I appreciate both of them as well, but it cannot be stressed enough that what you see is not about the individuals but about orchestrated team efforts with some intelligent, witty frontmen.
History lesson: A few hundred years ago, the British wanted to trade with China, but didn’t have anything they wanted. So after years of failed negotiations, they finally found something: drugs. The Chinese royalty then failed and the Brits took over.
But the US did nothing to the Chinese- *existence of Hong Kong* Actually, we hella did do something to them. “White Man’s Burden” was a real shitshow during Colonization.
no, but they are able to present the work of investigative journalists better. it ist really rare for a comedian to do actual research rather than using the work of actual journalists. john oliver once said that himself in a piece about the dying local news, that he and his team would be nothing without the journalists, whos work they use for their stories.
When i was 3, in 86, my mom had a store that sold cleaning products, the supplier told her not to use J&J baby shampoo on me, since tgere were rumors of it being unsafe.
Now they say J&J talcum powder can cause cancer...I wonder if this is why women in the U.S. have higher rates of certain cancers thanks to our loose FDA and companies
Either way your baby powder company is going to kill you...one way is by what this episode talks about, pharmaceutical drugs and the other way they can get double the money out of you by giving you cancer and then the pharmaceuticals to treat the cancer their product gave you. Win/win for J&J
Fentanyl needs to be categorized as a poison. I don't like the idea that certain individuals can kill people with this and then turn around and say well the autopsy says that they were addicted to drugs.
Comedians all over the world are making more sense than journalists. This will be written in the History books, how the time changed in 21st century. Comedians were more authentic and trustworthy than journalist.
Most of these comedians get their source material from real journalists. Be careful not to overlook their irreplaceable, foundational and priceless contributions.
@@shodanxx sigh, ok i'll bite Journalism: the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast. weird, sure seems like journalism to me.
Most of these shows use investigative journalism as a source and there are still a lot of good journalists but who of us still reads expensive newspapers. You need resources for investigative journalism and too many newspapers are owned by big media companies who seem to only care about Profit.
Even sadder is that is that you don't even have to question the accuracy/bias of info vs news outlets... I def trust a comedian over a "serious news source" ... Something is so wrong w that! Shouldn't he be the 1 messing w the info for laughs & them being 4 real? It's sad when our comedians have to be the serious ones & don't even get to play. It's like cps taking kids from bad homes but cps is the real bad guy so the fun uncle has to step in & explain the dangers of lollipops...but wait there's even more to the story?!? Basically they just stole the kids in the 1st place & the parents & kids & now even the fun uncle are all screwed cause it's legal.
I disagree. I understand your sentiment, but no, "real" journalism needs to be much "better" than this, this is comedy. Its a sad world if the bar is this low and also its a burden no comedian signed on, their job is to make us laugh and entertain, that somehow they now also have the responsibility to inform and educate us, is just bonkers for both sides. The real problem is that most people would not read or watch "real" journalists talk about this topics in a serious format, because people dont really want to know, so "real" journalists have also to become entertainers just to get an audience, which is how we got here.
*man I'm so upset. I loved Hasan's show on Netflix. I can't believe they took it down. I wish he picked it back up on YT instead. I feel like it's a better platform for the type of show this is*
It really is... Mainstream 24 hour cycle media has to sell fear and lies to get ratings and pay the bills... Comedy shows can make a joke and tell the truth to pay the bills. It's shitty and fuxked up and may seem backwards but that's the way it is.
Meh yes and no. LWT is good on a lot of things, but their Venezuela coverage is straight out of a CIA and Exxon Mobil guidebook. After all, you have to remember who owns HBO and who runs those commercials during the program. The show is the filler between the commercials don't forget
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee should be up there too. Her segments on issues, such as how the US created the refugee situations in South America were really in depth and informative as well.
RU-vid gets a lot of advertisements from pharmaceutical companies. That's why there's 10 comments and it doesn't get recommended for 9 months. March 16th. will be 4 years clean.. Good luck everybody..
The new problem now is carfentanil...it's a hundred times stronger than fentanyl and killed a friend of mine the day after he left his rehab. He was only 19. Great show, thank you for shedding light
Carfentanil was created for use by wildlife vets to sedate animals like 6-ton elephants and rhinos. Once Chinese chemists figured out how to manufacture fentanyl analogs we were all off to the races.
Aside from the casual possibility of instant death, a Fentanyl overdose looks as if you are falling asleep, which makes it hard to spot in time to save someone. It could also be absorbed through the skin. Even some first responders weren't safe from its effects.
Yeah, ER docs are having a big problem, finding people who come in with 10 patches on their back and have stopped breathing entirely. Huge burden on the urgent/emergent side of medicine
@Mycel Unless you have the people that order directly from China. I know a story or two about madlads with hazmat suits handling their own carfentanyl solution.
I only recently discovered Hasan's videos (latecomer, I know). Truly, Hasan is the ultimate Patriot! Kudos to you for loving your country and your fellow humans to address so many important issues that no one else is willing or able to.
@@uvanadhithya4112 it wasn't well promoted. But it's a tuff gig to pull off. Probably go better now, since the world's in an uproar about corruption & human rights.
Always google prescriptions. As consumers we need to know what’s in the things we put in our bodies and what our potential reactions might be. These pharmaceutical companies rely on the population not informing themselves on the medications they’re taking. It’s how so many people don’t realize how addictive their pain meds will be because they don’t look into it.
Symptoms are vague. Fever can be present for numerous reasons. It make sense not to interpret if you don't have the knowledge Prescription is specific. The chemical is, supposedly, well known and its effects known. Always research your prescription
That's actually not true, there is the ultimate judge they will face when these lunatics die. If you think they will get away with it then there is no point in life. Justice will be served
@@hi_hello6524 If you are talking about God, no way. I don't want a God to punish them. God can punish them after they face justice in the world in the living. I refuse to wait just so they can be punished "later"
@@Random_dud31 what kind of justice can be held in this world for their crimes of killing and destroying so many lives? 250 years in prison ? No one lives that long plus of their wealth and connections, no one can touch them. Whatever kind of punishment is not good enough anyway or fair because of their oppression. No, God will judge them accordingly and fairly for their crimes they think they got away with. Think about it this way, why do we have a system of judges, justice, accountability for one's crime if it all disappears when one die? It's funny because in science, nothing disappears, everything just changes. Anyway they will be held accountable whether they like it or not.
@@hi_hello6524 As an agnostic, I just can't stand the idea of letting these fuckers get what they want in the hopes of a higher being that I'm not even sure exists will punish them after they die. Honestly, what kind of horror can you instill on a person with so few scruples, that they can sleep happily, even knowing they've killed thousands of people through their actions?
@@AlwaysANemesis but I wanna know your thoughts tho like who's gonna touch them in this life and what do you do with them exactly? Is their punishment death? Like how is that a punishment? You know what I mean? I wanna know what punishment you would give these people? There is not much you can do to these lunatics after destroying so many lives, it's actually oppression to believe there is no God cuz then evil will win and there would be no point in life Example would be Hitler, the guy killed himself and then end of story, an atheist would say, Hitler turned to dust and poof he's gone like how can that be? I'm also thinking why bury Humans after they die?logically one would burn them and then later use their ashes for coal or something but It seems like the people after death are waiting to be judged or something. The only ones the concept of burying works for is the 3 Abrahamic religions and among them only one makes logical sense.
@Sasha Da Masta i feel you are right though.. Even then i really appreciate his efforts to at least bring these information out to public! People should know whats killing them. I know normal Americans cant do shit against rich and Elite class. American public are basically puppets who are deliberately kept stupid to easily control them. It's really sad but thats how cruel this globalised, company filled world has become.
@Sasha Da Masta What you wrote reminds me of a certain sout park episode in which the government is happy to be the one people think of as the main offender, though they aren´t (It´s about 9/11).
The silence from the audience at the very end of this clip was heavy, damn. Great episode. Always appreciate a heavy dose of knowledge of what's happening in murica.
Yeah, actually, I feel like this was the quietest episode so far, and rightfully so. The scale and implication of this corruption is mind-numbingly horrific.
I just lost a childhood friend from this. The struggle is too real for a lot of people. I hope this helps people and maybe saves a life through awareness
As a doctor, we've all studied and used naloxone as an antidote for opioid poisoning, so it's not a miracle drug bringing back people from death anyhow, just does it's job as an antagonist. Fentanyl should only be used in supervised doses by trained medical professionals so it's terrifying and sad that people are using and OD-ing on basic drugs used for anaesthetic procedures. This is a great episode, brilliant broadcasting of a situation which really needed to be talked about!
Hasan, When I was a little girl long ago, before this crisis, someone I loved very much unintentionally ODed on heroin and died. I also have spent all these years following the trends in opioids. I am so sorry that you also know that pain. Thank you for doing this.
Well, marijuana is what the blacks and the jews take, according to reagan. So yeah. Also there isn't much money for big pharma in cheap painkillers you can grow at home.
Moslema Ahmmad I don’t need to provide statistics. As a black person I can speak from life experience, I don’t smoke it nor do I know anybody that does. It is not a culture, some smoke marijuana and some don’t and the same can said for white people. Black people are just more likely stereotyped and criminalized for marijuana.
No one's forcing people to take drugs. People want to get high. If you eliminate one source, another will pop up. No one seems to have learned anything from the 18th amendment debacle which created the monster of organized crime.
The irony is I worked in a pharmacy for a while in a different country to the US - When one of our customers went on Fentanyl, we knew it was because they were going to die. It was considered that addictive that no one could really go on it on for a period of time without becoming addicted. No one without a fatal disease was prescribed it. We had 2 nursing homes close by, so we saw a lot of elderly go on it. It was depressing.
@@suraventri2544 Nice that the people with the fatal diseases actually got the medication they needed for pain relief, though. Who cares about addiction when you're going to die. We used to see elderly terminal patients coming into the e.r. in pain, because their families didn't like them sleeping so much; so they with held their pain medication.
True that. But the reason this man is an internet sensation is because what he's saying is true. All the showmanship and speaking skills in the world does not trump truth.
@@enochbrown8178 That's why I like satirists; Hasan and John Oliver are definitely picking up the torch Jon Stewart has held. (And, no, I don't equate Colbert and Noah along with satirists; they're funny sometimes, but they're closer to Democrat pundits.)
I get bullied by my aggressive patients to give opioid for any type of pain. I stay strong and decline it if whenever I suspect addiction and call addiction team.
Discovered you with Casey Neistat on Deep Cuts. After 2 weeks of binge-watching I know that this show is what I'm looking for: an educational + entertaining show edit: love from the philippines
John Oliver has a similiarly educational and entertaining show called Last Week Tonight. Hasan mentioned it several times as well, and is usually considered a pioneer of this weekly-story-comedy-news-format, besides perhaps Jon Stewart.
@@enx2083 I have heard of the show already since Hasan mentioned it... but i'll stick to this one because of the hand gestures, big screens, and the way it stands out
Weird, I'm scrolling through the comments and saw yours and this morning read about someone in the West coast diet because they were doing stunts on a BMX bike and ended up falling after hitting the ocean wall (whatever that means) and falling over 10M to their death. Crazy!
That's exactly what the US government told us. "The purity of pharmaceutical drugs is tightly regulated by the FDA." Which is true, but doesn't address the issue. And doctors' prescribing abilities have been "strictly regulated" for years. I guess we all know how well that worked out.
They are very strictly regulated in the US, too. The opioid crisis is almost entirely due to illegal street drugs now. Trouble is, we haven't adjusted to the reality that the new regulations work, and are still under the assumption that the crisis is due to prescriptions. So we crack down more and more, making unreasonable regulations. Genuine pain patients can't get prescriptions and are turning to heroin, kratom and suicide. A few news stories are talking about it, but it's far more trendy to talk about the crisis without going into these kinds of details. Anything pro-opiod is risky. I have had 4 spine surgeries and met with 5 pain doctors eho said they just don't prescribe opioids to *anyone* anymore no matter what. That's the result of bad regulation. These drugs help millions of people and can be taken carefully and safely by those not prone to addiction. After 20 years on 10mg oxy, I regularly stop taking them for a week without any urges to have another (except for pain, of course).
@@krisaaron5771 Thats a huge problem. Why should you be immune to becoming an addict just because you take em against the pain? That makes no sense at all, and a very dangerous statement.
I had Fentanyl as part of my pain block when I had foot surgery in July. I had a very hard time keeping my O2 Sats up when I was in Recovery. I have had many surgeries and colonoscopies where I had a pain block and anesthesia and never had that problem before. When my ortho doc told me what meds were used for my pain block, an alarm went off and I have it and Dilaudid listed as severe med allergies so I never will be given it without my knowledge. Good old fashioned Morphine works very well for my pain. That was the pain block I had for my colonectomy and bowel resection. And THAT was more painful than my foot surgery.
Dude you are amazing. I have Netflix. But just as soon as i saw this recommendation on RU-vid i just hit play. Now I'll just rewatch it again on Netflix for second act
Here's what scares me about all this. Opioid prescriptions have been on the decline since 2011, and yet Fentanyl deaths have been on the rise that whole time, thanks to it being added to the heroin supply. But now chronic pain patients are suffering because of this. People all over the US are being rapidly stepped down or cut off from their pain medications because doctors are over-correcting and afraid. Or, because laws have been passed in some states limiting the dose allowance. These are patients that have been stable on their medications and doses for years, who have always been compliant with their doctors' conditions, and who were able to have at least some quality of life. Saying "Well, back and neck pain? Nope - fentanyl's only for cancer patients" does a disservice to those that have the kind of pain that cancer patients can get. It also doesn't take into account a patient's genetic profile (there's a genetic test now to see what pain medications you can process correctly), pain needs, other medication interactions or side-effects. I'm not talking about achy backs and pulled muscles. I'm talking about the kind of pain that makes you want to kill yourself - the kind that never stops. And unfortunately, while we have a lot of tools in our medical toolboxes, not everything can be fixed. I would love - LOVE - if we had better options that didn't involve physical tolerance and the risk of drug-seeking addiction. I would LOVE to not be under a microscope because of a medication I need. Not Fentanyl - something else. But I used to be on it, and was on the same dose (patch) for about 8 years. If used correctly, and prescribed by a good pain management doctor (this is key), it can be a life-saver. I'm not over-exaggerating when I say that I'd be dead by my own hand without proper pain control. I'm not alone in this. So please don't dismiss us folks that don't have cancer, but still live with incurable conditions that make life hell.
I see you. My pain has been well managed by tramadol, and I've always carefully followed the instructions of an excellent neurologist in taking it. It's scary to think about so many of us with chronic pain losing access to medications that have made life liveable.
Cynically Hopeful: I felt like I was reading my own thoughts with your comment. I tried fentanyl patch, but 1 came off during the night, my dog chewed it & almost died; back to morphine for me. But I’m still having the cdc guidelines affecting my prescriptions, tho I’ve been with the same Pain Mgmt Dr for over a decade & used to take triple the amount of morphine 20 yrs ago. I asked my dr to wean me down bc I was afraid of addiction & that was almost a decade ago, but they suddenly act like I’m some kind of addict who’s trying to game the system when I request a refill. This system has gone crazy. They need to evaluate patients based on that patient’s history, not on what some other unknown patients may have done. It’s infuriating to have to deal with this on top of constant pain. 🌈
They overprescribed irresponsibly and now they try to correct it with behaviour that is just as irresponsible and everyone but the assholes who line their pockets are hurt by it. I'm sorry to hear about your chronic pain. It sucks and it sucks even more to be thrown around here and there because pharma companies want to profit from people in need of medical care
I think it should be aired on TV, The content is so great that even a single video is enough to create an awareness. Hats off to Hasan and his team , keep up the good work.
Cuz of Hasan I was able learn so much that I used. I actually filed my taxes for free last year cuz of his show.....then he got cancelled. How? This was the best truth show EVER. That's probably why. He was too good and too honest. He's another level of person. Love him love him.love him. I'm brown so I guess I'm biased😅
I appreciate that he made us realise the silent killers in shape of life savers. Doctors, here in South Asia have gone nuts with antibiotics. And guess what I'm 23 and immune to almost every antibiotic we had in market. That's some serious stuff.
that is because of chicken and other meat / animal products. Not the fault of doctors. Same with this, that is because of the pharma companies, not the doctors.
Can I suggest you do both? We gotta do what we can to make sure the Netflix algorithms count us. I'd hate for his show to get cancelled because not enough people watched it on Netflix (eventhough they watched it on RU-vid)
You said something that very much applied to me. I had legitimate groin pain and my doctor for ten years kept me well medicated. I was prescribed opioids(perc, fentanyl), benzos(xanax), muscle relaxers(soma), and stimulants(adderall) from the age of 18 until I was 28 starting as percocet tablets eventually pushed up to fentanyl patches all legally for groin pain. As well anxiety, ache muscles, and the sleepiness was treated with narcotics as well. During this my mother overdosed on morphine she died at 46 years old. This was a life changing event and Ive been in treatment, counceling, and a MAT program. Currently Im still on an opioid called methadone for heroin addicts but im no longer on anything else opioids are so difficult to overcome for some
Well he was bringing it to a head anyway, as far as pure substances are concerned there's also carfentanyl which is 100 times the equianalgesic strength of fentanyl, and lofentanyl which is even stronger (or longer acting) still. And those were discovered in 1974 and 1960 respectively (by Janssen pharma, owned by Johson & Johnson). Dsuvia is sufentanyl, 5 to 10 times the strength of fentanyl.
Technically, the deadliest drug is the one that kills the most people. One that has not yet done so is (again, solely on the most technical level) not the deadliest yet... however, it seems likely that it's only a matter of time. Trump and the rest of the corporate-bought politicians (plenty in both parties) will certainly not want to do too much to inconvenience the big pharma companies that donate so much money to their campaigns... Bernie might, though.
It’s so strange how different the rules are for doctors in America. In my Country Fentanyl is only for use in the operating room and ICU. No one is prescribed Fentanyl or OxyContin or Vicodin for acute or chronic pain because that’s how people get addicted.
Chronic pain should not be treated with opioids because patients will get addicted, there are mild analgesics that patients can try before stepping up to mild opioids like the WHO recommends
I'm European. I've had broken bones, all of my wisdom tooth extracted, I've been into a car crush, had operations done with local anestisia, a really a bad concussion, months long back pain with slipping disc... After every one of them, my doctors have told me to just take it easy and, if it hurt, to buy non-prescription drugs, like an Aspirin (Tylenol) Had I lived in USA, I would have gotten pain killers prescribed to me long time ago. But I can not say that my experiance with non-prescription drugs was that horrible. At most I've had a few bad days, but it's just something you forget about after some time. It's crazy, to me, what capitalism/greed has done to so many people.
I went to the doctor when I was only 22 years old because I had hurt my back, first thing he did was put me on put me on a Duragesic patch it was the 150 mg , at one point I was actually putting on two different patches at a time, my Doctor dies so I was told by his partner that I had to quit wearing the patches, he tells me that I needed to double up on the Percocet I was taking for breakthrough pain, needless to say that wasn't nearly enough to keep me from going through withdrawal, I swear to God that was the absolute worse thing I ever went through in my entire life. I wouldn't wish that on my worse Enemy.
That's... terrible. Doctors shouldn't be that careless with that patient. I'm not yet a pharmacist but I'm going there, the first thing we learned from our pharmacist teacher is, there are two most important and hardest jobs, doctors and pharmacists. If their patients died, doctors were held accountable, if the medicine is wrong, pharmacist did too. Doing something stupid as to misused a drug is a big no-no.
I just cried watching this... I use fentanyl patches (and I’ve been on them for almost 2 years) for nerve pain caused by nerve damage in my lower spine and I wish I never agreed to be on them. 💔
@@zuboy4272Yes that was an old video. However, NDTV, Wire, BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, NYTimes, DailyMaverick, AlJazeera and almost every international news agency has reported conditions which require attention of the world where people are forced to live inside where food is scarce ATM has no money and baby food is almost finished. On the other hand, state sponsored journalists have reported peace calm happiness love joy optimism. Both sides cannot be true. Therefore, to elaborate both sides of stories, Hassan Minhaj will do an excellent job.
this episode felt more emotional than other episodes, loved how well presented the information was. well done to all that helped piece it all together,,, when he talked about being personally affected, just wanted to give him a big hug :( the ending was so strong, much respect for taking the high road for such terrible moral crimes
Depending on county in the US, it can be free. I went to college in a city plagued by this. Students from certain departments were trained on using it... Everyone got a free kit. They said it was available at the public health clinics.
Meanwhile.. I've been in constant pain since the mid 90s and the strongest thing they've ever given me was literally the weakest narcotic made (tramadol).
I had to go to 6 doctors before I found one willing to take over my tramadol prescription. I have been taking it safely and responsibly for a decade. I have had 4 spine surgeries.
Saw the video on Netflix , came here for the comments. What another brilliant episode from Hasan. Data is out there for all but making a compelling story out of it and bringing it with courage and flair to the stage .... Hats off Hasan and team .
They put me on the Fentanyl patch when I was dying of Pancreatitis, it was the only thing that worked because I couldn't take anything orally. Now I get accused of being a drug addict when I go to the pain clinic. 😣
My cousin was some months younger than me. We all grew up together and she was like another sister. She died earlier this year from a fentanyl overdose. I miss her everyday. I'm not trying to get likes or anything- I just cant help but write this down. My cousin struggled with depression, but knowing her, I dont believe she was suicidal. She was recovering, working on becoming healthier, with all of my family supporting her. She had her beautiful son. No one knows why she had fentanyl in her system or why she would even reach for something like that in the first place- before anything else. Our family doesn't have all the answers to why this happened- just the grief and the space where my beautiful, extremely funny, talented and brilliant cousin used to fill. I miss her everyday.
The most important and unanswered question is why US- American doctors prescribed opioids for minor indications in full knowledge that this goes against all medical guidelines and in awareness of how dangerous and addictive that stuff is.
What needs to happen is awareness. Patients need to be exactly educated on what is prescribed to them. Give them the option to deny a drug as well. I don't know how crazy the USA is about prescription drugs, but it's a mess.
They gave my mom fentanyl patches well before she hit late stage cancer. Maybe her doctors knew it wasn't gonna work out and wanted to make her more comfortable earlier, but she 100% didn't need them at the time. She didn't use them in the end, but they legit give this stuff out like it's nothing. We had literal boxes upon boxes of patches from 1 prescription filled.
