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Opioids- John Oliver

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A very interesting piece on the harms of opioids and the opioid addiction in our country.

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I would like to talk to you about drugs and I know I know I already sound like I Middle School I'll teach you about to show you a video like this add to an ignorance and indifference and top it off with a desire for escapism in kicks the sum total is inconceivably found in the Benny's The Reef the pop needle  you might laugh but that film was thinking about it when was the last time that you saw a pot exactly exactly  put on fortunately America is now in the midst of a new drug crisis and it seems that no one is safe from it Laura Charlie's owner who asked us not to use her last name so Charlie had to be rushed the vet you can't see the suspect throw the drugs over the fence in the video but that Charlie what she's eating is a full bag of heroin you can't process the fact that your dog ate heroin imagine how it must have felt for her dog when it kicked in who's a good boy I'm a good boy you go boy  best ball even got haunted local news story had some chilling text Garrett Bishop runs the bark and play where it happened he says it highlights a much bigger problem let me find everything around here and it's it's it's getting to the point to where I can't let my employees go outside okay that is terrifying although honestly I have enough use a doggie day care center is the first taste of McGruff the crime dog is actually qualified assault epidemic of addiction to opiates like heroin and prescription painkillers as of 2015 an estimated 2.6 million Americans wear almost 30,000 overdose deaths a year in the US and the prevalence of this problem astonish you some people just listen to Donald Trump open New Hampshire they said the biggest single problem they have up here is heroin and I said how does heroin work with these beautiful lakes and trees listen all of the beautiful it doesn't yeah it does though it does heroin looks basically everywhere because it's heroin it's not cell phone heroin has full coverage so tonight we're going to look at one of the major causes of this crisis painkillers which all chemical cousins of heroin around 75% of heroin users started with a prescription opioids drugs like Oxycontin Vicodin and Percocet which some take recreationally and others Tigers prescribed by a doctor but however it starts it can get out of hand fast so how many if you stop from this side have moved from prescription drugs to heroin  everybody so much more cheaper became dependent on painkillers they said they do almost anything to get them on one time I I was hurting so bad that I ended up punching a four-by-four and break it all three please fingers in this bone to get pain meds for my doctor I do that several types of you'd hire yourself in order to go to adult semester since pulled out of my head for prescriptions at the time that's how my prescription people were they taken right backs to their wrist on this died of overdose  everybody this is happening everywhere you probably know someone who is struggling or who is died from an opioid addiction some towns have been devastated just two months ago and it around Huntington West Virginia 28 overdoses occurred one 5 Hour span and give him a risks it's kind of amazing how freely don't just have prescribed them because there are not in circulation have currently nearly 250 million prescriptions for opiates written every year that's enough for every adult in America to have a bottle Hells and then some wine that you are saving for a special occasion Subs are going to the you haven't had a single event in 4 years that was deserving a getting fancy drunk  peace these pills again who was old falling into the hands of others from from those who are already addicted to bold teenager's so how was this happened because interesting Lee as recently as the play nineties excessively wary of prescribing opioids back then everything called phobia a lot of healthcare professionals did not want to tribe opiates at all because they thought you give the slightest amount you turn your patients into addicts and so even people with stage 4 cancer weren't being giving opiate left to suffer your phobia which is not to be confused with which is the irrational fear of screaming talk show host giving you a brand new Pontiac Oprah accountable the taxes on this I haven't thought it through  obviously that level of under treating pain who's problem in itself and to that credit Advocates what to dispel some dangerous mix but in doing so they made a key mistake as you will see is the end of this clip today the federal government that about half of all surgery patients suffer needlessly because doctors and hospitals don't pay enough attention to painkiller Health secretary Louis Solomon talked about Nets the pain builds character me if he said that infants don't feel pain another myth that elderly patient a higher tolerance for pain or the painkillers are addictive all myths okay okay okay first of course babies did we ever think otherwise  more importantly the fact that painkillers are addictive was not enough it's like a book of Greek mythology featuring the stories of Sisyphus Oedipus and Yony come on that last one is very real and it cannot be dismissed you won't station between the medical community about me complexities of pain treatment is clearly important the problem is that discussion became dominated by the pharmaceutical industry who started amplifying the message just be used for acute pain from cancer or surgery but all sorts of pain like arthritis which makes sense as a motive coming from the Pharma industry end-of-life paincare is an RO business it's hard to make a lot of money off of the products exclusively marketing to people who are close to death honestly I don't know how folks news even does it I have no idea it's a mystery volume I guess no industry the loudest voice was Perdue in 96 they released the Blockbuster drug Oxycontin sunlight marketed it to doctors aggressively giving out swag lock up fishing hats swing music CDs during the slogan swing in the right direction with Oxycontin and oxy branded stuffed plush toys and anything we didn't get hold of one of those you have clearly never watch this shoulder for because yes there is and yes he is my new best friend and yes his name is Harold and of course I'd put this is the perfect choice of mascots because much love to do it Oxycontin might seem appealing but if you're not careful it will tell you life of pause  yes he will also distributed inspirational videos like I got my life Back featuring seven patients whose life was turned around by the magic of Oxycontin John this new pain medication I have not missed one day of work and my boss really appreciates that Lauren is there everyday so I'm able to be very productive is really dead to my height and which I'm expecially excited about is just the fact that I'm able to spend time with my grandchildren it's amazing just to be able to keep Obama not have to always constantly tell him grandma can't play now from can't do this Grandma's hurt and Grandma's back hurts results of a powerful message although I will note it makes time with your grandkids more fun could apply to literally any drug that kids Grandpa I'm going to push a real high and I got to stay up all night it wasn't it wasn't just uplifting stories of the Purdue video show it to reassure who might be nervous about taking such a strong drug less than 1% of patients taking opioids actually become addicted less than 1% I don't know it might seem like I'm pulling that number out of their ass but they actually pulled it out of the letters to the editor section can you England Journal of Medicine seriously this is it that paragraph is the whole thing it wasn't. He was only about short term use of opioids in hospice but it became the main source for that 1% claim and lets his pages on Note a solid source for information just this month a Pennsylvania newspaper published Atlanta featuring a man's question about Hillary Clinton's Fitness for office at because I'm a quote what if that time of the month comes the only song to respond she 68 I'm true to my baby a little bit even if don't just started noticing a lot more than 1% of that patients will getting addicted Purdue had a ready answer what if the note because I have doctors on that payroll like Alan Spanos who will happy to explain be helpful New Concept of pseudo addiction I'll let him tell you about addiction is  when a patient is looking like a drug addict because pursuing pain relief so pseudoaddiction is relief seeking Behavior mistaken as drug addiction so convenience what is no diarrhea I'm the Cure may actually be more tacos and produce overall message of a quick easy cure for pain very appealing especially for primary care doctors who might only have 15 minutes to treat a patient so it is no wonder the by the year 2000 double writing nearly 6 million Oxycontin prescriptions per year and its sales with more than even Viagra and remember that was a drug that had the distinct advantage of being sold by Bob Dole Red Hawk light 98 boy how everything started piling up that it was far riskier than promise with headphones like Oxycontin uses increasing and oxycontin abuse called a plague or some show to do with Cole it a pseudo plague I lost back video window immune from this trend because I like to investigation discovered two out of the seven of them died as active opiate abusers and that grandmother you so tell me up became addicted and nearly lost everything  I've lost cause I've lost a lot  I want to keep  behind taking that drug when I did lose my own and I lost my metal Insurance off as I said if I was to go to the mailbox once a month and I would find a bottle of Oxycontin in it I probably still be on it and I'd rather be dead think about that losing her health insurance might have saved her life that isn't so deep it would vaporize Alanis Morissette into a cloud of Kingston that boy now I'm guessing you are pretty angry at Purdue so you might be glad to hear that in 2007 they admitted some responsibility and a lawsuit soap can actually lead to the evening news good evening the maker of a hugely popular painkiller has some pain of its own tonight the company and its top officers will pay shut written 34 million dollars in fines for lying to the public because you got a lot of leeway on that that's why I don't condone us is not yet being sued for saying America runs on Duncan when we all know that real slogan should be sometimes telephone to Starbucks as many investigators on the practice is running a drop they might containing fentanyl an opioid which can be a hundred times more powerful than morphine that drug is only a full counsel patience is accused of not just pushing it for known cancer patients but even helping convince insurance companies to pay for it and to do that according to one Muay Thai particular Shady technique if you don't have cancer and breakthrough cancer pain no insurance company is going to pay for this medication so if call Evan you tell them that the patient doesn't have cancer it's automatically denied so I said what you doing that's what I'm not saying yes right  is that a yes will you ask what they did think but I wasn't blatantly saying yes horse.com until it pain literally the first one that comes up is yes pull up to such as absolutely definitely unquestionably yep  at this point I should say the Purdue encephalons owner told us that those practices were in the pot an incest has denied wrongdoing and didn't respond to any of our questions not even with a nut on a certain point the question has what did we do wrong and more what do we do now because these drugs are still the most effective solution for certain types of pain and many patients need them so we can't get rid of but we have to be much more careful about how that prescribed and to that credit the CDC issued Lauren tringali Barnes this year suggesting doctors use Nono Buick therapy when possible and if and when one is needed to start patients with a lower dose and a short to supply a technique that they cool start low and go slow Wichita sound what would also sounds like how your creepiest high school friends discard cunnilingus to start low take her to Friendly's chicks love root beer floats dude I love them dude no it's not no it's no good what were all that sounds great unfortunately no aries the country have access to alternative pain treatments easy to say use some play opiate alternative but in the lot of World areas patients don't have access to things like physical therapy and mindfulness meditation insurance companies won't pay for it that is a big problem because even in a rural area alternative pain treatment should be at least as easy to find as Waffle Houses which like heroin about has do you hell sounds dangerously addictive to put it mildly it does not say that the pharmaceutical industry is expecting any major reversals in opioid sales anytime soon marketing extra drugs to fight one of opioid side effects constipation if you need an opioid to manage your chronic pain you maybe so constipated it feels like everyone can go except you  you know painkillers are powerful if people use them despite the sound that they play the fact being jealous of a dog's butthole showing the Superbowl this year which means it is a big business NPR can only assume that was like reverse commercial join the Puppy Bowl featuring a jealous dog and a shiting now  just love to prove future addict we going to need to do more to help the millions that already exists which means more investment in treatment programs as well as increase in the availability of drugs walking alone a commonly used in a nasal spray to rescue people from overdoses because as this for house makes clear it is a tool that they use with depressing frequency every single firefighter in the Revere fire department knows how to use this has been training on this and has more overdoses in we do fires so it's a piece of equipment that we can't go without now just like we have the hose it's true might be more likely to use a nasal spray than a hose which is really going to help those hot firefighter calendars because something about an overdose bussing nasal spray isn't quite a sexy it's still sexy but just not quite as sexy and he still sexy though just know but still and that's not the point the point there is no wrong simple answer here will respond to the same treatment an old people in pain will find relief from alternative Therapies going to take a massive effort and a significant investment it won't be cheap it won't be quick and it won't be easy and it is hard not to be angry at the drunken is like Purdue who's promised all cheap quick easy paint Solutions help put us in this f****** mess because well they may not be solely responsible if you ask me if I best significant plane for reckless drinking Behavior which contributed to this massive Public Health crisis I'm not saying yes exactly what would definitely say a huh

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