a Country destroyed by Greed and Corruption

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

In India, most people dont take pills for headache or minor pain. Those who do usually take 1 or 2 paracetamol tablets. We also use balm for joint pain. I get a good sleep. Its sleep deprivation that gives many people headache..

I visited the states in the 90’s and I noticed the readiness to pop pills for headache (and the pills in USA they are strong) whereas where I am from one does not take pills for headaches but rather one tries a glass of water and some fresh air first. Most people don’t have any pills in their bathroom cabinet in my country.Americans just like the easy way for most things. Lack of willingness to walk or sweat for any reason, or use cutlery or eat off plates that one can wash and reuse.

The fact that they paid pennies for immunity speaks volumes. About Americans, the sacklers, American courts and the failed nation.

I had a head on collision in the late ‘90’s and due to the soft tissue damage done to my body and especially my back, I experienced awful pain 24hrs a day and had no life, I still cannot lay down on my back. They prescribed opioids which was slightly helping me but eventually they prescribed Oxy Cotin around 2005 and it changed my life. It allowed me to work normally and become productive again as I was prior to the accident. I asked and they kept telling me it is not addictive due to its new slow release formula, I bought the lie. 4 years ago I decided to retire early and to get off these pills due to side effects which were affecting me. The first 3 days after stopping were a little uncomfortable but all good now. I thank God I did not end up being a statistic and lose everything I cherish in life. Today, I manage the pain without opioids, but my activity level has dropped off dramatically, usually lasting 4 hours before getting off my feet. They swung the pendulum 180 in the opposite direction, people with chronic pain like myself, are being denied pain relief of any kind. This could lead to sever depression and possible suicide, I know because it happened to me and for a year needed phycological intervention. Of course, this is my personal experience only.

Six billion dollars for immunity against suits? The bottom line is money rules the government, and not the other way around

Dopesick on Hulu was a tough but informative insight into the Sackler family and how their greed hurt so many lives.

It was a reason to stay in Afghanistan for almost two decades and guard those poppy fields.

Wealthy people never go to jail!!!

This is absolutely bonkers. The people who abuse prescription pills have made it so difficult for the people who actually need the medications. I had brain cancer, 10 hour open surgery, and 3 weeks in ICU. When I was released, I was only provided medication for a week! A WEEK! With swelling and over 100 staples still in my head. My PC doctor said it was new regulations with narcotics becos people were purposely harming themselves to get these pain pills. I couldn't believe it. I was in so much pain! And healing from the surgery, actually took longer because I was in so much pain.

THE MONEY THAT FAMILY EARNED SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT GOT SICK

Opiod companies should be required to pay for rehabilitation at this point

How can any country possibly call itself a rational society when this is the everyday reality?

Medication is much more responsibly prescribed in the UK. There is no way a doctor would prescribe a cancer opiod for everyday pain relief and for stronger drugs you need NHS prescriptions, not even GP prescribed. For most pain relief, over the counter drugs are absolutely fine. No need to use stronger coedine and morphine based opiods unless you've had an operation or suffer from organ pain (gallstones, kidney stones) or you need constant severe pain relief due to cancer or something else that has a dehabilitating effect. The USA are so money orientated they put profit before people every time. Couple that with no NHS free meds at the point of use, no wonder people manage their pain from illegal drugs eventually - if they are cheaper than medical insured legitimate drugs. What if you can't afford medical insurance?

::Population control device in action:::

I think there was one main reason: Corruption at the highest levels.

I just read a story about Zoe who died at 22 years old from an accidental overdose. I feel the pain of loss from your letter.

Death has become nothing more than talking points anymore.

Thankyou for your report learning something new every article

Tbh American work culture has a lot to do with painkiller abuse. Many Americans have a harsh work culture and conditions. For example workers at UPS, USPS, Fed Ex or Amazon, you will most likely need some sort of painkiller for working on their feet so long.

80 and never used drugs.

Before the hospitals switched to fentanyl and it flooded the streets. People were taking meds and living long addictive lives. Now they just die quickly and usually suffer the whole time. Facts. Society has excepted the new norm of ignoring human suffering. From there there's not further down we can go except finding pleasure init.

Corruption and money 😢 this has been happening for so long its pathetic

I have some joint/muscle pain and have been to given pain reliever prescriptions that I tear up and throw away without ever filling them. Not going to get caught up in becoming an addict. I prefer physical therapy.

Recently lost my adult nephew to opioids. Honestly, while extremely sad it was a relief that he wasn't living like that any longer. I just try to remember him as a skinny, smart and sensitive kid with freckles and ginger hair. I honestly don't understand how someone with lots of potential and a loving family can fall so far. He passed away in the Las Vegas tunnels. RIP ❤

America is beyond fixing

Purdue is evil.

I’ve had neck pain on and off for years and doctor finally sent me to a doctor to do a scan and I swear they asked me 3 times if I wanted drugs including “muscle relaxers” and I wasn’t even in pain!

I highly HIGHLY doubt that only 109K people are dying. It’s gotta be a lot more

How ironic, that the loss to the U.S. economy owing to drug abuse makes up such a proportion of its GDP.

This is nuts wtf - sending love from Ireland

It is likely more, much more than 100k per year. Here in Philadelphia, PA the health department reported 1276 ODs in 2021. That is 3.4 a day. As a resident of Kensington that appears to be an undercount.

The pharmaceutical industry is the problem. Synthetic opiate Methadone is just as effective a pain reliever as other opiates and has a 24 hour half life (much longer than any naturally derived opiate analgesic) and does _not_ produce the same euphoria as other opioids, but because it’s cheap and not under patent pharmaceutical companies can’t make a profit off it so it’s not marketed for pain relief - instead it’s only used to treat addicts in recovery, and (poor) patients with terminal cancer etc.

I was really suprised that the drug issues were this much serious and it’s even getting worse😢

WTF, My father died way ago in '83 with efficient painkillers. So why an even "better"one

I got injured in 2008 it was pretty bad. My dr sent me home with 90 Percocet 10s before I even had my surgery. That destroyed my life for the next 12 years!!!! I ended up on fentenal and in jail

Oxytocin, opana, loratabs, soma, all of these were pushed in our communities

Surprisingly, no words of anger towards the drug dealers who knowingly sell a substance that will destroy other people's lives

What to do in this cruel world when survival is tough and your life is controlled by big corporates.

the sacklers are the true drug lord of the world

Poor Americans...

Its interesting because I remember hearing about a study which found that addictions occurred in people that were in abusive or unhealthy environments. The deaths from opioid addiction may raise bigger questions as to why people are in a mental state where they are becoming addicted. It's a fair point that it may be irresponsible and negligent to supply opioids without checking a patients vulnerability to addiction

As far as I know, no one puts a gun to your head and forces you to consume illegal drugs. It is also the consumer's fault.

Capitalism moment

They did the same thing with Valium back in the 70s. It’s nothing new. You gotta be responsible for yourself and stop diverting the blame for your addiction to others. It’s a super weak move.

Since the new drug regulations on opioids deaths in 2016 were 63,000 per year... now the latest numbers are 100,000+! The drug addicts receive no assistance or help getting off illegal meds while real chronic pain patients have been blamed and demonized for the addiction issue. I stopped all care for my chronic condition. A doctor recently asked me to trust him... my response, "Don't use big words you don't understand!" Chronic Pain patients did not create the problem, but we certainly are paying the price for it!

Money makes the world go round.

I watch Netflix pain killer and I really enjoyed it sad that no one was sent to jail for this

I remember oxycontin being easily prescribed for headaches or anything. So the misrepresentation was they were harmless/sanitized opioids.

This is really nice!

barry had some really interesting talking points and it seems like steve really highlighted just how far this has come in the U.S. i think there needs to be reform.

They gave them immunity for forever kickbacks.

I was (mis)diagnosed with not only SAD and Anxiety disorder but Chemical-imbalance which has been formerly known as alcoholism/drug addiction, I fell into the trap of accepting the "fact" that I'm going to die a Heroin addict and an Alcoholic, tossed my career, all my possessions, marriage, relationship with my loved ones, down the drain to become a career "street pharmacist". I traded my brother's and sisters marriages, my grandparents funerals, quality time with my close friends and loved ones for a circular-life fueled by addiction, violence, pain, anger, withdrawal and blaming others for the mistakes I made. Meanwhile God was patiently waiting and protecting me... Although it took me well over 10 years, I gave up the self-reliant lifestyle to our Lord Jesus Christ and my dad at least got to see his son come home before he passed from a heart-attack in my hands on the bathroom floor. Although I really, really miss him, I can't wait to join him in praising God for everything good He has done in my life...

If is wasn't Oxycontin it would have been something else. Addict's and their familys always look for someone else to blame.

But we Americans LOVE our medicine!

Want the best way to fix it…LEGALIZE DRUGS.

Lol 💯😸 Blaming others for not having control over yourself🤦‍♂️

But allopathic medicine is about health. Not.

why wasn't the crack epidemic treated like a tragedy unlike this thing? serious question.

I am not responsible for anyone abusing drugs the only person to blame is that person who is abusing them, I am so tired of hearing about this epidemic if a person wants to use drugs that is their decision!! This is not the world's problem!!!

A nightmare for everyone concerned.

News Reporter-……..let’s get to the bottom line Me- Exactly

Withholding opioids from Chronic pain patients is killing far more than that ! Get over it!!!

But not more than abortion. 2400 a day

love how the title says drug epidemic kills 300 a day, and the thumbnail is a picture of prescriptions. We all know its not prescriptions killing these. shameful

But it is also their choice to get into that lifestyle. One thing these news pieces and media like to forget is self accountability and choices people make. Opioid addiction does not occur overnight.

And those of us,who need a,pain killer are now denied . Did anyone consider acupuncture, eastern medicine,holistic health ?

Power & Domination is a old of Humankind

And all they do is meddle into other countrie's business

Remember the 80s crack epidemic 🤔

it is a free market no one is forcing you to take oxycontin

Not a mention of trauma and they’re talking about drug addiction. Wow.

Follow the money...scary but true. Very few businesses care about the health of their clients/patients. They care about the money. That's why they say "money makes the world go round".

So what if it is addictive. If there is more where that came from ,then whats the problem.

It's not an Ebola outbreak.... These people are choosing to do drugs why are you so surprised that a narcotic is killing people off??? Did you expect the end results to be their life getting better and becoming solid tax paying citizens?

4:00 yes! So is heroin and liquor 😂

They will just find another drug ....it's hopelessness

"Let the entire generation die off" Dr. Andrew Kolodny

Barry is an amazing man.

480,000 smoking deaths,180,000 alcohol related deaths..why not mention these?

Pakistan has 759 pharmacutical units operated by 650 manufacturing pharmaceutical companies. Last year due to floods & foreign exchange crisis. Letter of credit was not given to importers so thousands of containers were help up at Karachi port. They contained diagnostic equipments,lentils & pharmaceuticals etc. Pharmacutical salt was one of the items too. It approx takes 6months for a medicine to reach market & its shelf life is 2 or 3 years at most. Accoding to my pharmacist due to sun exposure & humadity. Pharmaceutic salt must hv lost its healing power in air tight containers at dockyards. Due to unavailabilty of salt. Pharmaceutics were unable to manufacture drugs in time & unable to dispatch it to markets. So it created a shortage of life saving drugs in market in Pakistan. We faced that challenge single handedly. Now Govt of Pakistan has allocated a budget of Rs26billion for health sector in National budget which is a positive sign

The first step is to have different words for drugs (medicine) and drugs (illegal addictive substances). In most of the languages there are completely different words for these things.

in Italy, buying future immunity with a monetary compensation (settlement) would be unconstitutional I believe. What kind of system is the US? 1. First, allowing pharma companies to buy (corrupt) law makers with cash and marketing (so called lobbying) [illegal in Italy], 2. then allowing pharma companies to buy (corrupt?) doctors with cash and marketing against deontology [illegal in italy], 3. and then allowing these same criminal to buy legal immunity with cash [unconstitutional in italy]. What kind of monstrosity of a system is this???? Is this even a liberal state under rule of law or an apocalyptic dystopian world? Jesus

The money does not reach the communities where the sale & death actually happens at. Poor, black communities so we care less about a lawsuit its not helping us

I remember going in to my doctor and having them do urine tests on me and do pill counts for Tramadol. I have spinal stenosis. I did everything they told me for seven years. I never increased my dosage. Took two Tramadol a day for seven years. Then after covid 19, I was cut off. Right before Thanksgiving. I couldn't even play with my grandchildren. The government have ruined so many lives. Now I lay in bed mostly. Can't do stairs very well. I take 1600 mg Ib profin daily. 500mg Tylenol. It barely takes the edge off. For about an hour, at the most.

Gave it out like candy then took it away and made everyone Herion Addicts. Gotta love the reaction

Psilocybin containing mushrooms save my life. They drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit

The ignorance of some the comments here are staggering but not unexpected. There are real people with pain you cant comprehend and it has saved their lives. The fact that people who genuinely need them cant get them anymore should be called malpractice.

Bless them Sackler Brothers.

To see a popular touristic street Display not One , but Four Pharmacies, Ya"ll should agree that a serious conflict of interest is really being displayed before your very eyes. The Town planner has Cleary been paid off, to allow this to happen... The population growth in this example, remains much the same as always... Yet more and more businesses owners close down, to make way for more drugs...

On the flip side now they are making it almost impossible to get suboxon to help stop the withdrawals. It needs to be free to all that want the help.

hmm.... get out of jail cardd for 6 billion

The current situation regarding the rise in fatalities resulting from illicit fentanyl overdose deserves our attention. It is important to note that these tragic incidents primarily involve illicitly manufactured fentanyl rather than prescribed opioids. The infiltration of fentanyl across our borders poses a significant threat to our society at large. While it is true that Purdue Pharma bore significant responsibility in the opioid crisis of the past decade, it is essential to distinguish their role from the ongoing challenges the United States is facing today. The issue of open borders warrants consideration as we seek to address this pressing concern.

When $6 BILLION is like paying a traffic ticket. This is wealth built upon suffering and death

Yeah, that little pill got a lot of people stuck in limbo!! Im currently on the suboxone program. Seems to work, but it never ending eh.

The more the merrier😂😂😂

so glad this topic is being talked about more. Honestly if we really want to go back all the way the 1940s The Rockefellers basically made it illegal to have any natural remedies in any of the medical books. So that really got the ball rolling with the basically wild West type of ambience. Then later on the sackler's would definitely take advantage that. On KZfaq, you can look up old commercials from the 90s Representatives that were pushing the use of oxycontin more would say that medication was less than 1% addictive. Not only did Purdue create the opiate crisis, they created the Suboxone crisis. Suboxone is a great stepping stone to get off heavy medications or heroin. But use over a long period Of time, it becomes almost impossible to get off. Then not only did they do all of that, they were able to at some point to produce vaccines and make even more money.

Why didn’t doctors look at the composition of the drug and see that it was still likely to produce addiction

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