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  • As more and more patients are getting addicted and overdosing on prescribed opiates, Dr Goodwin rebels against a pharmaceutical giant in order to start tackling the crisis.
    From New Amsterdam Season 2 Episode 15 'Double Blind' - When tasked with turning the opioid epidemic around, Max shuts down the ED and proposes a massive change; Sharpe goes to great lengths to prove a point.
    New Amsterdam (2018) After becoming the medical director of one of the United States's oldest public hospitals, Dr Max Goodwin sets out to reform the institution's neglected and outdated facilities to treat the patients.
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  • @LyingTube
    @LyingTube ปีที่แล้ว +730

    This episode really humanised Karen, it gave her a dimension that not only appreciates Max's chaos but sees it for the wholesale good it can do if allowed.

    • @judithryle2113
      @judithryle2113 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      🤮the two getting together

    • @CC-si3cr
      @CC-si3cr ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This series will end after a 13-episode fifth season.

    • @impracticalnuke
      @impracticalnuke ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The only good Karen I've ever seen.

    • @d.fiammata538
      @d.fiammata538 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@judithryle2113 It's her and Kapoor, silly goose.

    • @michaelryan3960
      @michaelryan3960 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@d.fiammata538 yea unfortunately Dr. Kapor off the left the show before that could turn into something although that would have been interesting.

  • @ShadowXaenen
    @ShadowXaenen ปีที่แล้ว +402

    New Amsterdam covers a lot of modern issues but it’s also so damn funny sometimes, especially all the craziness Max gets up to. Cracks me up every time.

    • @Meanie74
      @Meanie74 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I started watching the show after this clip and the context of knowing the characters makes the exchange of telling Lauren he’s going to end the opioid epidemic 1000x funnier.

    • @jdub-uz3ql
      @jdub-uz3ql ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Meanie74 There's nothing funny about the opioid epidemic.

    • @Meanie74
      @Meanie74 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jdub-uz3ql well that’s not what I said was funny so

  • @kykycupcake1
    @kykycupcake1 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    It genuinely warms my heart seeing all the doctors in the comments standing up for chronic pain patients. I've had countless terrible experiences with doctors who assumed the worst and treated me like less than a person because of my chronic pain. My pain is completely debilitating and leaves me bedridden if it's not managed.
    But I'm seeing so many doctors in these comments that understand that these are genuine medications that some patients just need to survive
    So I just wanted to make this comment to thank all of you who understand that
    You're incredible and our medical industry needs more of you 🙏❤️

    • @honorakelly5289
      @honorakelly5289 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I really thought new Amsterdam wouldn't sink so low!!! Absolutely disgusting and despicable. And I was just getting into it, too!

    • @criptastical
      @criptastical ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@honorakelly5289 they do discuss it in a later episode. There's an online call with Max and a bunch of chronically ill people who tell him how much harder their lives are since the hospital stopped using opioids.

    • @DocBree13
      @DocBree13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here!

    • @DocBree13
      @DocBree13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@criptastical that’s good

    • @12SlimJims
      @12SlimJims ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Opioids are needed, but the point of this episode was to show that even hospitals are at the mercy of big pharma if they step out of line. I mean most of us here in the states would rather die than call an ambulance as an example cause making money is more important than healthcare.

  • @srdduke
    @srdduke ปีที่แล้ว +42

    This is probably one of the most moving things that I have ever seen. As someone who has been effected by the opioid crisis and who works in healthcare, there is a constant tug-a-war going on.

  • @phyrexiancoffee6324
    @phyrexiancoffee6324 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    I was addicted to Opioids at just 14, due to a severe trauma incident that left me near crippled. I gave up and gave in to my sorrows, and the pills were the only thing keeping me going. It was when a friend from my old high school reached out to me and started coming around again, that I decided to fight back and reclaim my life. From the pills and from my limitations. Eight years later, and that friend is now my partner, and I owe everything to her.
    To those that are still in that dark place: Fight, fight with every fiber of your being. Live to see the next day, because it's worth doing. Don't write the last chapter to your story when the book has so many pages left. You only rob yourself of seeing how it's meant to end.

  • @gabewilliams7462
    @gabewilliams7462 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    Opioids, while an awful thing, can also be a miracle for people going through intense pain. Pain beyond what most people can imagine. Like my Grandmother for example. She recently had her hip replaced after riding bone-on-bone for about a year. She will get better eventually, but for now, without her Oxycodone, she'd be writhing in pain, unable to stand, sit, or speak without bursting into tears. That exact thing would sometimes happen before the surgery, and before any kind of medication. I absolutely agree with the sentiment here.

    • @MsLovestory01
      @MsLovestory01 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, I get it but you don't figure in the afterward here. Afterward, they want more and more because they get overprescribed to these pain medications. When they can't get more they get into harder drugs. Then they end up junkies on the street, homeless. There have to be other ways to treat pain.

    • @schoolterloch
      @schoolterloch ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@MsLovestory01 funny how in other countries, this doesnt seem to be as much an issue. Opiods are insanely important, as pain give insane complains and easily lead to death. (For example develope pneumonia from breathing swallow).
      It just suprises me so much that appreantly, in the USA you get it for such a prolonged time people get depended on them.

    • @rosiedavey2497
      @rosiedavey2497 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Honestly, from experience with my mom and family friends, it’s not the duration. They get you pumped full of the opioid, a high dose, right off the bat. And they tell you to top yourself up every single time you feel even the slightest bit of pain, before you feel it, if it’s coming on. And it stays that way!! They never lower the dosage, or the times a day they should take it, it’s not limited. When it’s finally time to come off the drug… they don’t know whether they’re feeling the pain anymore, cause the meds had them so messed up, and they perceive any left over pains as well as withdrawal symptoms as the severe agony they were going through before and need the drugs back. They can get hooked after just a few weeks of the regiment

    • @nancyarchibald9095
      @nancyarchibald9095 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your 👵 situation mirrors my own. Hip surgery revealed bones polished smooth from nearly 2 years of constant, grinding pain. 2 mo. after hip replacement, I was off all opiates, and maintained on Aleve. My surgeon was shocked and relieved with my progress.

    • @schoolterloch
      @schoolterloch ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rosiedavey2497 When I give opiods to any patient, we closely monitor their exact pain scores and build it down as fast as we can. For example, go for a mid strong NSAID. Maybe that is a diffrence.

  • @caelum2185
    @caelum2185 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    A doctor here and I want to say that there is too much fear, taboo and unnecessary hate for opioids now. For chronic patients they are literally a life saver.

    • @marinam.2293
      @marinam.2293 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Thank you for your comment, doctor. I'm terminally ill, and am in pain non-stop. My pain management doctor and I finally came up with a combination of two meds (smallest doses of each, taken together) that allows me to take an occasional shower - or maybe even sit up for a bit when I have company, on a good day. It's sad that my quality of life depends on medications, but I'm not alone in this; most of the people in my support group are in the same boat. And yet, all of us have horror stories about our medications being forcibly tapered or stopped altogether, without warning. Why?? None of us will live long enough to have to worry about addiction, that's for sure!

    • @jewels3596
      @jewels3596 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I agree. As someone whose suffered chronic pain for over 20 years after a spinal injury and surgery, it's a necessary treatment for many. But we're treated like pariah if we ask for a tiny increase after years of the exact same dose, taking it responsibly and never abusing it. I take a minimal pain med and just live with 60% of my pain due to the potential humiliation I may suffer for requesting something different or stronger. There has to be a better way.

    • @michellekaiser5907
      @michellekaiser5907 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      If they are prescribed according to the instructions, they become addictive. If the company didn't pretend they could last 12 hours, they'd never have been approved. It is a broken system.

    • @andy6877
      @andy6877 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Thankyou, as someone with chronic nerve pain, while I was waiting on finding alternative treatments those paid meds were the only thing that stopped me from ending my life due to the severity of the pain. I didnt like the feeling of being on them but until my nerve pain finally got diagnosed and I finally got put on gabapentin (took 2 years) I couldnt manage the pain any other way, and as soon as i got put on the gabapentin and my pain was controlled I no longer took them. But because of my pain and the stigma attached to opiods I got faced with so much discrimination, and it took longer to find a diagnosis and treatment because doctors kept dismissing me as a teen drug addict and refusing to help me. Left me with significant ptsd after a particularly barbaric episode.

    • @L3afeon
      @L3afeon ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I've been taken off opiods suddenly after 8 years of prescriptions, I've been told I'm too young AND they won't help chronic pain. I am housebound now. definitely too young for that.

  • @hm6134
    @hm6134 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    The ending had me sobbing. I had lost friends to addiction and I hope anyone going through it can fight can overcome this 😢😢😢 I’ve attended way too many funerals 😔

  • @sapphirewingthefurrycritic985
    @sapphirewingthefurrycritic985 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Yeah, that cutting off of supplies doesn't seem legal.

    • @desertpack9580
      @desertpack9580 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah, I agree with you there

    • @meems4378
      @meems4378 ปีที่แล้ว

      They'll just get heroin. In reality, they need to be looking at real research for opioid dependence. There are some coming down the pipe, but there isn't any money in curing opioid dependence.

    • @jasonrichardson1999
      @jasonrichardson1999 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It's in the grey area

    • @frostking9685
      @frostking9685 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It is not but all they have to do is say that "Do to the high demand and we were unable to supply them with the needed equipment". They're basically saying that without the contract they can't make the amount that they originally made since they don't have it on some variant of file. They make just enough to fill all the contract orders so that they can control the market, and have the upper hand when making a new contract with a hospital.

    • @frostking9685
      @frostking9685 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      An it's all perfectly legal. Just not moral.

  • @marionwoodward5186
    @marionwoodward5186 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    This is the best show I have seen in years!! I became disabled in the '90s after I broke my neck I left the doctor's office with a script of pain medicine. No refills as a retired nurse a rehab myself cuz I knew I could push myself more than any therapist could. About 2003 I suffered a severe back injury where the doctors actually had to straighten out my spine. For a year the best I could do was crawl to make it to the bathroom and I still tried to put on my medicine fix my hair. During this time I went to Vicodin finally I went to oxycodone then I want oxycodone 80 mg and when I started getting better I completely took myself off the oxycodone and the withdrawals were worse than you could ever imagine. But I was paying 1200 to $1,800 a month for pain medicine. I told my pain management doctor to go back to Vicodin and now since Congress changed the loss. It is now harder for me to get pain medication I'm talking two or three Vicodin in a day I live in bed 24/7 cuz I'm in so much pain but doctors don't want to give disabled senior citizens pain medications anymore. It would actually be easier and cheaper for me just to go on the street and buy fentanyl. The US has to look at the drug problem! The problem is the people abusing drugs not the disabled..

  • @factbeaglesarebest
    @factbeaglesarebest ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Never seen this show. Seen a few clips. That whole sequence was emotional. I lost the mother of my child to opioids, and so many other friends and family.
    The ending hit hard. It seems like that woman is usually the hard ass antagonist but is revealed here to have her own experience? Love it

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Get the opioids off the street, quit attacking the doctors for trying to treat surgery and chronic pain patients.

    • @SamSparks95
      @SamSparks95 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@OneGodApostolic210 Where in their comment did they attack the doctors? They never mentioned any doctors.

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SamSparks95 I never said they attacked the doctors. Where do you think the patients are getting their opioids from in this show? In the real world people are dying from street drugs.

  • @moonchild3692
    @moonchild3692 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    The ending really got to me 🥺😢

    • @ThatHuskyStorm
      @ThatHuskyStorm ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know. I just had this inkling that something was pushing her to want to do this. I figured maybe she had fought an addiction but, I assume it’s her sister. Also the little kids note was so sad.

    • @moonchild3692
      @moonchild3692 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ThatHuskyStorm addiction is dark and doesn’t discriminate I was a heavy drug user and because of it I have all these health problems I’ve had many surgeries most recent emergency surgery for a lung collapsed since there was a hole in it put me in a coma almost killed me been sober 5 years and I wouldn’t wish addiction even to my worst enemy

    • @JSmusiqalthinka
      @JSmusiqalthinka ปีที่แล้ว

      Grassroots uprising

  • @ikarithephoenix2596
    @ikarithephoenix2596 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My mom was on an opioid for a long time due to her chronic pain and disability, She was so afraid of becoming addicted to it that she kept such a tight and rigorous schedule , she kept to it. Now she has been forced off the meds due to her age and she is in constant pain. I get the fear and the dangers of Opioids I have seen first hand what it does but I don't want to see my mom in agony anymore.

    • @cflotronsong
      @cflotronsong ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your mom could very well be in agony, either due to her condition or her body has now become dependent on opiods. TBH either way she should have some kind of managment system. Something like what recoverying heroin addicts get. They get methadone treatments because their litterally cannot live without some kind of heroin in their system.

    • @DocBree13
      @DocBree13 ปีที่แล้ว

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cflotronsong exactly what Dr Kolodny wanted all pain patients being treated like they are addicts and going to mehadone clinicss

  • @sugibear123
    @sugibear123 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    that one post sent chills then all the posts on the board was amazingly sad

  • @Wodensdsy
    @Wodensdsy ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Fully stopping the use of opioids to manage even temporary severe pain is so stupid. Just because some people become addicted doesn’t mean that people should suffer in pain

    • @joshdeveaux6936
      @joshdeveaux6936 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think the biggest thing to remembers is the people who are outright abusing these drugs are making the conscious choice to do so. People actually in pain have no reason to suffers for others poor choices

    • @Wodensdsy
      @Wodensdsy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joshdeveaux6936 I’m a recovering drug addict and heroin was my DOC. I started with pain pills bc of my physical pain but it wasn’t that I was out of pain that drove me to stick a needle of poison in my veins it was the high that I got abusing it. That doesn’t mean I should have to suffer in massive agony just because I also enjoy hanging dope

    • @joshdeveaux6936
      @joshdeveaux6936 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Wodensdsy I completely all agree all drugs should be legal I’m just saying their logic doesn’t even work you ykwis

    • @nicolasneal204
      @nicolasneal204 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah but Max wasn't stopping them from prescribing other pain meds he just wanted them to stop over prescribing Oxycodone there are a lot of situations that require pain meds but that doesn't mean it has to be Oxy

    • @TimesFM4532
      @TimesFM4532 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Wodensdsy Tbf they later tackled badly restricting opioids to much for chronicly pain

  • @rhettjanes1056
    @rhettjanes1056 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Just what I hate when people who really need pain pills cannot get them because they take it out on the wrong group of people when it comes to tightening the laws.

    • @nicolasneal204
      @nicolasneal204 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The best part they actually addressed this very point in a later episode and Max makes a better reform policy regarding opioids a little more monitoring from the doctors prescribing the pills and watermarking all the opioids coming out of the hospital to ensure there not being sold on the street

  • @gldni17
    @gldni17 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This episode seems to have done a solid job showing why the profit motive is fundamentally detrimental to proper health care. Corporations are not allowed to pursue the public good if it negatively affects their shareholders. Medical care will never improve substantially until it is unchained from the pursuit of private wealth.

  • @sniffles8655
    @sniffles8655 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I lost my cousin last year to opioids, she was in her early 20's. 😪 She deserved the world, but was taken so young. I myself fought through an addiction after a major back surgery, I lost so much, but thankfully had a wonderful friend that helped and supported me through it all. The drug companies are all too happy to hand out the drugs as long as those profits keep rolling in. It is not fair, and it is a terrible disease, by terrible people. If someone you know is going through this problem, the last thing they need is your judgement or hate, help them, we are all only human, and may just be one good person away from recovery, or just one bad person away from death.

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am sorry people are addicted, but there is chronic pain patients who don't abuse opioids and need them for some quality of life.

  • @angiefantauzzi6350
    @angiefantauzzi6350 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Ryan eggold is such a brilliant actor. The black list should have never let him go but I love him in this show too 😅😂

  • @rachelheflin0584
    @rachelheflin0584 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    My friend passed away from a drug OD. It has broken me because I am also a chronic pain patient and get treated like I am a drug seeker when I have multiple health problems

  • @lorisreality8681
    @lorisreality8681 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I guess different places are different. I live in SC in the US. Literally there are no doctors here who prescribe opioid anymore. Even in serious surgeries like heart surgery, you have to beg your doctor for anything at all. So I think in alot of places the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction and it's not good.

    • @MaddoxMelton
      @MaddoxMelton ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly. Ive been in chronic pain for years upon years and none will prescribe opiates. Even something as weak. I’ve had to turn to kratom to help. Which is a miracle. But they’re trying to ban that too

    • @dragon_lady8816
      @dragon_lady8816 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm in NC and when I had my wisdom teeth removed they gave me something for the pain. It didn't work and ended up vomiting from being in so much pain. Thankfully I ended up have left of opioids from another surgery and used those. But from my experiance, and a friend's as well who where perscribed those med they nevered worked at all. She was litterally over dosing to get a little relief from the pain.

  • @Americanpatriot-zo2tk
    @Americanpatriot-zo2tk ปีที่แล้ว +113

    We have had addiction for a very long time and some people no matter what you do will feed their addiction. As far as I’m concerned after 34 years as a registered nurse I accept that I can’t stop all this at the same time I recognize that there are people with chronic pain they simply cannot function without opioids!

    • @Tinkers484
      @Tinkers484 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      exactly, there needs to be something better. Chronic pain is debilitating but the drugs are just as bad.

    • @angelar.2088
      @angelar.2088 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Even the people that need to take pain meds can’t even get them because of….so they suffer . It’s crazy though.

    • @Americanpatriot-zo2tk
      @Americanpatriot-zo2tk ปีที่แล้ว

      @@angelar.2088 You are 100% spot on! They’ve gotten ridiculous. I have a terminal patient that I was giving morphine to and they couldn’t ask for it but they were in pain and I got criticized for that. I sure hope things go good for you God bless.

    • @impracticalnuke
      @impracticalnuke ปีที่แล้ว

      Aren't there like, some very careful treatment plan that slowly reduces the amount of pain meds they'll need bit by bit until they have very minimal need of it or don't need it at all because having constant doses only numbs you to that dose and you'll need more and more or something?

    • @tieflingcorpse9817
      @tieflingcorpse9817 ปีที่แล้ว

      shrooms has been shown to be very successful at treating addiction, unfortunately its not legal yet

  • @helenbrown6341
    @helenbrown6341 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I absolutely LOVE the passion that Max has!

  • @lillililli9005
    @lillililli9005 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This show never fails to make me cry

  • @rogermakarov
    @rogermakarov ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Like the Doc said it wasn't a problem in back in 96" but I think the companies putting cut on it to increase the profit and putting people at risk that actually need them.

  • @auxiliasequeira8648
    @auxiliasequeira8648 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was so deeply heart touching

  • @helenbrown6341
    @helenbrown6341 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This clip is SO telling. The fact that all those medical directors got up and walked out of the room at the end shows that they don't care about their patients as much as they do about profits.

    • @heathercontois4501
      @heathercontois4501 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It used to be that hospitals were there to treat patients, and the smaller amounts of money paid in were to order supplies and pay doctors. not keep a profit margin.

    • @StanvilleBrown
      @StanvilleBrown ปีที่แล้ว

      Why be surprise! 🙄

    • @justinchristoph3725
      @justinchristoph3725 ปีที่แล้ว

      That surprises you?

    • @chrisengland3798
      @chrisengland3798 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't fully see the same thing: it's not that they don't care about the patients; it's that they have to care in a different way. Their job is to keep the hospital running, and that means money and budgets come first. They probably want to help, but a) they don't truly know how, and b) Max's idea was just more of a fart in the wind - a grand idea with little to go on, more of an end result.
      If they only cared about profits, then having a "competing" hospital unable to perform duties, and eventually get hit to the ground might be good for business, thus would not be a wise decision to rip their contracts up.

  • @gabbahitta903
    @gabbahitta903 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just so everyone knows: The IRL counterpart of the Nylers are the Sackler family. So you know who to be angry at.

  • @jonebert7716
    @jonebert7716 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Whats more important money or loved ones?

  • @tiffanymonique7098
    @tiffanymonique7098 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This episode brought so many emotions to forefront boyfriend made me 1st and foremost want to say how sorry I am to those families who may be reading this comments section and are having to deal with addiction of any sort whether be obioids alcohol anything I sincerely apologize to you all and hope that you have the strength to hold on and that your family member or friend has the strength to overcome addiction

  • @nicolehegarty4749
    @nicolehegarty4749 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This episode is huge. I have chronic pain from a car accident that almost killed me as a child. Too many people have chronic pain. Most people have never heard of suboxone. It is also impossible to get a doctor to prescribe suboxone long term for chronic pain. Which is so frustrating. I have serious pain every day and I don't want to take opioids because they are so bad for your body I know I was on them for years. Ugh.

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว

      Suboxone is addicting too, they are finding out maybe more so.

  • @nilzasilvadesouza2371
    @nilzasilvadesouza2371 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amo essa série ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Tinkers484
    @Tinkers484 ปีที่แล้ว

    sobbing

  • @nilzasilvadesouza2371
    @nilzasilvadesouza2371 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤❤ amo essa série.

  • @LightsaberGoBrrrrrr
    @LightsaberGoBrrrrrr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Had a friend who was an addict for over a decade. He doesn’t blame “The Nylers” for his addiction at all. He’s happy they pushed it so much so he never had to turn to actual dope. Pills have a much better quality control and it’s a lot harder to Od

  • @happyvocal
    @happyvocal ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Two weeks I was on opioids after my surgery, my grandma had to take it away. For about two weeks afterward I was more depressed than I ever felt in my life, I could not do anything. While I was taking it, I remember feeling good but not that it was that great, I was creeped out by the minor hallucinations I was having. But after two weeks I still wanted it. I lost my dad in spirit to opioids, he's still alive and not on them anymore but he isn't the same person. He struggles a lot.

  • @n_knoxx3624
    @n_knoxx3624 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Opioids do work & they shouldn't be demonized BUT it is over prescribed which is the problem. Not everyone needs them & we should definitely explore alternative treatments, like cannabis for example.

  • @Iuxinterior
    @Iuxinterior ปีที่แล้ว +2

    doctors got my grandma hooked on opioids for like 15 years then refused to give her anything for pain when she was on her death bed because of her previous use lol

  • @ronnie5281
    @ronnie5281 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My father got a back surgery before I was born. He spiraled into addiction, becoming a different person before I ever got to know him. Got a DV charge because of his use and went to prison, lost everything. Before addiction he pioneered the tech industry, extremely smart, worked with large companies and celebrities. When he died his house was filled with pill bottles and signs he used inhalants. At the end he could barley walk without stumbling, and was nodding off during our once-a-week visitations. I regret not hugging him more and telling him how much i love him. Miss you dad :(

  • @dreamsleeper1568
    @dreamsleeper1568 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I lost a lot of friends and family to opioid addiction.. this hits like a frait-train.

  • @SusanHukel-rm4lg
    @SusanHukel-rm4lg หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Medical personel need to care enough to be sure of what medication they give and to whom.medicines work,but only when properly prescribed to people who actually need them.this is why doctors have to care to help,or people suffer if they don't.

  • @nilzasilvadesouza2371
    @nilzasilvadesouza2371 ปีที่แล้ว

    Não perco essa série muito boa .

  • @Psypher169
    @Psypher169 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WOW, this clip had me in tears. I hate my empathetic side.

  • @smokeyfuzzball6847
    @smokeyfuzzball6847 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am crying it reminded me of my grandma dee

  • @kirahall7315
    @kirahall7315 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We’re in New York unfortunately they prescribed me that after my pain from my Surgry for the pain and while I hear of this all the time of the addiction and stuff I couldn’t see myself getting addicted and retaking that after the first time. Made me feel awful beyond awful

    • @Americanpatriot-zo2tk
      @Americanpatriot-zo2tk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m registered nurse and 34 years, don’t feel guilty take the medication as prescribed I want to make this real clear you need it do you understand what I’m telling you need it. When you’re paying from your surgery subsides then don’t take it anymore flush it down the damn toilet.

  • @impracticalnuke
    @impracticalnuke ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh man, I haven't watched this episode for so long, and it still is a slap, a punch, and a sledgehammer to the face.

  • @nightshadewinter6915
    @nightshadewinter6915 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "I want to see how much damage you can get up to."
    "Challenge accepted :) "

  • @Xaerorazor0
    @Xaerorazor0 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    While not recent, my daughter is addicted to morphine, as a result of her open heart surgery when she was an infant. I was there when they took her off of it the first time… and the withdrawal nearly killed her. We had to ween her off of it for a month. Dealing with the withdrawal. And then continuing with a replacement for another 2. She was on pain meds for another year and a half, slowly weening her off. Have to be careful with any pain medication. There will be a time soon where she will have to deal with the addiction again, as she’ll be due for a replacement valve, but so far, we’ve managed. The use of them is so needed, but follow up to prevent outright abuse is lacking in so many instances.
    I pray for those that need them be able to not fall into abuse of them.

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว

      she was dependent on morphine, addiction and dependence is different. addiction is when you keep wanting to take more to get high.

  • @jaynight15
    @jaynight15 ปีที่แล้ว

    9:27 Bro why am I crying I the club rn?

  • @pamelajaye
    @pamelajaye ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember her as George's mother on Grey's Anatomy also

  • @miranda13c
    @miranda13c 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Her character as Karen on New Amsterdam is so different than her prior role on Grey’s Anatomy as George’s mom!

  • @boundedscythe7726
    @boundedscythe7726 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg I'm sorry but I have good hearing and this episode drove me crazy that none stop buzzing is painful

  • @hazelguillen3993
    @hazelguillen3993 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’m a lake person because I have an RN as a husband and he never let’s us take more than what is extremely necessary

  • @anapassos2636
    @anapassos2636 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I honestly don’t get it, why give opioids so freely? In Portugal we only give opioids to terminal patients, everything else, including surgeries are treated with paracetamol and anti-inflammatory.

    • @megaman32345
      @megaman32345 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Because pharmacies in the US heavily incentivized doctors to over-prescribe opioids to patients which led to addiction and death while assuring the public that opioids weren't addictive, this meant that the pharmaceutical companies made lots of money at the cost of people's health. If you're interested I recommend looking up more about the opioid crisis in the US and how it started.

    • @nicolasneal204
      @nicolasneal204 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@megaman32345 also hospitals hand out patient survey's and punish doctors that have low scores from unhappy parents who can act petty when they don't go the desired treatment or prescription

  • @caseymacmacl7463
    @caseymacmacl7463 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I had a catastrophic back injury in 2008. My doc prescribed opiods. Took me all of 4 days to become addicted and almost 2 weeks to detox. NEVER again.

    • @allthingscandles4053
      @allthingscandles4053 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some people need them. But everyone’s body is different. Some people have addictive personalities and can’t help themselves from taking more than prescribed. I’m glad you realized they weren’t for you and got away from it. Stick with Tylenol for your pain.

    • @caseymacmacl7463
      @caseymacmacl7463 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@allthingscandles4053 It was actually a government issued Medical Marijuana license that helped me the most. In 2008 in Canada an MMAR license was not easy to get. You had to go to a legitimate doctor, do multiple tests and wait. And wait. And wait some more. And that was only if you could find a doctor who agrees that marijuana is a legitimate medicine. Fortunately I'd had the same doctor for a decade before my accident. He saw what the pills had done and he also saw the extensive research I had done and presented to him showing that I knew what I was talking about and had proof that it worked. I was the first person he'd authorized a permit for but I'm thrilled to report that I was not the last. Now that pot is legal in Canada you don't need the card anymore but it definitely helped me for the decade before it became legal.

    • @allthingscandles4053
      @allthingscandles4053 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@caseymacmacl7463 well I am glad that you found something that helps you! I have to do daily stretches and I take Tylenol when I have an occasional ache. (I don’t like taking any medication) I believe it’s harmful for your liver and kidneys. Also marijuana didn’t work for me as it gives me severe anxiety! But it helps some people :)

    • @caseymacmacl7463
      @caseymacmacl7463 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@allthingscandles4053 My left Sciatic nerve is damaged beyond repair and I'm in what my doctor calls intractable pain every hour of every day. I also have CVS (cyclic vomiting syndrome) from the pain and the marijuana wipes it right out.

  • @adrianhare5941
    @adrianhare5941 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Now let’s see this happen in real hospitals

  • @Bluefrog757
    @Bluefrog757 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I saw the child’s letter I lost it😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

  • @Comicsluvr
    @Comicsluvr ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Unlike some people, I don't have a condition with a cure. Ironically, it's also not fatal. I will likely live into my 80s if my family's genetics are any indication. I'm in pain every day, all day. Every. Day. My doctors can't prescribe opioids because the people who oversee them, who are likely NOT doctors, give them the hairy eyeball if they do. No exceptions based on the patient's condition. I can understand if you have an accident or surgery you're supposed to eventually wean off of the pain meds but that doesn't cover every situation.

    • @joshuahudson2170
      @joshuahudson2170 ปีที่แล้ว

      An interesting thing to try is to locate the overseers and bring a malpractice lawsuit against them. They won't have malpractice insurance to pay off a claim either.

  • @nilzasilvadesouza2371
    @nilzasilvadesouza2371 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gostaria de ver todos os dias .

  • @DaEpikMan
    @DaEpikMan ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is why in Australia we never let pharmaceutical companies take our health care system over, we never let private companies take over public systems… because we are honest regardless of who is in power, for we chose to put the lives and freedom of our people over monetary gain.

    • @yucol5661
      @yucol5661 ปีที่แล้ว

      Isn’t West Australia owned by an oil company? It’s great that your healthcare isn’t a mafia. But the economy sure is not immune to destructive companies

    • @DaEpikMan
      @DaEpikMan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yucol5661 correct, we have private company issues with mining and industry… which is why the Labor party is trying to stop such, but… Liberal party got away with it from 2012-May, 2022.

  • @baller9real
    @baller9real ปีที่แล้ว

    As someone who was prescribed opiods for pain during treatment for cancer, I can tell you that they're a life saver for many; but for some, they can, and will kill you. My cousin died of a fentanyl overdose. The heroin he shot up was laced with it. He died seconds after shooting up in a McDonald's bathroom. He was schizophrenic, and was self medicating with heroin and alcohol.

  • @joeymorton4878
    @joeymorton4878 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favorite line of the day wonderful do u want a cookie 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @magicraccoons
    @magicraccoons ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish they had Adele on more and a proper send off for her. She was such a good character.

  • @jayleighbear
    @jayleighbear ปีที่แล้ว +1

    there is a time and place to provide opioids to patients and i think the bigger problem is the fact that some doctors hand them out like they are candy while others refuse to hand them out at all. i have a friend with chronic pain and without opioids she wouldn’t be able to function in college. doctors should have special courses geared towards how many opioids someone receives after surgery, have anyone on opioids have regular visits to ensure addiction doesn’t occur, and learn to recognize the signs of someone who is addicted. people in chronic pain shouldn’t have to suffer because some doctors and people misuse opioids.

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว

      If the doctors give opioids after a surgery, and you abuse it, iis your fault not the doctors. Now people have to suffer because some people abused opioids.

  • @cfrygirl
    @cfrygirl ปีที่แล้ว

    A few years ago my city was called the drug overdose capital of the US. People I’ve known my whole life died. My mother was having a heart attack and went to the er. They thought she was drug seeking and let her suffer in pain. She had 99% blockage. She never took drugs in her life.

  • @uglyorchestracraftsdowamat1637
    @uglyorchestracraftsdowamat1637 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:00 those are the most regrettable words in history

  • @DesRaven
    @DesRaven ปีที่แล้ว

    As someone who lives with daily pain, and has loved ones with chronic lifelong pain. Thank you so much for making every day harder because the pain killers that work are now outlawed.

  • @IvanRandomDude
    @IvanRandomDude ปีที่แล้ว +16

    How many times were Sacklers and Purdue pharma mentioned in this episode?

    • @kath8562
      @kath8562 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Every time they mentioned Nyler. Obviously couldn't use the real companies names!

  • @nilzasilvadesouza2371
    @nilzasilvadesouza2371 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maravilha

  • @TimesFM4532
    @TimesFM4532 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Tbf they later tackled badly restricting opioids to much for chronicly ill

  • @8bennaboo
    @8bennaboo ปีที่แล้ว

    The best thing to do with big business is to stand up to them and let them know you will not be pushed around. Falter in that, and they will one hundred percent push you around the second you threaten profits, no matter your reason for doing so. Not against people using opioids for their pain, I am against companies like this profiting off essential medications and putting profits over patients.

  • @infinessia4019
    @infinessia4019 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think we can all agree that oxy isn’t the villain, the pharmaceutical industry is.

  • @ramthian
    @ramthian ปีที่แล้ว +2

    🙏❤

  • @TheRealNanoz
    @TheRealNanoz หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yeah, I would react the same way 😂 0:53

  • @erglis7
    @erglis7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Live in Europe. Here in my country opioids are hard to get. Mind you not imposible but hard to get. Mostly for end stage disease paitients in so much agony nothing else would take. My aunt was on fentanil when she passed away but God did her cancer get to her at the end. No one should suffer that kind of pain if we can manadge it.

  • @tieflingcorpse9817
    @tieflingcorpse9817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    they could give the patients shrooms. shrooms have been shown to treat or even cure addictions and the lady did say to break any law he needs to

  • @bvbblysouls123.
    @bvbblysouls123. ปีที่แล้ว

    on 0:05 YES THERE IS CAMERA

  • @Kez_abi
    @Kez_abi ปีที่แล้ว

    I know that this is just a TV show but imagine if all the doctors and nurses and everyone else in the NHS tore their contracts up and put them on the Health security's door. They might finally be listened to!

  • @farinshore8900
    @farinshore8900 ปีที่แล้ว

    Before you start selling drugs, you need to create a demand. There is a demand for opioids - WHY?
    And why is there no demand for the drugs you are selling - why?

  • @12SlimJims
    @12SlimJims ปีที่แล้ว

    Opioids are needed, but the point of this episode was to show that even hospitals are at the mercy of big pharma if they step out of line. I mean most of us here in the states would rather die than call an ambulance as an example cause making money is more important than healthcare.

  • @eve837
    @eve837 ปีที่แล้ว

    😭💔

  • @matiascuevas5344
    @matiascuevas5344 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyone knows the song at the end?

  • @Americanpatriot-zo2tk
    @Americanpatriot-zo2tk ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The doctors did the right thing! Like it or not we’re dealing with people who are chronically ill and chronically in pain and even cases that are very cute we can’t fix everything and we do use opioids and it’s a dam good thing we have them.

  • @Letha-Mae
    @Letha-Mae ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some ppl do need opioids they really hurt! But Suboxone is frowned upon! But it has saved millions of ppl!!

  • @lethabrooks9112
    @lethabrooks9112 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think a portion of the money pharamceutical companies make should be donated to drug treatment programs!!!

  • @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
    @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you fix the problem, start enforcing federal laws on major if not all pharmaceutical companies,

  • @mildredbradway477
    @mildredbradway477 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some people can't have other choices of pain medication as well as antibiotics. Reason they have sulfur. Some peopke can't have Nsaids because nsaids can cause bleeding, a hole or ulcers in the lower intestines or their pouches Roux En Y gastric bypass. The only choice or option is an opiad.

  • @brandonbarclay6218
    @brandonbarclay6218 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:35 Martha jones

  • @ladyweasellou3367
    @ladyweasellou3367 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I also work in the medical field and you can't just go with no opioid whatsoever, it's absurd and saved many lives. You can do a lot to help end the crisis but just ending the use in a hospital completely is stupid.

  • @bravobr9725
    @bravobr9725 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That company has no damn right to put money over patient care. All for profit at the expense of peoples lives.

  • @sugibear123
    @sugibear123 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    opioids affects everyone

  • @RuinNationGaming
    @RuinNationGaming 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is what you call group speak others do what they say others do.

  • @darkmystery5731
    @darkmystery5731 ปีที่แล้ว

    So like, what is the cause of opioid addiction? I took hydrocodone after a surgery and didn't have issues. I'm not trying to be rude or insulting, I'm genuinely not sure.

    • @OneGodApostolic210
      @OneGodApostolic210 ปีที่แล้ว

      people wanting to get high, same reason people drink.

  • @Shifty51991
    @Shifty51991 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Lol the title is cute.....
    Doctors are the ones who started the opiod crisis.....and greatly benefit from it financially

    • @cessnacitation-x
      @cessnacitation-x ปีที่แล้ว +4

      let's trust the guy who can't spell opioid, and regularly uses a 4 period ellipses.

    • @hardwirecars
      @hardwirecars ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cessnacitation-x miner spelling mistake I WIN!

    • @cessnacitation-x
      @cessnacitation-x ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@hardwirecars and you can't use the correct form of 'minor'.

    • @hardwirecars
      @hardwirecars ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cessnacitation-x omg miner spelling mistake I WIN!

  • @enochia
    @enochia ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wish this was real

  • @trashpanda9615
    @trashpanda9615 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s not the opioids that are the problem it’s a symptom of a deeper problem at hand. People use because of abuse/emotional issues/ traumas they have in they’re lives and the only way they feel they can cope is using a drug that makes them not feel pain.

  • @user-qr5dz6gk4o
    @user-qr5dz6gk4o 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m an er freek I watched so much er on tv I could of be a doctor and give saboxone to save a life and do cpr

  • @ajc-ff5cm
    @ajc-ff5cm 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For all of you defending opioids for chronic pain, heres the other side of that coin: ive repeatedly been prescribed inordinatly excessive amounts of opioids for minor procedures and even demanding that the doctor keep doses to a minimum or not prescribe them at all. I could easily have become one of the photos on that wall if it werent for my own skepticism of doctors in general and self-control. Ive surrendered months worth of this stuff. Thats how people get addicted. All medicine, even opioids have legitimate use, but it needs to be CONTROLLED.

  • @factbeaglesarebest
    @factbeaglesarebest ปีที่แล้ว

    Suboxone does save lives! LIVES!

  • @mikealalee2889
    @mikealalee2889 ปีที่แล้ว

    If only it could be as beautiful as this but sadly so little is really being done. Iv also lost someone due to opiates.