Beyond the Script of Hulu's 'Dopesick' and America's Real-Life Opioid Crisis 

Folks are ashamed and turn the other way when it comes to addiction...look at how long it took society to stand-up against alcohol & nicotine...it's much easier to look the other way instead of facing a menacing demon head-on - fight against opioids is next-level...sad but true.

Basically, the pillbillies know they love their pills, and the normal people know to stay away from the damn pills. So everyone already knows what they need to know.

​@@alexcarter8807You do realize normal people get hooked on opiates right? You can never know everything you need to know about addiction.

CORRUPTION!!+"BUT IT IS"&; PORTUGAL..DOH'!

​​@@alexcarter8807most people abusing opiates are now doing fentanyl or heroine, not pills, and most of those people got there by being over prescribed opiate pills, and then having them yanked

Wh n are they going to pay the people they destroryed for what they did??

They provided effective painkillers that kept me out if misery. It's not their fault alleged health care professionals didn't diagnose and presribe the right amounts. It has nedicinal use just needs to be handled right no reason to blame the pharma company.

@@lukesanchez1024 Im glad you found relief and didn't become an addict but no reason to blame the pharma company? False claims about a drugs addictive properties to pass regulations and sell the drug is a criminal offense. They didn't provide doctors with information about what to do and how to handle a case of addiction, oh wait they did. They said just up the dose. From 10 to 20 to 40 to 80 to 160.

@@lukesanchez1024 effective opioid painkillers already existed before Purdue ran their scam. They reformulated a cancer drug whose patent was expiring, called it non addictive, and sold it to patients and doctors as a solution for chronic, moderate pain. It is literally criminal, some of their executives took pleas to avoid prison time

@@algorhythmic3904 it's not addictive mentally for those dealing with pain. It does have physical withdrawls and your body has to adapt to lower doses at the end of treatment. But that was there only mistake not to mention and that hardly makes it an addictive drug

Good on you Spencer, I’ve been addicted to jiu Jitsu and grappling in general for 26 years now, before that I was addicted to weed. Keep training 👊

Thank you for sharing. May you continue to remain drug free

❤️

I lived this. In 99 I lost my finger and crushed my hand in a mining accident in Harlan KY. I had never touched pills when they gave me a script of 40s....... for the next 14 years Dr's fed me opioids of some form. I always ran out so I spent a lot of $ on the street. I quit cold turkey June 21 2013. Imagine having the worst stomach flu/mental breakdown.. but I pulled through for a better life. I never knew our areas were specifically targeted or the whole FDA approved extremely low addiction label and really appreciate the knowledge. If you ever talk to Beth again tell her thank you for sharing the truth about our areas and I was impressed with the accuracy. She hit the break through pain dosing on the nose. Also the effects on the community and people traveling to Florida (Nashville was also popular)......I have 3 quips though and I understand it was artistic liberty but...... 1. Harlan never had a pain clinic or water tower. 2. Our school system never seen 50% of students using. No doubt a few have, but mainly we try to protect our kids..... teenager's around here usually sneak alcohol or weed. 3. I could name several things wrong with the mine portrayal, but I'll just point out the methane monitor has a huge red LED digital read out that couldn't really be covered by dust and can be read from over 100ft. The little dials she was reading where hydraulic and maybe an amp gauge. They still did better than that mine 29 movie. Stay clean my brother.

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My doctor put me these meds after spinal fusion surgery in 2001. I worked for a major airline hub. The doctor was between my house and the airport. He prescribed all the opioid drugs. I myself thought these meds had been around for a long time. I’ve had two seizures and still fill side effects in my mind to this day. It was, and still is on purpose, besides the money.

Also, I worked loading aircraft. A lot of my coworkers went through same thing. Worked with a mother and father and their son. All addicted. All 3 are dead from this now.

Big pharm targets companies with high worker injuries.

I'm proud of you.

It great she got through to the other side. I hope she keeps healing well. Well done Cathy for your love, strength and perseverance. So glad you have a much greater chance of beating this thing xo

@Jack Smith She had been on pain meds due to a car accident injury and as in Dopestick she became reliant on them. Her doctor finally convinced her to go to Subutex. And then she tapered off that med.

@Jack SmithFront Story...she is one of the lucky ones. Coming up 3 years free and brain healing. Is it possible she could go back...yes. But because she has so much love and support surrounding her and now focuses her life on helping others whereever she can and is in a completely different enviroment- there is Hope. I hope you find your peace and love in your life. All the best for 2022 let's fight the dangerous stupidity engulfing the USA and many other countries this year otherwise drugs will be the least of our problems.

That's the way to do it slowly. People shouldn't of gotten abruptly cut off and going to the street to get anything they can for pain.

We should. Iam a chronic pain patient myself. We are the other part of the story

It’s one of the best series I’ve seen in years. So harrowing.

I love it and I think it helped with the December ruling

@@yomismo6969 And Purdue made out that it was the judge's decision, not Purdue's appeal, that would hold up funding going to those who need it in the opioid crisis. Purdue at this point in the journey would best abide by a fair and just ruling regarding the financials. They avoided the very reasonable jail time they had coming to them. By not being content with escaping the majority of consequences, an ongoing depth of depravity is perceived.

fascism is not one party moron, its been rising up when you give government more power over your life with healthcare and such, Racism is dead kept on life support by race baiters and politicians to get elected. firearms death are low and exaggerated so the government can grab more power and control. Covid has a ninety nine percent survival rate.

It's on HULU

Pharmaceutical Fentanyl is not the same as street Fentanyl made in China. It's much, much safer and much more efficient than Morphine.

Holly, I hope you've managed to find better doctors if your pain is still present. If the thoughts of a stranger do you any good, then I hope you know you have my sympathies. I think this is the big problem with the way people focus on OxyContin and by extension Purdue and the Sacklers. Not that they shouldn't be punished, but for me it's playing whack-a-mole instead of turning the machine off. There are some astonishing details in the show about how few people there are at the FDA vs how many approvals they have to get through which raises the questions about if they can do all the necessary checks before approving something. That seems doubtful, even without then considering the issues of how do they follow up in case they make a mistake, or if their recommendations are ignored, and then gets compounded by people leaving them to join the pharma companies. There will probably be another disaster after Fentanyl, maybe not an opiate this time, but another drug or process that gets railroaded through the gatekeepers who are woefully underfunded and unprepared to properly evaluate it. Then you get to the poor doctors being bombarded by trained manipulators. They likely don't have time to see their patients properly so will they really have time to individually fact check the pharma marketing materials? In the show (and also shown by John Oliver) a letter to the editor about a very specific data study was described like it was a published, peer-reviewed paper, a data graph was manipulated, and campaign groups of sock puppets were funded to pressure them, and they run pharma ads on TV to manipulate the public. If a doctor can't properly establish what is a fact, that second safety net is gone. In the UK, that first function is handled (I think) by the European Medicines Association. They handle examining trial data for drugs to see if they get approved at all. The second part is where the National Institute for Clinical Excellence comes in, they look at the data and decide how doctors should be advised on what the best practice is with regards to drugs and procedures which also allows them to bargain with the pharma companies if they feel a drug represents poor value. Sadly, there is very little appetite in the US for this form of proactive regulation. So you get these horrific stories of communities fighting to get their stories heard, fighting through the courts to be recognised and it taking far too long to help a number of people. I can't see that attitude change happening any time soon as it feels like there is a real growth in Libertarianism that is staunchly opposed to regulation at any level. It's absurd to say let the market decide when a good option for the market is letting people die for profit...

@@CaptLoquaLacon Dilaudid has been around a lot longer than Fentanyl. Perhaps patients in severe pain would trust it more? It's stronger than Morphine, but not as strong as Fentanyl.

@@Cuinn837 I think what patients need is more about knowing that the doctors are properly informed and aren't relying upon pharma reps to give them highly edited (if not outright misleading) facts about the treatment. I was shocked to find out that Fentanyl has been approved since 68. It's only in the last decade or so that its use has become problematic, so if I was to guess, I don't think the data about opioid pain relief has been properly studied and when the reputation of Oxycodone took the hit, doctors went for other opioids thinking that some of those underlying claims were still legitimate. I'm curious what studies have ever been run about comparing fentanyl skin patches vs tablets or injections for developing addictions, or if people have run studies on different absorption rates based on gender, weight etc. The danger for me is less in about what specific drugs, and more in the culture of prescribing and usage. That's what really angered me about Dopesick, that it encouraged people to completely underestimate the negatives of this class of drugs and the medical use of it became far too cavalier

Patrick Radden Keefe, ¨too¨ serious on the topic?

disney plus

Or use a vpn

@@johnhancock1748 thank you

@@johnhancock1748 thank you

we wish !

Drug reps are always bringing in food for the whole office to try to bugger their way in for a few minutes with the doctor. Food is the key to a man's heart and sometimes a doctor's Rx pad. In the lawsuit they have photos of a tray of donuts arranged to spell oxycontin they brought to some doctor trying to get him to write for it.

@sandra Stevens Thank you for sharing. I just finished watching Dopesick a few days ago and came to the awful realization that my sister has an oxy addiction. I knew she was on oxy but I had no idea really -- what it was. My sister has been on pain meds for probably 20 years. Now finally I understand the heroine like nods, mood swings, blocking my texts if she doesn't like what I say, sleeping all day, doing nothing all day but watching TV, not helping out around the house ever, sick all the time, lying all the time, tossing me under the bus all the time while I get blamed for EVERYTHING. I finally understand her mood swings and why she lost her last job and why she doesn't have a job now. Mom doesn't see it - she is in denial. Thankfully, two other family members are starting to SEE that something isn't right about my sister but no one will confront her OR mom. I tried and it didn't go well. My mom thinks I am just picking on my sister and I am causing tension in the house. No mom ! It is the addict in the house that is causing the tension ! Another family member said she tried to talk to mom but mom wouldn't hear it. The worst part for me is knowing how dangerous this is to my sisters life. How does she come off drugs if she has been on them this long. And who can make her. She is a grown adult. I don't know how long she has been on oxy. A year ? and then another time before that? but she was on other mixtures of drugs previously. I once saw her take 12 tylenol 1's (a handful by mouth). Every time I have tried to tell my sister that she has a problem -- she would cause trouble for me. It is amazing to me what she is capable of and what she will do to protect her addiction. My sister has lost everything -- marriage, kids, job... Her drug dealers are the medical doctors that she keeps managing to find who keeps her steeped in this addiction. She seems to have NO problem getting drugs. What will happen if one day -- doctors cut her off and she can't get her drugs. I'm head in hands at the moment. Without mom SEEING -- her life is in danger and nothing we have is safe. It seems as though a drug addict will sell their own mother or child if that's what it comes down to. I really appreciated this show Dopesick which has helped me to understand what I am dealing with. So now what ! besides praying for miracle I mean !

But you can't end greed.

You drank the Kool aid??

@@johnhancock1748 so people are really in pain?

Good point !

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Have you ever dealt with the medical system in the US? At all?

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