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Unbelievable. There's a spot ready in heaven for these reporters who essentially risked their own safety and saved these 2,000 men. And a spot ready in hell for every "enforcer", boat captain, ceo, etc, who participated in this slavery.
Carl Sullivan: (14:20) "Having been an addiction guy since 1985..." I have to wonder if "addiction guys" are similar to the hammer that sees everything as a nail. Is Sullivan capable of understanding the difference between drug addiction (his specialty) and drug dependence? Would he consider a diabetic as being "addicted" to insulin, or does he limit his definition of "addicted" to people living with pain caused by broken bodies? He acknowledges that many of West Virginia's pain patients were injured in what he calls "rough and tumble" industries like mining and timber, but fails to offer alternatives to the only effective pain treatment known: opioids. He claimed that "...opioids in West Virginia were flowing like water!" but didn't mention WHY people requested them -- meanwhile continuing to beat the 'addiction' drum. "I don't think most people appreciate how severe the disease of opioid addiction is," Sullivan said. So what kind of nightmare pain must drive users to risk addiction? Drug counselors report that the gateway to addiction is emotional trauma: early, repeated and severe.
Well congratulations. This own panel contradicted themselves towards the end. Yet people can’t get adequate opiate therapy even with cancer now. No we don’t need pill mills but there are pain patients who are high functioning on doses of opiates. These people have had their doses cut or completely cut off I am not sure this panels logic. They seem to be talking from both sides of their mouths. 7 years later I would like to know how they feel now. They have drastically cut the supply of opioid prescriptions yet the overdose deaths keep climbing. Perhaps they underestimated the problem and the oversimple government response.
The government tried -- and failed -- to arrest their way out of a craving that has been an integral part of humanity since our ancestors crawled out of the ocean. That foolishly authoritarian approach didn't work with alcohol and it's failed with opioids... to the point that it's killing middle class white Americans, something our politicians and "drug tsars" never planned on.
