I'd say there may be some truth to this being a racial justice issue. Namely, the BLM crazies come out on "racial justice" grounds, cops stop policing anything to do with minorities, drugs run even more rampant, overdose deaths increase. Seems like a perfectly logical chain of events to me.
Yes it is white people. Mostly white women, who's desire to fetishize black people on their facebook feed always somehow results in always hurting the people they claim to be helping.
Anyone but blacks. As we all know, they can never actually bear any responsibility for anything they do, up to and including murder, rape, suicide, rape, arson, rape, and especially rape.
Sorry . . . if these people were adults it was their responsibility to be aware of the potential for addiction.
Using opiates for chronic pain requires a person to accept the fact of addiction, given the inability to live and cope with that pain. It is a good trade-off in my estimation, if there is no way to alleviate the source of the pain through surgery and/or the usual physical rehab process. The chronic pain and depression that hits many in old age, for example, is a good instance of when extended opiate use becomes a boon, a godsend. I know this from personal experience.
The only real problem with opiate addiction is the lack of legal supply. The fantastic con job, the absolute boondoggle of the Methadone clinic scam is one for the books. Imagine if anyone told the truth about Methadone at the beginning of the creation of legal clinics. The fact is, Methadone is stronger than morphine by a factor of about two, not quite as strong as heroin but with a half-life far longer, making withdrawal from Methadone much more prolonged than withdrawal from heroin or morphine or oxycodone (the common opiate present in the "evil" Oxycontin. The effects are identical, as is true with all opiates, with some subtle differences.
Doctors who took a pharmaceutical company's advice for dosing Oxycontin committed a breach of ethics and their blaming the pharma company is the height of hypocrisy and irresponsibility, given that a doctor should be aware of an opiate's effects, regardless of a salesman's brochure or sales pitch. If the makers of Oxycontin faked study results and published bullshit data in the medical journals, that's another problem altogether. Doctors actually taking $ from Purdue to lie to their patients about the duration of effect and dosage is something else. I've never heard of this before. I cannot imagine that this payola was very common.
Finally, the horrors of opiate withdrawal have been totally exaggerated. It is the anxiety preceding withdrawal that is the major roadblock. That and, of course, the addict's genuine desire to quit, or lack of it.
I don't like to defend Big Pharma, given their overall horrific history of malfeasance, but I oppose the paternalistic treatment of MDs as wise, knowledgeable saints who always put the interests of their patients first.
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Caveat Emptor!
Without reading the article….. some combination of white people and legacy of slavery. If people really care why not hold people responsible for their own destructive behavior. Maybe make Thomas Sowell required reading in the public schools of this area
True. That really shocked me since he was a protege of Friedman. It is a funny story when he talks about realizing that the government isn’t interested in solving problems
They can lie however the fuck they want. The truth is the overdoses on the rise in the black community are the fault of the black community. You want to do drugs, you are the problem.
Fentanyl is much cheaper and easier to manufacture than heroin, being totally synthetic, eliminating the need for poppy cultivation altogether. Soon all street "heroin" will be Fentanyl only, if this is not already the case. China and Mexico are the main manufacturers, with Mexico, naturally, being the main entry point, along with Chinese cargo containers.
It is dosed in micrograms, so anyone buying a bag on the street, expecting to shoot heroin, ODs.
Call it a sort of new wrinkle on natural selection.
If you really wanted to work the race angle, blame the Chinese and Mexicans, the main manufacturers and smugglers of Fentanyl.
Junkies everywhere would be well-advised to buy pills that are easily recognizable as prescription opiates, enroll in a local methadone program, or expect a hot shot at any time.
I'd say there may be some truth to this being a racial justice issue. Namely, the BLM crazies come out on "racial justice" grounds, cops stop policing anything to do with minorities, drugs run even more rampant, overdose deaths increase. Seems like a perfectly logical chain of events to me.
So wrong, it's actually right again.
Yes it is white people. Mostly white women, who's desire to fetishize black people on their facebook feed always somehow results in always hurting the people they claim to be helping.
There you have the Ferguson Effect
Anyone but blacks. As we all know, they can never actually bear any responsibility for anything they do, up to and including murder, rape, suicide, rape, arson, rape, and especially rape.
That's kind of true.
And likewise with "Tax-absorbing states".
Yeah, those same cities where all the crime happens and have been under lefty control for decades?
Noticing patterns is racist.
Why? Only a child or an idiot is unaware of opioids' addictive properties.
Sorry . . . if these people were adults it was their responsibility to be aware of the potential for addiction.
Using opiates for chronic pain requires a person to accept the fact of addiction, given the inability to live and cope with that pain. It is a good trade-off in my estimation, if there is no way to alleviate the source of the pain through surgery and/or the usual physical rehab process. The chronic pain and depression that hits many in old age, for example, is a good instance of when extended opiate use becomes a boon, a godsend. I know this from personal experience.
The only real problem with opiate addiction is the lack of legal supply. The fantastic con job, the absolute boondoggle of the Methadone clinic scam is one for the books. Imagine if anyone told the truth about Methadone at the beginning of the creation of legal clinics. The fact is, Methadone is stronger than morphine by a factor of about two, not quite as strong as heroin but with a half-life far longer, making withdrawal from Methadone much more prolonged than withdrawal from heroin or morphine or oxycodone (the common opiate present in the "evil" Oxycontin. The effects are identical, as is true with all opiates, with some subtle differences.
Doctors who took a pharmaceutical company's advice for dosing Oxycontin committed a breach of ethics and their blaming the pharma company is the height of hypocrisy and irresponsibility, given that a doctor should be aware of an opiate's effects, regardless of a salesman's brochure or sales pitch. If the makers of Oxycontin faked study results and published bullshit data in the medical journals, that's another problem altogether. Doctors actually taking $ from Purdue to lie to their patients about the duration of effect and dosage is something else. I've never heard of this before. I cannot imagine that this payola was very common.
Finally, the horrors of opiate withdrawal have been totally exaggerated. It is the anxiety preceding withdrawal that is the major roadblock. That and, of course, the addict's genuine desire to quit, or lack of it.
I don't like to defend Big Pharma, given their overall horrific history of malfeasance, but I oppose the paternalistic treatment of MDs as wise, knowledgeable saints who always put the interests of their patients first. . Caveat Emptor!
Without reading the article….. some combination of white people and legacy of slavery. If people really care why not hold people responsible for their own destructive behavior. Maybe make Thomas Sowell required reading in the public schools of this area
True. That really shocked me since he was a protege of Friedman. It is a funny story when he talks about realizing that the government isn’t interested in solving problems
Blacks and government employees: the closer you are to them, the less you like them
They can lie however the fuck they want. The truth is the overdoses on the rise in the black community are the fault of the black community. You want to do drugs, you are the problem.
The real cause of the overdoses is ghetto culture, as it creates a dangerously high tolerance for criminal activity including drug abuse.
Doing something about ghetto culture will help fight drug addiction in blacks.
Economics.
Fentanyl is much cheaper and easier to manufacture than heroin, being totally synthetic, eliminating the need for poppy cultivation altogether. Soon all street "heroin" will be Fentanyl only, if this is not already the case. China and Mexico are the main manufacturers, with Mexico, naturally, being the main entry point, along with Chinese cargo containers.
It is dosed in micrograms, so anyone buying a bag on the street, expecting to shoot heroin, ODs.
Call it a sort of new wrinkle on natural selection.
If you really wanted to work the race angle, blame the Chinese and Mexicans, the main manufacturers and smugglers of Fentanyl.
Junkies everywhere would be well-advised to buy pills that are easily recognizable as prescription opiates, enroll in a local methadone program, or expect a hot shot at any time.