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The CDC Lied & People are committing suicide…(Is basically it…stretching the truth by a over half is lying for what agenda???)
It's a War On Chronic Pain Patients and an illegal heroin and fentanyl Crisis…Not A Doctor Prescribed Opioid Crisis.
CDC Admits Rx Opioid Deaths 'Significantly Inflated'.
CDC Opioid Overdose Death Rates Over-Reported by Half. April 5, 2018.
Starting in 2015, the CDC had changed the way it had calculated opioid overdoses due to the rise of illicit fentanyl deaths. In 2016, the CDC announced that 32,445 Americans had died from overdoses of opioid pain medication. However, excluding fentanyl and similar synthetics, that number is now reported as 17,087 overdoses; a drop of nearly a half.
https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/resources/news-and-research/cdc-opioid-overdose-death-rates-over-reported-half
CDC Researchers State Overdose Death Rates From Prescription Opioids Are Inaccurately High-By Jeffrey A. Singer
In an article in the April 2018 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, four researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention report that the CDC’s methods for tracking opioid overdose deaths have over-estimated the number of those deaths due to prescription opioids, as opposed to heroin, illicitly manufactured fentanyl, and other illicit variants of fentanyl.
They called the prescription opioid overdose rate “significantly inflated.”
The authors of the AJPH article state, “Traditionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others have included synthetic opioid deaths in estimates of ‘prescription’ opioid deaths.
However, with IMF (illicitly manufactured fentanyl) likely being involved more recently, estimating prescription opioid–involved deaths with the inclusion of synthetic opioid–involved deaths could significantly inflate estimates.”
They suggest that under a new “conservative” definition—excluding deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl—the 32,445 prescription opioid-involved deaths that the CDC estimated occurred in 2016 would be revised down to 17,087.
The authors point out that the exact drugs involved in overdose deaths are not identified in 20 percent of death certificates, and the number of deaths due to diverted (stolen, smuggled, or sold by dealers) prescription opioids is unknown.
They also note that multiple drugs are involved in over half of their reported cases of prescription opioid overdoses—although other centers report multiple drugs involved in over 90 percent of overdoses. Because of this, they say, even that reduced estimate is likely inaccurate.
(17,087 they say, even that this reduced estimate is likely inaccurate.)
This last statement is important.
Policymakers seem intent on seeing doctors treating patients in pain as the source of the opioid overdose crisis.
And their focus has been on getting doctors to curtail prescribing opioids, while ordering a reduction in the manufacture of opioids (25 percent in 2017 and 20 percent this year) by pharmaceutical companies.
This has made a lot of patients, in and out of the hospital, suffer from under-treatment of pain.
Yet, the government’s own numbers have shown for years that the overdose crisis is primarily the result of nonmedical users seeking drugs in the black market created by drug prohibition.
This article from the CDC researchers provides yet another reason why policymakers should rethink their approach.
https://www.cato.org/blog/cdc-researchers-state-overdose-death-rates-prescription-opioids-are-inaccurately-high
The CDC Quietly Admits It Screwed Up Counting Opioid Pills~2018
"We at the CDC Really Screwed Up and Here is Our Pathetic Attempt to Disguise it"
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/03/19/cdc-quietly-admits-it-screwed-dishonestly-counting-pills-12717
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/80000-people-died-of-the-flu-last-winter-in-us.html
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/03/19/cdc-quietly-admits-it-screwed-dishonestly-counting-pills-12717
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/3/21/cdc-admits-rx-opioid-deaths-significantly-inflated