Moderator: Dux
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... 379ecdf558.The nation’s opioid epidemic is changing the way law enforcement does its job, with police officers acting as drug counselors and medical workers and shifting from law-and-order tactics to approaches more akin to social work.
Kazuya Mishima wrote:they can pry the bacon from my cold dead hand.
Turdacious wrote:Some organizations are getting on the targeting opioids effectively bandwagon.
Well, one anyway. http://khn.org/news/hmo-doctors-take-pa ... criptions/
Yup. They have to turn off the drug fountain and stop creating new addicts before anything substantial can be done down stream.They also pushed colleagues to expand the use of non-drug options for chronic pain sufferers: physical therapy, acupuncture, cognitive behavioral therapy, healthier diets and increased exercise.
Five years into its initiative, Kaiser’s Southern California operation reports prescriptions of opioids have plunged.
Prescriptions of opioid pills such as Vicodin and Percocet in amounts greater than 200 tablets dropped from 2,500 a month to almost zero, according to the HMO. So, too, have prescriptions that include potentially dangerous combinations of muscle relaxants, anti-anxiety medications and opioids, as well as prescriptions of brand-name opioids in general.
Kazuya Mishima wrote:they can pry the bacon from my cold dead hand.
I read that a few days ago, too. Extremely interesting.Sassenach wrote:I read this a few days ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to- ... remarkable
Really Big Strong Guy: There are a plethora of psychopaths among us.
just a friendly reminder, johno, that there are no "free" markets. markets have rules. with good rules, the market works. impose bad rules, the market has distortions. but always there are rules.johno wrote:Conservatives totally forget Free Market economics when it comes to drugs.
.Big Brother creates the Black Market. The OD's result from that
Really Big Strong Guy: There are a plethora of psychopaths among us.
Not all. Just the vast majority. Consider how much more likely an OD is when there is no quality control of the product...when a user thinks he's getting the same heroin he got yesterday, but instead gets fentanyl mixed with God knows what.dead man walking wrote:.Big Brother creates the Black Market. The OD's result from that
really. are you saying we'd wouldn't have any od's if opioids were available as alcohol is? that strikes me as, uh, optimistic.
dead man walking wrote:i've got about 30 oxy sitting in my medicine cabinet, a remnant from my surgery a few years ago.
awhile back, doctors were encouraged to be more aggressive managing pain. so they gave out pills.
now we've got a too many pills in circulation and docs are encouraged not to give out so many.
yo-yoing is a time-honored method of finding the sweet spot.
Jesus.WildGorillaMan wrote:This was an interesting article about the big business decisions that drove the opioid crisis.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/inv ... e33448409/
And none of the drug company executives who made this happen will ever see the inside of a jail cell.
Kazuya Mishima wrote:they can pry the bacon from my cold dead hand.
http://www.economist.com/news/internati ... ntries-dieOpioid painkillers stimulate receptors in the brain and elsewhere to produce a powerful pain-numbing effect. They also lessen anxiety and depression—two common side-effects of intense pain. The sensation they induce is often described as euphoria. Some, such as morphine, are made from the opium poppy; others, such as oxycodone, are semi-synthetic or synthetic. They are highly addictive: even brief use can be followed by withdrawal symptoms. As a result, for most of the 20th century they were usually reserved for acute pain, after a serious accident or surgery, say, and palliative care, a branch of medicine dedicated to curbing the pain of those with illnesses such as cancer or AIDS.
But in the 1980s a series of papers by American researchers claimed that opioids could be used safely for longer periods. The evidence was slight, but, combined with a formidable marketing effort by drug firms, it led to American doctors prescribing opioids with abandon for chronic, non-terminal pain
Mao wrote:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party
I does seem like white people are dying earlier: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078.abstractTurdacious wrote:http://www.economist.com/news/internati ... ntries-dieOpioid painkillers stimulate receptors in the brain and elsewhere to produce a powerful pain-numbing effect. They also lessen anxiety and depression—two common side-effects of intense pain. The sensation they induce is often described as euphoria. Some, such as morphine, are made from the opium poppy; others, such as oxycodone, are semi-synthetic or synthetic. They are highly addictive: even brief use can be followed by withdrawal symptoms. As a result, for most of the 20th century they were usually reserved for acute pain, after a serious accident or surgery, say, and palliative care, a branch of medicine dedicated to curbing the pain of those with illnesses such as cancer or AIDS.
But in the 1980s a series of papers by American researchers claimed that opioids could be used safely for longer periods. The evidence was slight, but, combined with a formidable marketing effort by drug firms, it led to American doctors prescribing opioids with abandon for chronic, non-terminal pain
TL/DR (and to be fair I didn't quote the underlying theme of the article)-- opioid addiction is a white people problem. Is that right? Discuss.
Kazuya Mishima wrote:they can pry the bacon from my cold dead hand.
Sassenach wrote:I does seem like white people are dying earlier: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078.abstractTurdacious wrote:http://www.economist.com/news/internati ... ntries-dieOpioid painkillers stimulate receptors in the brain and elsewhere to produce a powerful pain-numbing effect. They also lessen anxiety and depression—two common side-effects of intense pain. The sensation they induce is often described as euphoria. Some, such as morphine, are made from the opium poppy; others, such as oxycodone, are semi-synthetic or synthetic. They are highly addictive: even brief use can be followed by withdrawal symptoms. As a result, for most of the 20th century they were usually reserved for acute pain, after a serious accident or surgery, say, and palliative care, a branch of medicine dedicated to curbing the pain of those with illnesses such as cancer or AIDS.
But in the 1980s a series of papers by American researchers claimed that opioids could be used safely for longer periods. The evidence was slight, but, combined with a formidable marketing effort by drug firms, it led to American doctors prescribing opioids with abandon for chronic, non-terminal pain
TL/DR (and to be fair I didn't quote the underlying theme of the article)-- opioid addiction is a white people problem. Is that right? Discuss.
Feels like the behavior of a people who have lost their way and don't have the tools to cope with it.This increase for whites was largely accounted for by increasing death rates from drug and alcohol poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Although all education groups saw increases in mortality from suicide and poisonings, and an overall increase in external cause mortality, those with less education saw the most marked increases. Rising midlife mortality rates of white non-Hispanics were paralleled by increases in midlife morbidity.
Mao wrote:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party
It reminds me of life on the Indian reservations.DrDonkeyLove wrote:Sassenach wrote:I does seem like white people are dying earlier: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078.abstractTurdacious wrote:http://www.economist.com/news/internati ... ntries-dieOpioid painkillers stimulate receptors in the brain and elsewhere to produce a powerful pain-numbing effect. They also lessen anxiety and depression—two common side-effects of intense pain. The sensation they induce is often described as euphoria. Some, such as morphine, are made from the opium poppy; others, such as oxycodone, are semi-synthetic or synthetic. They are highly addictive: even brief use can be followed by withdrawal symptoms. As a result, for most of the 20th century they were usually reserved for acute pain, after a serious accident or surgery, say, and palliative care, a branch of medicine dedicated to curbing the pain of those with illnesses such as cancer or AIDS.
But in the 1980s a series of papers by American researchers claimed that opioids could be used safely for longer periods. The evidence was slight, but, combined with a formidable marketing effort by drug firms, it led to American doctors prescribing opioids with abandon for chronic, non-terminal pain
TL/DR (and to be fair I didn't quote the underlying theme of the article)-- opioid addiction is a white people problem. Is that right? Discuss.Feels like the behavior of a people who have lost their way and don't have the tools to cope with it.This increase for whites was largely accounted for by increasing death rates from drug and alcohol poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Although all education groups saw increases in mortality from suicide and poisonings, and an overall increase in external cause mortality, those with less education saw the most marked increases. Rising midlife mortality rates of white non-Hispanics were paralleled by increases in midlife morbidity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to- ... 54cb91ac1aAccording to the Ohio Department of Health, the number of opioid-related deaths skyrocketed from 296 in 2003 to 2,590 in 2015 — a 775 percent jump over a 13-year period. These numbers include deaths involving prescription opioids, heroin and fentanyl, which is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
