Listening to your interview on Sam Seder Majority Report from 8 months ago (sorry). Great job. Your framing is perfect-point to one case where an exception was granted. That means exceptions aren’t real. Also, medical cooling across the board. I can tell you exactly how this has played out in the disabled community of people suffering from extremely painful conditions once an opioid epidemic was declared-mass suicides, people unable to work and function, becoming homeless, some turning finally to drugs. The enforcement has followed the same playbook; elaborate lies. Most overdoses are from illicit drugs and always have been, but they used overdoses as an excuse to stop treating patients, take doctors assets, jail them, and win huge lawsuits that ultimately are funding further militarization of law enforcement. Anyone who speaks up is libeled and shut down. Propaganda on mainstream media tows the line.
I’m with you. What the “state” has done to inflict torture upon people with chronic, incurable, pain conditions is frightening & the msm completely ignores it; reporting instead on OD numbers. Those numbers don’t tell the correct story. The vast majority of drug OD deaths are not from legally prescribed opioids, they are from fentanyl or from street purchased opioids. When an OD occurs that includes an opioid, it is almost never alone, it’s what we call polypharmacy- a mix of 2-4 drugs plus alcohol.
The number of our veterans, elders, & others who were unceremoniously cut off from opioid pain meds, that they had taken responsibly for years, who then went on to commit suicide due to the agony of untreated chronic pain is NEVER reported on.
Everyone in the pro choice, pro democracy movement would do well to inform themselves of what has happened to all of those millions of their fellow citizens left to suffer, & then when they just can’t stand it anymore, to quietly die.
Thank you. I guess I keep repeating this stuff in this forum to 1)validate (it’s real, it’s happening, it’s bad), 2)it’s headed towards worse, it’s been practiced, inside the country and outside the country.
Listening to your interview on Sam Seder Majority Report from 8 months ago (sorry). Great job. Your framing is perfect-point to one case where an exception was granted. That means exceptions aren’t real. Also, medical cooling across the board. I can tell you exactly how this has played out in the disabled community of people suffering from extremely painful conditions once an opioid epidemic was declared-mass suicides, people unable to work and function, becoming homeless, some turning finally to drugs. The enforcement has followed the same playbook; elaborate lies. Most overdoses are from illicit drugs and always have been, but they used overdoses as an excuse to stop treating patients, take doctors assets, jail them, and win huge lawsuits that ultimately are funding further militarization of law enforcement. Anyone who speaks up is libeled and shut down. Propaganda on mainstream media tows the line.
I’m with you. What the “state” has done to inflict torture upon people with chronic, incurable, pain conditions is frightening & the msm completely ignores it; reporting instead on OD numbers. Those numbers don’t tell the correct story. The vast majority of drug OD deaths are not from legally prescribed opioids, they are from fentanyl or from street purchased opioids. When an OD occurs that includes an opioid, it is almost never alone, it’s what we call polypharmacy- a mix of 2-4 drugs plus alcohol.
The number of our veterans, elders, & others who were unceremoniously cut off from opioid pain meds, that they had taken responsibly for years, who then went on to commit suicide due to the agony of untreated chronic pain is NEVER reported on.
Everyone in the pro choice, pro democracy movement would do well to inform themselves of what has happened to all of those millions of their fellow citizens left to suffer, & then when they just can’t stand it anymore, to quietly die.
Yes, there's not enough advocacy for this. 💔
Thank you. I guess I keep repeating this stuff in this forum to 1)validate (it’s real, it’s happening, it’s bad), 2)it’s headed towards worse, it’s been practiced, inside the country and outside the country.