The opioid epidemic has sparked a huge growth in the extremely profitably addiction treatment industry – but there is little regulation around these centers that are making a lot of money off sick and needy patients. The New York Times offers a deeper look.

DRUG TESTS BIG MONEY———With drug abuse rising, an array of companies have found new ways to turn the problems of addicts into billable fortunes. And few are as profitable as those focused on the lowliest byproduct of any stint in rehab: urine. Testing has long been part of recovery, a way for clinics to ensure that patients are staying clean. But starting in 2010, as opioid abuse evolved into a crisis and the Affordable Care Act offered insurance to millions more young people, the cost of urinalysis tests soared. It was soon common for clinics and labs to charge more than $4,000 per test, and to test clients two or three times a week. (Segal, 12/27)

TAX PAYER FUNDED Rehab Drugs, rehab clinics, half way homes, plus…gun confiscations!

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/profit-mining-the-opioid-crisis-the-dark-underbelly-of-lucrative-addiction-treatment-industry/

The truth about the US ‘opioid crisis’ – prescriptions aren’t the problem

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>>5307540

More people die of STDs 23,000 in the US per year than overdoses of Physician Prescribed Opioids ( 17,029 people)!

And more people die from the flu 80,000 (2017) per year than opioid overdoses! Guess We need a war on the flu and STDs, instead of Physician prescribed opioids.

80,000 people died of the flu last winter (2017) in the US

The U.S. government estimates that 80,000 Americans died of the flu and its complications last winter — the disease's highest death toll in at least four decades.

In recent years, flu-related deaths have ranged from about 12,000 to — in the worst year — 56,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Published 4:16 PM ET Wed, 26 Sept 2018

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/80000-people-died-of-the-flu-last-winter-in-us.html

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

Heart disease: 635,260

Cancer: 598,038

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 161,374

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 154,596

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 142,142

Alzheimer’s disease: 116,103

Diabetes: 80,058

Influenza and Pneumonia: 51,537

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,046

Intentional self-harm (suicide): 44,965

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

According to the CDC, at least 2 million people in the U.S. become infected with STD related bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of those infections. Many more people die from other conditions that were complicated by an antibiotic-resistant infection.Sep 19, 2013

Drug overdose deaths involving prescription opioids 17,029 in 2017. Since 2016, however, the number of deaths have remained stable.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

>>5307733

NOTABLE

Guess We need a war on the flu and STDs, instead of Physician prescribed opioids.

>>5307754

Exactly…build the wall and the overdoses will fall, rapidly.

But the war on physician prescribed opioids has to end now…it's resulting in chronic pain patients going to the streets for pain relief or ending the pain, completely by suicide. It doesn't take a damn rocket scientist to figure that would be the result of the insanity.

>>5307887

And the other…children and infants being doped up with brain chemistry altering psychiatric drugs…while chronic pain patients are going to the streets to buy their pain meds, because the feds made all the physicians scared to prescribe them or made to feel like drug addicts & forced to be monthly drug tested or end the pain all together by suicide.

>>5308038

FDA is controlled by big Pharma. Big Pharma is now also into the Vaccine business. Big Pharma is just as dangerous as other "legally defined criminals".

>>5308140

>>5308038

Bought and pimped politicians, aiding and abetting big pharma