Oh, but WAIT! They're not DRUG PUSHERS if they're DOCTORS!!! Drug pushers, both with and without lab coats, should be HUNG UNTIL DEAD! They are the TRUE "mass shooters!!!"
Broke both hips, tore a tendon in my knee and broke biggest bone in my foot. They said we can give you something for the pain. I told them the F you will already have 3 friend in the ground. 2 in the same graveyard
A stupid and simple claim for a complex problem. Too many reasons to list but know this first that the law suit against Perdue wasn't to save Kentucky or people from drugs it was to make lawyers rich and nothing else. 2nd point: Oxycontin is a crappy drug to appease a addict. Almost without exception the addicts who ended up using oxy did so because they couldn't get a real drug that they wanted. No self respecting drug user chooses oxy, they got hooked by Fentanyl and fentanyl is what they wanted but they were broke or the law arrested the pusher so instread they stole grandma's oxy that she needed for her bad hip and used it instead.
Great example of this from my childhood friend who got hooked on cigarettes at age 14. He would come to my house and raid the ashtrays for old butts and smoke them. One day the ashtrays were all clean so he took a tea bag and spilled it into a ripped of piece of newspaper and rolled it and smoked it. Because he was "hooked" on tobacco but would smoke anything to get a little satisfaction. THAT is what the addicts did with oxy. The story being told is BS.
The real story is that the white poor or hillbilly's had no future and many or them choose tobacco then alcohol and then weed and harder drugs. Their future was sent to Asia when most of the decent jobs were offshored and they had idle hands and minds and turned to drugs. The 2nd point of that is: there is an addictive "personality" most of who are bi-polar or with similar mental issues. Not crazy, you probably know many of them and typically when they hit puberty they show all the symptoms and one of those symptoms is abusing drugs and alcohol.
They don't start with prescription painkillers. They start as bored teens whose mind tells them to do stupid things and their parents aren't paying enough attention to them.
Last point and this one is they key to why the BS story about prescription drugs is believed: No one wants to admit they were at fault using drugs!! It is soooo much easier to blame the painkillers they got from some injury and then how big pharma "targeted" them. See! It wasn't "their" fault, they were good people until big pharma "targeted" them!!! Bull shit!
I'm going to have to agree with you on the "bored teenagers" thing. Also, I'm just gonna say it, genetics has a big effect on the folks in that area. Check out their linage and where their "Pappys" and Mammys" came from. Does addiction come from genetics....or does the genetics make you susceptible to addiction?
Oxy itself wont get you high unless you swallow a whole bunch. It’s formulated for slow release. But crush it or dissolve it well in water and youre off to the races. Ask me how I know.
Some background... My wife has a condition known as Adhesive Arachnoiditis brought on by two failed back surgeries and a botched procedure on her spinal chord. (You don't hate Doctors enough.) The nerves in your spinal column are normally free-floating, surrounded by spinal fluid. Adhesive Arachnoiditis effectively bonds the nerve fibers to each other and the walls of the arachnoid. This causes the nerves to be "stimulated" constantly and continuously. Remember that time you pinched a nerve in your back, screamed like a little girl, and couldn't walk right for a day or two? Now imagine that pain 24/7...365...for over 25 years. Let that sink in. While Adhesive Arachnoiditis is fairly uncommon, close to 20% of the people who are afflicted with it, end up taking their own lives.
My wife has taken opioids for over 25 years. She hates them, but they are necessary. Years of trial and error with different types and dosages to find a combination that would alleviate her pain to some degree and still allow her to be coherent and lead a somewhat normalized life.
When Soma (carisoprodol) was released, it was a God-send for my wife. It became a helpful balance between pain relief and not being a mental vegetable. ...and then the "Opioid Crisis" became a thing. The manufacturers were sued, the medication became unobtainable because no doctors wanted to be associated with it, and we were back to trial and error for another 10 years. My wife then went to oxycontin, and finally to higher and higher levels of morphine. Poor substitutes, but workable when carefully managed. Now we can no longer get morphine (and doctors are loathe to prescribe it). Why? The "Opioid Crisis".
Similar story here. Wife's back is messed up. Always in pain. And has the x-rays and MRIs to prove it. They wouldn't give her a damn thing. I mean nothing. Told her to just take ibuprofen. If people want to mess up their life with prescription meds it's still better than doing fentanyl. When it was just people doing oxy's you didn't see the slumped over zombie crap at least.
So now even if there is a legitimate reason for heavy duty pain killers you can't get them.
And BTW: ibuprofen and lots of other over the counter pain meds have much higher risk of liver damage than the good old school opium based meds.
The Problem: Pharma gives incentives to Dr's to "sell" their product. Dr's love them some free money, and for some, that's all the reason they need... so they prescribe away. Patients (many with no self control) pop the painkillers like Pez and go back for more. Unethical Dr's are more than happy to whip out the prescription pad again and again and write themselves into a higher tax-bracket with the "Big Pharma" cheese.
The Solution: Do away with the ability of the manufacturers to provide kickbacks to medical personnel. Find and prosecute the Dr's found to be writing prescriptions as if they are trying to wallpaper their personal villas with them.
What Happened Instead: The typical players complained that the drug manufacturers were taking advantage of their poor helpless family members by turning them into drug addicts. (No "personal responsibility" here. Nope. None.) The typical politicians decided, well we want to be re-elcted, we need to "Do Something!".
Did they limit the kickbacks of the mfgs? No. Too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend. Did they go after the Doctors abusing this "cash cow" to the detriment of their patients? No. Again...too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend. Did they try and tell patients to take control of their own behavior? Good GOD NO! ...and alienate our voting blocks?!?! Can't have that! Nope, we'll blame the drugs themselves! We'll make it so that they are either unavailable (ie: pulling Soma off the market, FDA limitations on how much morphine can be produced each year) or so onerous for Dr's to prescribe that they'll just stop or offer under-performing alternatives that aren't in the spotlight.
This is the situation my wife and tens of thousands of other folks with chronic pain get to deal with.
Why? "...because of all the opioid deaths!!!!"
Yeah...about that.... If you take all of those deaths and filter out fentanyl, heroin (Yes! They include this is their #s.), adulterated pharmaceuticals (ie: prescription drugs that have been "stepped on" or used to create other illicit substances), and intentional suicides, legally prescribed opioids make up less than 0.2% of all opioid deaths in the U.S.
(This information was related to me by the past President of the Pain Management Physicians of Arizona Organization. They fought with the then Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, about implementing further limitations on their ability to treat their patients. However, Dougs ADULT son was going through a drug-treatment program at the time, so of course, he had to "DO SOMETHING!" There is a special place in Hell for Mr Ducey.)
TL;DR ??
The next time someone mentions the "Opioid Crisis", replace "opioid" with "gun violence". You know the evil "Gun Violence"! Yeah. It's the same argument, with the same folks pushing it.
I appreciate the diverse insights shared so far, and I’d like to offer a different perspective based on my personal experience.
Years ago, I suffered a serious workplace injury after being struck by a vehicle traveling over 50 mph. The aftermath involved nine surgeries—one of which worsened my condition and intensified the pain. That marked the beginning of a 20-year journey with opioid medications, which coincided with the rise of OxyContin.
At the time, medical professionals assured me it was less addictive and more effective than existing options—and that I would likely need it for the rest of my life. To be clear, the medication initially worked: it dulled the pain and stabilized my mood. But over time, tolerance set in. My dosage increased significantly, eventually supplemented by fentanyl patches. This was during an era when prevailing medical guidance supported giving patients whatever they needed to preserve a reasonable quality of life.
Externally, I was functioning. I worked. But I wasn’t truly myself.
After two decades, I made the decision to stop. I told my doctor I was finished and asked for a final month’s prescription—more as a precaution, given the horror stories I’d heard about withdrawal. But the withdrawal never came. After a week, I returned the remaining medication to the pharmacy and disposed of it. That was the end of it. Even now, with opioid prescriptions in my home from my wife’s surgery, I have no interest in them.
I was later invited to join the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. I declined—not because I think they’re blameless. Far from it. I believe Purdue and the Sackler family deliberately targeted vulnerable communities, working through unethical doctors to flood markets with a highly addictive drug. I believe what they did was criminal.
However, I also recognize that no one from Purdue or my medical team forced me to take those pills. I made that choice. I was a reasonably informed adult, and I accepted the risk—until I didn’t.
Since quitting, I’ve lost 105 pounds and found non-pharmaceutical ways to manage my pain. Life is better.
That said, the pharmaceutical industry has little incentive to develop non-addictive, effective pain relief. The return on investment simply doesn’t compare to the ongoing revenue from opioids. If even a fraction of patients become dependent, that dependency fuels both legal and illegal markets. The cycle continues.
It’s also worth noting that natural opiates, when used properly, can be among the safest medications available. Yes, they carry a risk of addiction—but they are well understood. By contrast, many newer drugs come with long lists of alarming and unpredictable side effects.
In the end, responsibility lies in multiple places: with corporations, regulators, healthcare providers—and with individuals. My story is just one example, and I know it won’t reflect everyone’s experience.
I'm so beat from years of work and G force fun since 1969, that hydrocodone (Vicodin), keeps me from being in suicidal levels of pain. The over reaction to the "opioid crisis" has driven unknown thousands to suicide from inescapable, high levels of pain.
It's obvious Anonymous August 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM has never been in real, body-twisting pain, where you'd take anything to ease it. GFY and your stupid opinion.
I keep poking my senator, who was a doctor, to help rein in the pharmaceutical companies and their control over mass media. It keeps falling on deaf ears.
Pharma isn't here to cure anything. They just want to manage it. I bet there has already been 12 cures to cancer. But you can't heal the cash cow! It only pays when there is pain.
What the federal government should do is start a program with incentives to any company, any small or large business that will locate in the Rust Belt and greater Appalachia and hire residents. Not immigrants, not people who moved there but life long and born there residents. This wouldn't have to include large grants and funding it could be as simple as tax breaks and easing of red tape. Many of the people who live in these areas don't want to see it change for the worst but they do want to see opportunities for their children and themselves. They don't want to see a massive influx of people they want to maintain their small town and rural community.
On the same point something has to be done about American schools. More trade education, more practical education "cooking, home economics, budgeting, establishing and maintaining a decent credit score, etc.". Not saying to cut the three R's in fact do a better job teaching the 3 R's and waste less time on DEI and gender studies. Our schools could easily do so much more for students.
Yeah they basically wiped out near 90% of working men and woman in the area of rural WV where I live. And near 75% of what remains are pillbillies and meth heads, whose only income is pretty much theft off of us private property owners. Its pretty bleak in many ways. Most of us are past caring, cause there is nothing you can do for those who will not lift themselves out of this destitution, maybe shoot one when you catch them stealing off you, really all can be done. Top that off, some truly sneaky motherfuckers lurking in the shadows are attempting to implement ordnance regulations where some unelected scumbags have the power to condemn your home and land based on how it looks. Not shitting you, its for real, your property is confiscated thru a series of acts of attainder of writ, the county then gains receivership and its handed to approved real estate dealers to sell off. See what they did here out in flyover country? About 300 lovals showed up to the hearing and told them in no uncertain terms what was not to happen and what would be done to keep this tyranny form being created. They got the message and their feet are currently bring held to the fire. We made them tell us exactly who they where where tgey lived, worked, who their friends and family are. They got the message real clear, if any of them tried this shit again. Bad thing, a county next to us started it and created a colors by number handbook how to sneak it under the peoples radar, so two WV counties have implemented this attainder of writ. They really are trying to kill us all off, depopulate the land, keep it for themselves. This is truly "local local local", with globalist power and money driving it, bet some places nobody is even aware its been put in place. This happened in March this year, Nicholas Country West Virginia.
The Problem: Pharma gives incentives to Dr's to "sell" their product. Dr's love them some free money, and for some, that's all the reason they need... so they prescribe away. Patients (many with no self control) pop the painkillers like Pez and go back for more. Unethical Dr's are more than happy to whip out the prescription pad again and again and write themselves into a higher tax-bracket with the "Big Pharma" cheese.
The Solution: Do away with the ability of the manufacturers to provide kickbacks to medical personnel. Find and prosecute the Dr's found to be writing prescriptions as if they are trying to wallpaper their personal villas with them.
What Happened Instead: The typical players complained that the drug manufacturers were taking advantage of their poor helpless family members by turning them into drug addicts. (No "personal responsibility" here. Nope. None.) The typical politicians decided, well we want to be re-elcted, we need to "Do Something!".
Did they limit the kickbacks of the mfgs? No. Too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend. Did they go after the Doctors abusing this "cash cow" to the detriment of their patients? No. Again...too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend. Did they try and tell patients to take control of their own behavior? Good GOD NO! ...and alienate our voting blocks?!?! Can't have that!
Nope, we'll blame the drugs themselves! We'll make it so that they are either unavailable (ie: pulling Soma off the market, FDA limitations on how much morphine can be produced each year) or so onerous for Dr's to prescribe that they'll just stop or offer under-performing alternatives that aren't in the spotlight.
This is the situation my wife and tens of thousands of other folks with chronic pain get to deal with.
Why? "...because of all the opioid deaths!!!!"
Yeah...about that.... If you take all of those deaths and filter out fentanyl, heroin (Yes! They include this is their #s.), adulterated pharmaceuticals (ie: prescription drugs that have been "stepped on" or used to create other illicit substances), and intentional suicides, legally prescribed opioids make up less than 0.2% of all opioid deaths in the U.S.
(This information was related to me by the past President of the Pain Management Physicians of Arizona Organization. They fought with the then Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, about implementing further limitations on their ability to treat their patients. However, Dougs ADULT son was going through a drug-treatment program at the time, so of course, he had to "DO SOMETHING!" There is a special place in Hell for Mr Ducey.)
TL;DR ??
The next time someone mentions the "Opioid Crisis", replace "opioid" with "gun violence". You know the evil "Gun Violence"! Yeah. It's the same argument, with the same folks pushing it.
I have heard pretty much the same things you said, particularly about the illegal drugs lumped into the numbers to inflate the crisis. The people dealing with significant pain issues are the losers when they can’t get discontinued or highly controlled medication.
This blog is awesome. There is a myriad of topics covered and the sometimes adversarial comment war that erupts only adds to the joy of being here on a regular basis. What could be better? A yearly BBQ pilgrimage get-together to do this in person. Bring some of those FFFF images to life. Let’s make it happen, people.
Oh, but WAIT! They're not DRUG PUSHERS if they're DOCTORS!!! Drug pushers, both with and without lab coats, should be HUNG UNTIL DEAD! They are the TRUE "mass shooters!!!"
ReplyDeleteSad but true. Most doctors are just pushers.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a special place in hell for the billionaire sackler family of purdue pharma
ReplyDeletetruth!
ReplyDeleteBroke both hips, tore a tendon in my knee and broke biggest bone in my foot. They said we can give you something for the pain. I told them the F you will already have 3 friend in the ground. 2 in the same graveyard
ReplyDeleteGod Damn the Pusher man
ReplyDeleteYes, God Damn him to hell. Bear in Indy
DeleteA stupid and simple claim for a complex problem. Too many reasons to list but know this first that the law suit against Perdue wasn't to save Kentucky or people from drugs it was to make lawyers rich and nothing else. 2nd point: Oxycontin is a crappy drug to appease a addict. Almost without exception the addicts who ended up using oxy did so because they couldn't get a real drug that they wanted. No self respecting drug user chooses oxy, they got hooked by Fentanyl and fentanyl is what they wanted but they were broke or the law arrested the pusher so instread they stole grandma's oxy that she needed for her bad hip and used it instead.
ReplyDeleteGreat example of this from my childhood friend who got hooked on cigarettes at age 14. He would come to my house and raid the ashtrays for old butts and smoke them. One day the ashtrays were all clean so he took a tea bag and spilled it into a ripped of piece of newspaper and rolled it and smoked it. Because he was "hooked" on tobacco but would smoke anything to get a little satisfaction. THAT is what the addicts did with oxy. The story being told is BS.
The real story is that the white poor or hillbilly's had no future and many or them choose tobacco then alcohol and then weed and harder drugs. Their future was sent to Asia when most of the decent jobs were offshored and they had idle hands and minds and turned to drugs. The 2nd point of that is: there is an addictive "personality" most of who are bi-polar or with similar mental issues. Not crazy, you probably know many of them and typically when they hit puberty they show all the symptoms and one of those symptoms is abusing drugs and alcohol.
They don't start with prescription painkillers. They start as bored teens whose mind tells them to do stupid things and their parents aren't paying enough attention to them.
Last point and this one is they key to why the BS story about prescription drugs is believed: No one wants to admit they were at fault using drugs!! It is soooo much easier to blame the painkillers they got from some injury and then how big pharma "targeted" them. See! It wasn't "their" fault, they were good people until big pharma "targeted" them!!! Bull shit!
I'm going to have to agree with you on the "bored teenagers" thing. Also, I'm just gonna say it, genetics has a big effect on the folks in that area. Check out their linage and where their "Pappys" and Mammys" came from. Does addiction come from genetics....or does the genetics make you susceptible to addiction?
DeleteHere here... Very well spoken truth
DeleteVery good points. The Amish don't seem to have a problem with addiction.
DeleteOxy itself wont get you high unless you swallow a whole bunch. It’s formulated for slow release. But crush it or dissolve it well in water and youre off to the races. Ask me how I know.
DeleteAmen!
ReplyDeleteSome background...
My wife has a condition known as Adhesive Arachnoiditis brought on by two failed back surgeries and a botched procedure on her spinal chord.
(You don't hate Doctors enough.)
The nerves in your spinal column are normally free-floating, surrounded by spinal fluid.
Adhesive Arachnoiditis effectively bonds the nerve fibers to each other and the walls of the arachnoid. This causes the nerves to be "stimulated" constantly and continuously.
Remember that time you pinched a nerve in your back, screamed like a little girl, and couldn't walk right for a day or two?
Now imagine that pain 24/7...365...for over 25 years.
Let that sink in.
While Adhesive Arachnoiditis is fairly uncommon, close to 20% of the people who are afflicted with it, end up taking their own lives.
My wife has taken opioids for over 25 years. She hates them, but they are necessary.
Years of trial and error with different types and dosages to find a combination that would alleviate her pain to some degree and still allow her to be coherent and lead a somewhat normalized life.
When Soma (carisoprodol) was released, it was a God-send for my wife. It became a helpful balance between pain relief and not being a mental vegetable.
...and then the "Opioid Crisis" became a thing.
The manufacturers were sued, the medication became unobtainable because no doctors wanted to be associated with it, and we were back to trial and error for another 10 years.
My wife then went to oxycontin, and finally to higher and higher levels of morphine. Poor substitutes, but workable when carefully managed.
Now we can no longer get morphine (and doctors are loathe to prescribe it). Why? The "Opioid Crisis".
Similar story here. Wife's back is messed up. Always in pain. And has the x-rays and MRIs to prove it. They wouldn't give her a damn thing. I mean nothing. Told her to just take ibuprofen. If people want to mess up their life with prescription meds it's still better than doing fentanyl. When it was just people doing oxy's you didn't see the slumped over zombie crap at least.
DeleteSo now even if there is a legitimate reason for heavy duty pain killers you can't get them.
And BTW: ibuprofen and lots of other over the counter pain meds have much higher risk of liver damage than the good old school opium based meds.
The Problem:
ReplyDeletePharma gives incentives to Dr's to "sell" their product.
Dr's love them some free money, and for some, that's all the reason they need... so they prescribe away.
Patients (many with no self control) pop the painkillers like Pez and go back for more.
Unethical Dr's are more than happy to whip out the prescription pad again and again and write themselves into a higher tax-bracket with the "Big Pharma" cheese.
The Solution:
Do away with the ability of the manufacturers to provide kickbacks to medical personnel.
Find and prosecute the Dr's found to be writing prescriptions as if they are trying to wallpaper their personal villas with them.
What Happened Instead:
The typical players complained that the drug manufacturers were taking advantage of their poor helpless family members by turning them into drug addicts. (No "personal responsibility" here. Nope. None.)
The typical politicians decided, well we want to be re-elcted, we need to "Do Something!".
Did they limit the kickbacks of the mfgs?
No. Too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend.
Did they go after the Doctors abusing this "cash cow" to the detriment of their patients?
No. Again...too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend.
Did they try and tell patients to take control of their own behavior?
Good GOD NO! ...and alienate our voting blocks?!?! Can't have that!
Nope, we'll blame the drugs themselves!
We'll make it so that they are either unavailable (ie: pulling Soma off the market, FDA limitations on how much morphine can be produced each year) or so onerous for Dr's to prescribe that they'll just stop or offer under-performing alternatives that aren't in the spotlight.
This is the situation my wife and tens of thousands of other folks with chronic pain get to deal with.
Why? "...because of all the opioid deaths!!!!"
Yeah...about that.... If you take all of those deaths and filter out fentanyl, heroin (Yes! They include this is their #s.), adulterated pharmaceuticals (ie: prescription drugs that have been "stepped on" or used to create other illicit substances), and intentional suicides, legally prescribed opioids make up less than 0.2% of all opioid deaths in the U.S.
(This information was related to me by the past President of the Pain Management Physicians of Arizona Organization. They fought with the then Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, about implementing further limitations on their ability to treat their patients. However, Dougs ADULT son was going through a drug-treatment program at the time, so of course, he had to "DO SOMETHING!" There is a special place in Hell for Mr Ducey.)
TL;DR ??
The next time someone mentions the "Opioid Crisis", replace "opioid" with "gun violence".
You know the evil "Gun Violence"!
Yeah. It's the same argument, with the same folks pushing it.
I appreciate the diverse insights shared so far, and I’d like to offer a different perspective based on my personal experience.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I suffered a serious workplace injury after being struck by a vehicle traveling over 50 mph. The aftermath involved nine surgeries—one of which worsened my condition and intensified the pain. That marked the beginning of a 20-year journey with opioid medications, which coincided with the rise of OxyContin.
At the time, medical professionals assured me it was less addictive and more effective than existing options—and that I would likely need it for the rest of my life. To be clear, the medication initially worked: it dulled the pain and stabilized my mood. But over time, tolerance set in. My dosage increased significantly, eventually supplemented by fentanyl patches. This was during an era when prevailing medical guidance supported giving patients whatever they needed to preserve a reasonable quality of life.
Externally, I was functioning. I worked. But I wasn’t truly myself.
After two decades, I made the decision to stop. I told my doctor I was finished and asked for a final month’s prescription—more as a precaution, given the horror stories I’d heard about withdrawal. But the withdrawal never came. After a week, I returned the remaining medication to the pharmacy and disposed of it. That was the end of it. Even now, with opioid prescriptions in my home from my wife’s surgery, I have no interest in them.
I was later invited to join the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. I declined—not because I think they’re blameless. Far from it. I believe Purdue and the Sackler family deliberately targeted vulnerable communities, working through unethical doctors to flood markets with a highly addictive drug. I believe what they did was criminal.
However, I also recognize that no one from Purdue or my medical team forced me to take those pills. I made that choice. I was a reasonably informed adult, and I accepted the risk—until I didn’t.
Since quitting, I’ve lost 105 pounds and found non-pharmaceutical ways to manage my pain. Life is better.
That said, the pharmaceutical industry has little incentive to develop non-addictive, effective pain relief. The return on investment simply doesn’t compare to the ongoing revenue from opioids. If even a fraction of patients become dependent, that dependency fuels both legal and illegal markets. The cycle continues.
It’s also worth noting that natural opiates, when used properly, can be among the safest medications available. Yes, they carry a risk of addiction—but they are well understood. By contrast, many newer drugs come with long lists of alarming and unpredictable side effects.
In the end, responsibility lies in multiple places: with corporations, regulators, healthcare providers—and with individuals. My story is just one example, and I know it won’t reflect everyone’s experience.
Irish - On point as usual - thanks
ReplyDeleteIrish - On point, as usual - thanks
ReplyDeleteThey ain't no hope, widdout dat dope.
ReplyDeleteI'm so beat from years of work and G force fun since 1969, that hydrocodone (Vicodin), keeps me from being in suicidal levels of pain. The over reaction to the "opioid crisis" has driven unknown thousands to suicide from inescapable, high levels of pain.
ReplyDeleteIt's obvious Anonymous August 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM has never been in real, body-twisting pain, where you'd take anything to ease it.
ReplyDeleteGFY and your stupid opinion.
I keep poking my senator, who was a doctor, to help rein in the pharmaceutical companies and their control over mass media. It keeps falling on deaf ears.
ReplyDeleteBecause he's on their payroll.... And the 534 other scumbags are, too.
DeletePharma isn't here to cure anything. They just want to manage it. I bet there has already been 12 cures to cancer. But you can't heal the cash cow! It only pays when there is pain.
ReplyDeleteA patient cured is a patient LOST!
DeleteThey only ever try to manage the symptoms, not the cause. They want you sick, so you'll buy more meds.
What the federal government should do is start a program with incentives to any company, any small or large business that will locate in the Rust Belt and greater Appalachia and hire residents. Not immigrants, not people who moved there but life long and born there residents. This wouldn't have to include large grants and funding it could be as simple as tax breaks and easing of red tape. Many of the people who live in these areas don't want to see it change for the worst but they do want to see opportunities for their children and themselves. They don't want to see a massive influx of people they want to maintain their small town and rural community.
ReplyDeleteOn the same point something has to be done about American schools. More trade education, more practical education "cooking, home economics, budgeting, establishing and maintaining a decent credit score, etc.". Not saying to cut the three R's in fact do a better job teaching the 3 R's and waste less time on DEI and gender studies. Our schools could easily do so much more for students.
Yeah they basically wiped out near 90% of working men and woman in the area of rural WV where I live. And near 75% of what remains are pillbillies and meth heads, whose only income is pretty much theft off of us private property owners. Its pretty bleak in many ways. Most of us are past caring, cause there is nothing you can do for those who will not lift themselves out of this destitution, maybe shoot one when you catch them stealing off you, really all can be done.
ReplyDeleteTop that off, some truly sneaky motherfuckers lurking in the shadows are attempting to implement ordnance regulations where some unelected scumbags have the power to condemn your home and land based on how it looks. Not shitting you, its for real, your property is confiscated thru a series of acts of attainder of writ, the county then gains receivership and its handed to approved real estate dealers to sell off.
See what they did here out in flyover country?
About 300 lovals showed up to the hearing and told them in no uncertain terms what was not to happen and what would be done to keep this tyranny form being created. They got the message and their feet are currently bring held to the fire. We made them tell us exactly who they where where tgey lived, worked, who their friends and family are. They got the message real clear, if any of them tried this shit again. Bad thing, a county next to us started it and created a colors by number handbook how to sneak it under the peoples radar, so two WV counties have implemented this attainder of writ.
They really are trying to kill us all off, depopulate the land, keep it for themselves. This is truly "local local local", with globalist power and money driving it, bet some places nobody is even aware its been put in place. This happened in March this year, Nicholas Country West Virginia.
The Problem:
ReplyDeletePharma gives incentives to Dr's to "sell" their product.
Dr's love them some free money, and for some, that's all the reason they need... so they prescribe away.
Patients (many with no self control) pop the painkillers like Pez and go back for more.
Unethical Dr's are more than happy to whip out the prescription pad again and again and write themselves into a higher tax-bracket with the "Big Pharma" cheese.
The Solution:
Do away with the ability of the manufacturers to provide kickbacks to medical personnel.
Find and prosecute the Dr's found to be writing prescriptions as if they are trying to wallpaper their personal villas with them.
What Happened Instead:
The typical players complained that the drug manufacturers were taking advantage of their poor helpless family members by turning them into drug addicts. (No "personal responsibility" here. Nope. None.)
The typical politicians decided, well we want to be re-elcted, we need to "Do Something!".
Did they limit the kickbacks of the mfgs?
No. Too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend.
Did they go after the Doctors abusing this "cash cow" to the detriment of their patients?
No. Again...too much cash from THOSE lobbyists to stop THAT trend.
Did they try and tell patients to take control of their own behavior?
Good GOD NO! ...and alienate our voting blocks?!?! Can't have that!
Nope, we'll blame the drugs themselves!
We'll make it so that they are either unavailable (ie: pulling Soma off the market, FDA limitations on how much morphine can be produced each year) or so onerous for Dr's to prescribe that they'll just stop or offer under-performing alternatives that aren't in the spotlight.
This is the situation my wife and tens of thousands of other folks with chronic pain get to deal with.
Why? "...because of all the opioid deaths!!!!"
Yeah...about that.... If you take all of those deaths and filter out fentanyl, heroin (Yes! They include this is their #s.), adulterated pharmaceuticals (ie: prescription drugs that have been "stepped on" or used to create other illicit substances), and intentional suicides, legally prescribed opioids make up less than 0.2% of all opioid deaths in the U.S.
(This information was related to me by the past President of the Pain Management Physicians of Arizona Organization. They fought with the then Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, about implementing further limitations on their ability to treat their patients. However, Dougs ADULT son was going through a drug-treatment program at the time, so of course, he had to "DO SOMETHING!" There is a special place in Hell for Mr Ducey.)
TL;DR ??
The next time someone mentions the "Opioid Crisis", replace "opioid" with "gun violence".
You know the evil "Gun Violence"!
Yeah. It's the same argument, with the same folks pushing it.
I have heard pretty much the same things you said, particularly about the illegal drugs lumped into the numbers to inflate the crisis. The people dealing with significant pain issues are the losers when they can’t get discontinued or highly controlled medication.
DeleteI remember Douchey very well…now we have the talking turnip. Things are not looking up for my beloved AZ.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is awesome. There is a myriad of topics covered and the sometimes adversarial comment war that erupts only adds to the joy of being here on a regular basis. What could be better? A yearly BBQ pilgrimage get-together to do this in person. Bring some of those FFFF images to life. Let’s make it happen, people.
ReplyDelete