As one who takes three Opiates and a Valium regimen for pain management since 2003 from a work injury and a cut nerve I can say two things.
Better to die than to live in pain. Taking meds from people who need it because 97% of overdoses is NON-PRESCRIBED should not stop me from having a quality of life.
If we are going off how many people are killed by it, Valium was 8700 or so last year? COPS KILLED OVER 12,000 PEOPLE WITHOUT TRIAL OR CHARGES!
Shouldn't we outlaw COPS, a bigger killer than pain meds, even UNPRESCRIBED ONES?
DiamondsBenzos are forever. I resisted and only got at most two week scripts to get me through rough patches as a result of the anxiety and panic disorder I was born with.It became too much, chronic and I lost function. Xanax gave me back a semblance of a life but I knew from day one what the implications were. My tolerance to the short acting Xanax made them useless after two years. It is probably the most addictive of the lot and there is definitely a recreational aspect to it.
On Klonopin/Rivotril now because of the slow onset and long half-life. Way less druggy and more therapeutic. This is for life. There is no getting of off this for me. Luckily my long history with these substances makes it so that I would never be denied a script because cold turkey can equal a cold slab for my body within days.
When it comes to opiates/opiods where I live, you can get headache and cough medicine containing 10mg codeine per dose. That isn't even worth a mention. You will not be given oxycodone or god forbid, fentanyl unless you are in ICU or final stages of cancer.
Root canal, back injury, broken bone? Here, have some ibuprofen and paracetamol.
I went on Tramadol on Tuesday because gritting your teeth against the pain of rheumatism wears you down eventually. 100mg per day. This is unheard of and I'm only on it because I am suffering hard. I have found no recreational or euphoric value from these tabs and take them only when things get unbearable.
There are many strange things about the US from the point of view of other cultures, but I literally saw the opioid epidemic unfold in front of my eyes from the other side of the world and no one was doing anything. The terrorist group you call the DEA were destroying kids' lives over half an ounce of weed or two tabs of acid, but they don't dare go near the power your lobby groups hold.
Still the greatest country in the history of mankind, but some things operate in the most jaw-dropping ass-about-face manner.
So yeah, I am not at all comfortable being on these medications, but it was wanting to rather die and with all other options exhausted that made me give in.
Here here!
None of this mentions that heroin cut with fentanyl is the worst culprit. Carfentanyl is so potent that it's almost impossible to smoothly cut into heroin, and pockets of death are extremely likely.
90% of the problem is the black market. Who profits from the black market?
The CIA and the banksters that launder the money.
Big pharma makes far more money from black market heroin, often made in the same factories that make legally prescribed opiates, than it does from those legal prescriptions that keep you and I working. They'd love nothing more than to see 90% of the legal sources dried up, so they could start raking in orders of magnitude more profit on the black market for the same drugs.
The CIA and the banksters would love it too. So would street gangs.
I smell a total psyop in this ongoing story, and it pisses me off, and makes me afraid I'll end up bedridden, unable to work, again.
Thanks for speaking up!