The opioid epidemic

[50cents]

You've been reading it all over the news lately, doctors need to be accountable of what they give to their patients. The pill has too much of this drug, so what's their next move?.

Here is one example and hope you can warn those that are taking it too often.

Ind. Teen High on Opiates Kills Sisters in Crash: Police

 

[HOBO]

 

[cristycurves]

^ I never knew much about Fentanyl until it was used on my dog a few years back when she had needed a surgery. The vets involved were very good at and serious about instructing me on how to use and handle that drug. My dog was given fentanyl patches and they were applied only by the doctor and removed only by the doctor.
As far as human doctors, there are good and bad and as good as a doctor can be, if a person wants to abuse a medication/drug, they'll find a way.

 

[God]

if a person wants to abuse a medication/drug, they'll find a way.

But the doctor doesn't have to help them in the process. They've been over prescribing, so who gets the blame?.

Obviously the greedy doctors.

 

[50cents]

so who gets the blame?.

Obviously the greedy doctors.

Nope, the greedy pharmaceutical companies that wine and dine them.

 

[cristycurves]

Nope, the greedy pharmaceutical companies that wine and dine them.

Yes, seldom is the blame put on the pharma's and more should. There are certainly corrupt doctors, but those who want drugs will find a way to get them, regardless.An addict doesn't need a doctor, pharma co or any thing other than a dealer, and a dealer may be anyone. In fact an addict might just steal someone elses meds, and not even need a dealer....so again, I suppose to rid the problem completely, we'd have to get rid of the drugs completely, to stop manufacturing them.....sort of like... to get rid of vicious dogs, we'd have get rid of all the pitbulls, nah, that didn't work either, lol

 

[Fuj]

Just read this. Very few words to share.

Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths.

The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392. There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly 9 million highly addictive — and potentially lethal — hydrocodone pills over two years to a single pharmacy in the Mingo County town.

Rural and poor, Mingo County has the fourth-highest prescription opioid death rate of any county in the United States.

The trail also weaves through Wyoming County, where shipments of OxyContin have doubled, and the county's overdose death rate leads the nation. One mom-and-pop pharmacy in Oceana received 600 times as many oxycodone pills as the Rite Aid drugstore just eight blocks away.

In six years, drug wholesalers showered the state with 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, while 1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers, a Sunday Gazette-Mail investigation found.


224,260,980
Number of oxycodone dosages shipped to West Virginia pharmacies between 2007 and 2012

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555,808,292
Number of hydrocodone dosages shipped to West Virginia pharmacies between 2007 and 2012

Plus: Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused - The New York Times