THEY KNEW BACK IN 2009, that 78% of OxyContin abusers never received a Doctor's prescription for them and had purchased them illegally on the black market, as counterfeits.
Meanwhile, like a broken record, policymakers are intent on further reducing opioid prescriptions, as if that will do anything other than exacerbate matters. Forcing Chronic Pain Patients to live in HeII, buy them illegally or commit suicide. And Physicians are leaving their practice or dropping patients.
Many dealers use pill presses to make counterfeit OxyContin or Vicodin pills and trick non-medical users into thinking they are buying the real thing.
That’s how Prince died. The singer/songwriter abused Vicodin. Records show he never got prescriptions from doctors.
He died from ingesting counterfeit Vicodin pills he obtained on the black market that turned out to be fentanyl.
Policymakers & the main stream media remain fixated on the false narrative that the overdose crisis is the result of doctors over-prescribing opioids to their patients in pain.
Prince’s tragic death actually typifies what is really happening.
The overdose crisis has always been primarily due to non-medical users accessing drugs in the dangerous black market that results from drug prohibition. While some unethical and unscrupulous doctors used their medical degrees to disguise their drug dealing operations in the form of “pill mills,” these were extreme exceptions
Yet their behavior played into the false narrative to which misguided policymakers stubbornly & illogically cling to.
The prescription cut-down has made many pain patients suffer needlessly and cruelly. Some have turned to suicide. Others access the black market for substitutes like heroin or fentanyl.
THEY KNEW BACK IN 2009, that 78% of OxyContin abusers never received a Doctor's prescription for them and had purchased them illegally on the black market, as counterfeits.
Meanwhile, like a broken record, policymakers are intent on further reducing opioid prescriptions, as if that will do anything other than exacerbate matters. Forcing Chronic Pain Patients to live in Hell, buy them illegally or commit suicide. And Physicians are leaving their practice or dropping patients.
Columbia University researchers last month found evidence that the present restrictive opioid policy is not lowering overdose rates, but merely pushing non-medical users to more dangerous drugs, making patients suffer in the process. This comes after two earlier studies came to similar conclusions.
Doctors and patients are the wrong targets. When will the insanity end?
https://www.cincinnati.com/…/opinion-fentanyl-fl…/679133002/
Fabricated Tech Bubble Created for profit, Fabricated Housing Bubble created for profit & NOW a Fabricated RX Opioid crisis Created and Perpetuated for Profit.
Just imagine the "Kick Backs" in the form of Campaign Contributions, PACS and the $$$ Amount to the politicians, & why they won't or have any desire to fix it.
FACT: The harder it becomes to get RX Opioids, the more people flock to illegal heroin and fentanyl.
FACT: To build a demand for a product, restrict it's supply
FACT: It’s now indisputable that most recent opioid deaths result from illegal heroin/fentanyl, not physician prescribed pain pills.
But The DEA & SAMHSA (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Give “Carte Blanche” & “Waivers to prescribe higher doses/limits of controlled substances” to Providers that prescribe “Addiction Therapy Drugs” that are more addictive, controlled substances, tagged the “lifetime therapy drug”, more severe withdrawal symptoms, more side effects and more expensive!
Nothing sinister to see here folks…
Call it what it really is!
STOP the Lies!
It is and always was an illegal heroin and illegal fentanyl flooding of the USA.
Not a Doctor prescribed opioid epidemic!