All these D-bags ever seem to do is make it harder for legitimate patients who need medication to get it. They do nothing about the bastards who push the pills and the folks who sell them on industrial scales.

It's always for show while allowing the profiteers in whatever field to continue profiteering. No matter what they claim, Rs don't really care about much besides money and power.

is trying to wean me off opioids completely. I've been taking them, safely, for 20 years now. They're the difference between having a semi-productive life and being curled up in a ball, never moving from my bed.

It's my opinion that these Doctors would be elated if they could get rid of all of their pain management patients completely, have them go out on the street for pain meds, and probably die from an overdose within a few months. But it wouldn't be on their books, and that seems to be all they care about. Mexican heroin is flooding the streets of our country, and most of it is laced with Fentanyl. More people are becoming addicted and overdosing than ever before. But those deaths aren't on the government's or the Doctor's books, so that doesn't seem to be such a huge problem as prescription opioids.

I've been sitting at my computer for about 15 minutes now, and the pain is excruciating.

They are again doing the opposite of what's needed, but their prisons for profits, which trump will fill by having them gone after and arrested for their addictions, is their answer after a doctor more than likely got them hooked on it. Considering republicans pushed their approval through knowing they were really addictive, yet allowed it anyway for their campaign funding. They should be the ones criminalized, not the people who were pushed unknowingly into getting addicted. Also Johan Hari has a great book, factual, how to solve the problems like other countries have done. The Republicans ignore the facts, because they want money instead. Wonder who owns prison stocks in Congress right now, and this administration. Hope someone puts out that list of them. The republican ideology is how can we profit off their misery now. Corrupted politicians started this mess, they should be the ones held fully accountable for what they've caused.

Matthew Cooke.

We spend millions and millions on prisons, and they do not end crime.

We imprison young people with problems. They emerge old men who learned in prison how to commit even more crimes.

And many of our prisoners are in for drug possession and/or use and need help not prison time.

Very often drug use is a symptom. Our laws make it a crime to be punished in prison where there is no help to deal with the underlying problem or illness.

Ever since orange assface put her in charge of this, she's been over-riding the scientists so that nothing effective gets done. Hmm, it's almost like the mfg are paying him to make sure their honey pot doesn't go away, just like they are paying sessions to keep marijuana illegal federally. Important stat - there is only one place where opioid deaths have decreased dramatically - CO - every since mj was legalized. Hmm!

The vast majority of these deaths are from people using heroin and getting fentanyl instead. Not from prescription opiods.it is people driven out of the legal system through strict opiod regulation.

The idea driving more people to heroin or other illegal but accessible avenues is the answer enrages me.




That chart shows pretty clearly the huge spike in overdoses due to heroin and other synthetic opiods such as fentynal. While your typical prescription opiod deaths does increase it is nothing like the spike in the illegal alternatives.

...more addicts means more profits. its not as if the pharmaceutical industry is ignorant to the fact that their legal narcotics are highly addictive substances. it's amazing how cigarettes are banned from being advertised on TV but these narcotics are not. which helps explain why big pharma and their GOP stooges are desperate to kill legal cannabis. like the NRA they profit from death.

All thanks to Paul Volcker and Ronnie Raygun.