I saw this problem coming when they first began the news narrative of opoid deaths, subsituting the real problem of heroin overdoses to the term opiods or narcotics. There seemed to be something else at play to me. The CDC’s report (which they never should have been involved with this in the first place) that become the absolute go to source for all every new policy of no longer treating pain is absolutely terrible. It boils down to essentialy: OMG you guys Opioids are bad times a million, and all those that OD’ing were most likely prescibed a prescription once in their life time. So anyone thats ever been prescribed will become addicted. Yes, there is a huge problem with illicit use of synthetic heroin and fentanyl but the restrictions being put on medicine for treating real pain in situations like stage 4 cancer has made medical professionals compassionless. I had to fight tooth and nail to get my mother the relief she needed during her fight against cancer and all the procedures and surgeries that accompanied that battle. I found those that wanted to help were being forbidden by their group or hospital polices, policy they were getting from the government. But more often I dealt with doctors that were more concerned with protecting themselves from vague “what if’s” that may or may not happen in the future. As in yes, your elderly mother will be in pain from this, and will most likely not survive, but if she does we are more concerned that maybe sometime in the future, she might become addicted. Putting off real treatment for “what if’s” is not good medicine. Villifying all patients for needing pain relief or villifying all doctors as the root cause of a illicit fentanyl and helrine crisis has turned medicine in to a compassionless war zones for those with real pain. I believe it is another form of inducing division and keeping society in misery.
I would also say that the drug Narcan, the company that makes it, the patent holders for the injector and legislation to make it available OTC and mandatory almost everywhere like the epipen and the subsequent price hikes are worth a dig. A pretty big hunch its all connected and goes back to HRC and the CF.