Painkiller: Inside the Opioid Crisis 

To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.

Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in New Zealand. Really need!

Yes, Sporeville. I had the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.

I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.

Is he on Instagram?

Couldn’t read this without shedding a tear. Keep supporting him forever! 🖤 Prayers to you & yours

Aaaaaa

💘💘

That’s me with cocain

Money is least you can loose in this disease. Think about your dignity, family, friends, self-esteem, health and even life.

YOU never spent a dime on your addiction !! YOU robbed your family and defrauded people panhandling for help instead of saying THE TRUTH, your panhandling to get High High High. YOU spent everybody else's Hard Earned Money on your selfish, unnecessary CRAP !! BE HONEST FOR ONCE !!! (My 21 yr.old niece just died 2 wks ago from this NONSENSE and now I AM PAYING$$ for her burial !!!!) Not to mention the grief and heartbreak !!!

Me too

I understand this because it's me as well. I'm a chronic pain patient, but it's because I was disabled by doctors, ironically. I had MRSA in 2010, and developed an abscess on my spinal cord that was located from T5-7. It was the size of a small irange. I had surgery to remove it, and clean up the area. I later had the bones fused from T4-8. The infection basically went down my entire spine, and I had 3 additional surgeries and spinal fusions for a total of 5 back surgeries and 4 levels of fusions. I was supposed to get IV antibiotics for the MRSA, but it was expensive and I didn't have insurance, so the infectious diseases doctor decided that he wouldn't give it to me, and it went from being an external issue to getting in my bloodstream and reeking havoc! I'm in pain 24/7. I need an additional, more extensive and extremely painful surgery but I'm putting it off because I know it's going to be such a horrible recovery and I don't want to deal with that right now. It's not really going to make things much better so why go through that for such little reward? But no matter what, that shouldn't dictate my ability to get the pain meds I need to be able to do something as simple as shower! I'm not going to go into everything I lost from becoming disabled, but I've lost alot! But I will continue to fight for my right to live a life that is comfortable, with minimal pain because that's a basic human necessity! It's so hard at times for me to even have doctors believe me! This sucks! It's not much of a life, and I miss being independent so much. God bless you love. I understand!🥰🥰🥰

Look into cbd and kratom. Both are great alternatives to opiates and they work!!

Even if you take opiates as prescribed you will go through withdrawals after a while ...but I do not thinknits fair at all that people in need of pain relief ... people that really need it .... that don't get it .....it is a travesty !!! They just cut everybody off on because they are afraid to get sued now (by they I mean doctors) if not for that they would continue like before ! But it's a shame that people that need it don't get it !!!!

@@5castles893 agreed, for some people the risk of addiction is worth the pain relief that they provide

Anubis Smite- I couldn't agree with you more. Those of us in chronic pain are now suffering because so many A-holes out there ruined it for those of us who need it.

You can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves.

You did the Best that you could. You helped him.. he didn't want to help himself. may the most high have Mercy on his soul. And I pray you have true peace within yourself about your decision. Because you did nothing wrong. B

How’d you do it? What was your regimen that got you off it?

Glad that you are still here, still with us! CONGRATULATIONS on your sobriety

@@mariehopkins8122 he isn’t sober tho.

Unfortunately many of us went the other way and were cannabis users first.. We blah blah blah and ended up feeling paranoid with cannabis use and end up using opiates.

All u probably did was lean or Tylenol 3's tf. Cuz thats not how it works...

How are you doing mate?

Well just know, that as bad as it gets, you CAN'T die from opioid withdrawl! In many ways, alcohol withdrawl is actually MORE difficult, and includes the real potential for death from complications related to the 'DTs'... With opiates you'll probably be back to eating solid food in less than a week. Likely continue experience severe cravings, but I figure most people fight desires for something. Like when I quit smoking but still loved the smell for years afterwards...

You good G?

Please let us know how your are now.

@@simpleshoes I’m over 90 days sober off opiates. Doing better than ever.

Honey Bless you always/ I am so sorry for your loss🙏🌎🌸

Stop feeling sorry for yourself

@@jamescostello7584 Be careful little boy because the universe hears you and what you fear you create - what you don't know you must learn

A lot of people who arent very aware of drugs often say how those drugs would never take hold of their life to the point of becoming a fiend. Ironically, those are the exact types of people who end up becoming fiends. Listen everyone, opioids feel fucking amazing, and after a while of using them, your body starts to lose the ability to make its own endorphins. When that happens and you dont have any more drugs, you would be surprised how far you would go to make that hellish pain go away. Withdrawal is literal hell on earth

So true, they have never felt real pain, that if you breathe to hard your body is in pain. I know because l have been their and I said I know if someone had the pain that I have experienced they probably would commit suicide.

@@patricialewis-neal376 your right. It truly is almost unexplainable. I hope all is well with you and your doing better today

I totally agree with you! I was hit by a drunk driver that left me in a wheelchair and my 24 yr old brother dead. She left us there to both die. Over 30 surgeries, unbearable pain, and mind you I worked in the medical field and had never taken anything besides ibuprofen. You never know in this life what hand you will be dealt. So never say never. Cuz you never know. JS.

@@barnacleboi2595 Exactly. Ignorance is the most dangerous thing. That's why DARE and "just say no" are so damaging. Education is pretty much always a good thing.

Valium damages brain

I think you expressed this so well. This regulation , control I believe is what caused the much larger problem of the use of street drugs for pain relief for many, desperate to find relief which backfired. This is a travesty in thinking pain relief is only legitimate for cancer patients.

​@@be4202 And then only stage 4 cancer patients. It's causing so many people so many problems and pain. After pain doctors could no longer prescribe, that's when death from OD of fentanyl began to skyrocket. It's the#1 cause of death in America now.

I feel sorry for you. Same with one of my friends, and it destroyed his life, on the pain pump, or Mid Evel shots in your back and neck burning the nerves which 2 of my friends have pain.. Oh try to get that pump removed.... Hope you have money. They aren't even bringing that up. Again I feel for you, hope you found a Dr. 💕 & 🕊️

Alina, please stay away from that lovely, evil shit. It will take you down. Peace, Bob

@@robertthomas4234 Robert, you are a very special kind of person. A kind of person this world really lacks and such a rare soul that your lack of kind is the reason this world is not coming to peace together.. we need more of you man! Have a great day

@@robertthomas4234 i wasn't joking.. i am just happy to see people caring for each other and trying to save other people. Cheers

@@NyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanN More caring shouldn't be too much to ask of people but seems to be a stretch for many. The little gestures often have the greatest effect! Have a good, pain free day and try and stay away from the oxy!

Yea

Because “big pharmaceutical” is not the problem. What the law should do is make street drugs illegal. That would save so many lives.... Pharma. You are I’ll informed!

@Will B I think you meant the Lobbyist run the guberment, not the other way around?

Ive seen 2 major law suits.this week for pharmaceutical companies. They will get a slap on the wrist, and pain patients will suffer, ehile afdicts are given rooms and supplies to shoot up!

@@lynlee6861 You have no idea of what you are talking about, nor a very good grasp on the English language. Also, when it comes to the topic I fee that you are very misinformed or just completely uninformed. However, If you would like to find a dictionary and have a reasonable conversation containing to the topic at hand, I would gladly indulge you.

@@ajoliver74 i beg your pardon? My English is fine, although i didnt go back and make corrections, im typing on my phone. I just am telling you what i read in the headlines this past week, and the rest is based in what i c happening here, they are giving them rooms to shoot up. So what are u disagreeing with exactly. U might want to google pharmaceutical lawsuits, or something along that line and read for yourself.

Talk about stealing a robin a****** I was going out with this f****** girl for 6 years did everything for her and her f****** parents I have $7,000 and they f****** robbed me they're a bunch of f****** scumbags everybody that knows the f****** scumbag so go f*** off I wish I can get my ass off so I can overdose and die

Yep. Guilty until proven innocent. The American criminal system at work.

I agree 100 percent they keep talking about how bad they are but they are necessary for chronic pain I’m sorry people hate there life so much that they want to medicate so much they are od I believe there a need for these drugs legalization is the only way

Yes, absolutely! Can't fucking believe how addicts are affecting legitimate medical care for people in pain. And this was showing legal "injection sites" where addicts can go to inject and use drugs and are given clean needles etc. to use and are monitored in case they overdose...holy crap...how messed up is this..

All I need to do is show the back of my neck (surgical debridement) The wound is so large and nasty looking no one questions my chronic pain status. I had to wear a vacuum device (wound vac) on my neck for 9 weeks (the wound vac works very,very good, it does hurt when it is first turned on after a dressing change, better than "maggot therapy") I do understand what is being discussed. That would be people in pain that have no visible injury.

My mother is a chronic pain sufferer and I am her fulltime caregiver for which I get paid for. I was pulled over and of course they found oxycontin, hydromorphone, tramadol, tempazapam and lorazepam. Of course they did because I am the one who gives her her meds. They put me in cuffs and told me I was in trouble for being a dealer. I told them the story and to search the rest of my car for the paper work and everything including her disability and handicap paper work that proves that these meds are given to this person and that I am the caregiver of this person. They let me go but it was absolutely horrible. I was treated so bad for carrying these "controlled substances" for my sick mother. It's unfair that I was harassed for this.

Similar story. Sober now 5 yrs but relapsed on pills. Also dealing with food addiction Working my way out again. It has to work this time...

I happy 4 you.... Pls. Keep doing what others couldn't.

Damn bro you will get there brutha

Hey

Are you dealing with PAWS?

People new to recovery always feels that way, I know a few addicts who were only in a few years and one had a car accident the other a a cycling accident and refused all pain meds, that fear is natural. If you are in NA talk to your sponser about that and always keep coming back.

@@MichieHoward Have you asked about LDN (low-dose naltrexone) for chronic pain management?

Revenge for opium. Oh that was the Brits.

You don't eat much

Yup but what’s sad is they are a big part of the reason the world sucks so much so maybe they should go first.

China needs to fund it's illicit government with illicit sources of income.

Because they’re are people who actually have chronic pain conditions like cancer

My wife is 3 years clean. Thanks to her and N.A. They saved her life, and mine. I wouldn't live without her today.

C BREEZYWORLD thank you for your honesty I take your view as saying don’t ever try it this will save you a lifetime of misery. Blessing sent to you

Amen,... didnt sleep for 30 days

@@MissBehaven1974 Is that what this is? I took hydrocodone for about 3 days after a vasectomy...I went back to work and have been sleeping like 3 hours a day for the past 4 days, am easily wakened and can't go to sleep no matter how long I lay there...is this withdrawal? From only 3 days of opioid use?

@@jmh4ggg normally 3 days wont make you hooked but might give you a small mild withdrawal.. mostly psychological.. but a longer use will end end up in vomit, a sore ass,.. aching muscles, sleep disorder and a lot more.. aint fun.. glad i came out the sewer clean

@Greg Jacques Lucifer's Jizz Gargler Of course! I live in a single floor house! I jump off my balcony every day!

I understand your line of thinking, I just wish that the "skill set" was more transferable (can't list quitting opiates as an accomplishment on a resume).

Nik D Know if you can quit nicotine and not go back to it you can quit fucking heroin trust me

That's how I feel !👏

I quit after 24 years of heavy use i do oxies petidine nalbufine codeine butorfanol and all ines possible money can buy i dont know how i survive!! Guess was gods mercy

That person was trying to die imo

They wanted to die. I never overdosed, not once and I was on heroin for years. People that OD, want to die. We usually want to save as much of our stash as possible... that was half my lifetime ago. I have small fiber neuropathy so the experience is actually valuable in fighting these doctors ect if nothing else. I know opiates well.

@@AMPFIELDVISION When I turned 18 I got on Methadone. I wasn't on it but a couple months and my ex wrecked my car so getting to the clinic was a nightmare. My Mother gave me a van. We went to a doctor who prescribed 'kick kits'. A combo of meds to knock u out for a couple days and treat the symptoms. You blackout and wake up clean. It works great but that doctor isn't around that ai know of anymore anyways. Not at that location. He was a Godsend that doctor. My Mother took me to the hot springs and I soaked in the springs and detoxed there. Not supposed to do that with Methadone but I did. Then she left me homeless and went back to Colorado. My Mother is evil though and has shown her true colors the past 10 or so years. There should be more kick kit doctors. It is the best option for a lot of people. Only charged you $70.00 cash. Being on the street I ended up using meth because because you end up staying in drug dens. I never touched heroin again. I met my daughter's Father at a meth house. He had a job though and took me home. I asked one day if he wanted to change our lives and have a baby. We spun my daughter out of the aether that night. I stopped everything. Cigarettes immediately and we were a happy family until her uncle abused her when she was 3 and his family went into denial mode. My daughter gave a 3 page statement to a doctor at the sexual assault center that would have gotten a conviction if she was old enough to face her accuser in trial. My life since then has been hard. It's always really been hard but I had peace for 3 years at least. No one gives you a chance unless you are pregnant apparently. My Mother didn't help. She turned the whole family against me. Jealous Narcissist. Ended up marrying a level 3 sex offender because she has an obsession with leveraging the legal system on people. Tried to take my kid numerous times when she was with that man. One day in pretrial (she said I assaulted her and took my kid) she thought we left the courthouse. We were in a conference room. When we were walking out she is being carried in my 3 people wailing and crying saying we assaulted her outside. We were still inside on camera. Walking past her. They dropped the case but it was 8 months of Hell. CPS basically had me on probation. Random UA's and all of it. She has still tried to take her. Tried getting me locked in a looney bin, seduce my boyfriends ect. I never wanted that life. I had to run a way because she sent me to 2 troubled teen c0ncentrati0n camps at age 12. Neither troubled nor a teen. Ruined my life. I was always top of my class. Here is a lawsuit from the time I was there. Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy (with no books or teachers) Nospank.net/stilley.htm

The irony is that a class of drugs that can be a blessing for someone who is in misery and in desperate need for the amazing relief that an opioid can deliver, is also the same drug that can bring incredible pain and suffering if used incorrectly 😭😔

@@JennySimon206 that is THE most IGNORANT twisted statement by far 🤔🙄

tasha denise more like clean and sober for 2 seconds. lol.

🙌🏻

Congrats to you all. Keep calm and carry on!

Chronic pain patients are not "dirty" people.

How did you get clean

They have to learn to let them go.

@@graypeter9350 Bruh, stop with the spam, its lame. Not only is that site phony, but even if it wasn't, you don't do that to addicts. We need help, not some asshole trying to get us on a fake ass website. Dick

@@graypeter9350 you just snitched

@@ericwright5455 you please let it ßtart

Never that

Like my ex, fuck that biych.

Sadly very much true. They’ll never understand that addiction is controlling your actions, no matter how hard you’re fighting to not do what it wants you to do, 9/10 you won’t be able to win.

True, and I don't want to understand. Not always but quite often people make a choice to go down this road, just don't expect any sympathy if you do.

@@ladyj6278 That was true years ago, but with opioids, I’ve seen the range of people that it has happened to, and it does not discriminate. It will take down street people, sitting judges, and everyone in between.

you are extremely intelligent. congratulations!

When I started taking pills I doubled down because it did make me feel normal

@@Edward.Rippett. Ye, but you can’t look into the future. You need to weigh up risk vs reward, I see the risks of going down that road and the reward is not worth it.

@@ivanahassani I'm 3 weeks clean today thank god. I'm honestly happy that you never got into it

@@Edward.Rippett. I’m very glad to hear that 😊 and thank you.. I still think of it from time to time and get emotional over the experience

And other countries are always blamed. I can't help to think our government has something to do with drugs getting into this nation and others. I think that's why, at least, two wars happened. Oil and opioid.

So sorry you went through that, hope you're feeling better.

How did you go? Still clean?

Very proud of you knowing you got through the worst you got this remember just 1 day at a time and sometimes just 1 second at a time recovery is so worth it just don't give up 😂😂😂

yall just wanted to update, yes I am clean! since December so it's a small step but it's a big step to me!

So proud of you ❤️😀❤️

TAKE HIM/HER TO A SHED AND PUT HIM THROUGH THAT SHITE.

they was giving u 12 pills a day gang? lol dr coulda at least gave u 4 30mg oxys instead of alla the bs 😂

Was it only 3 days. ????? For me it was months and months it never ended.

I was shocked to understand vets who had serious pain were just seemingly overnight told to go cold turkey or find an Acupuncturist. It seems insurance is also using this to deny patients who still do need to take narcotics to control they’re pain. I think insyte should be available in every community. It’s a shame, I practiced in teaching hospitals for 30 plus years and saw little of it other than the occasional heroin addict admitted for usually a nasty infection like cellulitis, sub bacterial endocarditis or pneumonia from sleeping outside without enough layers. The shame is what causes perpetuation and the addict to go underground so to speak.

Yea, and we see where that's got us 😢

Please check out The Alliance For the Treatment of Intractable Pain on Facebook here: facebook.com/ATIPUSA/?epa=SEARCH_BOX This organization has done more for CPPs in the last month than any other organization I've seen in the last 20 years. The tide is slowly turning for the better but we need your help. There are simple tasks you can do to help our cause. Also check out the Alliance if you just need to read some positive news regarding the state of pain care.

yup this is bullshit my bed is my best friend now im 57 never abused them

Oh yeah? Why should a percentage of people risk a downward spiral to oblivion due to genetic predisposition, just because some people can't deal with pain? This stupid, opiate prescription version of Russian roulette is almost a uniquely North American phenomenon. Root cause it and discover that it's really all about Pharmaceutical industry profit.

Fantastic. You are strong. Keep it up.

Me too

Amazing. Keep up the good work.

Congrats bud I hope you stay strong and never have to deal with an addiction. Trust me I was addicted to down for a long time. Now that we my wife and I are clean we see the damage we caused not only to ourselves but others in our life. Keep up the great work bud.

Growing up seeing your mother near death on a nightly basis results in C-PTSD. These memories play over and over in my head. Maybe it’s because of fear. Maybe it’s because my childhood was my rock bottom. Child neglect and abuse; physical, sexual, emotional, psychological all comes with having an addict parent. It took a hell of a lot of therapy, court action and little justice I received for me to get past it. How is the plan indicated of not stigmatizing addiction going to effect other children who are currently in the position we were once in? How did it effect you? Do you ever wonder who and what you could have been in this life if only your parents weren’t addicts? I think about it all the time.

Ive been on Fentanyl (75 McgHr patch) going on 13 years now. I wish for death almost every day because my wife and kid deserve better. Im going through withdraw now, but it's still a few hours too soon to change my patch...

Stay strong 🩵🩵🥺

Nope, it's more monetary pleasing to go after the rd than the real problem...

Ben St. Pierre why is it only white people who have this problem? Black people are pr judged harassed by police and treatment unfairly in all areas of America and abused yet we NEVER say this lol WOW

LionessTee d Get the fuck out of here with your fake racism.

@@Mocatee1 you are part of the problem. You have bought the racial divide and conquer, hook line and sinker.

Well said. Opiates are for all kinds of pains, both physical and psychological.

@Ben st. Pierre you speak a lot of sense mate . There's always a back story

I can relate I fell 25 feet through a roof and suffered a burst fracture of my L2 also known as a compression fracture. I deal with serious pain everyday. I used to use opioids to mask that pain now I embrace the pain as a reminder that I don't want to go back to that. Thanks for sharing your story bud.

I’ve also had an L5-S1 fused front and back. I’m off the pain pills , but on suboxone trying to get off. Any advice?

@@katiesharp6129 Kratom saved me. Red Bali strain. It helps with the withdrawals and some pain as well.

@@scott2228 thanks so much and god bless!

@@katiesharp6129 yes yes yes! Kratom works! I’ve been off pain meds for 2 years now thanks to Kratom

I really don't understand how drugs and alcohol can take away stress and make one happy. I'm from India and I've seen the Misery addiction brings to the family at very close quarters. .I attend Alanon meetings and see the sadness and fear in the members eyes hear the sad stories and there's nothing I can do. But just pray that one day there will be a vaccination to cure addiction. Meanwhile I curse the people who deal in these drugs and hope that all the government's in the world get together to fight this menace

And by the way I've seen these addicts become dangerously violent. So where's the happiness

@Michelle Passmore I'm talking about people who take painkillers to feel high, not people who take them for pain relief. Obviously!!!

Chris Ward it’s a sign of WEAKNESS and being CODDLED by the world. Black people NEVER say this through all the adversities we have...lol

Hey Chris Ward so if modern life is so bad you will have no problem telling a young mother who’s new born passed away after 2 days “that the child had escaped to a better place than MODERN LIFE” ?

congrats !!! I'm proud of you!

@@crystalxoxo2486 thank you!!!! 💚💚💚💚

WOW! You really turned things around!

Amen and Amen . God is so so so so good. ❤❤❤

So proud of you

Gotta take quite a bit quantity matters with this shit

Thats called euphoria

Thank you so much for speaking the truth! I happen to be one of those pain patients... I would be dead if it were not for my Dilaudid. It scares me to death that one day these meds might be taken away from legitimate patients like me. Then what? Go to fentanyl and risk overdose? Keep making your voice heard ok? Fight against this unjust scare tactic bulls**t the media keeps pulling up! I have been taking narcotic painkillers for over ten years and I have NEVER overdosed once! I have always been a good responsible patient and have never used anything illegal during treatment.

Yes! When taken properly and actually taken them for chronic pain it is rare for us to become a so call addict. I agree with the first part about it could cause any pain become woese. Again when taken properly that rarely happens. Yes after years our tolerance can become higher. Still point again when taken probably can take years. I know I have felt the withdrawal symptoms when a Dr stopped them with no takers due to me moving to another state. I've had the pain pump pushed on me since this CDC guideline has become law. Even though it was only a recommendation. I already have a spinal cord stimulated and I'm too afraid to have something else in my spine. Plus there are only 2 FDA approved meds that go into the pump. Sorry that seems to dangerous for me. Pain meds are not meant to completely get rid of pain. It is meant to make it tolerable. I think another reason some become addicted is due to the thought process of thinking that makes the pain disappear. My meds were cut last year. It was tough. I'm still on half of the dose I was on. I have friends that have committed suicide bc the little relief they got was taken away. They shouldn't be punishing chronic pain patients. The people that abuse drugs had a choice....I didnt have a say in my disease. I feel for the families who have lost people. I wish there was better ways to keep meds off the street.

Yeap isn't like 95% of all chronic pain patients who take the medication in terms of PROPER dosage, proper drug prescription monitored by a legitimate doctor never become addicts. But hey big pharma has the triple threat. Make $ off the drug, can also.sell naloxone, and provide other forms of opiods in rehab. Big $ here. And the saddest part of this whole thing is the fucking DEA, and medical field is trying to make kratom as a schedule 1 drug now too which helps millions of.others from chronic pain without the need of strong prescription opioids. This whole.thing is fucked up

Amen Humble one...IT IS TOTALLY ABSURD!!

@Humble one - Well said & thank you. I have had Chronic Pain 9years and I'm fed up with people saying I'm an opiod addict. I don't get high off medication. It simply puts a dent in my pain so I can do things healthy people take for granted e.g. shower, grocery shopping, dishes, washing etc. I've never injected drugs & never would. Lots of these videos on YT that refer to heroin as an opiod are putting sick people with chronic pain, Fibrimyalgia, CRPS etc into same category of people who have never had pain & choose to inject drugs for kicks.

great post and Ill pray for you

My doctors have me addicted to pain. There is no, “Do no harm” any longer. The politicians have done away with that to try and stem the flow of illegal fentenal into the country. With overdoses continuing to rise and the amount of desperate pain patients being kicked out of dr offices, seems as though the government once again has no clue as to what they are doing.

Don’t be so might and highly! That was years ago. It is almost 2021. It is a new generation. Quick to listen Slow to speak advice to you. If you want to help. Be kinder. It is one day at a time remember🙏🌸

@@eyelavendarshine461 no room for kindness with addiction friend. Only honesty and reality.

@@ajoliver74 Once many of the younger generation (now in their teens) becomes politicians, at least in the US, things will improve. Canada seems to be more open towards treatment, like there is marijuana for pain as an option before opiates. While some US States also have voted in measures for both pain & outright consumption, it's still against Federal Law. Dispensaries may charge less for patients, yet will make up for this loss of revenue in the retail section. And as has been proven by the numbers in some States, with more medical issues being treated with weed, there's less pills on the streets. This is a win-win for everyone, except the pharmaceutical corporations. The same ones who are making a fortune looking for the next COVID-19 vaccine. Don't they have more than pain pills to peddle, when we're in a once in a generation (or two) pandemic that was first identified in December 2019? Actually should had been confined to a couple of nursing homes in WA (West Coast) a few months before hitting NYC, but Trump wouldn't contain COVID-19 while in an isolated area (nor the killer bees later). Even as his own head of infectious diseases in Dr. Fauci had twice prior been in a lab where these were developed, and in a dramatic documentary (banned on RU-vid), predicted there would be a pandemic during Trump's single term presidency. At any rate, manufacturers of potent pain relivers needs to focus more on the health care side of things, getting ready for the next few COVID variants. While letting upstarts focus on making pain medicines less potent. Sure, allow for those with torturous pain to get treatment, at the same time, no need to manufacture so many wasted doses of these meds, as many will have to be destroyed due to reaching expiration date, get swept in drug busts, etc. Not even the "hippie" days were like this, not even close.

Alcohol and tobacco are legal. The dea and the government are the biggest bullshit con artists. Its sickening to see what real pain patients have to go through.

BS? Yes, but my great grandmother who lived to 82 smoked cigarettes. My mom passed away 4 years ago at the age of 53, but died of heart disease and obesity. My dad turns 65 this year and he is such a heavy drinker and smoker. My gf's mom died within 16 months of my mom's death from an all of a sudden stage 4 stomach cancer. She was 61. She never smoked or drank. Its odd how things work out. Needless to say both of us always thought our dads would be the first, but that is the opposite. Her dad is about to turn 70 and mine 65 and both our moms are gone.

Friend HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?? The numbers are LIES on cigarettes. opioids are literally killing people like flies (whites).

88,000 for alcohol and 144,000 for cigarettes death count. Oh yeah take away pain medication. It's not working... No sense whatsoever.

@@jeanne2221 it makes perfect sense. "your" media and politicians all follow the same satanic /luciferians religion. The attack on pain meds is a deliberate attempt to increase pain on a giant scale. They believe it will please their god.

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That’s how it should be. Congratulations.

Good for you, Pls. Don't look back.

You have my upmost respect.

Good stuff!!

💯 I'm bipolar. I can't tolerate my antidepressant without the benzo because of side effects. Never once abused them. Yanked with no warning. I guess the 90 times greater risk of suicide now that I am off all meds does not matter to them over the ineffective drug war..

@@dragonclaws9367 I'm saying a prayer just for you....be strong!

I am sorry for your pain, Sir. There are so many docs still prescribing pain management, they refuse you?

I am in Australia and suffer from Systemic Lupus, which has caused Peripheral Poly Neuropathy in my feet. The pain from my get is agonising. Initially I was put on 120mg OxyContin twice a day, but in 2013 that dose for some reason started to sedate me and it was not a nice feeling. So my Dr and I kept lowering the dose and finally got it to 40 mg twice a day which helped with the pain but didn’t sedate me. Then the Health Dept brings in new rules for people with non-cancer pain and having a blanket decision to reduce everyone’s medication, without looking at their illnesses. I tolerated the first reduction well but the second reduction meant that my severe pain was no longer being controlled and ai became suicidal. I would go to bed wanting to die in my sleep and the depression became worse and worse. I was unable to are for myself, couldn’t find the motivation to get into my garden, even getting out of bed became such an effort, and I found no joy in life at all.My wonderful Dr got me into a psychiatrist, who was furious at what the Health Dept was doing to people, just cutting their medications with no consideration of what people were suffering from. He wrote to them, stating that he could not treat my severe depression without getting my pain under control. He stated to them that the require t of each patient needed to be taken into account rather than just a blanket decision that labelled us as drug seekers. He pointed out that my dose had been stable for 8 years, controlled my pain, that There was no history of me ever abusing medication or doctor shopping and that he would take the matter further if permission was not granted for my dose to be returned to its original amount. They actually caved in and gave permission for my permit, which has given me my life back. My pain never leaves, but is bearable, as it was before, and I no longer want to die. But I am one of the lucky few who has been successful against the Health Dept, how many others have actually committed suicide due to their unbearable pain? Makes me so angry that people with genuine pain are being refused because of the drugs being abused by those who did not require them for pain.

Those street drugs are there for a reason. There are simply too many people in the world and they want people to die. It so obvious! Pain patients have no rights.

Elizabeth McLeod I agree!

@John Flynn exactly. some legislation needs to happen to correct this. this is insanity.

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I’m truly sorry, Susan.

Thank you so much

I hope that you found some peace . I’m sorry for your loss

God bless you Susan stay strong.

So very sorry. My prayers are with you. A real thing. 😢