Listening to 60 minutes on the opioid crisis and the governments complicity in allowing the pharmaceuticals to continue to push these drugs. This is a repeat but it still incenses me. By now, everyone knows the drug companies and its distribution outlets couldn’t care less about your health. It’s all about profit. And, this report by 60 minutes now just links the government, both Congress and the FDA, to this epidemic.
Big pharma has big money. They only care about profit. This is what happens when money and greed rule and we have the best Congress money can buy. It is only getting worse. And, even though you think you have choice in the matter, you don’t.
The DEA, thanks to Congress, has little power to enforce laws against drug companies. It’s okay to go after the mom and pop stores or the Latino who has a small part in this. But to go after the pharmaceutical companies, like Cardinal Health and McKesson is verboten. Could it be that is because the pharmaceutical industry has spent 2.5 Billion dollars on lobbying effort in 2017. Or that they spent $900 million on lobbying between 1998 and 2005. You bet. They bought Congress. There is way too much money in pushing drugs and to addict people.
They do not care about you or your children’s life. They may profess how important ‘our children’ are, but they have actually taken no action to make a difference Over 63,000 people died due to opioids in 2016. And 40% of those deaths are due to prescription opioids. That’s more than died in 9/11 and in the Vietnam War.
Many hospitals are now putting in protocols regarding prescribing opioids. But, the pharmaceutical industry is doing their best to continue to push their use beyond necessity. So, ask yourself, who is really the ‘drug pusher’ here and who are the collaborators.
(Opioids include oxycodone`, fentanyl, methadone, hydrocodone, Vicodin, Norco, Lortab, and new stronger morphine type drugs are being created and distributed as well.}
If this concerns you, write Congress, write the President, the FDA, and talk with your doctor should they insist (like some Occupational doctors do) that you take these medications, even if you don’t want them. This happens way too often. These meds don’t speed up healing and, as you know, they are highly addictive.