rate dips to 12 percent for the same time period.

"It's remarkable and it's also tragic," says Alexandra Glazier, president and CEO of the New England Organ Bank. "We see this tragedy of the opioid epidemic as having an unexpected life-saving legacy."

That legacy is much more dramatic in New England than across the U.S. as a whole, where organ donations from drug users are up from 341 in 2010 to 790 through Aug. 31 of this year.

Some hospitals in Massachusetts report that they are performing a record number of transplants. At Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, the number of patients receiving a liver transplant has roughly doubled in the past three to four years.

"You have to remember that as awful as this outbreak is, these are younger people who are dying, often with needles in their arms, and many of them were first-time drug users," Fishman says. "They weren't all addicts."

Despite the increase in available organs, there's no sign that the supply is keeping up with the demand from aging Americans and those with chronic diseases.

"The number of people on the waiting list is increasing faster than the number of donors, even with the increases related to overdoses," says Dr. David Klassen, chief medical officer at the United Network for Organ Sharing, which tracks and manages organ donations in the U.S.

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yeah yeah... but cannabis inc is already in the hands of BIG players
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Cannabis Used Effectively to Fight Statewide Opioid Crisis
9 June 2017 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KwMQNBvCUE

[Neuro]

What's are the statistics on how many are dying from their addiction of cigarettes and junk food. The deaths may not be as immediate as opioids, but are still attributed to these substances. I bet far more are dying from them.
I was traveling with a heroin user ages ago, he claimed sugar was a far more addictive and dangerous substance than heroin, and the amount of crimes committed while under the influence of sugar where simply astounding.

[StreetsOfGold]

The one thing that kills everyone physically (eventually) is SIN!!
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Sin will kill you EVERY TIME, there are no exceptions!!!

Do you have the cure? I do!!!

Life is short
Death is SURE
SIN the curse
Christ the CURE!!

Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

[crimethink]

I was traveling with a heroin user ages ago, he claimed sugar was a far more addictive and dangerous substance than heroin, and the amount of crimes committed while under the influence of sugar where simply astounding.

I don't agree that sugar is as addictive as heroin, or any other drug, nor should it be considered an excuse to avoid criminal culpability (e.g., the "Twinkie Defense").

However, Terrence McKenna, the mushroom man, argued that sugar lies at the root of a whole collection of social ills, including slavery. Look at how the Marano Jews still control sugar in the Caribbean and America (the Fanjuls from Cuba, Maranos, own the vast majority of sugar production in and for the USA, including Domino and C&H).

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Gods-Original-Knowledge-Evolution/dp/0553371304

[crimethink]

The one thing that kills everyone physically (eventually) is SIN!!
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Sin will kill you EVERY TIME, there are no exceptions!!!

Do you have the cure? I do!!!

Life is short
Death is SURE
SIN the curse
Christ the CURE!!

Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Christ is also the cure for the dope addictions, too.

[singular_me]

if not too tired I will listen to that one later this evening


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfTYa_suhDk

[osoab]

I was traveling with a heroin user ages ago, he claimed sugar was a far more addictive and dangerous substance than heroin, and the amount of crimes committed while under the influence of sugar where simply astounding.

Although probably true, it sounds like a junkies last resort justification. Think about caffeine too. :o

Beyond all of that, seems like Afghanistan is working out nicely.

[singular_me]

it should read: big pharma now leading cause of death


DOJ: Drug Overdose Now Leading Cause of Death for Americans Under 50
10 June 2017 GMT

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Tuesday morning. Rosenstein, along with acting head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Chuck Rosenberg, and other prominent officials in law enforcement addressed the media at the DEA’s headquarters in Arlington, VA to discuss the ongoing response to the nation’s staggering opioid epidemic.

“We’re not talking about a slight increase. There’s a horrifying surge of drug overdoses in the United States of America. Some people say we should be more permissive, more tolerant, more understanding about drug use. I say we should be more honest and forthcoming with the American people on the clear and present danger that we know face,” opened Rosenstein.

“Fentanyl is especially dangerous. It is 40 to 50 times more deadly than heroin. Just two milligrams, a few grains of salt, an amount you could fit on the tip of your finger, can be lethal. Fentanyl exposure can injure or kill innocent law enforcement officers and first responders. Inhaling a few airborne particles can have dramatic effects,” he continued.’

............... Rosenberg’s daunting assessment of fentanyl put in perspective the existential danger of the ongoing opioid crisis that, according to Rosenstein, has contributed to the largest yearly increase in overdose deaths on record in America.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/07/doj-drug-overdose-now-leading-cause-of-death-for-americans-under-50/


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Historic First: FDA calls for opioid to be removed from market based on risk of abuse
10 June 2017 GMT

‘In an unprecedented move, the US Food and Drug Administration has requested a drugmaker withdraw an opioid pain medicine from the market due to its potential for abuse. The agency cited the current “opioid epidemic” as a catalyst for the move.

The FDA has targeted the reformulated version of Opana ER, or oxymorphone hydrochloride, for market removal, calling on its manufacturer, Ireland-based Endo Pharmaceuticals, to take voluntary steps to do so.

If Endo chooses not to withdraw Opana ER ‒ first approved by the FDA in 2006 – the federal agency said it would take steps to rescind its approval of the drug.

“We are facing an opioid epidemic ‒ a public health crisis, and we must take all necessary steps to reduce the scope of opioid misuse and abuse,”said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.’

https://www.rt.com/usa/391690-fda-opioid-withdrawal-opana/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Deputy Attorney General (((Rod Rosenstein)))

acting head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, (((Chuck Rosenberg)))

FDA Commissioner (((Scott Gottlieb)))

Anything wrong with this picture?

Drain the swamp and refill it with Kosher sewage...

The Prison Industrial Complex needs fresh meat for its grinders, hence, the Trump/Sessions/Rosenstein/Rosenberg/Gottlieb War on Some Drugs.

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Go back to bed Fred.

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Go back to bed Fred.

The names...or, shall I say, noses...say it all.

[Cebu_4_2]

The names...or, shall I say, noses...say it all.


The nose knows...

[singular_me]

ridiculous... but here we go... lets brace for a few slaps on the wrists now

they can make more billion by offering detox in recovery centers

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State attorneys general announce nationwide bipartisan probe into opioid marketing & production
Published time: 16 Jun, 2017 00:13

The majority of state attorneys general have joined together to investigate the growing opioid epidemic and what part drug manufacturers played in creating and prolonging the crisis.

On Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that her office has been working with the bipartisan coalition to evaluate “whether manufacturers used illegal practices in the marketing and sale of opioids and worsened this deadly crisis,” according to a statement.

Healey’s office, which is on the executive committee leading the investigation, said the attorneys general are using their investigative authority to issue subpoenas for documents and testimony. However, they have not identified any specific targets of the ongoing investigation.

“State attorneys general almost never announce the existence of investigations before they are completed, but the opioid crisis is a uniquely dire situation,” Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement.

https://www.rt.com/usa/392502-ag-opioid-coalition-investigate/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome


=================== THE GUY IS RIGHT, YOU DONT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT AND IT WILL COME TO A NEARBY CITY ==== RACE IS IRRELEVANT (MY EMPHASIS)


Horrifying video shows how opioid addiction has transformed the city of Baltimore into a Third World city
16 June 2017 GMT
‘If you want to see just how quickly drugs can plunge a beautiful and thriving city into desolation, look no further than Baltimore. On the surface, the city has plenty to offer, with lots of history, a lovely harbor, diverse entertainment options, and top research and medical facilities. However as opiate addiction has spread throughout the city over the past several years, it has turned it into a place that is no longer befitting of its nickname, Charm City.

In fact, a more suitable nickname would be The Heroin Capital of the United States as the city now has the dubious honor of having the highest per-capita rate of heroin addiction in the nation. Of the city’s 645,000 residents, it is estimated that around 60,000 are drug addicts and 48,000 of these people are hooked on heroin.’

http://naturalnews.com/2017-06-15-horrifying-video-shows-how-opioid-addiction-has-transformed-the-city-of-baltimore-into-a-third-world-city.html

Sources include:
ZeroHedge.com
ABCNews.go.com


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcErUibqiIo

[Neuro]

I don't agree that sugar is as addictive as heroin, or any other drug, nor should it be considered an excuse to avoid criminal culpability (e.g., the "Twinkie Defense").

However, Terrence McKenna, the mushroom man, argued that sugar lies at the root of a whole collection of social ills, including slavery. Look at how the Marano Jews still control sugar in the Caribbean and America (the Fanjuls from Cuba, Maranos, own the vast majority of sugar production in and for the USA, including Domino and C&H).

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Gods-Original-Knowledge-Evolution/dp/0553371304
Ponce grew up on a sugar mill his father owned in Cuba prior to the revolution ...

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Missouri AG files suit against 3 opioid manufacturers Suit: Companies know they are 'highly addictive'
(CNN) - Missouri has filed suit against three pharmaceutical companies for allegedly violating the state's Medicare fraud and consumer-protection statutes by "misrepresenting the truth" about opioids, Attorney General Josh Hawley said Wednesday.
The companies named in the suit are Purdue Pharma, Endo Pharmaceuticals, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
More Health Headlines



Deputy, EMTs exposed to opioids need medical treatment (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/national/deputy-emts-exposed-to-opioids-need-medical-treatment)


"These companies knew that the drugs they sell and market are highly addictive, even life-threatening if misused. And yet they have engaged in a deliberate campaign of fraud to convince Missouri doctors and Missouri consumers otherwise.

"They used bogus front organizations and fake research; they used fraudulent advertising and deceptive trade practices. And they repeatedly lied about the risks and true nature of the drugs they sold," Hawley said at a news conference. "Their fraud has been devastating."

Hawley says 500 Missourians died of opioid overdoses or complications and 300 more died from heroin misuse in 2015.

"In 2012, physicians wrote some 259 million opiod prescriptions in the United States -- that's 10 million more prescriptions than there are adults living in the United States of America," he said.

Companies respond to lawsuit

The three manufacturers named in the suit responded to its announcement Wednesday.

While Endo Pharmaceuticals said it was company policy not to comment on current litigation, it did put out a statement.

"At Endo, our top priorities include patient safety and ensuring that patients with chronic pain have access to safe and effective therapeutic options. We share in the FDA's goal of appropriately supporting the needs of patients with chronic pain while preventing misuse and diversion of opioid products," the statement said.

Purdue Pharma denied the allegations in the lawsuit and said it was an "industry leader" in abuse-deterrent technology.

"While we vigorously deny the allegations in the complaint, we share the attorney general's concerns about the opioid crisis and we are committed to working collaboratively to find solutions. OxyContin accounts for less than 2% of the opioid analgesic prescription market nationally, but we are an industry leader in the development of abuse-deterrent technology, advocating for the use of prescription drug monitoring programs and supporting access to Naloxone -- all important components for combating the opioid crisis," Purdue's statement said.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals spokeswoman Jessica Castles Smith said the company recognizes that "opioid abuse is a serious public health issue. Janssen has acted appropriately, responsibly and in the best interests of patients regarding our opioid pain medications, which are FDA-approved and carry FDA-mandated warnings about the known risks of the medications on every product label."

Hawley was joined at the news conference by a mother who lost her teenage daughter to opioid addiction and a man recovering from opioid abuse.
Hawley said beyond "seeking one of the largest judgments in Missouri history," he wants to implement "anti-addiction programs and public awareness education" as well as "rehabilitation opportunities and job training."

Previous suits filed

The Missouri suit follows a filing by Ohio suing five drug companies, accusing them of fueling the opioid crisis there by misleading doctors about the risks of addiction.

In adddition to those actions, counties and cities across the country have begun filing lawsuits against manufacturers over their roles in the drug epidemic. In Cabell County, West Virginia a complaint was filed (PDF) earlier this month alleging that between 2007 and 2012, drug companies and distributors, including pharmacies such as Walgreen's and Rite Aid, sold nearly 40 million doses of prescription opiates such as hydrocodone and oxycodone to county pharmacies.

The county population during those years grew from just over 94,000 to just over 96,000 people. Similarly, nearby Kanawha County, West Virginia, filed a lawsuit (PDF) at the same time alleging the drug companies sold 66 million doses of these medications during the same time period when the county population ranged from about 191,000 to 192,000 residents."

Earlier this month several state attorneys general announced an initiative to investigate what role manufacturers may have played in contributing to the opioid epidemic.

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Philadelphia turns into heroin wasteland: 500,000 used syringes and piles of trash depict ‘heroin hellscape’
26 June 2017 GMT

The city of Philadelphia has reached an agreement with Conrail to begin a clean-up drive on a notorious half-mile stretch of train tracks, commonly known as El Campamento or The Tracks, that is littered with about half a million used syringes and piles of trash that has made the area a heroin hellscape. The are is situated in Philadelphia’s Fairhill-West Kensington neighborhood.

The railroad stretch was frequented by drug addicts who were known to converge in the area following their transactions with the surrounding open-air drug market. Residents in the area have notably diminished quality of life, largely due in part to the ongoing heroin trade.

“I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that, for them, this announcement is long overdue. They deserved faster action from all of us standing up here today. Over the years, thousands of addicts and drug dealers have used this property as an open-air drug market, and the community has been subjected to the public health problems, crime, and negative impact to quality of life,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said in NBCPhiladelphia.com.’ .....

Part of the train tracks located on land owned by Conrail serves as an encampment to about 75 heroin-addicted people who have put up plywood shacks that resemble a hospital where a certain “doctor” assists otherwise squeamish drug addicts in injecting heroin and fentanyl into their systems. The area, which has been recently labeled “Hell on Earth” by renowned health expert Dr. Mehmet Oz, gained national attention for its significantly high rates of opioid-related deaths. According to the Philadelphia health department, 907 people suffered fatal drug overdose in the city in 2016 alone. More than 80 percent of drug overdose cases were associated with opioid overuse.............

Philadelphia’s Licenses and Inspections department has already doled out $600,000 to seal dozens of vacant buildings in the area. On the other hand, the city’s Streets Department spent another $230,000 to upgrade street lighting. The city is expected to haul between 30 to 40 tons of illegally-dumped trash from the area on a monthly basis........................

Sources include:
Philly.com
USNews.com
NBCPhiladelphia.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-25-philadelphia-turns-into-heroin-wasteland-500000-used-syringes-and-piles-of-trash.html

[singular_me]

A scathing investigative report from NJ.com has revealed some startling and damning facts about the exponential increase in fentanyl overdoses and the rate at which family practitioners prescribed it. In the center of the equation are pharmaceutical companies who’ve been exposed for paying doctors millions to push their deadly drug.

Prior to 2013, most Americans, unless they knew someone dying of cancer or who lived in immense pain, never heard of fentanyl. Now, this drug, which is magnitudes more powerful than heroin and far deadlier, has become a household name — for all the wrong reasons.

Fentanyl was created to be used as part of anesthesia to help prevent pain after surgery or other medical procedures. It was also used to treat pain in the terminally ill as well as those with severe and chronic debilitating pain. However, in 2013, the unscrupulous big wigs in the pharmaceutical industry saw it as a means of making their already opioid-saturated market that much more lucrative — and addictive.’

Read more: Big Pharma Caught Bribing Family Doctors To Prescribe Drug 50X Stronger Than Heroin

http://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/07/big-pharma-caught-bribing-family-doctors-prescribe-drug-50x-stronger-heroin.html

[Cebu_4_2]

fentanyl Have not gone there yet. Read it's 50x more potent. Where does it come from and why is it there?

Sorry if it was in your thread but I am just skimming til I have time.

[singular_me]

here it goes Cebu
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How doctors got rich pushing Big Pharma’s addictive opioids
10 July 2017 GMT

‘Fentanyl is the most powerful opioid that has ever been mass-marketed. Quick to kick in and powerful enough to conquer pain that other opioids couldn’t touch, it was designed with the intention of helping cancer patients die comfortably. Why, then, is this “heroin on steroids” given out to patients in New Jersey for routine operations like tonsil removal?

According to NJ.com, the answer is simple: money. Common sense says that oncologists should be the ones prescribing such a powerful and dangerous drug, but an investigation by New Jersey Advance Media revealed that in the Garden State, eight different medical specialties filed more claims with Medicare for fentanyl than cancer doctors. This includes family practitioners, who filed more than five times the number of fentanyl claims from 2013 to 2015 than oncologists did. Even nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants were heavy prescribers.

It’s probably no coincidence that during the same time period, doctors in the state were paid more than $1.67 million by Big Pharma companies marketing different forms of the drug. Deaths from fentanyl in the state rose from 42 in 2013 to an incredible 417 in 2015, and it’s pretty clear who is to blame.’

Read more
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-07-09-how-doctors-got-rich-pushing-big-pharmas-addictive-opioids.html

Sources include:

TheDailySheeple.com

NJ.com

[Neuro]

here it goes Cebu
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How doctors got rich pushing Big Pharma’s addictive opioids
10 July 2017 GMT

‘Fentanyl is the most powerful opioid that has ever been mass-marketed. Quick to kick in and powerful enough to conquer pain that other opioids couldn’t touch, it was designed with the intention of helping cancer patients die comfortably. Why, then, is this “heroin on steroids” given out to patients in New Jersey for routine operations like tonsil removal?

According to NJ.com, the answer is simple: money. Common sense says that oncologists should be the ones prescribing such a powerful and dangerous drug, but an investigation by New Jersey Advance Media revealed that in the Garden State, eight different medical specialties filed more claims with Medicare for fentanyl than cancer doctors. This includes family practitioners, who filed more than five times the number of fentanyl claims from 2013 to 2015 than oncologists did. Even nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants were heavy prescribers.

It’s probably no coincidence that during the same time period, doctors in the state were paid more than $1.67 million by Big Pharma companies marketing different forms of the drug. Deaths from fentanyl in the state rose from 42 in 2013 to an incredible 417 in 2015, and it’s pretty clear who is to blame.’

Read more
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-07-09-how-doctors-got-rich-pushing-big-pharmas-addictive-opioids.html

Sources include:

TheDailySheeple.com

NJ.com

Wtf nurses and PA's have prescription rights to Fentanyl. That is absurd!

[singular_me]

invading mexico... group think at its finest

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Think Tanks Want Solve the Opioid Crisis With a Military Invasion of Mexico
19 July 2017 GMT

‘To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, and in the face of a deadly opioid epidemic, geopolitical think-tankers are now recommending a full-scale military invasion of Mexico.

Writing as a columnist for U.S. News and World Report, Matt Mayer recently penned a piece entitled, ‘To Solve the Opioid Crisis, Go to War: Is it so crazy to consider using military force against Mexican drug cartels?’ His argument is that by declaring war on Mexico’s drug cartels we can prevent the deaths of an estimated 500,000 Americans who are forecasted to die of opioid overdoses in coming years.

We will spend tens of billions of dollars on addiction treatment, overdose responses, law enforcement activities, criminal justice processes and the ancillary costs associated with caring for the children of those who die from overdoses. Regardless of how much we spend, if we cannot substantially reduce or stop the flow of opioids and other death drugs across our southern border (and to a lesser extent through our mail system via China), we will continue to see tens of thousands of Americans die each year due to opioid and meth overdoses, with enormous damage to their families and communities. ~Matt Mayer’

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/07/18/think-tanks-want-solve-opioid-crisis-military-invasion-mexico/

[Neuro]

Most of opioids are prescribed from US MDs, most of the illegal opiates are from Afghanistan...

So let's invade Mexico!

[crimethink]

Most of opioids are prescribed from US MDs, most of the illegal opiates are from Afghanistan...

So let's invade Mexico!

The most dangerous are bootleg Fentanyl and Carfentanil, usually imported from Red China, and still available by mail order. Several first responders have OD'd by mere contact, several drug dogs have OD'd by sniffing, and a Black boy just died from Fentanyl after swimming at the community pool.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-makes-deadly-opioid-carfentanil-controlled-substance-020744508.html

http://wnep.com/2017/07/18/florida-boy-10-dies-of-fentanyl-overdose-after-visiting-swimming-pool/

[Neuro]

The most dangerous are bootleg Fentanyl and Carfentanil, usually imported from Red China, and still available by mail order. Several first responders have OD'd by mere contact, several drug dogs have OD'd by sniffing, and a Black boy just died from Fentanyl after swimming at the community pool.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-makes-deadly-opioid-carfentanil-controlled-substance-020744508.html

http://wnep.com/2017/07/18/florida-boy-10-dies-of-fentanyl-overdose-after-visiting-swimming-pool/

The elephant in the room...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/heroin-dealer-in-chief-afghanistan-source-of-90-of-the-worlds-heroin/5502813

90% of worlds heroin comes from US occupied Afghanistan, 7% from not yet US invaded Mexico. I suppose the suggestion to invade is based on the commercial success of Afghanistani drugs since 2001. The economic miracle can be repeated in Mexico.

[singular_me]

this could have been posted in the "car wash thread"‘

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A new study published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review painstakingly describes how Big Pharma deception and federal government patenting have brought about the current U.S. opioid epidemic. As lawsuits pile up against pharma companies, this study confirms that for 20 years, the American public has served as the victim in a gargantuan scheme of money and power.

The study, titled The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market, gets right to the point in the introduction.

In this article, we argue that non-rigorous patenting standards and ineffectual policing of both fraudulent marketing and anticompetitive actions played an important role in launching and prolonging the opioid epidemic. We further show that these regulatory issues are not unique to prescription opioids but rather are reflective of the wider pharmaceutical market.

Researchers follow with a primer on the rise of opioid prescriptions and how pain became “the fifth vital sign.” By the 1990s, doctors realized that chronic pain was often ignored, and pain management became a hot topic. Physicians were urged to make greater use of opioids, with experts in the field downplaying the potential for misuse and addiction – a view largely based on experience with morphine.’ ...

As the Harvard study notes, “low patenting standards” and “a history of tepid enforcement” provided incentive for Purdue to embark on a massive, fraudulent marketing campaign. With the guarantee of no competition provided by government, Purdue spent obscene amounts of money getting American hooked on their newly-patented product.

Between 1996 and 2000, the company more than doubled its U.S. marketing team…In 2001, Purdue paid forty million dollars in bonuses tied to extended-release oxycodone…Purdue also invested heavily in analytics, developing a database to identify high-volume prescribers and pharmacies to help focus their marketing resources…Patients were offered starter coupons for a free initial supply of extended-release oxycodone, 34,000 of which were redeemed by 2001…Finally, Purdue hosted forty all-expenses-paid pain management and speaker training conferences at lavish resorts. Over five thousand clinicians attended, receiving toys, fishing hats, and compact discs while listening to sales representatives tout the alleged benefits of extended-release oxycodone…Purdue elevated the stakes, spending an estimated six to twelve times more promoting extended-release oxycodone than its competitor Janssen spent marketing a rival opioid…

Purdue’s efforts paid off. Between 1996 and 2001, extended-release oxycodone generated $2.8 billion in sales. From 2008 to 2014, annual sales exceeded $2 billion.

It gets even worse.

As the patent expiration for OxyContin approached, Purdue developed an “abuse-deterrent formulation” of the drug, for which FDA granted a patent in 2010. Not satisfied with a simple new patent, Purdue filed a “citizen petition asking the FDA to refuse to accept generic versions of the original extended-release oxycodone formulation on safety grounds.” Incredibly, FDA also granted this to Purdue, “effectively preventing the marketing of low-cost, therapeutically equivalent products that might undercut Purdue’s incentive to continue to widely promote its new abuse-deterrent formulation.”

By the way, the “abuse-deterrent” OxyContin doesn’t really deter addicts, and it has fueled the explosive heroin epidemic as addicts seek out cheaper, black market alternatives. But Purdue is content making its billions off the patented drug.

While thousands of Americans die under a campaign of deception and greed, official Washington pretends to care with the occasional fine levied against pharma companies, including for false marketing by Purdue.

But no one ever goes to jail; no one in top management is ever held to account. The persons in “personhood” conveniently disappear when corporations get in trouble. And the fines? Mere pocket change compared to the revenues already made from the drugs involved...............
LONG

Read more: New Harvard Study Confirms Big Pharma And Federal Government Root Cause Of Opioid Epidemic
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/07/new-harvard-study-confirms-big-pharma-federal-govt-root-cause-opioid-epidemic.html

[crimethink]

Dr. Graham "didn't believe chronic pain requires opioid medication."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/indiana/ct-indiana-doctor-killed-opioids-20170729-story.html

An Indiana man shot and killed himself shortly after gunning down a doctor who refused to prescribe opioid medication to his wife, authorities said this week.

The alleged murder and the suicide unfolded within just hours of each other Wednesday in Mishawaka in northern Indiana, a state that's been gripped by problems with opioid addiction over the past several years. St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter told reporters that Michael Jarvis confronted physician Todd Graham for not prescribing an opioid for his wife's chronic pain, but he cautioned that investigators are still determining whether drug addiction played a role in the killing.

Cotter said during a news conference Thursday that Jarvis and his wife showed up at Graham's office for an appointment Wednesday morning. Jarvis became upset after Graham told them that he doesn't believe chronic pain requires opioid medication. The couple left, but Jarvis - armed with a gun - drove back to the doctor's office about two hours later, Cotter said.

At that point, Graham was on his way to the St. Joseph Rehabilitation Institute a few miles from his office. Jarvis followed him to the institute's parking lot where the two argued, Cotter said.