Mark, a 48 year old father of two, k****d himself less than a week after taking antidepressants. A prescribed cocktail of pills caused Aurélie to have uncontrollable fantasies about decapitating her parents and hurting everyone. We investigate the dangers of prescription pills.
So sad. I know someone who works as a lobbyist for the company that manufactures all of these drugs. Even when these drugs killed his own mother, he kept working his job......
@@williamwilson6499problem is, they didn't tell patients the pills were addictive when they were prescribed. Years Drs would write scripts and tell patients they was no chance of addiction.
They create alternate routes and slowly over time dose even the basics like many foods, they're filled with slow poison but I agree with you, people still have a choice to avoid it, it requires actively participating in one's own life and not delegating choices to money hungry companies.
@@williamwilson6499 So easy for you to say. Nobody intends to get addicted. The kid who gets run down by a drunk driver breaking multiple bones....tell him not to take it. Tell a mom who is ready to end it all from nerve pain.....Do better, sir.
There are things like methadone and suboxone to substitute and prevent withdrawl. However these things especially suboxone are a slippery slope meaning they also have the potential for addiction /abuse just significantly less so than opioids. Also with marijauna becoming more legal/ available more people could turn to THC to help manage pain and opiate withdrawl . Youd be surprised how much better a recovering addict or pain patient can function after a good sativa
I was just at the doctor after having broken my femur 2 weeks ago and they didn’t want to give me any pain meds at all. People with legitimate pain are being punished. 2 things can be true at the same time - there can be people who are addicted as well as people who need pain meds. Why do we have to go through these extreme pendulum swings every few years?
actually, there are MANY things that ARE true at the same time. along with what you said, there are people who have been in long term “pain management” that ARE physically dependent on opioids, but are in a position where they have consistent and reliable access to their medications, and potentially live more a more comfortable life with less negative effects on their mental health, so they don’t end up ABUSING the medications. there are also full blown addicts who experience pain (whether chronic, sporadic, occasional, etc) that deserve to have their pain treated, just as much as a non-addict does; it would just require the slightest bit more time and effort into finding the best and safest solution for each individual. but sadly, no one has genuine compassion and empathy for other human beings. and it seems that the people we trust the most with our health and safety, care almost the least.
All tragic stories. This is a bigger problem than “just” the painkillers. Treating symptoms and creating more problems (addiction, death) instead of tackling the causes: wrong diet, wrong lifestyle, wrong job, bad medical care.
We can just look around us and see that they're absolutely not treating anything for anyone, but dosing and creating lifelong pill subscribers and people hardly make it to retirement...
Nah its way way way more than that. People are exploited like slaves. Over 50% of Americans are poor and struggling with mental health issues which lead to self destructive behavior. The whole system pushes you to your demise.
Seen this same-sort-of issue, many times. Dosage, duration, interactions, etc., go 'over-looked' by (p)harmacists. The belief that there's a safety net and 'mistakes' will be caught is a mere illusion.
The problem comes in when the dea forced doctors to stop writing them threatening their jobs so the doctor takes a person off the pills with not enough tapering and then they are sick and forced to go find it on the streets it’s absolute bs. Real pain patients can’t even get help now
They did this to my mom she was on 750s narcos and blue Xanax stop her cold turkey it almost killed her. She still lives with addiction because they did not help her get off them the proper way.
@@Willson-r5q a “free market” economy is the playground of the narcissist. So is marriage. In this system, sociopaths rule…. This is the opposite of how we lived in tribes. It’s time to end this experiment… our experiment with….. *marriage*
I'm not victim blaming at all. It is definitely the fault of the doctor to prescribe so many pills, but doesn't taking around 100 pills a day set of any alarms in your head? How can a doctor operate so long while prescribing that much to just ONE person?
@@darekm6859 I'm sure many of the parents put their kids on meds because they were brainwashed into thinking they can trust the experts and that psych drugs will help them, and very few are ever warned about the terrifying adverse effects and withdrawal of psych drugs and are lied to that it's "just the progression of the disease" and not the drugs causing the problems.
You don’t just start with a hundred …you start with a small amount it says take one as needed 3 times a day…after a couples you’re stuck and need more physically and mentally
We're trained as a society to believe that addiction is some sort of personal "moral failure" for the same reason were trained to believe the same thing about homelessness. It's all so we're less likely to question the system we've been forced to live within, that being thr system of Profitieren Über Alles.
I see it as the whole world knows opiates and benzodiazepines are BAD and they still will abuse them. And buying ANY drug, even weed, is so dangerous. For the majority it’s kinda their fault, not all. People will give it a try anyways.
It is a moral failure though, because when you look at it, two different people both tried the same drugs and only the one who had strong values and strong will power was able to beat addiction. The one with weak morality and a weak support system become addicted. We need to be raising children to have a strong internal monologue so that they are always questioning their actions, desires, etc. and making the best decisions. As someone who has tried many hard drugs without getting addicted, I'll say it's all in the mind. People with strong will have a better chance, but that doesn't make them immune from addiction, just more resistant.
Opiates are an important tool, not to be prescribed frivolously. It’s crazy how the addiction happens. You start using opiates to get relief from pain, then the opiates cause more pain, and turmoil than you were originally in. I’m about two years clean off it all now, praise the Lord.
Maybe things would look different if everything in America wasn't so goddamn punitive. Instead of going cold turkey without pain meds, maybe wean onto THC combined with therapy? Or something else? Addiction is seen as a moral failure in the US, and not what it really is - a medical condition.
In first place addiction is a personal choice. We all know that addiction exists and can happen to anyone who isn't alerted. Cold turkey is the best way, because even if you prolong addiction with other addictive substances, to overcome it you must quit. It's no help to procrastinate the date, the cold turkey thing is inevitable.
You can't talk to ppl like cadychan. They'd rather put all of the blame on the word addiction than take responsibility lol those same ppl will blame a gun for a murder instead of the 1 behind the gun & call it gun violence lol don't waste your time on ppl like that.
You have to taper extremely slowly from SSRIs and opioids while treating the root causation of depression, pain etc. Doctors in general know nothing about root causations.. Search tapering on TH-cam..
Corporations are duty-bound to make AS MUCH money as possible for shareholders. The American economy is built on greed and is causing America to implode from the inside. *The Greed Economy*
As I’m watching this, the ads are White Claw. Let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about the physical, mental, emotional, familial destruction caused by alcohol addiction. Let’s talk about the access to alcohol. Not everyone abuses alcohol. Just like not everyone abuses opiods. I have had 14 reconstructive surgeries in 9 years. I have taken opioids off and on but never on a consist basis. While I have experienced physical dependency, I’ve never become full blown addicted. I think it has to do with the nature of my injury combined with the abundance of joy and support I have from my family. This is always such a confusing topic for me because I feel so much empathy for those that get addicted and I also feel so guilty anytime I have to take a pain medication. I tell myself I should be able to push through the pain. But given the nature of my injury, I can’t even breathe because of the pain somedays.
Important point: that dependence is different than addiction. A point you made above. Nowadays it seems almost impossible to get real pain meds -- my parents have had joints replaced and only received Tramadol and Ibuprofen for pain. I understand on one hand, and they've gotten along okay, but why not give people some relief when theyre going thru a stressful surgery like this? Its ridiculous.
@@sn1000k I hear you. I went to a surgeon who, for the first rx fill, gave me hydrocodone. Great. Efficient enough. When I went back for a postop check up, the awful PA said she would only give me a Tramadol refill. It was my 13th surgery. Tramadol doesn't even touch my pain in the slightest because of my history and tolerance. She ended up being let go shortly after that because she just sucked in general and had a terrible dr/patient rapport.
My blood pressure has been 197/125 while detoxing from opiates at age of 25, non smoker, and other than drug addiction the epitome of young and healthy. It looks like heart failure and is usually recorded as such.
I understand we are in a very troubled time with the opiod crisis, but I also understand unrelenting pain, and being unable to ease that pain due to misuse of painkillers by others. Until, you've actually had pain so deep and so cruel that you can't see going on anymore and are given something that couldn't possibly touch that pain becauuse someone else abused this medicine that could help, you can't really understand the other side of the coin. There are people who also legitimately need opiods at some point due to breath stealing pain but cant get them. There has to be an answer other than where it is headed.
I think that people misunderstand that pain is not an illness, but a symptom. So if there's constant pain, then there is an underlying cause that must be cured. Popping pills might be necessary for terminally ill patients where no cure is possible. But anyone else should look out for curing the underlying cause. Opioids aren't necessary in 99% of all patients who aren't in hospice or hospital. Outside the USA nobody is prescribing opiods to ambulance patients. There is the problem, and of course in patients who still believe having a prescription makes them immune to addiction and side effects. It doesn't, so be careful!
@@lars5288A lot of chronic pain sufferers have chronic conditions that can't be cured though no matter how willing you are to get rid of the underlying cause. There is a huge difference between chronic pain and temporary pain. It's often the people with temporary pain that start abusing the meds. I'm not from the U.S. but I live in the EU and because of the opioid crisis in the U.S. it's even hard for us here in the EU to get pain meds. Even though there is no crisis over here. All my meds are regulated by the system, all doctors and apothecaries can look in the system to see how much I'm allowed and when I'm allowed to pick up my new prescription etc. The doctor won't prescribe me oxy over here though because of the crisis in the U.S.
@@lars5288I think people don’t understand people have sought out the “cure” and had multiple surgeries , had terrible accidents resulting in Permanent damage or have incurable painful conditions. In the right patients and yes with adjunctive therapies opioids can be a necessary tool. Sometimes there is no “cure” only thing that can be done is to ease suffering.
The biggest misunderstanding the masses have about opiate & benzo addiction is the hellish & excruciating withdrawals the patient/addict has to endure. Withdrawals can actually kill you.
Yes. AND there are many people whose quality of life will deteriorate so badly with the massive chronic pain they are subjected to that they would rather un-alive themselves than carry on without pain killers. This factor has NOT been addressed- and people wonder why so many people who were suddenly taken off of their painkillers went to the cocaine dealers???
@@witchywomen6650 no opiates will make you want to kill youself lmfao but cannot kill you. alcohol and benzos are the only ones that you can actually die from withdrawal. other drugs are just physically horrendous
There is no way that a doctor can prescribe 100 opioid pain pills a day for a patient. Because their DEA license would have been immediately flagged. It's impossible and a pharmacist wouldn't fill 100 pills a day either. I'm retired from the medical field but you don't even have to work in the medical field that's just common sense.
With a centralised healthcare & prescription drug system it would be possible to prevent individuals being given megadoses . However , the USA has always favored decentralization , to maximize monetary rewards of providers . The consumer's interests come last , especially if they aren't wealthy.
I love this channel too. It would be my top channel if I could handle serious topics 24/7. But I just can't, so I don't watch ENDEVR as much as I would like. But when I do watch it, it's always so good.
@@rossberning6538 Yes, It was one of the first places that it hit hard. There are alot of documentaries about it here. There was one where they followed the EMS fire chief around and went to overdose after overdose. They had teams of EMT's that only responded to overdoses if that tells you anything.
Getting sober takes more than 90 days. Those 90 day programs aren't long enough by any means. Most times it leads right back to the same behaviors because they don't delve deep enough to get to the root of the problem. There isn't enough time in 90 days to peel through the layers of the many problems that are covering the true issue of the addiction. Getting to the heart of the problem takes time, effort and hard work to get to the root cause of the addiction. I know this through personal experience with addiction and recovery.
Absolutely! A year long program is needed. Sadly, most do not accept people with felonies, and even those that do are becoming fewer and fewer due to money.
Canada's supplying free "safe supply" opioids to addicts. They buy them from ... Purdue. Can't make this up. Of course the addicts sell them so they can buy the fentanyl they actually want, and then the dealers sell them to new addicts including high schoolers.
I'm in pain all day, every day for over 10 years now. I always refused pain killers because of the awareness of addiction. I don't regret my decision at all.
Been there, done that, I got the prize which is all the side affects from opiates. Took them orally, had four failed lower back surgeries, two were multi-level fusions, others were revisions. Now I have an internal pain pump which is targeted to the area of the fusions. I don’t know what was worse, having the back issues/surgeries, or the pain pills. If only time could be turned back to try to avoid all this.
For her atty to say it wasnt the amt of narcotics the doctor prescribed that killed them is utterly detestable. Idc what the ailment is-99 pills is a lethal amt of medication to prescribe to anyone!!!
@cassandra9699 well I mean opioid dependence and any drug abuse is unpredictable. There are a minority of people who would be tolerant enough to handle 495mg of oxycodone throughout the day. It would be deadly for someone who was not using large amounts daily but now people are SHOOTING up to a GRAM of fentanyl a day. In a medical setting fentanyl is dosed in MICROGRAMS and is typically not utilized in an outpatient setting. When it is tho it’s in a patch and does not have the same amount of recreational value as illegal powdered fentanyl or fentanyl analogues that are even stronger than fentanyl. It is an absurd amount to be prescribed tho and hopefully it wasn’t exactly correct. Doctors like this exacerbated an issue caused by pharmaceutical companies and the FDA endorsing an opioid compound as non addictive and approved ridiculous doses as well as fraudulently lying about the clinical studies that were completed. Unfortunately not all doctors have the best interest of the patient or are just slow in the sense of using their brain before accepting the pushed agenda of pharmaceutical companies.
Something has to be done about this problem. As an addict in recovery, I can absolutely understand why people wanna just cut out opioids completely pretty much, but I also understand the anger at Drs because they think everyone asking about pain meds is just someone that's useless. Drs have become inhuman in the sense they don't seem to understand pain meds is all that's allowing some to be able to work, to be able to go out and do anything with friends and family. There has to be a way to ease the restrictions. Yes I agree drugs are bad but if you are pretty much bed ridden from pain but a Dr won't write anything, what then, cause while I'm not bed ridden, I have lost my ability to work or do anything really physical. So many people truly do need pain meds but can't get em. More people would be able and certainly willing to work. Are there gonna be bad apples that abuse things, yeah, if things are not set up right then absolutely, however it absolutely could be set up for success. This is a serious problem that needs worked out.
How can a person be considered an expert in something they have never experienced themselves? A pain management doctor who has never had the kind of pain that his patients do, cannot be an expert in that experience. Donators need to be humbled.
I have never taken Oxycodone in a large or long course. My Doctor in the 80's would only let me take for 5 days and then 5 weeks off as he didn't want me to become addicted. I haven't taken any in 36 years. I do Chiropractic adjustments.
It’s happening in Japan, too. I realized this after being prescribed antidepressants by a bought and paid for quack at Matsushima Clinic in Yomitan Village, Okinawa. I hope the doctor tries to sue me for defamation or slander. If he does, he’ll be digging his own grave instead of leading people to an early one.
This frustrates me. This particular doctor was ridiculously out of line, but now doctors are afraid to give out any! I barely got enough after my 2nd abdominal surgery and got even less for my 3rd (12 pills! So 3 days worth and thats it.). I can't take NSAIDs as I only have 1 kidney and tylenol alone does not cut it. Surgeon says to get any additional from the primary and primary says to get it from the surgeon. Round and round it goes. Absolutely ridiculous. There has to be some responsibility put onto the patient, educate them, but allow them access to what they need to sleep and heal properly. I also have chronic pain that I've spent many nights crying in pain and tylenol does nothing. I dont even bother asking my primary because I know how that will go. It's horrible.
@@jenna7817I was lucky enough to have been referred to a pain clinic! I was able to feel results, rather than just having a bandaid fix! I'm still a work in progress, but I'm getting better! Lots of luck to ya💞✌️
This is old news and you can’t get a doctor to prescribe you an opioid now even if you need it. I had hysterectomy surgery and they gave me pain management for 12 hours then Tylenol or ibuprofen. I was sent home with a prescription for Tylenol and I lived.
Im in excruciating pain every step i take every night i lay down every morning moving to get outta bed its painful to stand my knee locks snd the pain is breath taking snd i refuse the meds i want answers of what snd how we fix it.not a bandande thats gonna bring a lable as addict how about taking away the labels
The Sackler family were also partly responsible for the Valium epidemic in the 70s 80s the drug was given the all clear non addictive status by grandad Sackler for his buddy Roche . The level of death and destruction left by this family is quite remarkable, I do pray for all the addicts that they can find life again, and for the families of lost ones may justice prevail
Valium quite literally wrecked my life. I didn’t even know they were addictive!. It took a horrendous 2&1/2 year withdrawal to get off them. I almost died. I’ve made it out the other side but I’m damaged, physically and emotionally. Evil drug.
@@buildertrash4102 clinics in London were full of Valium addicts. Valium and gin the housewives sin was a common expression in the 80s. It was renowned for having terrible withdrawals, I’m pleased you managed to kick this drug good luck for the future. Justice to the people who suffered from these so called none addictive substances!
And now because of junkies, people who suffer from chronic pain conditions can't get help. I have seen my residents suffer from severe pain because doctors don't want to deal with people with pain issues. Retired laborers of all stripes that put their bodies through the ringer for decades are now told to take tylenol and get an ice pack because doctors are scared of getting sued.
You're %100 right that people in pain are not being treated, and doctors are being not just sued but held criminally liable, but it's a trap to pit people in different types of pain against each other. Rather than "ending the stigma", we're now just spreading it more evenly. It's as if everyone is a "junkie" now, including those in physical pain. In reality, NO ONE should be stigmatized for whatever their pain and preference in relief is. What we should be really upset about is Prohibition.
I have lived with chronic pain for 32 years from Fibromyalgia. It's miserable most days. I will not get addicted to opioids, I refuse. I have seen first hand the damage addictions do to families. If I wanted to, I could get these drugs because of my diagnosis, no thanks.
This is obviously a very complicated problem with no easy answers but what makes things harder is that opiates have been the only real option for crisis level pain since day dot. Thats why they still use them during surgeries, they may not prescribe them anymore, but someone gets a heart transplant or their leg amputated, they will never have asprin in their IV. If someone ever does come up with a non opiate based medication that has equal pain control, it will be a massive change in the world.
People are so addicted to pills in okc it’s crazy.. my husbands whole family is ate up with this horrible addiction that all started from their drs over medicated people!!! We got them cut off but they dr hop and will find more as we just found out.. so now we just love them from a distance!!
I hope they realize whats important. Usually it takes some kind of rock bottom. I was addicted to pills heroin and meth I've been clean 5 years now . I've seen people nod out stop breathing and turn blue ive seen people die its sad . Those who arent addicts don't understand how hard it is . Took me about 17 years to finally turn my life around after about 6 attempts to get clean
@@OldBaldWookieeoxytocin for pain turned into a 15 year addiction! The last 4 years I was using Fentanyl! 7 years of Suboxone saved my life ❤ Recovery is POSSIBLE! Last July was my last 2mg dose of Suboxone!
I am a nurse and when I did my training in the 80's we knew that the schedule 7 drugs were the opiate based pain meds and were only given for a short period of time because they are addictive. e. g pethidine. Omnopon and morphine. Morphine was used mostly for terminally I'll people. For chronic pain you should not be prescribed opioids. There are other medications that can be used.
Yeah people really think that a TH-cam video is more knowledgeable than a doctor??? You sound completely crazy. A professional should know WAY MORE THAN AN AVERAGE PERSON!! That's why there are people called "professionals"! Yeah let me tell my doctor he's wrong because a TH-cam video says something else! !
@@talktrendswithKristen Hey, it's your choice. Over 250,000 people die every year because they listened to their doctor. Doctors are human, not God. Some people like to think for themselves. I wonder how many people are regretting listening to their doctors after getting the cjabs? Do some research before you shame others. Bigpharma is big $$$$.
Why does the law and order logo appear in the background at 4:03? Did you guys direct him to do that on that TV in the back? Additionally, the voice over sounded kind of unusual. Is the voice over AI? The audio suddenly mutes near the end, too. What is going on with this doc?
Lost a good friend to prescription abuse. He got so many prescribed to him for his legitimate illness but it was too much. We tried to find a rehab to get his pain and addiction under control but he didn't make it. Now those that need regulated medicine for pain are suffering because of greed. It's so sad.....
There’s not too many options for doctors to treat pain. It’s sad really. If you get a patient in severe pain what else can they do for them? Until they come out with alternatives that actually work, doctors still need to treat their patients. People who live with chronic pain are also victims. People would rather shoot themselves in some cases than live with chronic SEVERE pain.
100 pills a day is one every 15 minutes. That's a ridiculous amount of pain and this sounds like somebody who got tangled up with that great big network marketing opioid sales pharmacy company that has some people go to prison too.
Tough subject. These decisions need to be left to people who are experts in the field, but most importantly, not someone who is emotionally involved. A mom's opinion on anything that their child uses and it, took their life, is compromised and corrupted at best. An expert in their field, should never be relying on another person's emotions.
This is nothing new. I had surgery back 95. I was in high school. My mom wouldn't let me take whatever pain med I was prescribed because she said it was addictive. My mom isn't a doctor or medical professional.
I am born in raised in OKC.... To get pain meds it used to be as easy as going to the Dr and leave with a script. They have cracked down on the pill mills so now We have A LOT of people on fentanyl and blues which are a pill made of fentanyl.
When i was 31 in 1984 i had 4 major surgeries within 2 months. It was a complicated case and very rare for that kind of tumour on the spine, 1 in a million - osteoclastoma. Even before the first surgery i was in agony from pain. Then the 4 surgeries came and i was given painkillers which i didn't want to take, in case i make a wrong move while having a false condfidence. So i put up with the pain. The whole thing lasted almost a year, from the the beginning of back pain until i recovered from the 4th surgery. In my opinion one doesn't have to use painkillers.
My opinion is that pain killers can be taken on the first day after a heavy surgery, but not longer then three or four days. Otherwise you wouldn't know if surgery went good or if the surgery failed. And outside hospitals you should only take a pain killer, when you can't sleep at all because of the pain. If you can sleep for several hours, the pain is not so heavy that it needs urgent medical treatment. Go to a doctor and find out the cause of the pain. If you don't do this, you will run into addiction. Pain doesn't go away from pain killers, as those kill pain, not the source of it.
My 9yo son had kidney surgery 2 years ago, (congenital hydronephrosis). The pediatric surgeon gave me a prescription of antibiotics ... and a prescription of Oxycontin! I waited to get home to throw the Oxy Rx in the trash bin. My son healed perfectly fine (minimal discomfort) without even needing children's Tylenol.
A 9 year old would never become addicted to pain meds for surgery when taken as prescribed! Just STOP, we have veterans that have had limbs blown off that need opioids for some sense of a normal life! This prohibition must stop, as everyone at some point in life will have to take an opioid for pain! Imagine yourself in a horrendous car accident with several broken bones and severe injuries, you will be begging for pain medication and it won’t be the Tylenol that gets rid of such horrendous pain! I hope they have a no opioid policy so you can suffer in severe pain just like you want others to do! Complete BS! My BIL died from alcohol addiction, maybe we should start closing bars and liquor stores and throwing the owners in jail so we don’t have anymore alcohol addiction? Get off your high horse and realize life happens quickly and you may just need an opioid, which is the only drug approved by the FDA for pain control! Ibuprofen is for inflammation and Tylenol is for fevers NOT pain!
I have been using cannabis since 13 due to chronic low back pain. I started using opiates as well recently as it has gotten worse. Anyone that says I need treatment gets blocked. I do not talk to my family anymore because they think I am a drug addict. The paramedics that come check on me every week are just fine with it though, so, whatever
😢🙏🏻 I'm so sorry for your loss sis. Stay strong. Your friends are watching you through their spirit with the Holy Spirit as well. You will reunite! Soon! Bc the Lord is coming soon ! Stay blessed and well God bless you and your loved ones! Love ya ❤
Reminds me why The House of Usher is now my favourite tv play! It would be great if the Sackler family got their comeuppance and all their money went towards drug rehabilitation programmes. Nice fairy tale.
Pain is there for a reason. It’s telling you that there’s a problem that needs to be addressed. If you just take away the pain you risk further damage to whatever the problem is.
@@IndelibleHD , yes. I’ve been in pain. But that’s the point. Pain doesn’t just show up for no reason. Yes, you can eliminate the pain and at the same time, figure the root cause. As he said, those opioids are for (dying) cancer patients, not for headaches and toothaches.
What if the root cause is addressed with surgery but the pain does not subside? What if the surgeon damages your nerves that you have nerve damage? What if an amputee feels pain in their missing limb for no reason? I agree with you for the most part but there are countless scenarios where unfortunately this is simply not true.
haha no. Go to med school. Chronic pain persists often after an injury is healed. The body does complicated things. Your big mouth is causing pain patients to have a difficult time getting their life-saving meds.
I'm so sick of the few people keeping everyone else from going to recess. Millions, probably hundreds of millions of people have taken Rx painkillers without these terrible outcomes. As a 55 year old woman who has never even drank a beer- I couldn't get a painkiller throughout menopause, for any other of my conditions or even from my damn dentist!!! Don't blame the alcohol, the bar or the liquor store for those who become alcoholics & abuse their families or kill innocent people driving drunk- it's the ADDICT, not the substance. I'm so sick of this BS opiate crisis preventing every decent stable adult from getting any adequate pain relief.... Total nonsense! 😡
I agree the pharma companies are culpable. Going up a step though my anger is more directed at the regulatory bodies and the revolving door system in place between regulatory and pharma manufacturers. If this could be corrected I believe this would not have happened and would be prevented
There are hundreds, probably thousands of videos about Kensington Av. on TH-cam. By the way, the local govt finally cleaned the area up some two weeks ago. Watch East Hastings, Vancouver, for more of the same.
@@ernstraedecker6174 i dont mean just people using their phone to film addicts. I mean a real in depth documentary to educate how it came to be that way. And what good is pushing them off one street gonna do? They just moved back into people’s neighborhoods again. They tried and failed with this before. There is a reason why law enforcement “allows” it. Think about it. With so many people, it’s just easier to keep them in a general area. When you start scattering them in other areas, crime rates go up, overdose deaths go up, more people go unaccounted for, there becomes more than one street that is littered with trash and needles, etc. Its an election year so the mayor gotta do something to get the votes. Just saying it’s not a coincidence this happened now
I am surprised people accept them in the first place. My dentist gave me an opioid painkiller to take after my dental surgery. I took just one and it totally knocked me out and I got the super relaxed pleasant feeling I had heard you get from drugs. Freaked me out and I never took it again. Clearly addictive.
There's something wrong with you if you discovered a drug that can make you relax and take away pain but got "freaked out" by being too weak-minded to resist abusing it. Grow some balls. Opioids should be in everyone's medicine cabinet and they are very effective tools when taken responsibly.
I suffered a back injury and specifically told the doctor I did not want pain medicine. I worked with physical therapy and completely resolved my pain without any medicine. No one shoves the pill down your throat
When u prescribe that much a day that’s on you period I’m not a doctor but I even know that’s outrageous. If they only need 1-4 a day then that’s what they should get not 90
How come, practically none in europe operated or on chronic pain experience addiction afterwards? It's a very bad health care system in the us. A business nothing less
It's a little bit LATE in the game to realize that thousands of doctors prescribed millions of pills and then we had problems. Yes, lots of doctors were completely irresponsible and I've had many of them. The pharmaceutical company can't prescribe you pills.
Saying there's less than 1% chance of people becoming addicted is like saying there's less than 1% chance of people getting addicted to tabacco after smoking cigarettes.. I'm 35 and fortunate enough to have grown up in the uk, i had problems with depression and addiction to tramadol after operations due to a breast tumour . i am fully confident in saying if i had grown up in America I would be dead by now, I would of died of an over dose or i would have taken my life.i have nothing but extreme empathy and sympathy for all people young and old who have lost thier lives or lost loved ones to this unimaginable evil which is only a thing because of money and the greed of people like the sacklers
Most doctors are prescribing opiates wrong, and patients are taking them wrong, a person should only take what's needed to control their pain, not what's prescribed for that whole day. If you're prescribed six per day and your pain is low, you take three for example, not six, this leaves you enough for when six doesn't cover it on those extremely bad days. This way your body does not become accustomed to the higher dose, and you don't run out before the end of your prescription. Less is more in the long term, a pain person can get secondary pain issues related to opioid use itself like allodynia and hyperalgesia. A person should never take enough to be completely pain free. Break through pain should also be managed. I have written a very simplified version.
It’s amazing to see people with serious opioid addiction being directed to these abstinence based treatment centres. It is well documented that opioid substitution treatment is by far the most effective treatment for this health problem. Abstinence attempts fail most of the time for this addiction. Praying to Jesus probably won’t work either. Bobs ranch looked awful….at odds with best practice…and dangerous.
Mind you, abstinence is often quite attainable if the desire and motivation is there. But yes, our insistence on abstinence being the only legit recovery is what's killing us. I'm abstinent about nine out of ten days, not counting the Adderall, caffeine, nicotine, psilocybin micro-dosing etc. Otherwise, I guess "relapse" occurs daily. 😜
I’m not letting the doctor or pharmaceutical companies off and I know that families are in immense grief but people always know when they’re doing something wrong. In the end it’s the patients responsibly to manage their conditions. It’s their lives. When I had my back surgery and was prescribed these medication I immediately knew they made me feel too good and to be careful. But I will readily admit I don’t have an addictive personality.
@@novalea . Well delightful call it whatever you choose. I’ve done every drug known, including heroin and fentanyl and nothing stuck (not that I’m happy to admit that) like it does to others. I know most doctors used to say it’s a mental disorder, but whatever you call it, some get addicted and some don’t. Have a nice day delightful and maybe look into some Valium because your very uptight.
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Mark, a 48 year old father of two, k****d himself less than a week after taking antidepressants. A prescribed cocktail of pills caused Aurélie to have uncontrollable fantasies about decapitating her parents and hurting everyone.
We investigate the dangers of prescription pills.
So sad. I know someone who works as a lobbyist for the company that manufactures all of these drugs. Even when these drugs killed his own mother, he kept working his job......
@@gashacker1 Wow. That has to weigh heavily.
Prescribing opioids for a headache???thats so wrong
@@gashacker1 terrible
@@stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642 Serious. Best to ask one question too many.
"They give you the poison for free, than they charge you for the antidote." Bruce Lipton
You don’t have to take the poison.
@@williamwilson6499problem is, they didn't tell patients the pills were addictive when they were prescribed. Years Drs would write scripts and tell patients they was no chance of addiction.
They create alternate routes and slowly over time dose even the basics like many foods, they're filled with slow poison but I agree with you, people still have a choice to avoid it, it requires actively participating in one's own life and not delegating choices to money hungry companies.
@@williamwilson6499 people lost their jobs and livelihood for refusing the poison. 💉
@@williamwilson6499 So easy for you to say. Nobody intends to get addicted. The kid who gets run down by a drunk driver breaking multiple bones....tell him not to take it. Tell a mom who is ready to end it all from nerve pain.....Do better, sir.
The problem is "they" knew it was addictive when they made it, and then they took it away with no substitute for it! Shameful
Maybe they want you guys to try ANYTHING for substitute for it...a "win win" situation for ALL BIG PHARMA....they'll MAKE BILLIONS out of your misery.
There are things like methadone and suboxone to substitute and prevent withdrawl. However these things especially suboxone are a slippery slope meaning they also have the potential for addiction /abuse just significantly less so than opioids. Also with marijauna becoming more legal/ available more people could turn to THC to help manage pain and opiate withdrawl . Youd be surprised how much better a recovering addict or pain patient can function after a good sativa
@@OldBaldWookiee good to know and thanks for the info. I believe you're right💯
weed for opioid withdrawal?? No it makes you vomit even morr from the coughing
@@OldBaldWookiee
Indica is used for pain, or a indica dominant hybrid.
AMERICA ISN'T A "COUNTRY" IT'S A BUSINESS!!
Amen.
its still the wild west there, with snake oil sales people
Corporation to be specific.
Yup that's why it has a "president" for a ruler and not a king.
Which is why Trump is the best person for the job.
Getting off fentanyl was not easy. It took me 4 months till I stopped breaking out in cold sweats and fevers. It was a relief when I felt okay again.
That’s a long time. You stuck it through Bravo!
You are amazing!!!! You sat in the pain and withdrawal that so many don't. 🩷🩷🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 I hope you have an AMAZING life!!!
Well done Brad your a warrior
I was just at the doctor after having broken my femur 2 weeks ago and they didn’t want to give me any pain meds at all. People with legitimate pain are being punished. 2 things can be true at the same time - there can be people who are addicted as well as people who need pain meds. Why do we have to go through these extreme pendulum swings every few years?
same.. Had 2 major surgeries.. told to take Tylenol. Meh, no complaints from me but still
Same they acted as if I was a crackhead, drug dealer or both.
exactly!
actually, there are MANY things that ARE true at the same time.
along with what you said, there are people who have been in long term “pain management” that ARE physically dependent on opioids, but are in a position where they have consistent and reliable access to their medications, and potentially live more a more comfortable life with less negative effects on their mental health, so they don’t end up ABUSING the medications.
there are also full blown addicts who experience pain (whether chronic, sporadic, occasional, etc) that deserve to have their pain treated, just as much as a non-addict does; it would just require the slightest bit more time and effort into finding the best and safest solution for each individual.
but sadly, no one has genuine compassion and empathy for other human beings. and it seems that the people we trust the most with our health and safety, care almost the least.
All tragic stories. This is a bigger problem than “just” the painkillers. Treating symptoms and creating more problems (addiction, death) instead of tackling the causes: wrong diet, wrong lifestyle, wrong job, bad medical care.
We can just look around us and see that they're absolutely not treating anything for anyone, but dosing and creating lifelong pill subscribers and people hardly make it to retirement...
Instead of treating those things, they're encouraging those lifestyles. They want people to be fat and sick
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And they screaming that SS will be bankrupt soon kinda funny that folks are dying way before retirement
And being too horny
Nah its way way way more than that. People are exploited like slaves. Over 50% of Americans are poor and struggling with mental health issues which lead to self destructive behavior. The whole system pushes you to your demise.
How did a pharmacist not bat an eye at filling a script of 3000 pain pills?
$$$$
Seen this same-sort-of issue, many times. Dosage, duration, interactions, etc., go 'over-looked' by (p)harmacists. The belief that there's a safety net and 'mistakes' will be caught is a mere illusion.
The doctor got off
They even had to mute the negative talk about pharmaceutical companies
Why is Box watching Law & Order with a client sitting there?
The problem comes in when the dea forced doctors to stop writing them threatening their jobs so the doctor takes a person off the pills with not enough tapering and then they are sick and forced to go find it on the streets it’s absolute bs. Real pain patients can’t even get help now
It’s crazy and immoral.
Absolutely
exactly!
They did this to my mom she was on 750s narcos and blue Xanax stop her cold turkey it almost killed her. She still lives with addiction because they did not help her get off them the proper way.
@@Willson-r5q a “free market” economy is the playground of the narcissist.
So is marriage.
In this system, sociopaths rule….
This is the opposite of how we lived in tribes.
It’s time to end this experiment… our experiment with….. *marriage*
I'm not victim blaming at all. It is definitely the fault of the doctor to prescribe so many pills, but doesn't taking around 100 pills a day set of any alarms in your head? How can a doctor operate so long while prescribing that much to just ONE person?
@@darekm6859 I'm sure many of the parents put their kids on meds because they were brainwashed into thinking they can trust the experts and that psych drugs will help them, and very few are ever warned about the terrifying adverse effects and withdrawal of psych drugs and are lied to that it's "just the progression of the disease" and not the drugs causing the problems.
You don’t just start with a hundred …you start with a small amount it says take one as needed 3 times a day…after a couples you’re stuck and need more physically and mentally
In any case scenario 99 pills a day of anything is suuuper weird. We can't keep delegating even our own reading and thinking to other people....
That person would be DEAD.?? That's crazy 😳🙏🙏 F THE SACKLERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They all need to be behind bars!
We're trained as a society to believe that addiction is some sort of personal "moral failure" for the same reason were trained to believe the same thing about homelessness. It's all so we're less likely to question the system we've been forced to live within, that being thr system of Profitieren Über Alles.
Yup. Follow the money 😢
I see it as the whole world knows opiates and benzodiazepines are BAD and they still will abuse them. And buying ANY drug, even weed, is so dangerous. For the majority it’s kinda their fault, not all. People will give it a try anyways.
Facts. Society is brainwashed so the people think the system is right
Profit over all. For those in the back.
It is a moral failure though, because when you look at it, two different people both tried the same drugs and only the one who had strong values and strong will power was able to beat addiction. The one with weak morality and a weak support system become addicted. We need to be raising children to have a strong internal monologue so that they are always questioning their actions, desires, etc. and making the best decisions. As someone who has tried many hard drugs without getting addicted, I'll say it's all in the mind. People with strong will have a better chance, but that doesn't make them immune from addiction, just more resistant.
Opiates are an important tool, not to be prescribed frivolously. It’s crazy how the addiction happens. You start using opiates to get relief from pain, then the opiates cause more pain, and turmoil than you were originally in. I’m about two years clean off it all now, praise the Lord.
haha what?? opioids don't cause more pain. Everyone I know who takes them responsibly has great success. You're buying a lie....
Maybe things would look different if everything in America wasn't so goddamn punitive. Instead of going cold turkey without pain meds, maybe wean onto THC combined with therapy? Or something else? Addiction is seen as a moral failure in the US, and not what it really is - a medical condition.
In first place addiction is a personal choice. We all know that addiction exists and can happen to anyone who isn't alerted. Cold turkey is the best way, because even if you prolong addiction with other addictive substances, to overcome it you must quit. It's no help to procrastinate the date, the cold turkey thing is inevitable.
You can't talk to ppl like cadychan. They'd rather put all of the blame on the word addiction than take responsibility lol those same ppl will blame a gun for a murder instead of the 1 behind the gun & call it gun violence lol don't waste your time on ppl like that.
You have to taper extremely slowly from SSRIs and opioids while treating the root causation of depression, pain etc.
Doctors in general know nothing about root causations..
Search tapering on TH-cam..
CBD is good for chronic pain
Without first hand experience there is no value in your assessment
GREED is the worse addiction of all...
Corporations are duty-bound to make AS MUCH money as possible for shareholders. The American economy is built on greed and is causing America to implode from the inside.
*The Greed Economy*
Share that bag of hot cheetos
@@Anthony-dk7de *NO* Hot Cheetos MINE!
The Bible says "for the love of money is the root of all evil" 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 10.
This case is greed.
As I’m watching this, the ads are White Claw. Let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about the physical, mental, emotional, familial destruction caused by alcohol addiction. Let’s talk about the access to alcohol. Not everyone abuses alcohol. Just like not everyone abuses opiods. I have had 14 reconstructive surgeries in 9 years. I have taken opioids off and on but never on a consist basis. While I have experienced physical dependency, I’ve never become full blown addicted. I think it has to do with the nature of my injury combined with the abundance of joy and support I have from my family.
This is always such a confusing topic for me because I feel so much empathy for those that get addicted and I also feel so guilty anytime I have to take a pain medication. I tell myself I should be able to push through the pain. But given the nature of my injury, I can’t even breathe because of the pain somedays.
Important point: that dependence is different than addiction. A point you made above. Nowadays it seems almost impossible to get real pain meds -- my parents have had joints replaced and only received Tramadol and Ibuprofen for pain. I understand on one hand, and they've gotten along okay, but why not give people some relief when theyre going thru a stressful surgery like this? Its ridiculous.
@@sn1000k I hear you. I went to a surgeon who, for the first rx fill, gave me hydrocodone. Great. Efficient enough. When I went back for a postop check up, the awful PA said she would only give me a Tramadol refill. It was my 13th surgery. Tramadol doesn't even touch my pain in the slightest because of my history and tolerance. She ended up being let go shortly after that because she just sucked in general and had a terrible dr/patient rapport.
Unlike opioids alcohol withdrawal can actually kill you from seizures. Opioids you may wanna die but in the vast majority of cases will not.
My blood pressure has been 197/125 while detoxing from opiates at age of 25, non smoker, and other than drug addiction the epitome of young and healthy. It looks like heart failure and is usually recorded as such.
exactly!
I understand we are in a very troubled time with the opiod crisis, but I also understand unrelenting pain, and being unable to ease that pain due to misuse of painkillers by others. Until, you've actually had pain so deep and so cruel that you can't see going on anymore and are given something that couldn't possibly touch that pain becauuse someone else abused this medicine that could help, you can't really understand the other side of the coin. There are people who also legitimately need opiods at some point due to breath stealing pain but cant get them. There has to be an answer other than where it is headed.
I think that people misunderstand that pain is not an illness, but a symptom. So if there's constant pain, then there is an underlying cause that must be cured. Popping pills might be necessary for terminally ill patients where no cure is possible. But anyone else should look out for curing the underlying cause. Opioids aren't necessary in 99% of all patients who aren't in hospice or hospital. Outside the USA nobody is prescribing opiods to ambulance patients. There is the problem, and of course in patients who still believe having a prescription makes them immune to addiction and side effects. It doesn't, so be careful!
@@lars5288A lot of chronic pain sufferers have chronic conditions that can't be cured though no matter how willing you are to get rid of the underlying cause. There is a huge difference between chronic pain and temporary pain. It's often the people with temporary pain that start abusing the meds. I'm not from the U.S. but I live in the EU and because of the opioid crisis in the U.S. it's even hard for us here in the EU to get pain meds. Even though there is no crisis over here. All my meds are regulated by the system, all doctors and apothecaries can look in the system to see how much I'm allowed and when I'm allowed to pick up my new prescription etc. The doctor won't prescribe me oxy over here though because of the crisis in the U.S.
@@lars5288I think people don’t understand people have sought out the “cure” and had multiple surgeries , had terrible accidents resulting in Permanent damage or have incurable painful conditions.
In the right patients and yes with adjunctive therapies opioids can be a necessary tool.
Sometimes there is no “cure” only thing that can be done is to ease suffering.
Grow poppies 😊
The biggest misunderstanding the masses have about opiate & benzo addiction is the hellish & excruciating withdrawals the patient/addict has to endure.
Withdrawals can actually kill you.
Yes. AND there are many people whose quality of life will deteriorate so badly with the massive chronic pain they are subjected to that they would rather un-alive themselves than carry on without pain killers. This factor has NOT been addressed- and people wonder why so many people who were suddenly taken off of their painkillers went to the cocaine dealers???
for benzo's yes. for opiates, no it cannot kill you
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@@sighndleaseWth yes opiates as well. 100%!!!! 🙄
@@witchywomen6650 no opiates will make you want to kill youself lmfao but cannot kill you. alcohol and benzos are the only ones that you can actually die from withdrawal. other drugs are just physically horrendous
There is no way that a doctor can prescribe 100 opioid pain pills a day for a patient. Because their DEA license would have been immediately flagged. It's impossible and a pharmacist wouldn't fill 100 pills a day either.
I'm retired from the medical field but you don't even have to work in the medical field that's just common sense.
Back in the day you technically could... i guess by going to different pharmacies with multiple scripts and multiple doages and types of opiods
With a centralised healthcare & prescription drug system it would be possible to prevent individuals being given megadoses . However , the USA has always favored decentralization , to maximize monetary rewards of providers . The consumer's interests come last , especially if they aren't wealthy.
209 days clean from fentanyl ❤ love yall, you can do it too!!
bravo 👍🏻 Seriously. That is awesome.
This has become my #1 TY channel, by a landslide. “Where have you been all my life ?” Absolutely amazing content ! 👏🏻👏🏻 KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK 👏🏻👏🏻
wow thank you so much 😊
I love this channel too. It would be my top channel if I could handle serious topics 24/7. But I just can't, so I don't watch ENDEVR as much as I would like. But when I do watch it, it's always so good.
The doctor prescribed the man 100 opiate pain pills every day?
Come on...
I used to get 6 30mg oxycodone and 6 10mg hydrocodone a day. In the weakest strength pill that would be 56 pills a day.
yeaaaaa... sounds a little ridiculous
Those doctors are around....\
@@DAHOMIECHRIS420 little? I never heard anyone taking more than 3 pills of whatever per day with 8 hours interval...
Need that doc lmao
I live in West Virginia, which was literally ground zero in this mess.
It is still going on but only with different street drugs now.
Is West Virginia really that bad? That sucks man!! The problem really is getting out of hand
@@rossberning6538 Yes, It was one of the first places that it hit hard.
There are alot of documentaries about it here. There was one where they followed the EMS fire chief around and went to overdose after overdose.
They had teams of EMT's that only responded to overdoses if that tells you anything.
Street drugs do more harm than pharmacists' drugs.
99 pills a day!!! Come on now... Thats just crazy!!! Idc if its just aspirin, 99 a day is just CRAZY!!!!
it is absolutely crazy.
3,000 percs a month??? Holy cow that's alot of street value
Getting sober takes more than 90 days. Those 90 day programs aren't long enough by any means. Most times it leads right back to the same behaviors because they don't delve deep enough to get to the root of the problem. There isn't enough time in 90 days to peel through the layers of the many problems that are covering the true issue of the addiction. Getting to the heart of the problem takes time, effort and hard work to get to the root cause of the addiction. I know this through personal experience with addiction and recovery.
Absolutely! A year long program is needed. Sadly, most do not accept people with felonies, and even those that do are becoming fewer and fewer due to money.
medical and physical, then you eed spiritual healing, no not religion, spiritual!
3,000 pills a month don’t even make sense from a doctor
This is punishing the dealer and letting the supplier walk.
If you're here listening/watching this documentary and haven't seen it yet, you need to watch 'Dopesick' next. So good, so enlightening.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Canada's supplying free "safe supply" opioids to addicts. They buy them from ... Purdue. Can't make this up. Of course the addicts sell them so they can buy the fentanyl they actually want, and then the dealers sell them to new addicts including high schoolers.
Thank you 😊
Going to do that.
Check out Medicating Normal too!
Also read empire of pain it goes in and explains like dopesick how the sackler family purposely got people hooked and started the opioid pandemic
If I had to choose addiction or unbearable pain I'd choose addiction so I can function and survive in this unforgiving world
I'm in pain all day, every day for over 10 years now. I always refused pain killers because of the awareness of addiction. I don't regret my decision at all.
Me too, I hate them and I’d rather feel than not
Jesus is my comfort
Research kratom.
@@asdzxc4167kratom may be a plant, but it's just another drug, really. As an active kratom addict, I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy.
I'm with you!!!!!
Been there, done that, I got the prize which is all the side affects from opiates. Took them orally, had four failed lower back surgeries, two were multi-level fusions, others were revisions. Now I have an internal pain pump which is targeted to the area of the fusions. I don’t know what was worse, having the back issues/surgeries, or the pain pills.
If only time could be turned back to try to avoid all this.
For her atty to say it wasnt the amt of narcotics the doctor prescribed that killed them is utterly detestable. Idc what the ailment is-99 pills is a lethal amt of medication to prescribe to anyone!!!
He's an attorney, that's his job to lie.
I didn't hear 99 a day how would or could the pharmacy even fill that
He isn't lying. It is a choice to take something or not to. I've walked the walk so I can talk the talk.
@@JJ-Toreddie I doubt you would be walking at all with 99 pills of anything in your body!
@cassandra9699 well I mean opioid dependence and any drug abuse is unpredictable. There are a minority of people who would be tolerant enough to handle 495mg of oxycodone throughout the day. It would be deadly for someone who was not using large amounts daily but now people are SHOOTING up to a GRAM of fentanyl a day. In a medical setting fentanyl is dosed in MICROGRAMS and is typically not utilized in an outpatient setting. When it is tho it’s in a patch and does not have the same amount of recreational value as illegal powdered fentanyl or fentanyl analogues that are even stronger than fentanyl. It is an absurd amount to be prescribed tho and hopefully it wasn’t exactly correct. Doctors like this exacerbated an issue caused by pharmaceutical companies and the FDA endorsing an opioid compound as non addictive and approved ridiculous doses as well as fraudulently lying about the clinical studies that were completed. Unfortunately not all doctors have the best interest of the patient or are just slow in the sense of using their brain before accepting the pushed agenda of pharmaceutical companies.
Something has to be done about this problem. As an addict in recovery, I can absolutely understand why people wanna just cut out opioids completely pretty much, but I also understand the anger at Drs because they think everyone asking about pain meds is just someone that's useless. Drs have become inhuman in the sense they don't seem to understand pain meds is all that's allowing some to be able to work, to be able to go out and do anything with friends and family. There has to be a way to ease the restrictions. Yes I agree drugs are bad but if you are pretty much bed ridden from pain but a Dr won't write anything, what then, cause while I'm not bed ridden, I have lost my ability to work or do anything really physical. So many people truly do need pain meds but can't get em. More people would be able and certainly willing to work. Are there gonna be bad apples that abuse things, yeah, if things are not set up right then absolutely, however it absolutely could be set up for success. This is a serious problem that needs worked out.
How can a person be considered an expert in something they have never experienced themselves?
A pain management doctor who has never had the kind of pain that his patients do, cannot be an expert in that experience.
Donators need to be humbled.
I take care of all my pains with dabs, it works great!
You really have to know more than doctors to navigate and survive our health system.
💯. Have to become an expert of sorts to avoid quackery that makes things worse not better
I have never taken Oxycodone in a large or long course. My Doctor in the 80's would only let me take for 5 days and then 5 weeks off as he didn't want me to become addicted. I haven't taken any in 36 years. I do Chiropractic adjustments.
It’s happening in Japan, too. I realized this after being prescribed antidepressants by a bought and paid for quack at Matsushima Clinic in Yomitan Village, Okinawa. I hope the doctor tries to sue me for defamation or slander. If he does, he’ll be digging his own grave instead of leading people to an early one.
This frustrates me. This particular doctor was ridiculously out of line, but now doctors are afraid to give out any! I barely got enough after my 2nd abdominal surgery and got even less for my 3rd (12 pills! So 3 days worth and thats it.). I can't take NSAIDs as I only have 1 kidney and tylenol alone does not cut it. Surgeon says to get any additional from the primary and primary says to get it from the surgeon. Round and round it goes. Absolutely ridiculous. There has to be some responsibility put onto the patient, educate them, but allow them access to what they need to sleep and heal properly. I also have chronic pain that I've spent many nights crying in pain and tylenol does nothing. I dont even bother asking my primary because I know how that will go. It's horrible.
You should ask your primary care doctor for a referral to a pain management Dr
@skinsnation4404 thanks! I will do that
@@jenna7817I was lucky enough to have been referred to a pain clinic! I was able to feel results, rather than just having a bandaid fix! I'm still a work in progress, but I'm getting better! Lots of luck to ya💞✌️
the Cause?>> GREED
This is old news and you can’t get a doctor to prescribe you an opioid now even if you need it. I had hysterectomy surgery and they gave me pain management for 12 hours then Tylenol or ibuprofen. I was sent home with a prescription for Tylenol and I lived.
Kinda odd. There's about a minute or so of audio at the very beginning that's missing...lemme just get my tinfoil hat, LOL
Im in excruciating pain every step i take every night i lay down every morning moving to get outta bed its painful to stand my knee locks snd the pain is breath taking snd i refuse the meds i want answers of what snd how we fix it.not a bandande thats gonna bring a lable as addict how about taking away the labels
Not the docs fault that people are selling them.. For those of us with LEGITIMATE PAIN, they are a god send..
I’ve been on antidepressants for two years. They worked for about two months.
Those drugs are so very dangerous
How did this happen with the 100 pills a day? Same one? Did any pharmacists raise alarms??
Not just America, it is everywhere! I am A Canadian and happening here as well. I truly BLAME PHATMA AND GOVERNMENT! It is all about MONEY
Canada is in America. So it is still America.
this isnt about tranq or fentanyl at all and seems like a repackaged opioid documentary from 10 years ago with AI dubbed commentary
The Sackler family were also partly responsible for the Valium epidemic in the 70s 80s the drug was given the all clear non addictive status by grandad Sackler for his buddy Roche . The level of death and destruction left by this family is quite remarkable, I do pray for all the addicts that they can find life again, and for the families of lost ones may justice prevail
Valium quite literally wrecked my life. I didn’t even know they were addictive!. It took a horrendous 2&1/2 year withdrawal to get off them. I almost died. I’ve made it out the other side but I’m damaged, physically and emotionally. Evil drug.
@@buildertrash4102 clinics in London were full of Valium addicts. Valium and gin the housewives sin was a common expression in the 80s. It was renowned for having terrible withdrawals, I’m pleased you managed to kick this drug good luck for the future. Justice to the people who suffered from these so called none addictive substances!
And now because of junkies, people who suffer from chronic pain conditions can't get help. I have seen my residents suffer from severe pain because doctors don't want to deal with people with pain issues. Retired laborers of all stripes that put their bodies through the ringer for decades are now told to take tylenol and get an ice pack because doctors are scared of getting sued.
You're %100 right that people in pain are not being treated, and doctors are being not just sued but held criminally liable, but it's a trap to pit people in different types of pain against each other. Rather than "ending the stigma", we're now just spreading it more evenly. It's as if everyone is a "junkie" now, including those in physical pain. In reality, NO ONE should be stigmatized for whatever their pain and preference in relief is. What we should be really upset about is Prohibition.
From 0:57 - 1:54 is missing audio for me.
If he was getting 100 perc 30s a day he was dealing them. Maybe partnered with the docror. Theyre worth $30 each. In 2012 $10-$15 each.
The Bible in greek warned of this. The old serpent overcame the world by "pharmakeia", pharmacy.
Purdue Pharmaceutical is just a company. Who owns Purdue Pharmaceutical you may ask. It is the Sackler family
Yes, it's the Sackler family
I live in Tennessee and the same thing happened to my sister.
Same, near Johnson city, got lots of kin ffered up on the legal dope......
I'm new to this channel and this was really well done. Thank you!
The guilty pharmaceutical had to pay $635 after making billions and billions, yeah I bet that hurt
I have lived with chronic pain for 32 years from Fibromyalgia. It's miserable most days. I will not get addicted to opioids, I refuse. I have seen first hand the damage addictions do to families. If I wanted to, I could get these drugs because of my diagnosis, no thanks.
This is obviously a very complicated problem with no easy answers but what makes things harder is that opiates have been the only real option for crisis level pain since day dot. Thats why they still use them during surgeries, they may not prescribe them anymore, but someone gets a heart transplant or their leg amputated, they will never have asprin in their IV. If someone ever does come up with a non opiate based medication that has equal pain control, it will be a massive change in the world.
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How was the pharmacy filling that amount
People are so addicted to pills in okc it’s crazy.. my husbands whole family is ate up with this horrible addiction that all started from their drs over medicated people!!! We got them cut off but they dr hop and will find more as we just found out.. so now we just love them from a distance!!
I hope they realize whats important. Usually it takes some kind of rock bottom. I was addicted to pills heroin and meth I've been clean 5 years now . I've seen people nod out stop breathing and turn blue ive seen people die its sad . Those who arent addicts don't understand how hard it is . Took me about 17 years to finally turn my life around after about 6 attempts to get clean
@@OldBaldWookieeoxytocin for pain turned into a 15 year addiction! The last 4 years I was using Fentanyl! 7 years of Suboxone saved my life ❤ Recovery is POSSIBLE! Last July was my last 2mg dose of Suboxone!
You got some one kicked off their pain pills?
@@jonathannighs That's what it sounds like. Brutal
I am a nurse and when I did my training in the 80's we knew that the schedule 7 drugs were the opiate based pain meds and were only given for a short period of time because they are addictive. e. g pethidine. Omnopon and morphine. Morphine was used mostly for terminally I'll people. For chronic pain you should not be prescribed opioids. There are other medications that can be used.
In this era of all information free on youtube, no one can claim complete ignorance and blame a DR!
Yes, they can. A professional should be knowledgeable about what they are prescribing in the age of the technology.
Yeah people really think that a TH-cam video is more knowledgeable than a doctor??? You sound completely crazy. A professional should know WAY MORE THAN AN AVERAGE PERSON!! That's why there are people called "professionals"! Yeah let me tell my doctor he's wrong because a TH-cam video says something else! !
@@talktrendswithKristen Hey, it's your choice. Over 250,000 people die every year because they listened to their doctor. Doctors are human, not God. Some people like to think for themselves. I wonder how many people are regretting listening to their doctors after getting the cjabs? Do some research before you shame others. Bigpharma is big $$$$.
Why does the law and order logo appear in the background at 4:03? Did you guys direct him to do that on that TV in the back? Additionally, the voice over sounded kind of unusual. Is the voice over AI?
The audio suddenly mutes near the end, too. What is going on with this doc?
Lost a good friend to prescription abuse. He got so many prescribed to him for his legitimate illness but it was too much. We tried to find a rehab to get his pain and addiction under control but he didn't make it. Now those that need regulated medicine for pain are suffering because of greed. It's so sad.....
There’s not too many options for doctors to treat pain. It’s sad really. If you get a patient in severe pain what else can they do for them? Until they come out with alternatives that actually work, doctors still need to treat their patients. People who live with chronic pain are also victims. People would rather shoot themselves in some cases than live with chronic SEVERE pain.
One question.Why haven't the tried for a cure for drug addiction. 🤔
Documentary from 2018. Should've been mentioned in the title or desc.
100 pills a day is one every 15 minutes. That's a ridiculous amount of pain and this sounds like somebody who got tangled up with that great big network marketing opioid sales pharmacy company that has some people go to prison too.
Here In the UK you can barely get to see a GP (Doctor) let alone get 100 pills a day from them! 😅
so sad what has happened to England....it makes my heart bleed...
This is a perfect example of pure evil. It all come around at some point.
Tough subject. These decisions need to be left to people who are experts in the field, but most importantly, not someone who is emotionally involved. A mom's opinion on anything that their child uses and it, took their life, is compromised and corrupted at best. An expert in their field, should never be relying on another person's emotions.
This is nothing new. I had surgery back 95. I was in high school. My mom wouldn't let me take whatever pain med I was prescribed because she said it was addictive. My mom isn't a doctor or medical professional.
Prescriptions for 100 pills a day, 3,000 per month is reckless endangerment, no way around it.
I am born in raised in OKC.... To get pain meds it used to be as easy as going to the Dr and leave with a script. They have cracked down on the pill mills so now We have A LOT of people on fentanyl and blues which are a pill made of fentanyl.
When i was 31 in 1984 i had 4 major surgeries within 2 months. It was a complicated case and very rare for that kind of tumour on the spine, 1 in a million - osteoclastoma.
Even before the first surgery i was in agony from pain. Then the 4 surgeries came and i was given painkillers which i didn't want to take, in case i make a wrong move while having a false condfidence. So i put up with the pain.
The whole thing lasted almost a year, from the the beginning of back pain until i recovered from the 4th surgery.
In my opinion one doesn't have to use painkillers.
My opinion is that pain killers can be taken on the first day after a heavy surgery, but not longer then three or four days. Otherwise you wouldn't know if surgery went good or if the surgery failed. And outside hospitals you should only take a pain killer, when you can't sleep at all because of the pain. If you can sleep for several hours, the pain is not so heavy that it needs urgent medical treatment. Go to a doctor and find out the cause of the pain. If you don't do this, you will run into addiction. Pain doesn't go away from pain killers, as those kill pain, not the source of it.
You're right, US society is made to think that we should medicate every single thing, how convenient for big pharma
Don't make blanket statements -- you cannot compare your pain to others...
dude or dudette, I AM PROUD OF YOU!
My 9yo son had kidney surgery 2 years ago, (congenital hydronephrosis). The pediatric surgeon gave me a prescription of antibiotics ... and a prescription of Oxycontin! I waited to get home to throw the Oxy Rx in the trash bin. My son healed perfectly fine (minimal discomfort) without even needing children's Tylenol.
A 9 year old would never become addicted to pain meds for surgery when taken as prescribed! Just STOP, we have veterans that have had limbs blown off that need opioids for some sense of a normal life! This prohibition must stop, as everyone at some point in life will have to take an opioid for pain! Imagine yourself in a horrendous car accident with several broken bones and severe injuries, you will be begging for pain medication and it won’t be the Tylenol that gets rid of such horrendous pain! I hope they have a no opioid policy so you can suffer in severe pain just like you want others to do! Complete BS! My BIL died from alcohol addiction, maybe we should start closing bars and liquor stores and throwing the owners in jail so we don’t have anymore alcohol addiction? Get off your high horse and realize life happens quickly and you may just need an opioid, which is the only drug approved by the FDA for pain control! Ibuprofen is for inflammation and Tylenol is for fevers NOT pain!
That's not really noble that's more like child abuse
I have been using cannabis since 13 due to chronic low back pain. I started using opiates as well recently as it has gotten worse.
Anyone that says I need treatment gets blocked. I do not talk to my family anymore because they think I am a drug addict.
The paramedics that come check on me every week are just fine with it though, so, whatever
@@elliesummer5249 lol wut?
@@jonathannighs he's a quarterback and plays tackle football ... but, I'll relay your message 😆
My good friend and daughter to my best friend died last year from fentanyl. Its pervasive and heartbreaking 😢
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I'm so sorry for your loss sis.
Stay strong.
Your friends are watching you through their spirit with the Holy Spirit as well.
You will reunite! Soon! Bc the Lord is coming soon !
Stay blessed and well God bless you and your loved ones! Love ya ❤
Reminds me why The House of Usher is now my favourite tv play! It would be great if the Sackler family got their comeuppance and all their money went towards drug rehabilitation programmes. Nice fairy tale.
Pain is there for a reason. It’s telling you that there’s a problem that needs to be addressed. If you just take away the pain you risk further damage to whatever the problem is.
Yes! This is how our bodies communicate.
I'm assuming you've never been crawling the walls in pain when pain medication is needed.
@@IndelibleHD , yes. I’ve been in pain. But that’s the point. Pain doesn’t just show up for no reason. Yes, you can eliminate the pain and at the same time, figure the root cause.
As he said, those opioids are for (dying) cancer patients, not for headaches and toothaches.
What if the root cause is addressed with surgery but the pain does not subside? What if the surgeon damages your nerves that you have nerve damage? What if an amputee feels pain in their missing limb for no reason? I agree with you for the most part but there are countless scenarios where unfortunately this is simply not true.
haha no. Go to med school. Chronic pain persists often after an injury is healed. The body does complicated things. Your big mouth is causing pain patients to have a difficult time getting their life-saving meds.
I'm so sick of the few people keeping everyone else from going to recess. Millions, probably hundreds of millions of people have taken Rx painkillers without these terrible outcomes. As a 55 year old woman who has never even drank a beer- I couldn't get a painkiller throughout menopause, for any other of my conditions or even from my damn dentist!!! Don't blame the alcohol, the bar or the liquor store for those who become alcoholics & abuse their families or kill innocent people driving drunk- it's the ADDICT, not the substance. I'm so sick of this BS opiate crisis preventing every decent stable adult from getting any adequate pain relief.... Total nonsense! 😡
You sound like an addict
I agree the pharma companies are culpable. Going up a step though my anger is more directed at the regulatory bodies and the revolving door system in place between regulatory and pharma manufacturers. If this could be corrected I believe this would not have happened and would be prevented
Maybe I'm old school.. I'm only 36.. in Elementary School they taught us to say NO to drugs, why try something you know is addicting??
Maybe cos you're in pain and trusted your family doctor not to try addict or kill you
I wonder if Kyle ever stayed clean. Hope he did
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Why doesnt anyone do a film on Kensington in Philadelphia? It’s the heart of this. Wanna know what is coming to your town next, look up Kensington .
There are hundreds, probably thousands of videos about Kensington Av. on TH-cam. By the way, the local govt finally cleaned the area up some two weeks ago. Watch East Hastings, Vancouver, for more of the same.
@@ernstraedecker6174 i dont mean just people using their phone to film addicts. I mean a real in depth documentary to educate how it came to be that way. And what good is pushing them off one street gonna do? They just moved back into people’s neighborhoods again. They tried and failed with this before. There is a reason why law enforcement “allows” it. Think about it. With so many people, it’s just easier to keep them in a general area. When you start scattering them in other areas, crime rates go up, overdose deaths go up, more people go unaccounted for, there becomes more than one street that is littered with trash and needles, etc. Its an election year so the mayor gotta do something to get the votes. Just saying it’s not a coincidence this happened now
I am surprised people accept them in the first place. My dentist gave me an opioid painkiller to take after my dental surgery. I took just one and it totally knocked me out and I got the super relaxed pleasant feeling I had heard you get from drugs. Freaked me out and I never took it again. Clearly addictive.
There's something wrong with you if you discovered a drug that can make you relax and take away pain but got "freaked out" by being too weak-minded to resist abusing it. Grow some balls. Opioids should be in everyone's medicine cabinet and they are very effective tools when taken responsibly.
I suffered a back injury and specifically told the doctor I did not want pain medicine. I worked with physical therapy and completely resolved my pain without any medicine. No one shoves the pill down your throat
When u prescribe that much a day that’s on you period I’m not a doctor but I even know that’s outrageous. If they only need 1-4 a day then that’s what they should get not 90
When you take 4 per day, for 1 month, that =120?
Dr. Regan Nichols deceased on 2/25/2022, cause not stated. Poetic justice factor unknown.
Okay, but can we appreciate the “Law & Order” on the tele in the background of the lawyer’s office? (Just a moment of levity)
when share prices and big profit is much more important than humans, these sort of thing happened
How come, practically none in europe operated or on chronic pain experience addiction afterwards? It's a very bad health care system in the us. A business nothing less
It's a little bit LATE in the game to realize that thousands of doctors prescribed millions of pills and then we had problems.
Yes, lots of doctors were completely irresponsible and I've had many of them.
The pharmaceutical company can't prescribe you pills.
Saying there's less than 1% chance of people becoming addicted is like saying there's less than 1% chance of people getting addicted to tabacco after smoking cigarettes..
I'm 35 and fortunate enough to have grown up in the uk, i had problems with depression and addiction to tramadol after operations due to a breast tumour . i am fully confident in saying if i had grown up in America I would be dead by now, I would of died of an over dose or i would have taken my life.i have nothing but extreme empathy and sympathy for all people young and old who have lost thier lives or lost loved ones to this unimaginable evil which is only a thing because of money and the greed of people like the sacklers
Most doctors are prescribing opiates wrong, and patients are taking them wrong, a person should only take what's needed to control their pain, not what's prescribed for that whole day. If you're prescribed six per day and your pain is low, you take three for example, not six, this leaves you enough for when six doesn't cover it on those extremely bad days. This way your body does not become accustomed to the higher dose, and you don't run out before the end of your prescription.
Less is more in the long term, a pain person can get secondary pain issues related to opioid use itself like allodynia and hyperalgesia. A person should never take enough to be completely pain free. Break through pain should also be managed.
I have written a very simplified version.
Its totally unprofessional, this is not going on in other countries. Greed has ruined and killed thousands.
It’s amazing to see people with serious opioid addiction being directed to these abstinence based treatment centres. It is well documented that opioid substitution treatment is by far the most effective treatment for this health problem. Abstinence attempts fail most of the time for this addiction. Praying to Jesus probably won’t work either. Bobs ranch looked awful….at odds with best practice…and dangerous.
Mind you, abstinence is often quite attainable if the desire and motivation is there. But yes, our insistence on abstinence being the only legit recovery is what's killing us. I'm abstinent about nine out of ten days, not counting the Adderall, caffeine, nicotine, psilocybin micro-dosing etc. Otherwise, I guess "relapse" occurs daily. 😜
Wow that's so horrible for ANYBODY
I’m not letting the doctor or pharmaceutical companies off and I know that families are in immense grief but people always know when they’re doing something wrong. In the end it’s the patients responsibly to manage their conditions. It’s their lives. When I had my back surgery and was prescribed these medication I immediately knew they made me feel too good and to be careful. But I will readily admit I don’t have an addictive personality.
There's no such thing as "an addictive personality". That's some pseudosciency nonesense from the 90's. That's not how addiction works.
@@novalea . Well delightful call it whatever you choose. I’ve done every drug known, including heroin and fentanyl and nothing stuck (not that I’m happy to admit that) like it does to others. I know most doctors used to say it’s a mental disorder, but whatever you call it, some get addicted and some don’t. Have a nice day delightful and maybe look into some Valium because your very uptight.