Opioid addiction actually destroyed my life. I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to opioid. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder, got diagnosed with OCD. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 3 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
I'm a physician who prescribed prescription opiates to patients with chronic pain after they'd exhausted every other means of pain control. It was a very fulfilling practice. The Texas Medical Board started harassing me, temporarily suspended my license and went after me with everything they had. I had enough and voluntarily surrendered my license. I've taken a different career path since then. This experience has opened my eyes to how evil our government and media are.
It’s very sad to hear Doc. I have a disease that’s caused my back and neck to degenerate. I’ve had 6 surgeries. I had eight years where I was prescribed enough medication to have a real pain, relief, and intern it gave me a productive life. In those years I was able to work myself up the Corporate ladder, I was very successful and had a relatively “normal life.” I was a very high functioning, high dosage opiate user. Because of these crackdowns, I’m on 25% of what I used to be. I can hardly get through each day. My career has stalled. I was high functioning and healthy before now I am, barely hanging on the edge of a cliff every day and in so much pain and anxiety that I can barely function and hardly get out of bed. It’s not fair. You shouldn’t have been punished and I shouldn’t have been punished. I never ran out of medication early, I never needed an emergency refill, I never went to the ER because I ran out of pills. And now I suffer.
You have no idea until you walk a mile in their shoes. I am a chronic pain sufferer from a diving accident. I broke two vertebra in my neck, internally herniating one, tore my spinal cord in 2 places, shattered, and I mean shattered, every vertebra from the middle of my back through the last bone in my tailbone (folded in half backwards....kissed my ass goodbye), internally herniating 3 of those disks, my spine isn't attached to my pelvis as those bones were completely destroyed. I was treated like absolute shit by two different hospitals, and was only seen 1 time by 3 different doctors. I was hurt so bad it took 3 years to heal...but the pain never left, never got any better. It is unforgiving, and relentless.
LLIP DER, Thank you. I was just trying to explain how life becomes miserably painful, and following the guidelines is no problem, just don't want "labeled" because of opiate use. I use opiates, a nerve pain depressant for SEVERE nerve damage, a muscle relaxer and an anti-inflammatory every day and also have a specially blended lotion, and am STILL in a significant amount of pain. I've went to 2 rounds of physical therapy, and countless shots in my back with NO relief. Pain medications don't take the pain away, just dampens it down a little, and I do mean little. For those in pain, I've found a God send that has had WONDERFUL results....so much I'm trying to shout it from the rooftop!! Its CBD oil, legal in all 50 states!! Added this to my daily medicine and am dumbfounded at the results. My pain level is ALWAYS around a 7 or 8, and now it's only a 3 or 4....this is HUGE for me!! I will say one last thing about chronic pain, if you don't get it under control, it will age your heart. I was injured 8 years ago and my heart has aged 20 years in a relatively short amount of time. The human body isn't meant to be in significant amounts of pain for long!!
@@therealness6979 morning ☺... .i def respectt your opinion ....but some people have no choice ....my mom is dependent on insulin... I kind look at it the same ....thank you for reading my comment!! ...best of luck ☺☺
Yep. There are millions of us who are in misery. At this point I believe it is on purpose because the true information shows that the gov't is pushing a false narrative and people are dying. From STREET drugs, NOT prescriptions. Check the Lawhern files; Face Facts for the truth.
Go to a methadone clinic and say your heroin addict and they will give you Methadone it's a very strong painkiller you can get up to 150 mg A-day If that doesn't take care of your pain I don't know what will?
I suffer with chronic pain and anxiety. I take medication for both after 15 plus year's. I'm being forced off of 2 mg. of clonazepam and I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I don't abuse my medication and have been on the same dose for year's. I've had to quit working and go on disability. I was productive and made very good money working. If anyone thinks this is fun think again.
Country Strong same happened to me I was productive and they turn my life around, ripped me off with pf thousands of $ with an HMO , and after a year a reached my coverage, not been able to work in a lot of pain and no help, it's a long story but this is real, the Gov Dear FDA is creating it all
@@dmkuchins6646 because it's a benzo you cant mix the two it's that simple if you're dr knew most people can die some are fine like MR. Country Strong here is and should be aloud too. Like me whenever my father killed himself my dr gave me some (I'm on high doses of opiates for chronic pain from a bone disease) I was fine but my tolerance to drugs is high for being so small most people weighing 110 pounds on 60mg of morphine and 40 of oxycodone a day is why I was fine but that was for my recent injury breaking both hips and shoulders plus a vertebra..
This is me....I was on pain meds was cut off cold turkey in 2015 and now I have ended off work because of it and I’m told “ learn to live with it” or take other meds with horrid side effects that do nothing....I miss my career and my old life and now I’m depressed and they say my depression is causing my pain really.....vicious cycle.....
I'm an amputee who takes Oxy (and other things) for chronic nerve pain. My surgeon has seen me at least once a month for years through the 5 years of Ostio (bone infections) and the multiple partial amputations to try and get ahead of the infection. The nerve damage is permanant. Now the government and my scumbag BCBS of NC are trying to leave me in constant pain. When the govt leaves people in chronic pain people will turn to street drugs and really will cause a rash of overdoses, or suicides. If you dont live with chronic pain you will never know what its like.
I too had lost my foot and it was reattached in the service, 1" limb difference (gait disorder), l3/l4-l4/l5 laminectomy disectomy and I feel the same way. I hurt 24/7. Someone who does not have a intractable or chronic pain will never understand how it takes a toll on everything you do. Living life in pain is not life but a death sentence of agony.
@@lukkyluciano , you are an absolute fool to think that because someone take medication appropriately is an addict! less than 1% of chronic pain patients use medication inappropriately, do your research. Oh and one last thing, I pray that you never have to live with that chronic, debilitating pain that millions live with... If I were a mean person, I would wish it upon you but I know how weak you are behind your keyboard... have a wonderful life! 🙂
FlyBaby TYVM for your courage and advocacy. The govt and MSM is spinning lies about source of ppl w/SUD Which is less than2% chronic pain patients.meanwhile most ofUS$ budget goes to military who guard opium poppy fields in Afghanistan and were not supposed to expose that story! I wish Reason would do expose on growing opium w/$USD creating heroin addicts to run through cash cow treatment centers 3 or 4 times. Chronic pain patients are scapegoats and diversion.
if you take opioids every day, you are an addict. Plain and fucking simple. no different than the heroin junkie you all look down at. trust me, done my fucking "research" fuckboy
They will never do that. They're having too much fun destroying our lives and taking our money. When you buy them off the street like you inevitably end up having to, those come from the CIA. Just like crack in the '80s. Cocaine in the '90s
“High dose” is extremely relative, essentially subjective to tolerance. Just like pain. Fifty points of pain requires & deserves fifty points of pain relief. Both are subjective to tolerance, and it’s not measured in milligrams.
This hits home with me in a big way. I was diagnosed in 2010 with "Sever Idiopathic Progressive Neuropathy" and the pain is literally unbearable. Thank you Reason for making this video. Please keep fighting for us as most of us are to weak to fight on our own. Not everybody who uses pain meds is a drug addict. For God's sake people, have a heart. People like myself with legitimate diagnosed chronic pain conditions should never be made to suffer like they are doing now. People are giving in to the pain and committing suicide or turning to Heroin for pain relief. Please God, help people understand before anybody else dies!
My husband is an amputee and gets literally NOTHING for pain or nerves. The suicide rate in Kentucky went up last year. I think by 13%. The people with Operation Unite and the government Pat's themselves on the back about the RX overdose rate has gone down while at the same time ignoring the suicide rate. This is shameful. Those who are suffering needs to get together and speak out. God bless and have a great day/night guys and gals.
Some How we Do need to band together and throw a big class action suit at the government bases on our pear and pained have been causing. IDK how we can do that, but will have to figure it out.
My sister was hit by a drunk driver and pinned between the 2 cars while taking groceries out of the trunk. She is a double amputee above the knee. She got off ALL narcotic pain meds after 6 months because they couldn't give her enough to kill the pain. She has learned to cope n just deal with it using cannabis as an alternative in many different forms. Her doctor has tried to put her back on pain managment but she doesn't ever want to experience a withdrawal like the one she had. She was super close to taking her own life not because she's only got half her body left but because the symptoms associated with the withdrawal were so severe.
What about the skyrocketing fentanyl overdoses? I've had numerous friends and my dad just overdose on street fentanyl. My dad had major work accidents and a car accident where his hand and legs were crushed and rebuilt. He had legitimate chronic pain and ended up resorting to street drugs.
Some of the regulations that the government is coming up with are truly ridiculous. My mom is a legitimate pain patient, and I have to drive her an hour just to find a doctor who will try to treat her effectively, and he's not able to help her out as much as she needs because his hands are tied with red tape and nonsense.
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Kiley Sekulich in the same boat almost. Prayers and hugs to you and your mom. Don't lose hope! The pendulum will have to swing back to sanity eventually.
When you can't get the Dr. to treat your pain, then you go looking for help, and finally you're forced to do heroin, when I don't take something for pain, my blood pressure spikes to 200 over 170, you can't live like that... and why would you want to ???
@Fat Pie I just started Kratom and it really does help! it's amazing actually.. of course the government is trying to ban that but for now we are very fortunate to have it. I was cut off cold turkey from pain meds and blood pressure medication the day before I was due for a refill because my doctor's office was shut down by the DEA.. my heart rate went through the roof my blood pressure went through the roof I literally felt like I was going to have a heart attack in the 200 range and nobody cared.. no doctor would take me on such short notice and I went into the worst withdrawals and was literally scared for my life so guess what I have to turn to ironically just to not die? Anyway, thank goodness for kratom
@Fat Pie Good point, thank you.. I guess I was afraid because I know that my doctor was over-prescribing and I did take advantage of that (which is why she was shut down) so I was fearful of the repercussions I didn't know if they would send me home or force me into a rehab program or something and since I live alone I couldn't afford to lose everything including my job 😞 although H made me lose a hell of a lot more than that.. the only thing that's not going well is my stomach has been a mess since I started Kratom I don't know if it's the plant material messing with my stomach or if it's just adjusting to the lack of drugs.. Scary shit. I'm at work right now and have to keep running to the bathroom, so this isn't good.
I've already got nausea problems from back pain so Kratom made me more nauseous than I was already. There is a new med.for nausea you put on your tongue it works really well. It's called the generic name is ONDANSETRON 4mg. It says every eight hours but,at times I've had to increase it and take one before the 8hrs.are up. Hope that helps. By the way I can't open the little blister packs but,the pharmacy was able to find it in a pill bottle instead. Arthritis makes it impossible to open BLISTER PILLS.
Depopulation at its darkest folks. I've lived with chronic pain since 1996. I've been in pain management since 2002. I was used as a guinea pig for all kinds of treatments for pain before being put on an opiate based medication. It took 2 years for my pain doctor to find what worked for me. I've been on the same dose for 15 years. My dose was lowered because of these guidelines as my doctor doesn't wish to be attacked by the non medical professionals who are pushing this madness. My pain is from an on the job injury that physical therapy or operations could not fix. In fact I wasn't treated properly when first injured. That resulted in the permanent injury I now live with. The government has no business being in the medical field. The deaths will continue to go up not down because of this.
Becky Hoyt Thank you Becky. I return your blessing to you. I manage it ok but who knows what the future will bring. Every time it gets bad, I look at this way. It is to remind me that I'm still alive. I also know that somewhere someone else has it worse than myself. So I pray for the world daily.
bob si dog That’s where ALL the focus. Is Today. On addicts They’ve forgotten the reason opiates were prescribed for, ppl that these alternatives failed for after wasting many yrs of physical pain on.
I am a terminally ill patient. My last appointment this month was shocking! The DEA came in with guns, and interrogated the patients. My doctor was shut down. My illness is so painful! I’m scared, and have been thinking of how I can make my transition to death. I can’t find a doctor that will take me on, they hear what my illness is and they know they don’t have the ability to help me because the dosages have been taken down so low by the government. I should be able to transition with dignity, which means having my pain taken care of as much as possible! Where are my rights !
We should not be restricting pain medicine to chronic pain paitents. Thats just awful my mother was a chronic pain patient and never once abused her pain medication. However I do think medical marijuana may be a good alternative. It should be legal everywhere for medical conditions that it can help.
VapeKing yes I agree, that's the way it should be. Print membership cards to the "chronic pain club" I myself am one. If you aren't in debilitating pain every day you don't get meds. Instead they say "nope we must solve this by making the problem worse" I'm so fucking sick of being treated this way. Home of the free my ass. Thank you for being the 1% who knows what they are talking about
I am a person who has a severe adverse reaction to THC and CBD has no effect on my pain. SSRI' and MAOI's have caused a Seratonin Syndrome episode in me, that almost killed me in 2017.
Cannabis unfortunately doesn't work for everyone. For me , yes it suppresses my "care factor" a little . .but unfortunately lt doesn't move my pain level down at all tolerable and/or functional . Only fentanyl patches and oxynorm have done that and nope, never been addicted to a drug in my life . Dependence is a different thing to addiction and they need to seperate the two. To depend or to rely means you need that to function , to be an addict means you have to have it just to get the mid or body high your brain craves off it, in most cases the amount goes up and up and up. Another thing they don't seem to get is that opiods don't make everyone "high" either . I am coming from tramadol at max dose for 12 years and up through the fentanyl patch doses to a sweet spot where pain is controlled moderately well at 50mcg and 20mg of oxy for breakthrough pain flares along with muscle relaxants and an anti depressant ---- would that make most people high?I honestly don't know. I couldn't tell you what an opiate high feels like as I've never had one . I have been stoned off my tatas from a few puffs on my dry herb vaporiser and that's been fun though. I was no danger to myself or anyone else ...maybe just be danger to my cat and kids for cuddles and the cupboard for snacks haha
I hink we should stop looking for "one" solution, and admit that its ok to take opiates, marijuanana and even adderal [yes speed can help with pain - or at least wake people up]... IN Auatralia in the 1990's bikers learnt how to make speed, as they couldnt get enough cocaine into Australia to meet dmand [plu sit was too damn expensive] what happened was the people who were long term heroin addicts turned to Meth, because they got the same high - but could stay awake and have bigger or smaller hits, without getting to the point where they had to have it every 4 hours or go into withdrawals..... Personally I think Doctors have a lot of drus
The solution is two fold. 1) Treat addiction like an illness rather than a crime. 2) Legalize all drugs because any adult should have the right to put anything they want into their bodies. programs like in Vancuver and SF are HUGE steps in the right direction.
I'm 57 and will be fired soon. I'm missing more days then I ever have in my life simply because I can no longer get the medication that allows me to work with pain. It's a miserable life.
Im 60 and hurt everyday, cant work, can barely walk and my dr was forced to cut my meds by 2/3. $60 a month for morphine now costs $1200 a month for a new drug that doesnt work..
Wake up. Doctors know the difference between and addict and a chronic pain patient. They want you to die, free up the planet, stop using Govt. Funds (even if you can afford it). Pure torture in the USA.
My heart breaks for these pain patients, I was one and by a miracle am no longer in any serious chronic pain. The life of a pain patient is debasing as your treated with high amounts of suspicion and have to sign away your life to these pain docs who themselves are pressured by the DEA to cease opioids altogether. The sad truth is that some people NEED them, and they are suffering because of government overreach due to so many idiots abusing them. Its like back in grade school when a group of students does something stupid and then the teacher punishes the whole class, except in this case we are talking about lives. Its a terrible situation with opioid abuse and with the legit pain patients (whom comprise the VAST majority of patients in pain clinics) who are either cut off from the one thing that can make life bearable when your in CONSTANT and EXCRUCIATING pain. So sad! My heart breaks.
As someone with intractable pain, I thank you for this video. I've never had the honor of meeting Dr. Tennent but I admire him for the way he's cared for his patients. Today was my first appointment with a new pain management doctor and was advised that even if he cannot fix the primary cause of my pain, he will be "weaning" me to 90mme. I completely understand that his own license is at risk, but we all have to fight this. #patientsnotaddicts
It's terrible. Doctors are even now embarrassing people here in Michigan by telling them they are required to be prescribed narcan. The hell I am! That thought has never ever crossed my mind. I looked him in the eye and said in 8 years with you I have never been so offended. New laws as of June 2nd require new prescriptions in 7 day supply but the real twist is that every prescription is a new prescription when it comes to opiates because they cannot put a refill on it(for the higher class opiate like oxy, morphine, percocet) so essentially everyone is going to end up having to go for a 7 day supply. Throw every roadblock they can at you. This narcan that was prescribed was 5,000 DOLLARS!! I'm not going to get into why and where but I am 35 years old and nearly a cripple. Going every week would make it terrible. Let's see if it happens.
butitssummerma I live in Michigan also and since January of this year my pain doctor has been lowering my pain medication. I have suffered from chronic pain for over 20 years. Before January she had no problem treating my pain with the medication I have been on for years. I was told this is coming from our government. I can't go back to being bedridden again, that is how I spent the first few years before my doctor finally put me on a time release medication. Now this doctor is doing to me the same thing that happened before I was prescribed medication that controls my chronic pain. She has put me on numerous anti-depressants, Lyrica, Neurontin, topamax and the list goes on. I have tried all of these in the past, none of them helped with the pain and most caused terrible side affects. They also prescribed Narcan for me, I couldn't believe it. Nothing I say seems to matter, unless you live with chronic pain you can't understand. I have been awake since 4am because of my pain. I wouldn't wish this on anyone 😓😓
Outstanding comments and solution! I'm ready to start all I need is at least 25 legitimate chronic pain suffers to join into my complaint which I will file in federal court!
exactly they made up this epidemic to push weed, fentynl and street drugs. enough is enough we should be able to get any medication without the FDA fucking with it. There is no epidemic its made up to make those who have legitamate pain suffer.
Legalize all drugs, the laws and the war on drugs stops NOBODY from using or obtaining illegal drugs. Mine as well stop hundreds of billions from leaving our country and going to ruthless criminal cartels.
The funny thing is you can go to your local methadone clinic and get your dose with no problem.... but for regular pain pills you cant.... and Methadone is WAY STRONGER THAN REGULAR PAIN MEDS.
No! Methadone is not stronger. I was on methadone for 10 yrs Rx'd by my dr.as I am hydrocodone intolerant. And, yes, if you are on Norco, the clinics will put you on methadone because it is safer than Norco!!! or any hydrocodone. I am 79 with chronic pain now for 25 yrs & have been taken off my meds, attempted suicide 2x & have been crippled by the opiate crisis or whatever the DEA calls it. I think about getting Fentanyl all the time if I could leave my apt. to get it! I want out, out of this nation that has gone crazy!
It takes longer & is harder to detox from Methdone or Suboxone than actual Heroin. The unspoken truth is Heroin, uncut, is safer than the alternatives.
@@carolynjenkins2527 methadone is at least 4 times stronger than oral morphine thats a fact and way stronger than hydrocodone - you get tolerant to methadones effects after awhile but when you first take it it is super strong.. like i could take 100mg of morphine and barely feel anything when i first took 40mg methadone i was super stoned all day it was incredibly intense. . its not actually safer in fact its way more dangerous due to the fact it has a longer half life and can build up in the body deceptively.. a dose of 40mg on day one can be fine and you can take the same dose the next day and it be way too much even the point of OD.
I don't know what your trip is, but 10yrs of functioning, working and being alert is what methadone gave me. You were stoned all the time?? I only took 20mgs day & it was all I needed. What the H else were you taking>?:> You are not helping people in chronic pain, my friend!
I just looked up the definition of "insanity" and your definition does not appear. Definition of insanity 1 dated : a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder 2 law : unsoundness of mind or lack of the ability to understand that prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or that releases one from criminal or civil responsibility 3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable
thank you so much for being the ONLY media outlet covering the reactionary side of the "opioid crisis," where legitimate pain management patients are chronically under-treated.
i have a story about your enslavement and freedom in about 12 minutes. believe it or not, there is a reason about heroin and cocaine taking over. click my name to watch part 8/8
Pushing those who suffer chronic pain from a doctors care to the underground heroin market is not an unintended consequence of short-sighted legislation. The people who brought and pushed through the reforms to pain med availability were fully aware what the consequences would be. A primer in clear thinking follows: Who controls the government? Those who provide the candidates for office with the money necessary to be elected. Who provides this money? Mostly the financial and banking industries and a few very rich families that make massive political contributions in order to buy the legislation they want. If you haven't noticed it doesn't matter one bit whether a democrat of republican wins any particular election in the US. In either case the same people are still calling the shots. And they basically operate out of the reptilian brain. Who would profit from pushing those dependent on opioids into buying illegal drugs? These same banking interests. Why is that so? Who do you think launders (20 -50% ) and invests the billions of dollars made by the major criminal organizations? When these changes were open to discussion before they were put through, expert after expert testified that exactly what has happened would happen: suicide, and an illegal drug epidemic. It may seem harsh, but personally I do not care one bit about the individuals people who die from drug use. I think it is stupid to continually revive and care for those who OD. Let them die, it's an easy way to go, in many cases death by opioids is like an angel of mercy from their horrendous lives and act as a sort of Darwinian disposal method for society as a whole. Of course if these drugs were decriminalized and the people were actually cared about by our society they could easily live a normal life while using. In fact the example of Portugal (and other countries that take reality into consideration) have proven that their policies actually causes a decrease in drug use. Even the use of marijuana has decreased among teenagers in the Netherlands since it was legalized, and eventually the same will happen in the states in the USA that have same laws concerning it. It just won't be cool because it isn't edgy any longer and doesn't represent a revolutionary or risky act.
Bertha you have bought into a narrative that is faulty from the get go. It has been proven time and time again that repressive laws do not diminish the use of drugs at all. In countries that have the death penalty for drug use -- drugs are still used illegally and always will be. In countries that have decriminalized the use of drugs and treatment is centered around health issues and not criminal issues the use of drugs decreases. Those are the facts and anyone who disputes them is either ignorant of the truth concerning this issue, or is making money from the draconian system that we have been bamboozled into. Got that? Probably not. Try reading what you are replying to and actually fact checking before knee-jerking.
Jac, my my. You actually think our investigators are so stupid that we didn't look deeper into what you call " a narrative"?? Screw off. I'm not buying your crap, you ARE a liar, a promoter of dope and highly likely someone who benefits directly FROM the addictions of our loved ones. We know all about your "narrative" and behind the scenes actions. It is my sincerest hope that every single one of you dope dealing freaks get what is coming to you for all the lives you low life scumbags have damaged and killed. And all for a cooper. EFF YOU. What's next, scumbag?? Ya gonna start selling your damned dope in the Sears catalog AGAIN??
The government telling us what is good or bad for us is getting out of control......our positions at work people. The free will to live as a free American is sadly coming to an end.
At Least when.on meds I had a bit of a life. My 💐 outside to take care of. Sweep my entire hall here at my Apts. Do dishes ect.Now I can do none of it. Life sucks.The only relief I get is Music. will not talk to anyone except ppl who love music or other ppl who have been thrown into withdrawal and understand this whole fuckin deal .It's to yhin the pop of drug dependent 70 ur olds like me.If it doesn't get better I'll be forced to put this to an end.
@@highwayrockstar1 + EXACTLY! Like the quote I read said,"theres no way to wage war on a THING such as drugs."It just sounds better than THE WAR AGAINST POOR PPL. Look at all the famous ppl getting 2nd,3rd,4th chances before they finally end up spending just hrs in jail after doing what would get a "regular" person yr, for the first time. I'm surprised they are allowed to report it because it's such an adverisment for how unfair the punishment is & How biased the law is when it comes to ppl w/ money.
@@highwayrockstar1 no the war on drugs was war on blacks Hispanics and natives. Now the real God is turning the table.now that u whites a suffering everyone wants to cry but when your people on top the" government" put crack on street for us you locked us up. And the cocaine that comes from Mexico your government runs them cartels to. The minority in ur country are Gods real people.not the ones you think. Search around .Gods real people are waking up.
i suffer from chronic pain back and hip pain and COPD pain everyday.. i was on pain management and doing good.. one day my old doc called me told me i was not going to get them no more.. because i needed to go to a pain clinic and get drug tested to get my meds.. i feel this so wrong to put normal people like me to go though feel for theses people.. cause i to can not get the pain meds i need.. i do not have a doc ether because i get refused to be treated.. people like me suffer everyday.. we not drug addicts we people in pain...please help us people that really need the pain meds... for the government to put us in the druggie box is un fair
Because some government and pharmaceutical organizations work for them. We need a supply of codeine, morphine, and thebain(so we can make our on synthetic/semi-syntheitc opioids). I am pretty sure you are reffering to the probablity of corruption in our government, dipping into the illegal heroin and opium market
At the same time actually production of the pharmaceuticals have not gone down even slightly. My father works as a pharmaceutical engineer and they are still making as opioids and new derividives that are stronger than even Fentynal. Mainly car-Fentynal. We actually distribute alot of these things to other more poverished countries who cannot secure their own factories from criminal organizations.
@@StanJamrog I am one of those disabled, starting with parents that experienced the 1929 stock market steal caused by these despotics I will call nazis Their bitterness over life being the way it is became violence towards me Then I had a NDE That is a near death experience where a person has experiences that show them this is not the only dimension I knew there was no such thing as death as a child because my pain took me to further depths After reading around 2OO books on the subject over the last 35 years, I have found secrets that are so deep that they are still not tolerated by most ---- such as constant creation Knowing there is no such thing as death puts me in the disabled category I receive medicaid which does not pay for hypnosis or any therapy that really heals I call this a part of the depopulation agenda I have found out about recently, which is based on eugenics, or the belief that some life forms are so handicapped in some way that their misery needs to be stopped This is what led to that holocaust But this thinking is really screwed up because people are so afraid of death that they can't even tolerate programs like "Final Exit Network" which would really be the savior those in pain need I say this from many years of wishing I was not here and thinking of ways to drown this body so I could be the electrical energy being again I know that I have always been In other words, I know that I am the personality of a literal soul that is focusing here, but it is up to me to leave, so I have to stop focusing on being here Leaving these bodies is not a sin At what is called death the lack of focus on being here means that all those frequencies and particles stop spinning and bunching up and straighten out back into the waves they have always been I found out online that there are millions of military folk having NDEs with no counselors to support them, so they go ahead and do what people call suicide But since this is a holographic existence, then this reality is holographic, too, making god's mind a holodeck we are saturated in where we are holograms ----- so nobody really dies This information has been kept out of public schools, so when I talk about all of us as being literal eternal energy beings, I am not understood, even though I am aware of many colleges teaching why there is no such thing as death ---- such as quantum physics When subatomic particles vibrate and spin too fast to be solid, then what does this make us??? Electrical magnetic energy field vibrations, exactly what physicists say atoms are, which in turn become the holograms we are You can find pictures of what we look like as these holograms in the book "Hands of Light" written by the physicist Barbara Brennan maybe there are people graduating from this college that will eventually teach all of us death is a lie I have found so much information about situations where the perpetrators are being called nazis, that I am inclined to think that this depopulation agenda is not to save people from pain, but to cause it Big pharma is being blamed as making trillions from the suffering of those that are in pain ---- so they must originate from those 16OO nazis that were hired by the US government after WWII But then, again, I read that all corporations are psychotic and many corporations already in America funded and helped Hitlers war I think that we are in a nazi world already There are so many stories going around on youtubes about how fluoride and vaccines are toxic and Fukushima radiation and all those houses being burned on purpose around the world and in California by lasers ----- that how could this depopulation agenda be about mercy?
I too am a chronic pain patient who is in dire need of a higher dosage of oxy than what the cdc allows. I am a survivor of two near fatal auto accidents. I broke C2, L4, and my left femur. I was on a high dose and able to work. Now, with the reduced dosage that the CDC has forced upon the medical field I am unemployed and have a family I need to support. The government has done great harm to those of us who suffer with chronic pain. The government is now the tormentor.
My new doctor made me stop cold turkey Percocet after 4 years.... I was taking low dose the whole time. I had no withdrawals thank God, but I can barely move! I need a double neck fusion and new fusion above and below the previous back fusion! I can’t do surgery as I can’t be off work for months! Now the doctor has me pegged as a pill seeker!!! I need to get an attorney! I don’t even drink alcohol and gave NEVER has a drug problem.... this is insane!
My too this is the med I was taking stopped cold turkey I have no withdrawals either thank god....now slowly have gotten worse and now I’m off work which has caused depression/anxiety they than give you other meds that have horrid side effects and do nothing....
Kathy H TOTAL BULLSHIT!!😡😡I AM SO SORRY to read ur story Kathy😔I to was shut off completely, I LITERALLY almost punched my dr in the face!😡THANK GOD I found a pain management dr who ACTUALLY CARES & helped me. 150mg’s Of OXYCODONE a day. I PRAY u can find SOMEONE to HELP you🙏🙏🙏🙏GOOD LUCK & GOD BLESS YOU🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
Well the government just need to do a better job regulating healthcare. If healthcare is privatized, CEO's won't care for cancer patient unless they can pay for the thousands of dollars for treatment. They would only care about their bottom line. Any business owner, would be crazy to let such a profit pass them by.
OP is right. You other two are just being stupid. There is no "better job" from government. Private companies care about cancer today. Oh, and private healthcare isn't driving the overpricing. Government is.
No, private healthcare does not have a hand in it unless you count cronyist policies like the ACA or patents. Hardly private enterprise there, bud. So yeah, I will stand by calling that stupid.
Here's the thing: opioid prescription rates have been falling, as much as 20% in some states. Yet, deaths from opioid overdoses continue to rise. The problem is not the chronic pain patients who are receiving legitimate prescriptions. The problem is illicit heroin and fentanyl. People will continue to use illicit drugs and people will continue to die from them regardless of how the government regulates prescription opioids.
This is terrifying me. What am I going to do?? I’ve already tried killing myself. I hope no one ever has to go through what I go through. The pain is Constant, 24/7, non-stop agony. To the point it was driving me crazy. We need these medications. I don’t have insurance. So I have to pay out of pocket for my medications. I can’t afford surgery. I’m really scared...
this guy is an american hero.standing up to the government to help peoplethe dea is out of control.the waar on drugs and the people that support it are the causes.most doctors wont stand up.they are controlled by their licencing .its sickening.america is no longer free.
It's only getting worse. I've been disabled for 15 years. And need those medications. But can get no help. I haven't thought about taking any of the street drugs because I want a better quality of life not death. The government doesn't know and don't want to know or care how they make us suffer for their own agenda. I am very afraid that the day may come when I just can't take the pain anymore.
this is a typical one size fits all...some people get addicted and some people are in pain...the government solution is "we know more than you doctors"...a doctor knows the difference...if a doctor over prescribes this will come to light, and he will face the jail time..but a doctor with no infractions should not be questioned by a back seat government oversight...
I was prescribed 1 oxycodone 30 every 2 hours when the DEA stepped in and stopped my dr from prescribing them. My next stop was in a terrible part of town. Went in asking for help but actually ended up doing heroine. Thanks health care system , u ruined alot of my life.
When 99% of patients have a legitimate need for a painkiller that deals with extreme pain and none of that 99% develop addictions, it's difficult not to see elimination of such meds as a witch hunt. I've had surgery and I've had them prescribed. They were wonderful for the pain but I also couldn't wait to be done with them. They do have side effects no one likes that much - like the fact they tend to shut down your digestive tract. So it's kind of a big deal not using any more than you absolutely need. It's just a real shame that the suffering of many people can't be ameliorated because of policies that don't work anyway.
Pain management has been set back fifty years. Folks who suffer from unlivable pain aren't able to get anything because M.D.s are afraid to write prescriptions. There is no opioid crisis. The big drug makers just want to raise the price of pain killing meds.
I suffer from chronic pain, when I wake up I’m in so much pain if I didn’t have my pain meds I wouldn’t make it to the bathroom , I’ve never od’d or even used the narcan I was provided ,even though I’m never 100% pain free it’s a lot better than screaming in the fetal position all day!!! I’ve tried everything this is the only meds that have worked so far!!!! If you don’t have chronic pain like mine you don’t have a ducking clue
Ron i understand and agree 100% this "war on opiates" is just government rhetoric. They pic certain drugs or now medications and demonize them. So far their war on drugs & medications has done nothing but harm.
I have endometriosis got cut off due to medical after years of pain management and doing perfect at the program I was so suicidal and in so much pain without them just later in bed all day now I'm buying medication off the street illegally because no doctors will treat me and it's making dealers rich and me broke ruining my life and I'm at risk from all the fake stuff and in danger thanks government it's really helping yes I've thought of herion use not because of the pills but because of not having access to them and being in pain
Antique GameZ - It might not be the answer you want to hear...But, until you can have a hysterectomy (the only cure for your pain), you should try KRATOM!!! I am a Disabled Veteran and cannot get the VA to prescribe the pain medication I need for a number of different physical disabilities, even after numerous surgeries! I was fortunate a private doctor referred me to Pain Management, but I pay out of pocket every month for my visit and meds. I'm scared to death of what the government is doing, so I am weaning myself off Oxycodone and taking Kratom on days I don't have to get up and move much. KRATOM has been a lifesaver for me!!!
I feel you. I have bad, bad cramps, every month ( to the point that I've actually wondered if it wasn't endometriosis ). But I won't find out until I get a gynecologist. I don't have one. It's not even a joke! I'm bipolar. I did drugs to escape cause I wanted to kill myself all the time...Still do, but I'm ten years sober. I wish you the best, girl! Sending love and good vibes from France ❤️
Antique GameZ I’m exactly in the same boat. It’s such a horrible feeling having to go to the streets when you have legitimate pain that’s being ignored by the same doctors who are supposed to be specialized in chronic pain management. I’ve also considered heroin...scares me to death though..I’d take labor and delivery every month of the year over the pain of endo!
I have had chronic pain since the 7th grade and I am now 41. At one point I was able to actually function with the aid of being put on the Fentanyl patch. I could work, I could live. But two years ago I was dropped from Fentanyl to Percocet (I am allowed three tabs per day) but because of my tolerance to opioids now, I get absolutely no relief. I have been close to ending it but by God's grace, I can't bring myself to do it.
You know I’m sorry there’s people dying out there but I feel I need to say this. Take responsibility for your self and quit blaming others for what you do and your problems. Yes I’m mad about this whole thing! I’m a chronic pain patient and I’m sick of being looked down on because I want to live pain free! All this is doing is making it hard to impossible for REAL patients to get the meds they desperately need! Or there getting some meds but there so under medicated that it doesn’t do any good! I’ve know people that have taken there own lives because they can’t get there meds anymore. And it’s because other people want to take control of there health care. STOP!! Until you live in pain you have NO idea what it’s like! Thirteen percent of Americans live in chronic pain. It’s easy for people to sit behind a keyboard and take down to us when they have never lived it. And I’m not talking about a broken bone or slipped disk. I’m talking about living 24/7 in pain. Like in my case, I had two ruptured disk in my L3,L4 and L4, L5. I trusted a doctor to fix it with a fusion surgery. But all he did was go in there a fuck me up! Now I live in pain 24/7. There’s some days I can’t walk at all. And now to make thing worse, I’m only aloud so much meds a day because of this war on pain meds. I know people have lost there lives and I know some people are getting pain meds that don’t need them and selling them on the streets. I also know there’s some fly by night doctors that are writing scripts left and right. And yes, we need to stop them! But quit blaming the drug. Take responsibility for your own lives! Quit being a victim. All your doing is making people that truly need them, like me, live in HELL! Quit trying to make criminals out of patients! If you have kids, lock up your meds! If you have family on pain meds, make sure there taking them right and when it’s over, make sure they stop taking them. If you see someone selling them on the street, report them to law enforcement! If you know of a doctor that’s just writing scripts, report them! But stop, PLEASE STOP, making criminals out of patients! All we want is the right to live to and to have some quality-of-life.
Paul Winn USA so sorry for your pain. I too live with 24/7 pain. An oral surgeon removed my wisdom teeth without taking a current X-ray. He severed my alveolar nerve and left me paralyzed on my left side of my face. I’ve had 6 jaw surgeries trying to fix it. Mouth wired shut after each for about 6 weeks. Still nothing. So I’m atrophied, chronic pain and yet paralyzed still??? I am lucky enough to have great doctors in philly that help me. But boy, the pharmacists do not like him! When I fill a script, i feel like they’re treating me like a damn drug addict! It’s insane....
Paul Winn: You're in constant pain, can barely walk, but play the electric guitar, go to concerts, (or whatever your banner is a picture of?) while gaming all day? i have a friend who went through the same surgery & he somehow manages to go to his job everyday. He jokes that he's had more epidurals than the entire populace of pregnant women.
@@afunk8992 i feel for you. Anyone who has had dental pain knows what that's like. i had chronic issues, too, (same kind of stuff you're talking about, but like the actor, Andy Hallett, i nearly died from sepsis.) An emergency surgery is the only reason i'm alive and pain-free.
Cliff Konkle I thought about how I was going to come back at you. I thought about cussing you out. But I’m not! I’m going to educate you. I’ve been a musician since I was 12, played my first gig at 16. I came really close to becoming famous but things happen that was out of my control. But I did make a career out of music. I played on the road through the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. Someone told me one time, if you do something you love you will never work a day in your life. If you didn’t know, there’s not insurance plans for musicians that work for themselves. And my bands could afford a lot of road crew people. So most of moving equipment was up to us. And I don’t know if you have ever seen what a professional band has to move around but it took up a 32 foot box truck. We played a different town most every night. So we would role into town about 3:00 in the afternoon. After we talked to the owner of the club, we would go to the hotel, then back to the club to set up. This was around 5 o’clock. It would take us till around 8 to setup and do a sound check. Then back to the hotel to shower and get ready. Eat and start around 10. Play to 3 or 4. If we were lucky we would have a two night show, if not we would have to break down load up and hit the road again. Catch about 3 or 4 hours of sleep and do it all over again. We did this 6 nights a week for years! In the late 90’s I started noticing that I would have massive pain in my lower back that would cause me not to be able to straighten up for days. But I went on anyway. Music is what I loved and the stage is where I wanted to be so I carried on. In 2010 I had a bad car accident. A man hit me head on at high speed. It almost killed me. And it also aggravated my back. Which had gotten much, much worse. Instead if it being only a few days I couldn’t stand straight, it turned into weeks. I also found out that my knee Cartledge was gone. So after a experimental knee surgery, that failed. My career was cut down to just weekends. I was 43 at that time. At 45 I found that my back went out and wasn’t getting better. So after many test that involved needles in my spine. I found out that my disk between my L3,L4 , and L5 was blown out. So I went to a neurosurgeon to have a Fusion done. But he put something call a X-Stop device in my back. Not a regular fusion. He put two in my back. I was only supposed to be in the hospital for 24 hours. But after the surgery the doctor took off before he could Wright any pain meds. So I laid in the hospital for the first 3 days with no pain meds. You let someone remove your disk and cut away bone and see how much pain your in! One of the doctors that works with the doctor I was seeing took pity on me and sent me down for a cat scan. As they were putting me on the table, they dropped me 3 feet to the floor! I’m was a 45 year old man and was crying like a baby! When I got back to the room the doctor was pissed! He immediately gave me a morphine shot and put me on IV pain meds. So after 7 days I got to go home. I could not walk at this time and couldn’t feel my feet. The doctor said it would come back over time. He also said the pain would get better. The feeling came back in my feet but the pain didn’t get better. But I could walk, not real good but I could walk. About 6 weeks after my surgery I lost the feeling in my legs from my hips down and the pain multiplied!I went back to my doctor and he did another cat scan and then suddenly cut me loose. He sent me to a pain doctor. I didn’t understand that so I went back to the radiologist that did the cat scan with my copy of it and had him explain the results to me. He told me they both failed and the cages collapsed putting pressure on my spine. He’s the one that told me my doctor didn’t do a regular Fusion on me, that he put X-Stop devices in me. I look up what that was when I got home and found out that they had been band in other countries. Because they had a 85% failure rate. They were designed for the neck area not the load bearing area. The doctor knew he screwed up and cut me loose. So at this point I was in a wheelchair and in pain 24/7. My pain doctor told me I would never perform again. I tried to find a doctor to help me after that but every doctor turned me down, in state and out of state. The life I had was over. I fell into a deep depression and found out I had PTSD because of what happened at the hospital after my surgery. All the people that I use to call friends didn’t have time for me. I sat alone for the first three years, going to a pain doctor every month because it was the only relief I could get. That’s when this war on pain patients started! Since a doctor would not fix me the bone grew back around the collapsed cages where my disk use to be. So at this point even if a doctor wanted to fix me they couldn’t! So I made my mind up. I was going to get back on that stage one more time. But I had to get out of that chair first. After a lot of sweat and tears I got to where I could stand with a walker. The pain got worse but I did it anyway! Slowly I learned to walk again with what little I could feel in my legs. A little of the feeling came back but with it the pain intensified! But I did it anyway! I asked my pain doctor to up my meds but because of the CDC and the FDA he couldn’t! So I had to deal with it. You are only allowed 100mgs of any pain meds a day and some of it they count as double. If you know anything about pain meds you know that your body gets immune to the pain killing effect. I at this point had been on the same dose for 4 years. But I continued. I was going to get back to the stage. I finely got to where I could stand with a cane. So I started walking to my mailbox and back everyday till I got to where I could stand on my feet for ten or fifteen minutes at a time. But the pain was always there, most time that I did it, I paid for it with days in bed afterwards. I made a RUclips channel for my videos I accumulated I’ve a 32 year career. It was to remind me of what I use to be and what I wanted to be again. So about two years ago me and another disabled friend started playing around on Saturday afternoons in my old studio. But again the pain was still there, and for the first year I played in a chair because my Fender Jazz was to heavy to stand and hold. So I would sit down. But it still hurt me. I did it anyway. We got some guys together and it turned into a band. We would only get together on Saturday afternoons for a hour or two. Most of the time I would be in bed for three days afterwards. I got me a lighter Bass and started standing for a song or two. The first time I did it I was in bed for a week afterwards! I started making a video or two of songs we played. But if you notice, the video is only of one song. Because that’s all I can Handel at a time. The music sometimes makes me forget about the pain. But believe me, it’s still there and it don’t let me forget that. Everyday I get to where I can do a little more. But I’ve hit a brick wall now. If I ever do get back on stage i will be sitting on a chair! But I will walk up there and I will walk off. But I will never be able to do a complete show ever again. I had my career taken from me, and something I had done since I was 16 years was over. I will be in pain the rest of my life! So yeah I’m standing in the videos but you don’t see what happens when the camera stops. Yes there are other videos, long ones, of me playing! But that was before my surgery! So before you start looking down your self righteous nose at me, you have to remember, you don’t know the whole story. You don’t know what I’ve been through or what it takes for me to look normal in that video! You’re a very mean and hateful person! And I understand that, because I was there to. But it’s not my fault you hate your life! It’s not my fault you don’t have something you’re passionate about! Or how about this. You don’t like me or my channel? That’s your right. So stay the hell off my channel. You say your man? Well so am I! You made a judgment about me before you know my story, what I’ve been through, or where I am now. That tells me everything I need to know about you. So let me tell you what I’m mad about. It’s people like you that is so full of hate that you only get pleasure from putting other people down. You sit behind a keyboard and talk a big game. If that makes you feel like a big man then go for it. But don’t get your feelings hurt when someone comes back at you! I could have cussed you out and said all kinds of hateful things back at you. But I’m not full of hate! I hope you find a healthy outlet for your anger, and I pray for you. But do me a favor while your looking for that outlet. KEEP YOUR SELF RIGHTEOUS OPINIONS TO YOURSELF AND STAY THE HELL OFF MY PAGE!!!
I’m a chronic pain sufferer as well. I just had polyneuropathy added to the list. The damage happened after I fractured my back or, after my first spine surgery. I get minimal help. I want a quality of life back because this sucks
Well researched and produced article. As a patient advocate, I have researched the data published by CDC on rates of opioid OD deaths versus rates of opioid prescribing. When these two outcomes are plotted for the 50 US States and DC in 2016, we learn that there is no relationship whatever between OD statistics and prescribing. NONE!. No trends, no cause and effect, no correlation. It's just not THERE! The contribution of medically prescribed opioids is so small that it gets lost in the noise. Likewise, we know from multiple published studies that risk of opioid abuse among post-surgical patients treated with opioid pain relievers is less than 0.6 percent. Government crackdowns on pain treatment and opioids are potentially harming 99 people for every individual who might in some way be helped by such regulation. This is INSANITY!
Some people rather bee adicted than live with a hell of pain day after day,LET THEM BEE!!! Give them a pain free life and stop criticyze what ya all dont understand!(Bob Dylan)
We have no where to go... I don't want to go to the street for pain medications. there is a HUGE difference between dependency and addiction. My pain dr quit today. He was not a "pill mill".
We need more videos like this to spread the word because theres a lot of misinformation out there. I've seen evidence of all this in my clinical experiences for college. Its spot on. I've had friends who abused pills and heroin. I've even abuse pills when I was a teen. I know how it works. It's a terrible addiction but persecuting doctors and patients is never the solution. Our medical professionals in this country are some of the most compassionate and dedicated human beings in our communities. We have to work with them. Not against them
As someone who lives with chronic pain that doctors cannot determine the cause of...I completely appreciate the fact that there are people who are getting addicted to many of these prescription medications, but simply claiming that as a problem does not eliminate the underlying issue that some people DO live with chronic pain and need something to be able to function. I take less than 300 mg Tramadol daily and only take what is necessary for me to function. But there have been many months were I was up against the wall of running out of my medicine because of additional hoops the government was imposing upon the doctors. I'm all for working with doctors to make sure that prescriptions are not being written in such a way that they are leading to addiction and/or implementing ways for people who do become addicted to get help with that. But pain isn't imaginary and there were days prior to getting medication when I literally could not function. And I am constantly hearing people conflate "opioids" with "opiates"...this video seems to be careful of that, but I've heard senators that I otherwise highly respect improperly use the terms. Encouraging doctors to be careful is one thing, but beyond that, the government simply needs to get out of the medical business. And then liberals wonder why we don't want "universal health care". Good luck to people like me if that ever becomes a reality.
For the record - heroin and oxycontin are "opiates", not just "opioids". All "opiates" are also "opioids", but the reverse is not true. Basically, an "opioid" is anything that targets certain receptors in the brain. "opiates" are substances directly developed from the opium plant. So listening to more of this video, they are only using the term opioid. One of the so-called "dangers" of medicine like tramadol is that it does not have many of the mental side-effects that opiates have. Originally, it was believed it did not cause addiction. So now they are saying it is "more dangerous" because it has been so easy to prescribe. I haven't done a lot of research on Tramadol abuse, but my experience is that it would be pretty stupid to try to abuse Tramadol because it takes way more than would even be close to safe to get a "high". But for legitimate pain-sufferers who are not looking for a high, but just to manage pain, it's very useful and helpful.
Eric Bess actually it is more dangerous than opioids. It can cause serotonin syndrome . You can't even mix it with paxil. It works wonders on kidney stone pain. But stopping it suddenly is as bad as suddenly stopping long term antidepressants . Politicians do not know anything about meds nor severe long term pain. This is not a socialist nor communist country. They have no right to interfere with how a Dr treats a patient. And if a chronic pain patient gets physically addicted but keeps it to a non dangerous amount, who cares? Most would rather be addicted than live with horrible pain. Now those deliberated abusing them who are both physically and psychologically addicted and don't actually need them, that's a different story. But in the end you are not going to stop a true drug addict from funding something to get high on. Why not go after meth instead! Meth and crack and flakka makes people nuts. They get violent. You can watch them dying a little more day after day and see the damage it's doing to them. Why not get on the ball with ending that instead of pain meds for people who need compassionate Care?
DEA raids has cost chronic pain patient so many older drs who are well educated on pain Management and drug abuse . Now older patients are suffering until dead . Instead of maintaining a basic healthy function.This is governments way of eliminating cost on SS $ . The respect for older ppl that had always been deep rooted are Gone in USA.Im sure government as well as their families will never suffer with Untreated Chronic pain. If the general public must live with untreated chronic pain than so should all government ? At age 62 now stuck suffering in bed( no function) when will the government change this crazy denial of medication for senior stop? I’d never turn to-illegal street drugs. I only want to get out of bed &care for myself again. Please help us ❤️🙏🏻
Now they want to take them and house, make health and financial care their business as with children and CPS who drain their Gov. funding, Medical and care while receiving childcare and it's incentivised threw Title IV-E, D & etc.
I’m a brain tumor survivor and deal with nerve pain that at times has almost driven me insane. They have doctor so afraid that after my brain tumor was found but before my surgery my regular doctor was afraid to give me pain medicine and said it was the neurosurgeons job but the neurosurgeon said he only treated the pain after the surgery. This left me with pain and no treatment.
The cdc have absolutely no bussines in the Opioid crisis dictating who should be getting it & at what dose.They do not have the expertize in this area & I wish them the worse.They have no experience in chronic pain this is what Pain specialise are for.Now these doctors are going to jail,great job.The police arresting these so called Doctors at pill mills make sure they are pill mills .Pain specialist will be given out a lot of pain medicine amoung other therapacy because all they do all day long is see people with chronic pain so it should be no surprise that the Doctor is prescribing a lot more of it than you're regular g.p.
I went to the Hospital with a kidney stone. I was in so much pain that I crawled to the door of the ER. I couldn’t stand. Those bastards gave me a muscle relaxer and tried to discharge me. It took me literally screaming at the top of my lungs to finally get some relief. Is that right ???
I'm nobody, but I alone know roughly 10 people over 30 that got kicked off their medication and their lives are either completely ruined or turned upside down in negative ways
Russell Mostrom .. u can add me to your list. was prescribed Percocet 20mgs for 3 years.. now I'm prescribed nothing and let's just say I lost my home and my life is over..
+Christopher Ender They actually have a citizenship that listens to reasoned thought and new rules - something America is a long way from having - hell, Americans still beat their kids so we have a long way to go to explaining drugs and guns to them as well.
bob si dog Wow and with condescending attitudes like that I'm sure you'll be a real success. Psh. Chicago is a perfect example consistently of why outlawing anything leads to more of it when it's in high demand. Drugs or guns it doesn't matter because it's the same outcome. And we will never apologize for punishing brats.
These overdoses were all done by illegal opioids. Responsible. Chronic pain patients Don’t screw around with the only medication that or treatment that eases severe inhumane physical pain. Not psychological pain that caused the drug abuser to over use. The difference is Black & White. I wouldn’t force a drug addict to continue to suffer the life of drug abuse. Just as I feel chronic pain patients who’ve spent many yrs on these alternatives that never put a dent in their physical pain shouldn’t be forced to live in the insanity that comes with untreated severe chronic pain. You can’t deny treatment for either side of this Opioid Crisis. You can’t deny proper treatment for both!! The abuser or the responsable innocent chronic pain patient. If it were your loving mother would you force her to suffer inhuman amount of untreated pain if nothing else helped till she died?
In California a pharmacist can demand a pea test and if they want can then decide to not fill your prescription. My Girlfriend had neck surgery and needed them every once in a while. Wal mart forced her to take a pea test that cost a grand that you have to pay for. The pharmacist NOT a doctor decided because she wasn't addicted to them they cut her off. Now some days she cries in pain and can only take 800 mg motrins that are a joke for that serious type of pain. My friends got stuck on them after a horrible car accident. To get him off of them they put him in the methadone program. Goes to show they don't give a fuck about you.....
Stoned, has your girlfriend researched kratom? It's an option to consider and could bring her some relief. I urge great caution and research, of course. Kratom works very much like an opiate, and is in fact considered an opiate by the FDA. People find great relief with this leaf. Might be worth a shot? I'm so sorry that she got pigeonholed or red flagged. I would have her contest any notes/red flags in her medical record. I did!! We're fighting for BALANCE. Hang in there!
I'm on pain meds have been for almost 4 years, my Dr monitores and my husband is my accountability partner. I've been diagnosed with Fybro and RA. I might only need to use 2 pills a month, sometimes the pain is really bad but I've learned to work through it. The first year I was really depressed because I wasn't sure if I would get pain relief after all the media talking about it. My Dr. regularly drops me to track my usage. This is so sad!!!
I live in Portugal and can confirm that we've dealt with the drug problem in a good way since the 90's, our successes came mostly from decriminalizing consumption of illegal drugs and implementing harm reduction strategies but not in a "here's a supervised room and clean needles now go take drugs" kind of way, we have people that talk to them upon that needle exchange and other stuff to know them personally and their background, empathize with them, and without being preachy just once in a while try to convince them to go to rehab or tell them that if they wish to do so they only need to tell them that, and it works, when people connect and open up eventually most of them go to rehab. Now I must also say that getting legal drugs sometimes is a fucking nightmare here.
he is guilty only of having real empathy and intelligence to actually DO NO HARM and treat his patients respectfully !!! CHRONIC PAIN RUINS LIVES. PERIOD. AND IT IS REAL. I FEEL FOR THESE PEOPLE.
I have never used pills or been prescribed pain pills in my whole life, but being treated like a drug addict when I go in to the ER because of the tooth ache of my life was so frustrating. I could not function, I could not sleep. Every 15 minutes I would go through surges to the point of sobbing because I could just not take the pain anymore. I ended up having to yank my own tooth (video on my channel). Then after the fact, two more teeth got pulled once I got insurance after finding employment. They yanked two teeth out of a very infected area of my mouth, again, I was not able to get pain relief. This change in politics has literally conditioned these health care people to have no ability to understand suffering because their jobs are on the line. Why do I have to suffer because of the poor life choices of others, they can just call their dealer and get the fix that will kill them, meanwhile my whole life was in shambles from pain.
don't be so judgmental. you weren't refused treatment at the hospital because of "poor life choices of other people who you said can call their drug dealers." you don't know other peoples circumstances in life. YOU HAVE ONLY THE DOCTORS WHO REFUSED TO HELP YOU TO BLAME. stop the scapegoating... perhaps maybe don't vote republican (if you do, kind of sound like a republican, frankly) because it is them who are putting the screws to pain sufferers.
This is a made up epidemic not poor choices by people Don't get me wrong people are dying the numbers are being cooked and the people who are dying are those who are mixing their Opiates with 100% synthetic opiods like fentanyl oxymorphone and tramadol. The entrance of Gabapentin a substance that renders oxycodone/oxycontin and hydrocodone not to be absorbed by your body has caused major problems because doctors have to result to unnecessary higher dosages or stronger opiates that in fact do lead to patient addiction because their bodies don't need very strong medicine if they take the opiate alone with an anti inflammatory.
You can thank Trump for that..... he's really making America great again. I'm so angry I actually drank the koolaid and voted for that asshole. His brother was killed by an acholic, so anyone that needs pain or anxiety meds are drug addicts that need to be thinned out of the herd. Trump and the US Government are currently practicing Eugenics. They are banking on chronic pain patients killing themselves because they estimate we consume inordinate amounts of healthcare dollars. This is not true. Chronic pain patients have the lowest rate of addiction, abuse, and diversion, at a mere 0.3%! The rate of addiction among all other patient populations is 3%. Trump has no empathy for the very Americans that voted him in! If we want this to change, we need to ban together and not vote for Trump in 2020!! If there is a God, maybe he'll die a slow painful death without access to pain or anxiety medicine. Give him aspirin and Hydroxizine for the anxiety. I hate Trump so much right now and I was his biggest supporter. #opiates #opioids #ourpain #benzos #chronicpain #pain #trumpdoesntcare #saynototrump #opioidhysteria #opiatehysteria
IzzyMan It’s ALL of us, Man! I’ve had 3 extractions since August of last year and the two that had to be surgically cut out were the worst! The Dentist sent me home with gauze and told me to alternate between Tylenol and ibuprofen (ice and heat later). I did that but was in so much pain from the incisions I called my family doctor to see if he’d have mercy on me. He reiterated the Dentists advice so I called the Dentist back- I had to drive 40 miles again to their office to get a script of 5 tablets. I was relieved though for a couple of days then, ran out that Saturday. Called my family doctor back Saturday and the Doctor I used to see who is much older called in 20 tablets when my Doctor wasn’t in that day- no questions asked. I later got scolded for his partner prescribing 20 tablets for ORAL SURGERY on that Saturday because he wasn’t in office to say no! *ORAL SURGERY!* Craziest damn thing ever. *NOW* is the NOT the time to be in pain in any way that requires something stronger than ibuprofen or Tylenol. God have mercy on us all if we do! ♥️🙏🏼
this started way back before Obama so it's hard to blame one political party but none them understand the opioid epidemic isn't an epidemic with opioids it's an epidemic created by synthesising opiates from black pepper extract
Wait... How long have we been in Afghanistan? What is the history of the CIA, mi5.... British east India trading company... Oh yeah.... Doctors are to blame.
Veteran suicides higher then soldiers KIA, students and teachers being shot in campuses nationwide steadily rising. Then they do shit like pass tax breaks, adding insult to every injury.
Pharmacies pushed Oxycotin, which is an actual heroin (they claim otherwise). They gave many of those prescriptions to people that did need it (they were lied to by the pharmacies into believing they were non addictive). Pharmacies have been making billions of dollars of profits off these drugs.
you hit it right on the head why is it that were guarding Poppyfields I'm just curious if they wanted to a Raticate it why is Afghanistan still 90% of the worlds opium and heroin distributors things that make you go hmmmm
Edward Agora Feenman, I'm glad to hear that there is someone that knows the truth. Most people are blind to the facts. The heroin comes thru Canada a British Royal family owned country. The media diverts the attention to Mexico Being the primary perpetrator. The CIA Smuggles Cocaine along with the Clintons and Bush cartels.
I am a disabled stroke victim that suffers from chronic pain every minute of every day with no quality of life ever since I lost my legal pain medication and forced to take Subutex as a result of this I am bedridden 22 hours a day or more with no quality of life just pain it is all I know and it is getting worse every day.
I think it's disgusting to have actual addicts on high dose maintenace treatments with dihydrocodeine, methadone, heroin, hydromorphone literally finding jobs after years in homelessness and disgrace but pretending that letting someone back into his life is dangerous and causes deaths, so you deny them their fundamental right to a treatment.
Opioid addiction actually destroyed my life. I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to opioid. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder, got diagnosed with OCD. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 3 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
YES very sure of mycologist Predroavaro. This treatment worked for me. Helped me got rid of my anxiety and BPD.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
I'm a physician who prescribed prescription opiates to patients with chronic pain after they'd exhausted every other means of pain control. It was a very fulfilling practice. The Texas Medical Board started harassing me, temporarily suspended my license and went after me with everything they had. I had enough and voluntarily surrendered my license. I've taken a different career path since then. This experience has opened my eyes to how evil our government and media are.
It’s very sad to hear Doc. I have a disease that’s caused my back and neck to degenerate. I’ve had 6 surgeries. I had eight years where I was prescribed enough medication to have a real pain, relief, and intern it gave me a productive life.
In those years I was able to work myself up the Corporate ladder, I was very successful and had a relatively “normal life.” I was a very high functioning, high dosage opiate user. Because of these crackdowns, I’m on 25% of what I used to be. I can hardly get through each day. My career has stalled. I was high functioning and healthy before now I am, barely hanging on the edge of a cliff every day and in so much pain and anxiety that I can barely function and hardly get out of bed. It’s not fair.
You shouldn’t have been punished and I shouldn’t have been punished. I never ran out of medication early, I never needed an emergency refill, I never went to the ER because I ran out of pills. And now I suffer.
The pain and torment and suffering these people experience is torture on a level you cant even imagine.
You have no idea until you walk a mile in their shoes. I am a chronic pain sufferer from a diving accident. I broke two vertebra in my neck, internally herniating one, tore my spinal cord in 2 places, shattered, and I mean shattered, every vertebra from the middle of my back through the last bone in my tailbone (folded in half backwards....kissed my ass goodbye), internally herniating 3 of those disks, my spine isn't attached to my pelvis as those bones were completely destroyed. I was treated like absolute shit by two different hospitals, and was only seen 1 time by 3 different doctors. I was hurt so bad it took 3 years to heal...but the pain never left, never got any better. It is unforgiving, and relentless.
Yes, I've contemplated suicide, the pain was too much!!
Vicky Cobb Man I am really. sorry to hear that ,hope things get better for ya .
Vicky Cobb My guess would be the thought crosses allot of people's minds when kicking opiates ,it's brutal
LLIP DER, Thank you.
I was just trying to explain how life becomes miserably painful, and following the guidelines is no problem, just don't want "labeled" because of opiate use. I use opiates, a nerve pain depressant for SEVERE nerve damage, a muscle relaxer and an anti-inflammatory every day and also have a specially blended lotion, and am STILL in a significant amount of pain. I've went to 2 rounds of physical therapy, and countless shots in my back with NO relief. Pain medications don't take the pain away, just dampens it down a little, and I do mean little. For those in pain, I've found a God send that has had WONDERFUL results....so much I'm trying to shout it from the rooftop!! Its CBD oil, legal in all 50 states!! Added this to my daily medicine and am dumbfounded at the results. My pain level is ALWAYS around a 7 or 8, and now it's only a 3 or 4....this is HUGE for me!! I will say one last thing about chronic pain, if you don't get it under control, it will age your heart. I was injured 8 years ago and my heart has aged 20 years in a relatively short amount of time.
The human body isn't meant to be in significant amounts of pain for long!!
That doctor actually cares for his patients god bless him
Dale Guynes + Last of his breed. May GOD BLESS HIM for trying to actually help people. He took his oath serious. Wish more would do the same.
Im with you Sissy !! ....god bless him , and us ...we nd it !!!!! ....gd luck hun... Just plain wrong on there part !
He is dealing addiction!
@@therealness6979 morning ☺... .i def respectt your opinion ....but some people have no choice ....my mom is dependent on insulin... I kind look at it the same ....thank you for reading my comment!! ...best of luck ☺☺
@@therealness6979 Swear to God that is the most ignorant comment I have seen ever on any social media platform. Just pure ignorance.
I am a chronic pain sufferer. I have no life. Thanks, gov., for denying me Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness!
Yep. There are millions of us who are in misery. At this point I believe it is on purpose because the true information shows that the gov't is pushing a false narrative and people are dying. From STREET drugs, NOT prescriptions. Check the Lawhern files; Face Facts for the truth.
Steve I couldn't of said it better.
This fucking government is fucking horrible!!
Go to a methadone clinic and say your heroin addict and they will give you Methadone it's a very strong painkiller you can get up to 150 mg A-day If that doesn't take care of your pain I don't know what will?
These laws have fucked a number of us with legitimate pain that needs treatment with opioids. If Motrin or Tylenol helps, you don't have true pain.
I suffer with chronic pain and anxiety. I take medication for both after 15 plus year's. I'm being forced off of 2 mg. of clonazepam and I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I don't abuse my medication and have been on the same dose for year's. I've had to quit working and go on disability. I was productive and made very good money working. If anyone thinks this is fun think again.
clonazepam isn't even an opiod.
why did they drop yr rx???
Try kratom
Country Strong same happened to me I was productive and they turn my life around, ripped me off with pf thousands of $ with an HMO , and after a year a reached my coverage, not been able to work in a lot of pain and no help, it's a long story but this is real, the Gov Dear FDA is creating it all
@@dmkuchins6646 because it's a benzo you cant mix the two it's that simple if you're dr knew most people can die some are fine like MR. Country Strong here is and should be aloud too. Like me whenever my father killed himself my dr gave me some (I'm on high doses of opiates for chronic pain from a bone disease) I was fine but my tolerance to drugs is high for being so small most people weighing 110 pounds on 60mg of morphine and 40 of oxycodone a day is why I was fine but that was for my recent injury breaking both hips and shoulders plus a vertebra..
This is me....I was on pain meds was cut off cold turkey in 2015 and now I have ended off work because of it and I’m told “ learn to live with it” or take other meds with horrid side effects that do nothing....I miss my career and my old life and now I’m depressed and they say my depression is causing my pain really.....vicious cycle.....
I'm an amputee who takes Oxy (and other things) for chronic nerve pain. My surgeon has seen me at least once a month for years through the 5 years of Ostio (bone infections) and the multiple partial amputations to try and get ahead of the infection. The nerve damage is permanant. Now the government and my scumbag BCBS of NC are trying to leave me in constant pain. When the govt leaves people in chronic pain people will turn to street drugs and really will cause a rash of overdoses, or suicides. If you dont live with chronic pain you will never know what its like.
you are an addict that needs help. Stop taking the oxy
I too had lost my foot and it was reattached in the service, 1" limb difference (gait disorder), l3/l4-l4/l5 laminectomy disectomy and I feel the same way. I hurt 24/7. Someone who does not have a intractable or chronic pain will never understand how it takes a toll on everything you do.
Living life in pain is not life but a death sentence of agony.
@@lukkyluciano , you are an absolute fool to think that because someone take medication appropriately is an addict! less than 1% of chronic pain patients use medication inappropriately, do your research.
Oh and one last thing, I pray that you never have to live with that chronic, debilitating pain that millions live with... If I were a mean person, I would wish it upon you but I know how weak you are behind your keyboard... have a wonderful life! 🙂
FlyBaby TYVM for your courage and advocacy. The govt and MSM is spinning lies about source of ppl w/SUD Which is less than2% chronic pain patients.meanwhile most ofUS$ budget goes to military who guard opium poppy fields in Afghanistan and were not supposed to expose that story! I wish Reason would do expose on growing opium w/$USD creating heroin addicts to run through cash cow treatment centers 3 or 4 times. Chronic pain patients are scapegoats and diversion.
if you take opioids every day, you are an addict. Plain and fucking simple. no different than the heroin junkie you all look down at. trust me, done my fucking "research" fuckboy
I wish they would stop saying “high-dose” opioid treatment and call it what it is...”appropriate dose opioid therapy”.
Ritalin is the solution for all addiction except sex addiction
@@fooddrugadministrator4079 really? More info on this please ?
They will never do that. They're having too much fun destroying our lives and taking our money. When you buy them off the street like you inevitably end up having to, those come from the CIA. Just like crack in the '80s. Cocaine in the '90s
“High dose” is extremely relative, essentially subjective to tolerance. Just like pain. Fifty points of pain requires & deserves fifty points of pain relief. Both are subjective to tolerance, and it’s not measured in milligrams.
That gentleman with the plaid shirt who started crying just broke my heart. I suffer from chronic pain and know how hard it is. God bless him.
This hits home with me in a big way. I was diagnosed in 2010 with "Sever Idiopathic Progressive Neuropathy" and the pain is literally unbearable. Thank you Reason for making this video. Please keep fighting for us as most of us are to weak to fight on our own. Not everybody who uses pain meds is a drug addict. For God's sake people, have a heart. People like myself with legitimate diagnosed chronic pain conditions should never be made to suffer like they are doing now. People are giving in to the pain and committing suicide or turning to Heroin for pain relief. Please God, help people understand before anybody else dies!
You aren't alone! We're starting to fight for Patient Rights and Patient Centered care...hang in there, ok? I'm so sorry you're suffering.
addicts
Opioids are ineffective for treating neuropathy.
100% NOT TRUE!
I pray God gives you P.N as bad as I have it!!
My husband is an amputee and gets literally NOTHING for pain or nerves. The suicide rate in Kentucky went up last year. I think by 13%. The people with Operation Unite and the government Pat's themselves on the back about the RX overdose rate has gone down while at the same time ignoring the suicide rate. This is shameful. Those who are suffering needs to get together and speak out. God bless and have a great day/night guys and gals.
Some How we Do need to band together and throw a big class action suit at the government bases on our pear and pained have been causing. IDK how we can do that, but will have to figure it out.
Your so right! We need to form a class action law suit against DEA or most blamed for this lack of meds for chronic pain!
My sister was hit by a drunk driver and pinned between the 2 cars while taking groceries out of the trunk. She is a double amputee above the knee. She got off ALL narcotic pain meds after 6 months because they couldn't give her enough to kill the pain. She has learned to cope n just deal with it using cannabis as an alternative in many different forms. Her doctor has tried to put her back on pain managment but she doesn't ever want to experience a withdrawal like the one she had. She was super close to taking her own life not because she's only got half her body left but because the symptoms associated with the withdrawal were so severe.
What about the skyrocketing fentanyl overdoses? I've had numerous friends and my dad just overdose on street fentanyl. My dad had major work accidents and a car accident where his hand and legs were crushed and rebuilt. He had legitimate chronic pain and ended up resorting to street drugs.
Doctor Forest Tennant is one of the most courageous, decent and compassionate persons who walks this earth .
Some of the regulations that the government is coming up with are truly ridiculous. My mom is a legitimate pain patient, and I have to drive her an hour just to find a doctor who will try to treat her effectively, and he's not able to help her out as much as she needs because his hands are tied with red tape and nonsense.
Kiley Sekulich look up Stan David Peirce on FB. Good to have a reputable Kratom vendor in your back pocket, since you never know! Standavidbotanicals dot com
Kiley Sekulich in the same boat almost. Prayers and hugs to you and your mom. Don't lose hope! The pendulum will have to swing back to sanity eventually.
You are a good son. I hope you know that.
Your mom is a junkie.
@@Tina06019 it's pronounced "enabler" you daft cow.
When you can't get the Dr. to treat your pain, then you go looking for help, and finally you're forced to do heroin, when I don't take something for pain, my blood pressure spikes to 200 over 170, you can't live like that... and why would you want to ???
pain raises blood pressure+anxiety
@Fat Pie I just started Kratom and it really does help! it's amazing actually.. of course the government is trying to ban that but for now we are very fortunate to have it. I was cut off cold turkey from pain meds and blood pressure medication the day before I was due for a refill because my doctor's office was shut down by the DEA.. my heart rate went through the roof my blood pressure went through the roof I literally felt like I was going to have a heart attack in the 200 range and nobody cared.. no doctor would take me on such short notice and I went into the worst withdrawals and was literally scared for my life so guess what I have to turn to ironically just to not die? Anyway, thank goodness for kratom
@Fat Pie Good point, thank you.. I guess I was afraid because I know that my doctor was over-prescribing and I did take advantage of that (which is why she was shut down) so I was fearful of the repercussions I didn't know if they would send me home or force me into a rehab program or something and since I live alone I couldn't afford to lose everything including my job 😞 although H made me lose a hell of a lot more than that.. the only thing that's not going well is my stomach has been a mess since I started Kratom I don't know if it's the plant material messing with my stomach or if it's just adjusting to the lack of drugs.. Scary shit.
I'm at work right now and have to keep running to the bathroom, so this isn't good.
@Fat Pie makes sense.. thank you so much, I really appreciate the support and encouragement 😊
I've already got nausea problems from back pain so Kratom made me more nauseous than I was already.
There is a new med.for nausea you put on your tongue it works really well. It's called the generic name is ONDANSETRON 4mg.
It says every eight hours but,at times I've had to increase it and take one before the 8hrs.are up. Hope that helps. By the way I can't open the little blister packs but,the pharmacy was able to find it in a pill bottle instead. Arthritis makes it impossible to open BLISTER PILLS.
Depopulation at its darkest folks. I've lived with chronic pain since 1996. I've been in pain management since 2002. I was used as a guinea pig for all kinds of treatments for pain before being put on an opiate based medication. It took 2 years for my pain doctor to find what worked for me. I've been on the same dose for 15 years. My dose was lowered because of these guidelines as my doctor doesn't wish to be attacked by the non medical professionals who are pushing this madness. My pain is from an on the job injury that physical therapy or operations could not fix. In fact I wasn't treated properly when first injured. That resulted in the permanent injury I now live with. The government has no business being in the medical field. The deaths will continue to go up not down because of this.
John Dearing
So well said and may God keep you strong!
Becky Hoyt
Thank you Becky. I return your blessing to you. I manage it ok but who knows what the future will bring. Every time it gets bad, I look at this way. It is to remind me that I'm still alive. I also know that somewhere someone else has it worse than myself. So I pray for the world daily.
Stop government interfering between a dr & his patient Patients right
Addicts rights!
bob si dog That’s where ALL the focus. Is Today. On addicts They’ve forgotten the reason opiates were prescribed for, ppl that these alternatives failed for after wasting many yrs of physical pain on.
I am a terminally ill patient. My last appointment this month was shocking! The DEA came in with guns, and interrogated the patients. My doctor was shut down. My illness is so painful! I’m scared, and have been thinking of how I can make my transition to death. I can’t find a doctor that will take me on, they hear what my illness is and they know they don’t have the ability to help me because the dosages have been taken down so low by the government. I should be able to transition with dignity, which means having my pain taken care of as much as possible! Where are my rights !
If it's real send me a link to the paper on it or something it would be in local newspapers at least.
If it is I'm sorry for saying not but this sounds not real at all.
Taralya Mcdonough get some Red vein Kratom “ Red Bali” works for pain & Anxiety, look it on RUclips
We should not be restricting pain medicine to chronic pain paitents. Thats just awful my mother was a chronic pain patient and never once abused her pain medication. However I do think medical marijuana may be a good alternative. It should be legal everywhere for medical conditions that it can help.
VapeKing yes I agree, that's the way it should be. Print membership cards to the "chronic pain club" I myself am one. If you aren't in debilitating pain every day you don't get meds. Instead they say "nope we must solve this by making the problem worse" I'm so fucking sick of being treated this way. Home of the free my ass. Thank you for being the 1% who knows what they are talking about
Marijuana didnt help my chronic pain
I am a person who has a severe adverse reaction to THC and CBD has no effect on my pain. SSRI' and MAOI's have caused a Seratonin Syndrome episode in me, that almost killed me in 2017.
Cannabis unfortunately doesn't work for everyone. For me , yes it suppresses my "care factor" a little . .but unfortunately lt doesn't move my pain level down at all tolerable and/or functional . Only fentanyl patches and oxynorm have done that and nope, never been addicted to a drug in my life . Dependence is a different thing to addiction and they need to seperate the two. To depend or to rely means you need that to function , to be an addict means you have to have it just to get the mid or body high your brain craves off it, in most cases the amount goes up and up and up. Another thing they don't seem to get is that opiods don't make everyone "high" either . I am coming from tramadol at max dose for 12 years and up through the fentanyl patch doses to a sweet spot where pain is controlled moderately well at 50mcg and 20mg of oxy for breakthrough pain flares along with muscle relaxants and an anti depressant ---- would that make most people high?I honestly don't know. I couldn't tell you what an opiate high feels like as I've never had one . I have been stoned off my tatas from a few puffs on my dry herb vaporiser and that's been fun though. I was no danger to myself or anyone else ...maybe just be danger to my cat and kids for cuddles and the cupboard for snacks haha
I hink we should stop looking for "one" solution, and admit that its ok to take opiates, marijuanana and even adderal [yes speed can help with pain - or at least wake people up]... IN Auatralia in the 1990's bikers learnt how to make speed, as they couldnt get enough cocaine into Australia to meet dmand [plu sit was too damn expensive] what happened was the people who were long term heroin addicts turned to Meth, because they got the same high - but could stay awake and have bigger or smaller hits, without getting to the point where they had to have it every 4 hours or go into withdrawals..... Personally I think Doctors have a lot of drus
The solution is two fold. 1) Treat addiction like an illness rather than a crime. 2) Legalize all drugs because any adult should have the right to put anything they want into their bodies.
programs like in Vancuver and SF are HUGE steps in the right direction.
Ritalin is the solution for all addiction except sex
I wouldn't give it to a dog@@fooddrugadministrator4079
Real pain patients need medication. The government has went too far as to restricting prescribers.
Jennifer Sisson the DEA has caused lot a lot of deaths from heroin overdose
@Professor Shibe why bother responding to someone who doesn't know the diff between "attic" and "addict"
@Like minded English ?
Ritalin is the solution for all addiction except sex addiction
The government has NO BUSINESS involving itself in the care youy recieve from your doctor.
Amen and amennnn
If patient age 50 and over never fit in this overdose death from opiate pain meds why are they denied a life of less pain?? Why ?
I'm 57 and will be fired soon. I'm missing more days then I ever have in my life simply because I can no longer get the medication that allows me to work with pain. It's a miserable life.
Im 60 and hurt everyday, cant work, can barely walk and my dr was forced to cut my meds by 2/3. $60 a month for morphine now costs $1200 a month for a new drug that doesnt work..
@@twothreefour234 I'm so sorry that you too are a victim of this war on pain patients.
Wake up. Doctors know the difference between and addict and a chronic pain patient. They want you to die, free up the planet, stop using Govt. Funds (even if you can afford it). Pure torture in the USA.
My heart breaks for these pain patients, I was one and by a miracle am no longer in any serious chronic pain. The life of a pain patient is debasing as your treated with high amounts of suspicion and have to sign away your life to these pain docs who themselves are pressured by the DEA to cease opioids altogether. The sad truth is that some people NEED them, and they are suffering because of government overreach due to so many idiots abusing them. Its like back in grade school when a group of students does something stupid and then the teacher punishes the whole class, except in this case we are talking about lives. Its a terrible situation with opioid abuse and with the legit pain patients (whom comprise the VAST majority of patients in pain clinics) who are either cut off from the one thing that can make life bearable when your in CONSTANT and EXCRUCIATING pain. So sad! My heart breaks.
03DM M240
Thank you for that. So well said!
Well said.
Seriously some people have commit suicide from chronic pain and opiates are a godsend.
I have seen this first hand (lucky in a relatively minor way). Doctors are reluctant to prescribe opioids even for legitimate purposes.
Ritalin is the solution for all addiction except sex addiction
God bless Dr. Tennant for his work and dedication to humanity.
As someone with intractable pain, I thank you for this video. I've never had the honor of meeting Dr. Tennent but I admire him for the way he's cared for his patients. Today was my first appointment with a new pain management doctor and was advised that even if he cannot fix the primary cause of my pain, he will be "weaning" me to 90mme. I completely understand that his own license is at risk, but we all have to fight this. #patientsnotaddicts
Follow Dr. Thomas Klein on Twitter. He is working 24/7 on this issue and we will not be silenced!
I'm a huge fan of Dr. Kline. Thanks! Also look up the Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain
grew up with Dr F.Tenant in WC- he seems like a savior- unlike the mayor who is a known addict
It's terrible. Doctors are even now embarrassing people here in Michigan by telling them they are required to be prescribed narcan. The hell I am! That thought has never ever crossed my mind. I looked him in the eye and said in 8 years with you I have never been so offended. New laws as of June 2nd require new prescriptions in 7 day supply but the real twist is that every prescription is a new prescription when it comes to opiates because they cannot put a refill on it(for the higher class opiate like oxy, morphine, percocet) so essentially everyone is going to end up having to go for a 7 day supply. Throw every roadblock they can at you. This narcan that was prescribed was 5,000 DOLLARS!! I'm not going to get into why and where but I am 35 years old and nearly a cripple. Going every week would make it terrible. Let's see if it happens.
butitssummerma I live in Michigan also and since January of this year my pain doctor has been lowering my pain medication. I have suffered from chronic pain for over 20 years. Before January she had no problem treating my pain with the medication I have been on for years. I was told this is coming from our government. I can't go back to being bedridden again, that is how I spent the first few years before my doctor finally put me on a time release medication. Now this doctor is doing to me the same thing that happened before I was prescribed medication that controls my chronic pain. She has put me on numerous anti-depressants, Lyrica, Neurontin, topamax and the list goes on. I have tried all of these in the past, none of them helped with the pain and most caused terrible side affects. They also prescribed Narcan for me, I couldn't believe it. Nothing I say seems to matter, unless you live with chronic pain you can't understand. I have been awake since 4am because of my pain. I wouldn't wish this on anyone 😓😓
Class Action Law Suit Against The DEA CDC FDA This Has Gone To Far
Outstanding comments and solution! I'm ready to start all I need is at least 25 legitimate chronic pain suffers to join into my complaint which I will file in federal court!
Where can I sign up? Absolutely 100% something needs to be done against the CDC and FDA... innocent people are suffering because of them.
bohemoth1 I'll sign up
You can count me in! This insanity has got to be stopped!!!
CDC is evil,and deceptive to say the least
This is one of my bigger complaints about Jeff Sessions and Trump, they seem to still be stuck in prohibition era thinking when it comes to drug use.
jeremyrainman They’re not alone. The Dems are no one’s savior here either.
They're pro-prison. Of course they're stuck in prohibition era thinking...
Remember that the CDC guidelines in 2016 which started all these problems were under Obama.
room-ten-oh-nine ! His brother died from alcoholism. Not pills.
Trump is incapable of thinking.
Wow, wow, wow! What a crazy world we are in!LEAVE US ALONE, DON'T KILL US--PLEASE!!!Those pills are our NEED you fools!And what about ALCOHOL?
exactly they made up this epidemic to push weed, fentynl and street drugs. enough is enough we should be able to get any medication without the FDA fucking with it. There is no epidemic its made up to make those who have legitamate pain suffer.
right on, 50% of the car accidents causing death are alcohol related
Jeff sessions has no business being on the "ethics" committee..what a joke
I hate that Sessions POS
Augustus mustus that's the best comment I have heard
holdmybeer he is indeed a POS
Legalize all drugs, the laws and the war on drugs stops NOBODY from using or obtaining illegal drugs. Mine as well stop hundreds of billions from leaving our country and going to ruthless criminal cartels.
mike lomez I AGREE 100%
Patients are screaming for help 😢
The funny thing is you can go to your local methadone clinic and get your dose with no problem.... but for regular pain pills you cant.... and Methadone is WAY STRONGER THAN REGULAR PAIN MEDS.
yea methadone has no euphoria like pain meds i dnt get hi off methadone
No! Methadone is not stronger. I was on methadone for 10 yrs Rx'd by my dr.as I am hydrocodone intolerant. And, yes, if you are on Norco, the clinics will put you on methadone because it is safer than Norco!!! or any hydrocodone. I am 79 with chronic pain now for 25 yrs & have been taken off my meds, attempted suicide 2x & have been crippled by the opiate crisis or whatever the DEA calls it. I think about getting Fentanyl all the time if I could leave my apt. to get it! I want out, out of this nation that has gone crazy!
It takes longer & is harder to detox from Methdone or Suboxone than actual Heroin. The unspoken truth is Heroin, uncut, is safer than the alternatives.
@@carolynjenkins2527 methadone is at least 4 times stronger than oral morphine thats a fact and way stronger than hydrocodone - you get tolerant to methadones effects after awhile but when you first take it it is super strong.. like i could take 100mg of morphine and barely feel anything when i first took 40mg methadone i was super stoned all day it was incredibly intense. . its not actually safer in fact its way more dangerous due to the fact it has a longer half life and can build up in the body deceptively.. a dose of 40mg on day one can be fine and you can take the same dose the next day and it be way too much even the point of OD.
I don't know what your trip is, but 10yrs of functioning, working and being alert is what methadone gave me. You were stoned all the time?? I only took 20mgs day & it was all I needed. What the H else were you taking>?:> You are not helping people in chronic pain, my friend!
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I just looked up the definition of "insanity" and your definition does not appear.
Definition of insanity
1 dated : a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder
2 law : unsoundness of mind or lack of the ability to understand that prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or that releases one from criminal or civil responsibility
3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness
b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable
Far cry 3? Lol
Oohhhhh...You are so smart.
Thats the same thing everyone of the "alchoholics anonymous" people say
thank you so much for being the ONLY media outlet covering the reactionary side of the "opioid crisis," where legitimate pain management patients are chronically under-treated.
Some stories can't be told in 5 minutes. I'm glad to see Reason doing longer videos more often.
i have a story about your enslavement and freedom in about 12 minutes. believe it or not, there is a reason about heroin and cocaine taking over. click my name to watch part 8/8
Pushing those who suffer chronic pain from a doctors care to the underground heroin market is not an unintended consequence of short-sighted legislation. The people who brought and pushed through the reforms to pain med availability were fully aware what the consequences would be.
A primer in clear thinking follows:
Who controls the government?
Those who provide the candidates for office with the money necessary to be elected.
Who provides this money?
Mostly the financial and banking industries and a few very rich families that make massive political contributions in order to buy the legislation they want.
If you haven't noticed it doesn't matter one bit whether a democrat of republican wins any particular election in the US. In either case the same people are still calling the shots. And they basically operate out of the reptilian brain.
Who would profit from pushing those dependent on opioids into buying illegal drugs?
These same banking interests.
Why is that so?
Who do you think launders (20 -50% ) and invests the billions of dollars made by the major criminal organizations?
When these changes were open to discussion before they were put through, expert after expert testified that exactly what has happened would happen: suicide, and an illegal drug epidemic.
It may seem harsh, but personally I do not care one bit about the individuals people who die from drug use. I think it is stupid to continually revive and care for those who OD. Let them die, it's an easy way to go, in many cases death by opioids is like an angel of mercy from their horrendous lives and act as a sort of Darwinian disposal method for society as a whole.
Of course if these drugs were decriminalized and the people were actually cared about by our society they could easily live a normal life while using. In fact the example of Portugal (and other countries that take reality into consideration) have proven that their policies actually causes a decrease in drug use.
Even the use of marijuana has decreased among teenagers in the Netherlands since it was legalized, and eventually the same will happen in the states in the USA that have same laws concerning it. It just won't be cool because it isn't edgy any longer and doesn't represent a revolutionary or risky act.
Jac, NO PATIENT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SELF ADMINISTER SO CALLED PAIN MEDS. You got that? That quack is dealing dope.
Bertha you have bought into a narrative that is faulty from the get go. It has been proven time and time again that repressive laws do not diminish the use of drugs at all. In countries that have the death penalty for drug use -- drugs are still used illegally and always will be. In countries that have decriminalized the use of drugs and treatment is centered around health issues and not criminal issues the use of drugs decreases. Those are the facts and anyone who disputes them is either ignorant of the truth concerning this issue, or is making money from the draconian system that we have been bamboozled into. Got that? Probably not. Try reading what you are replying to and actually fact checking before knee-jerking.
Jac, my my. You actually think our investigators are so stupid that we didn't look deeper into what you call " a narrative"?? Screw off. I'm not buying your crap, you ARE a liar, a promoter of dope and highly likely someone who benefits directly FROM the addictions of our loved ones. We know all about your "narrative" and behind the scenes actions. It is my sincerest hope that every single one of you dope dealing freaks get what is coming to you for all the lives you low life scumbags have damaged and killed. And all for a cooper. EFF YOU. What's next, scumbag?? Ya gonna start selling your damned dope in the Sears catalog AGAIN??
The government telling us what is good or bad for us is getting out of control......our positions at work people. The free will to live as a free American is sadly coming to an end.
Suicide, overdose, alcoholism, all wonderful byproducts of the war on pain patients.
GhettoRanger -Well said brother!!!
It's called" the war on drugs" and it's time to end it.
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Least when.on meds I had a bit of a life. My 💐 outside to take care of. Sweep my entire hall here at my Apts. Do dishes ect.Now I can do none of it. Life sucks.The only relief I get is Music. will not talk to anyone except ppl who love music or other ppl who have been thrown into withdrawal and understand this whole fuckin deal .It's to yhin the pop of drug dependent 70 ur olds like me.If it doesn't get better I'll be forced to put this to an end.
Ritalin is the solution for all addiction and suicidal thoughts except sex addiction
The DEA: Losing the Drug War since 1973.
I didn't say this first. I first heard it about ten yrs ago. The war on drugs never existed,it was actually The war on American people.
@@cjok8367 yes, POOR people!
@@highwayrockstar1 + EXACTLY! Like the quote I read said,"theres no way to wage war on a THING such as drugs."It just sounds better than THE WAR AGAINST POOR PPL. Look at all the famous ppl getting 2nd,3rd,4th chances before they finally end up spending just hrs in jail after doing what would get a "regular" person yr, for the first time. I'm surprised they are allowed to report it because it's such an adverisment for how unfair the punishment is & How biased the law is when it comes to ppl w/ money.
@@highwayrockstar1 no the war on drugs was war on blacks Hispanics and natives. Now the real God is turning the table.now that u whites a suffering everyone wants to cry but when your people on top the" government" put crack on street for us you locked us up. And the cocaine that comes from Mexico your government runs them cartels to. The minority in ur country are Gods real people.not the ones you think. Search around .Gods real people are waking up.
@@cjok8367 by poor people you mean blacks and Hispanics? Lol this is your Kingdom .enjoy it while it last
For all the pain and all the lives spared, God bless you Dr Tennant.
God bless you to the Dr. who cares! Thank you! 😘💕💕
He has BIG BALLS!
This is such liberal propaganda.
I have an amazing pain specialist doc. I've been going to him for over 2 years now. He has done wonders on helping with my lower back.
i suffer from chronic pain back and hip pain and COPD pain everyday.. i was on pain management and doing good.. one day my old doc called me told me i was not going to get them no more.. because i needed to go to a pain clinic and get drug tested to get my meds.. i feel this so wrong to put normal people like me to go though feel for theses people.. cause i to can not get the pain meds i need.. i do not have a doc ether because i get refused to be treated.. people like me suffer everyday.. we not drug addicts we people in pain...please help us people that really need the pain meds... for the government to put us in the druggie box is un fair
God bless this Physician who believes in FIRST DO NO HARM.
Has anyone questioned why weve protected the Afghanistan poppy fields while denying this same drug used to ease pain in USA?
Because some government and pharmaceutical organizations work for them. We need a supply of codeine, morphine, and thebain(so we can make our on synthetic/semi-syntheitc opioids). I am pretty sure you are reffering to the probablity of corruption in our government, dipping into the illegal heroin and opium market
At the same time actually production of the pharmaceuticals have not gone down even slightly. My father works as a pharmaceutical engineer and they are still making as opioids and new derividives that are stronger than even Fentynal. Mainly car-Fentynal. We actually distribute alot of these things to other more poverished countries who cannot secure their own factories from criminal organizations.
@Fat Pie i dont understand. So your gov is just trying to kill opiate addicts? Why?
@@StanJamrog, I know we had a little disagreement on another post but now I understand your point. I feel you BROTHER, 19K, Ret. 100%sc
@@StanJamrog
I am one of those disabled, starting with parents that experienced the 1929 stock market steal caused by these despotics I will call nazis Their bitterness over life being the way it is became violence towards me Then I had a NDE That is a near death experience where a person has experiences that show them this is not the only dimension I knew there was no such thing as death as a child because my pain took me to further depths After reading around 2OO books on the subject over the last 35 years, I have found secrets that are so deep that they are still not tolerated by most ---- such as constant creation
Knowing there is no such thing as death puts me in the disabled category I receive medicaid which does not pay for hypnosis or any therapy that really heals I call this a part of the depopulation agenda I have found out about recently, which is based on eugenics, or the belief that some life forms are so handicapped in some way that their misery needs to be stopped This is what led to that holocaust But this thinking is really screwed up because people are so afraid of death that they can't even tolerate programs like "Final Exit Network" which would really be the savior those in pain need I say this from many years of wishing I was not here and thinking of ways to drown this body so I could be the electrical energy being again I know that I have always been In other words, I know that I am the personality of a literal soul that is focusing here, but it is up to me to leave, so I have to stop focusing on being here Leaving these bodies is not a sin At what is called death the lack of focus on being here means that all those frequencies and particles stop spinning and bunching up and straighten out back into the waves they have always been
I found out online that there are millions of military folk having NDEs with no counselors to support them, so they go ahead and do what people call suicide But since this is a holographic existence, then this reality is holographic, too, making god's mind a holodeck we are saturated in where we are holograms ----- so nobody really dies This information has been kept out of public schools, so when I talk about all of us as being literal eternal energy beings, I am not understood, even though I am aware of many colleges teaching why there is no such thing as death ---- such as quantum physics When subatomic particles vibrate and spin too fast to be solid, then what does this make us??? Electrical magnetic energy field vibrations, exactly what physicists say atoms are, which in turn become the holograms we are You can find pictures of what we look like as these holograms in the book "Hands of Light" written by the physicist Barbara Brennan maybe there are people graduating from this college that will eventually teach all of us death is a lie
I have found so much information about situations where the perpetrators are being called nazis, that I am inclined to think that this depopulation agenda is not to save people from pain, but to cause it Big pharma is being blamed as making trillions from the suffering of those that are in pain ---- so they must originate from those 16OO nazis that were hired by the US government after WWII But then, again, I read that all corporations are psychotic and many corporations already in America funded and helped Hitlers war I think that we are in a nazi world already
There are so many stories going around on youtubes about how fluoride and vaccines are toxic and Fukushima radiation and all those houses being burned on purpose around the world and in California by lasers ----- that how could this depopulation agenda be about mercy?
I too am a chronic pain patient who is in dire need of a higher dosage of oxy than what the cdc allows. I am a survivor of two near fatal auto accidents. I broke C2, L4, and my left femur. I was on a high dose and able to work. Now, with the reduced dosage that the CDC has forced upon the medical field I am unemployed and have a family I need to support. The government has done great harm to those of us who suffer with chronic pain. The government is now the tormentor.
Such a good article. As usual the US government is going to continue to do harm, instead really just doing the right thing.
My new doctor made me stop cold turkey Percocet after 4 years.... I was taking low dose the whole time. I had no withdrawals thank God, but I can barely move! I need a double neck fusion and new fusion above and below the previous back fusion! I can’t do surgery as I can’t be off work for months!
Now the doctor has me pegged as a pill seeker!!! I need to get an attorney! I don’t even drink alcohol and gave NEVER has a drug problem.... this is insane!
Shouldnt matter if you drink or whatever the hell you want. You suffer and you should have compassionate care. God bless you.
My too this is the med I was taking stopped cold turkey I have no withdrawals either thank god....now slowly have gotten worse and now I’m off work which has caused depression/anxiety they than give you other meds that have horrid side effects and do nothing....
That sucks
Rick Jones it does but you got to just keep going! I have two beautiful sons to keep going for I’m lucky
Kathy H TOTAL BULLSHIT!!😡😡I AM SO SORRY to read ur story Kathy😔I to was shut off completely, I LITERALLY almost punched my dr in the face!😡THANK GOD I found a pain management dr who ACTUALLY CARES & helped me. 150mg’s Of OXYCODONE a day. I PRAY u can find SOMEONE to HELP you🙏🙏🙏🙏GOOD LUCK & GOD BLESS YOU🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
Legalize all drugs, take government entirely out of healthcare.
Well the government just need to do a better job regulating healthcare. If healthcare is privatized, CEO's won't care for cancer patient unless they can pay for the thousands of dollars for treatment. They would only care about their bottom line. Any business owner, would be crazy to let such a profit pass them by.
OP is right. You other two are just being stupid. There is no "better job" from government. Private companies care about cancer today. Oh, and private healthcare isn't driving the overpricing. Government is.
No, private healthcare does not have a hand in it unless you count cronyist policies like the ACA or patents. Hardly private enterprise there, bud.
So yeah, I will stand by calling that stupid.
Govt Healthcare and govt induced monopolies increases the prices.
Well there's a mixture of great ideas and rank stupidity. How do you think the healthcare industry will be kept in check without government oversight?
Broke my leg last year, I was prescribed 500mg ibuprofen. That’s Advil. Now I’m addicted to fentanyl because there’s nowhere to go if you’re in pain.
Here's the thing: opioid prescription rates have been falling, as much as 20% in some states. Yet, deaths from opioid overdoses continue to rise. The problem is not the chronic pain patients who are receiving legitimate prescriptions. The problem is illicit heroin and fentanyl. People will continue to use illicit drugs and people will continue to die from them regardless of how the government regulates prescription opioids.
This is terrifying me. What am I going to do?? I’ve already tried killing myself. I hope no one ever has to go through what I go through. The pain is Constant, 24/7, non-stop agony. To the point it was driving me crazy. We need these medications. I don’t have insurance. So I have to pay out of pocket for my medications. I can’t afford surgery. I’m really scared...
That really sucks. People like you are the true victims of fearmongering.
HUG
LadyBeritanavatarius
Hugs here too!
Go to standavidbotanicals dot com. Look up Stan David Peirce on FB and he has a group to walk you through it.
Kratom might be the answer for you. It helps me and millions of others. Wishing you the best.
this guy is an american hero.standing up to the government to help peoplethe dea is out of control.the waar on drugs and the people that support it are the causes.most doctors wont stand up.they are controlled by their licencing .its sickening.america is no longer free.
It's only getting worse. I've been disabled for 15 years. And need those medications. But can get no help. I haven't thought about taking any of the street drugs because I want a better quality of life not death. The government doesn't know and don't want to know or care how they make us suffer for their own agenda. I am very afraid that the day may come when I just can't take the pain anymore.
this doctor is a hero ....
this is a typical one size fits all...some people get addicted and some people are in pain...the government solution is "we know more than you doctors"...a doctor knows the difference...if a doctor over prescribes this will come to light, and he will face the jail time..but a doctor with no infractions should not be questioned by a back seat government oversight...
I Love Dr.Tennants passion for helping patients in pain. How cruel the gov't was to him
I was prescribed 1 oxycodone 30 every 2 hours when the DEA stepped in and stopped my dr from prescribing them. My next stop was in a terrible part of town. Went in asking for help but actually ended up doing heroine. Thanks health care system , u ruined alot of my life.
I started to cry when I saw this... This has happened to me, and it is terrifying.
Julian S Only when I consider I may have no choice but suicide
richardscathouse - chronic pain sufferers are the lepers of our day.
You're NOT ALONE. Please hang in there.
Julian S You are so right.
Julian me too... I have a condition called syringomyelia, and its sad the way pain patients are treated
When 99% of patients have a legitimate need for a painkiller that deals with extreme pain and none of that 99% develop addictions, it's difficult not to see elimination of such meds as a witch hunt. I've had surgery and I've had them prescribed. They were wonderful for the pain but I also couldn't wait to be done with them. They do have side effects no one likes that much - like the fact they tend to shut down your digestive tract. So it's kind of a big deal not using any more than you absolutely need. It's just a real shame that the suffering of many people can't be ameliorated because of policies that don't work anyway.
TexanerinLondon oh don’t even remind me about the constipation they cause haha
TexanerinLondon
Absolutely brilliantly said!
The opioid abuse problem is directly parallel to our military's presence in Afghanistan. Now it is going to affect the legitimate users.
I have heard of drugs getting smuggled in, in the body cavities of killed officers.
Funny cuz thats where some good tar comes from. Coincidence?
My girlfriend has never had a history of addiction. She suffers from endometriosis and can’t even get tramadol
Pain management has been set back fifty years. Folks who suffer from unlivable pain aren't able to get anything because M.D.s are afraid to write prescriptions. There is no opioid crisis. The big drug makers just want to raise the price of pain killing meds.
I agree an most of ppl that overdose it usually be off of heroin
I suffer from chronic pain, when I wake up I’m in so much pain if I didn’t have my pain meds I wouldn’t make it to the bathroom , I’ve never od’d or even used the narcan I was provided ,even though I’m never 100% pain free it’s a lot better than screaming in the fetal position all day!!! I’ve tried everything this is the only meds that have worked so far!!!! If you don’t have chronic pain like mine you don’t have a ducking clue
Ron i understand and agree 100% this "war on opiates" is just government rhetoric. They pic certain drugs or now medications and demonize them. So far their war on drugs & medications has done nothing but harm.
* Shenanigans thankyou!!!
@@thewettee9499 👍
I suffer from chronic pain = I'm a drug addict.
@@lukkyluciano You also suffer from immaturity and lack of compassion.
I have endometriosis got cut off due to medical after years of pain management and doing perfect at the program I was so suicidal and in so much pain without them just later in bed all day now I'm buying medication off the street illegally because no doctors will treat me and it's making dealers rich and me broke ruining my life and I'm at risk from all the fake stuff and in danger thanks government it's really helping yes I've thought of herion use not because of the pills but because of not having access to them and being in pain
Antique GameZ - It might not be the answer you want to hear...But, until you can have a hysterectomy (the only cure for your pain), you should try KRATOM!!! I am a Disabled Veteran and cannot get the VA to prescribe the pain medication I need for a number of different physical disabilities, even after numerous surgeries! I was fortunate a private doctor referred me to Pain Management, but I pay out of pocket every month for my visit and meds. I'm scared to death of what the government is doing, so I am weaning myself off Oxycodone and taking Kratom on days I don't have to get up and move much. KRATOM has been a lifesaver for me!!!
Get a hysterectomy then stop leaning on pain pills that simple!!! If it was bad enough your Obgyn would have done a hysterectomy by now!
I feel you. I have bad, bad cramps, every month ( to the point that I've actually wondered if it wasn't endometriosis ). But I won't find out until I get a gynecologist. I don't have one. It's not even a joke! I'm bipolar. I did drugs to escape cause I wanted to kill myself all the time...Still do, but I'm ten years sober.
I wish you the best, girl! Sending love and good vibes from France ❤️
Antique GameZ I’m exactly in the same boat. It’s such a horrible feeling having to go to the streets when you have legitimate pain that’s being ignored by the same doctors who are supposed to be specialized in chronic pain management. I’ve also considered heroin...scares me to death though..I’d take labor and delivery every month of the year over the pain of endo!
How can you yell at her? That is cruel, she is in horrific pain .@@brettking3864
I have had chronic pain since the 7th grade and I am now 41. At one point I was able to actually function with the aid of being put on the Fentanyl patch. I could work, I could live. But two years ago I was dropped from Fentanyl to Percocet (I am allowed three tabs per day) but because of my tolerance to opioids now, I get absolutely no relief. I have been close to ending it but by God's grace, I can't bring myself to do it.
Now here in Australia the same thing is Happening... Best of wishes and blessings for Ya'll over in the States...... Government insanity.
You need to FIGHT it over there before it becomes entrenched
You know I’m sorry there’s people dying out there but I feel I need to say this. Take responsibility for your self and quit blaming others for what you do and your problems.
Yes I’m mad about this whole thing! I’m a chronic pain patient and I’m sick of being looked down on because I want to live pain free! All this is doing is making it hard to impossible for REAL patients to get the meds they desperately need! Or there getting some meds but there so under medicated that it doesn’t do any good!
I’ve know people that have taken there own lives because they can’t get there meds anymore. And it’s because other people want to take control of there health care. STOP!!
Until you live in pain you have NO idea what it’s like! Thirteen percent of Americans live in chronic pain. It’s easy for people to sit behind a keyboard and take down to us when they have never lived it. And I’m not talking about a broken bone or slipped disk. I’m talking about living 24/7 in pain.
Like in my case, I had two ruptured disk in my L3,L4 and L4, L5. I trusted a doctor to fix it with a fusion surgery. But all he did was go in there a fuck me up! Now I live in pain 24/7. There’s some days I can’t walk at all. And now to make thing worse, I’m only aloud so much meds a day because of this war on pain meds.
I know people have lost there lives and I know some people are getting pain meds that don’t need them and selling them on the streets. I also know there’s some fly by night doctors that are writing scripts left and right. And yes, we need to stop them! But quit blaming the drug. Take responsibility for your own lives! Quit being a victim. All your doing is making people that truly need them, like me, live in HELL! Quit trying to make criminals out of patients!
If you have kids, lock up your meds! If you have family on pain meds, make sure there taking them right and when it’s over, make sure they stop taking them. If you see someone selling them on the street, report them to law enforcement! If you know of a doctor that’s just writing scripts, report them! But stop, PLEASE STOP, making criminals out of patients! All we want is the right to live to and to have some quality-of-life.
Paul Winn USA so sorry for your pain. I too live with 24/7 pain. An oral surgeon removed my wisdom teeth without taking a current X-ray. He severed my alveolar nerve and left me paralyzed on my left side of my face. I’ve had 6 jaw surgeries trying to fix it. Mouth wired shut after each for about 6 weeks. Still nothing. So I’m atrophied, chronic pain and yet paralyzed still???
I am lucky enough to have great doctors in philly that help me. But boy, the pharmacists do not like him! When I fill a script, i feel like they’re treating me like a damn drug addict! It’s insane....
Paul Winn: You're in constant pain, can barely walk, but play the electric guitar, go to concerts, (or whatever your banner is a picture of?) while gaming all day? i have a friend who went through the same surgery & he somehow manages to go to his job everyday. He jokes that he's had more epidurals than the entire populace of pregnant women.
@@afunk8992 i feel for you. Anyone who has had dental pain knows what that's like. i had chronic issues, too, (same kind of stuff you're talking about, but like the actor, Andy Hallett, i nearly died from sepsis.) An emergency surgery is the only reason i'm alive and pain-free.
Ya you're videos show you are in alot of pain playing guitar standing up fine when you say you can barely walk. LIES
Cliff Konkle I thought about how I was going to come back at you. I thought about cussing you out. But I’m not! I’m going to educate you.
I’ve been a musician since I was 12, played my first gig at 16. I came really close to becoming famous but things happen that was out of my control. But I did make a career out of music. I played on the road through the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. Someone told me one time, if you do something you love you will never work a day in your life.
If you didn’t know, there’s not insurance plans for musicians that work for themselves. And my bands could afford a lot of road crew people. So most of moving equipment was up to us. And I don’t know if you have ever seen what a professional band has to move around but it took up a 32 foot box truck. We played a different town most every night. So we would role into town about 3:00 in the afternoon. After we talked to the owner of the club, we would go to the hotel, then back to the club to set up. This was around 5 o’clock. It would take us till around 8 to setup and do a sound check. Then back to the hotel to shower and get ready. Eat and start around 10. Play to 3 or 4. If we were lucky we would have a two night show, if not we would have to break down load up and hit the road again. Catch about 3 or 4 hours of sleep and do it all over again. We did this 6 nights a week for years!
In the late 90’s I started noticing that I would have massive pain in my lower back that would cause me not to be able to straighten up for days. But I went on anyway. Music is what I loved and the stage is where I wanted to be so I carried on.
In 2010 I had a bad car accident. A man hit me head on at high speed. It almost killed me. And it also aggravated my back. Which had gotten much, much worse. Instead if it being only a few days I couldn’t stand straight, it turned into weeks. I also found out that my knee Cartledge was gone. So after a experimental knee surgery, that failed. My career was cut down to just weekends. I was 43 at that time. At 45 I found that my back went out and wasn’t getting better. So after many test that involved needles in my spine. I found out that my disk between my L3,L4 , and L5 was blown out.
So I went to a neurosurgeon to have a Fusion done. But he put something call a X-Stop device in my back. Not a regular fusion. He put two in my back. I was only supposed to be in the hospital for 24 hours. But after the surgery the doctor took off before he could Wright any pain meds. So I laid in the hospital for the first 3 days with no pain meds. You let someone remove your disk and cut away bone and see how much pain your in! One of the doctors that works with the doctor I was seeing took pity on me and sent me down for a cat scan. As they were putting me on the table, they dropped me 3 feet to the floor! I’m was a 45 year old man and was crying like a baby! When I got back to the room the doctor was pissed! He immediately gave me a morphine shot and put me on IV pain meds. So after 7 days I got to go home. I could not walk at this time and couldn’t feel my feet. The doctor said it would come back over time. He also said the pain would get better. The feeling came back in my feet but the pain didn’t get better. But I could walk, not real good but I could walk. About 6 weeks after my surgery I lost the feeling in my legs from my hips down and the pain multiplied!I went back to my doctor and he did another cat scan and then suddenly cut me loose. He sent me to a pain doctor. I didn’t understand that so I went back to the radiologist that did the cat scan with my copy of it and had him explain the results to me. He told me they both failed and the cages collapsed putting pressure on my spine. He’s the one that told me my doctor didn’t do a regular Fusion on me, that he put X-Stop devices in me.
I look up what that was when I got home and found out that they had been band in other countries. Because they had a 85% failure rate. They were designed for the neck area not the load bearing area.
The doctor knew he screwed up and cut me loose. So at this point I was in a wheelchair and in pain 24/7. My pain doctor told me I would never perform again. I tried to find a doctor to help me after that but every doctor turned me down, in state and out of state. The life I had was over. I fell into a deep depression and found out I had PTSD because of what happened at the hospital after my surgery. All the people that I use to call friends didn’t have time for me. I sat alone for the first three years, going to a pain doctor every month because it was the only relief I could get. That’s when this war on pain patients started! Since a doctor would not fix me the bone grew back around the collapsed cages where my disk use to be. So at this point even if a doctor wanted to fix me they couldn’t!
So I made my mind up. I was going to get back on that stage one more time. But I had to get out of that chair first. After a lot of sweat and tears I got to where I could stand with a walker. The pain got worse but I did it anyway! Slowly I learned to walk again with what little I could feel in my legs. A little of the feeling came back but with it the pain intensified! But I did it anyway! I asked my pain doctor to up my meds but because of the CDC and the FDA he couldn’t! So I had to deal with it. You are only allowed 100mgs of any pain meds a day and some of it they count as double. If you know anything about pain meds you know that your body gets immune to the pain killing effect. I at this point had been on the same dose for 4 years. But I continued. I was going to get back to the stage.
I finely got to where I could stand with a cane. So I started walking to my mailbox and back everyday till I got to where I could stand on my feet for ten or fifteen minutes at a time. But the pain was always there, most time that I did it, I paid for it with days in bed afterwards.
I made a RUclips channel for my videos I accumulated I’ve a 32 year career. It was to remind me of what I use to be and what I wanted to be again.
So about two years ago me and another disabled friend started playing around on Saturday afternoons in my old studio. But again the pain was still there, and for the first year I played in a chair because my Fender Jazz was to heavy to stand and hold. So I would sit down. But it still hurt me. I did it anyway.
We got some guys together and it turned into a band. We would only get together on Saturday afternoons for a hour or two. Most of the time I would be in bed for three days afterwards.
I got me a lighter Bass and started standing for a song or two. The first time I did it I was in bed for a week afterwards!
I started making a video or two of songs we played. But if you notice, the video is only of one song. Because that’s all I can Handel at a time. The music sometimes makes me forget about the pain. But believe me, it’s still there and it don’t let me forget that.
Everyday I get to where I can do a little more. But I’ve hit a brick wall now. If I ever do get back on stage i will be sitting on a chair! But I will walk up there and I will walk off. But I will never be able to do a complete show ever again. I had my career taken from me, and something I had done since I was 16 years was over. I will be in pain the rest of my life!
So yeah I’m standing in the videos but you don’t see what happens when the camera stops. Yes there are other videos, long ones, of me playing! But that was before my surgery! So before you start looking down your self righteous nose at me, you have to remember, you don’t know the whole story. You don’t know what I’ve been through or what it takes for me to look normal in that video! You’re a very mean and hateful person! And I understand that, because I was there to. But it’s not my fault you hate your life! It’s not my fault you don’t have something you’re passionate about!
Or how about this. You don’t like me or my channel? That’s your right. So stay the hell off my channel. You say your man? Well so am I! You made a judgment about me before you know my story, what I’ve been through, or where I am now. That tells me everything I need to know about you. So let me tell you what I’m mad about. It’s people like you that is so full of hate that you only get pleasure from putting other people down. You sit behind a keyboard and talk a big game. If that makes you feel like a big man then go for it. But don’t get your feelings hurt when someone comes back at you!
I could have cussed you out and said all kinds of hateful things back at you. But I’m not full of hate! I hope you find a healthy outlet for your anger, and I pray for you. But do me a favor while your looking for that outlet. KEEP YOUR SELF RIGHTEOUS OPINIONS TO YOURSELF AND STAY THE HELL OFF MY PAGE!!!
Govt 'cure' for anything necessitates a worsening problem
I’m a chronic pain sufferer as well. I just had polyneuropathy added to the list. The damage happened after I fractured my back or, after my first spine surgery. I get minimal help. I want a quality of life back because this sucks
Well researched and produced article. As a patient advocate, I have researched the data published by CDC on rates of opioid OD deaths versus rates of opioid prescribing. When these two outcomes are plotted for the 50 US States and DC in 2016, we learn that there is no relationship whatever between OD statistics and prescribing. NONE!. No trends, no cause and effect, no correlation. It's just not THERE! The contribution of medically prescribed opioids is so small that it gets lost in the noise. Likewise, we know from multiple published studies that risk of opioid abuse among post-surgical patients treated with opioid pain relievers is less than 0.6 percent.
Government crackdowns on pain treatment and opioids are potentially harming 99 people for every individual who might in some way be helped by such regulation. This is INSANITY!
Richard Lawhern thank you for your tireless work, Red. Thank you for speaking out for all of us that are suffering some form of chronic pain.
WE NEED ADVOCATES... no one will listen to us... because in their minds, we are addicts.
Some people rather bee adicted than live with a hell of pain day after day,LET THEM BEE!!!
Give them a pain free life and stop criticyze what ya all dont understand!(Bob Dylan)
We have no where to go... I don't want to go to the street for pain medications. there is a HUGE difference between dependency and addiction. My pain dr quit today. He was not a "pill mill".
Stephanie Melton ...good luck to u.. I hope u are doing well..
We need more videos like this to spread the word because theres a lot of misinformation out there. I've seen evidence of all this in my clinical experiences for college. Its spot on. I've had friends who abused pills and heroin. I've even abuse pills when I was a teen. I know how it works. It's a terrible addiction but persecuting doctors and patients is never the solution. Our medical professionals in this country are some of the most compassionate and dedicated human beings in our communities. We have to work with them. Not against them
As someone who lives with chronic pain that doctors cannot determine the cause of...I completely appreciate the fact that there are people who are getting addicted to many of these prescription medications, but simply claiming that as a problem does not eliminate the underlying issue that some people DO live with chronic pain and need something to be able to function. I take less than 300 mg Tramadol daily and only take what is necessary for me to function. But there have been many months were I was up against the wall of running out of my medicine because of additional hoops the government was imposing upon the doctors. I'm all for working with doctors to make sure that prescriptions are not being written in such a way that they are leading to addiction and/or implementing ways for people who do become addicted to get help with that. But pain isn't imaginary and there were days prior to getting medication when I literally could not function.
And I am constantly hearing people conflate "opioids" with "opiates"...this video seems to be careful of that, but I've heard senators that I otherwise highly respect improperly use the terms. Encouraging doctors to be careful is one thing, but beyond that, the government simply needs to get out of the medical business.
And then liberals wonder why we don't want "universal health care". Good luck to people like me if that ever becomes a reality.
For the record - heroin and oxycontin are "opiates", not just "opioids". All "opiates" are also "opioids", but the reverse is not true. Basically, an "opioid" is anything that targets certain receptors in the brain. "opiates" are substances directly developed from the opium plant. So listening to more of this video, they are only using the term opioid. One of the so-called "dangers" of medicine like tramadol is that it does not have many of the mental side-effects that opiates have. Originally, it was believed it did not cause addiction. So now they are saying it is "more dangerous" because it has been so easy to prescribe. I haven't done a lot of research on Tramadol abuse, but my experience is that it would be pretty stupid to try to abuse Tramadol because it takes way more than would even be close to safe to get a "high". But for legitimate pain-sufferers who are not looking for a high, but just to manage pain, it's very useful and helpful.
Eric Bess actually it is more dangerous than opioids. It can cause serotonin syndrome . You can't even mix it with paxil. It works wonders on kidney stone pain. But stopping it suddenly is as bad as suddenly stopping long term antidepressants . Politicians do not know anything about meds nor severe long term pain. This is not a socialist nor communist country. They have no right to interfere with how a Dr treats a patient. And if a chronic pain patient gets physically addicted but keeps it to a non dangerous amount, who cares? Most would rather be addicted than live with horrible pain. Now those deliberated abusing them who are both physically and psychologically addicted and don't actually need them, that's a different story. But in the end you are not going to stop a true drug addict from funding something to get high on. Why not go after meth instead! Meth and crack and flakka makes people nuts. They get violent. You can watch them dying a little more day after day and see the damage it's doing to them. Why not get on the ball with ending that instead of pain meds for people who need compassionate Care?
My husband had a heart attack because his Dr stopped his meds after 7 yrs
DEA raids has cost chronic pain patient so many older drs who are well educated on pain Management and drug abuse . Now older patients are suffering until dead . Instead of maintaining a basic healthy function.This is governments way of eliminating cost on SS $ . The respect for older ppl that had always been deep rooted are Gone in USA.Im sure government as well as their families will never suffer with Untreated Chronic pain. If the general public must live with untreated chronic pain than so should all government ? At age 62 now stuck suffering in bed( no function) when will the government change this crazy denial of medication for senior stop? I’d never turn to-illegal street drugs. I only want to get out of bed &care for myself again. Please help us ❤️🙏🏻
Now they want to take them and house, make health and financial care their business as with children and CPS who drain their Gov. funding, Medical and care while receiving childcare and it's incentivised threw Title IV-E, D & etc.
I’m a brain tumor survivor and deal with nerve pain that at times has almost driven me insane. They have doctor so afraid that after my brain tumor was found but before my surgery my regular doctor was afraid to give me pain medicine and said it was the neurosurgeons job but the neurosurgeon said he only treated the pain after the surgery. This left me with pain and no treatment.
The cdc have absolutely no bussines in the Opioid crisis dictating who should be getting it & at what dose.They do not have the expertize in this area & I wish them the worse.They have no experience in chronic pain this is what Pain specialise are for.Now these doctors are going to jail,great job.The police arresting these so called Doctors at pill mills make sure they are pill mills .Pain specialist will be given out a lot of pain medicine amoung other therapacy because all they do all day long is see people with chronic pain so it should be no surprise that the Doctor is prescribing a lot more of it than you're regular g.p.
I went to the Hospital with a kidney stone. I was in so much pain that I crawled to the door of the ER. I couldn’t stand. Those bastards gave me a muscle relaxer and tried to discharge me. It took me literally screaming at the top of my lungs to finally get some relief. Is that right ???
Doctors are full of shit now says. Send you home in the same pain u came in with. Proscribe antibiotics and pain med...3,500.00
You were dope sick
Usually they call in the security guards to take you away. I had an ER doctor say "fuck you to me"
They need to worry about street drugs, especially Fentanyl. Herion, coke, crack. And let us live somewhat pain free.
Bless his heart he understands his patients.
I'm nobody, but I alone know roughly 10 people over 30 that got kicked off their medication and their lives are either completely ruined or turned upside down in negative ways
Russell Mostrom .. u can add me to your list. was prescribed Percocet 20mgs for 3 years.. now I'm prescribed nothing and let's just say I lost my home and my life is over..
Such important info. People are in chronic pain & it’s heartbreaking.
Thank you🌻
Ritalin is the solution for all addiction except sex addiction
Why can't we treat addictions like the Netherlands and Portugal does? They have lower drug addiction rate per capita than the U.S. does per capita.
Mercunz don't like normal ways of doing things.
How do they deal with them?
Edit: never mind. I totally agree. Decriminalization is definitely the way
+Christopher Ender They actually have a citizenship that listens to reasoned thought and new rules - something America is a long way from having - hell, Americans still beat their kids so we have a long way to go to explaining drugs and guns to them as well.
bob si dog Wow and with condescending attitudes like that I'm sure you'll be a real success. Psh. Chicago is a perfect example consistently of why outlawing anything leads to more of it when it's in high demand. Drugs or guns it doesn't matter because it's the same outcome. And we will never apologize for punishing brats.
Joshua Phillips well hitting kids isn't a good idea. Studies show that it is less effective than other methods. Not to mention to it violated the nap
The Government needs to go on trial for mass murder charges.
These overdoses were all done by illegal opioids. Responsible. Chronic pain patients Don’t screw around with the only medication that or treatment that eases severe inhumane physical pain. Not psychological pain that caused the drug abuser to over use. The difference is Black & White. I wouldn’t force a drug addict to continue to suffer the life of drug abuse. Just as I feel chronic pain patients who’ve spent many yrs on these alternatives that never put a dent in their physical pain shouldn’t be forced to live in the insanity that comes with untreated severe chronic pain. You can’t deny treatment for either side of this Opioid Crisis. You can’t deny proper treatment for both!! The abuser or the responsable innocent chronic pain patient. If it were your loving mother would you force her to suffer inhuman amount of untreated pain if nothing else helped till she died?
In California a pharmacist can demand a pea test and if they want can then decide to not fill your prescription. My Girlfriend had neck surgery and needed them every once in a while. Wal mart forced her to take a pea test that cost a grand that you have to pay for. The pharmacist NOT a doctor decided because she wasn't addicted to them they cut her off. Now some days she cries in pain and can only take 800 mg motrins that are a joke for that serious type of pain.
My friends got stuck on them after a horrible car accident. To get him off of them they put him in the methadone program. Goes to show they don't give a fuck about you.....
Stoned Soup the goverment don't care about its citizens. It cares about its votes, which is usually misinformed and stupid people.
Stoned, has your girlfriend researched kratom? It's an option to consider and could bring her some relief. I urge great caution and research, of course. Kratom works very much like an opiate, and is in fact considered an opiate by the FDA. People find great relief with this leaf. Might be worth a shot? I'm so sorry that she got pigeonholed or red flagged. I would have her contest any notes/red flags in her medical record. I did!! We're fighting for BALANCE. Hang in there!
What’s wrong with a methadone program? It makes sure people take their pills instead of selling them.
possibly pursue schedule 2 subutex/suboxone as it is much easier to obtain good luck and many blessings.
Stoned Soup that's so wrong
I'm on pain meds have been for almost 4 years, my Dr monitores and my husband is my accountability partner. I've been diagnosed with Fybro and RA. I might only need to use 2 pills a month, sometimes the pain is really bad but I've learned to work through it. The first year I was really depressed because I wasn't sure if I would get pain relief after all the media talking about it. My Dr. regularly drops me to track my usage. This is so sad!!!
Me too...its a shame we have to suffer
By banning kratom...by banning any substance...Prohibition causes problems...I have chronic pain..kratom works wonders..
I live in Portugal and can confirm that we've dealt with the drug problem in a good way since the 90's, our successes came mostly from decriminalizing consumption of illegal drugs and implementing harm reduction strategies but not in a "here's a supervised room and clean needles now go take drugs" kind of way, we have people that talk to them upon that needle exchange and other stuff to know them personally and their background, empathize with them, and without being preachy just once in a while try to convince them to go to rehab or tell them that if they wish to do so they only need to tell them that, and it works, when people connect and open up eventually most of them go to rehab. Now I must also say that getting legal drugs sometimes is a fucking nightmare here.
he is guilty only of having real empathy and intelligence to actually DO NO HARM and treat his patients respectfully !!! CHRONIC PAIN RUINS LIVES. PERIOD. AND IT IS REAL. I FEEL FOR THESE PEOPLE.
It should be illegal to just cut a person off from opioid medication and allow them to suffer. It is cruel and inhumane.
Go to emergency room. They will treat you for withdrawal
we need drugs what a crime to treat people like this
This man is saving peoples lives he should get an award for stepping up I feel sorry for those people
I have never used pills or been prescribed pain pills in my whole life, but being treated like a drug addict when I go in to the ER because of the tooth ache of my life was so frustrating. I could not function, I could not sleep. Every 15 minutes I would go through surges to the point of sobbing because I could just not take the pain anymore. I ended up having to yank my own tooth (video on my channel). Then after the fact, two more teeth got pulled once I got insurance after finding employment. They yanked two teeth out of a very infected area of my mouth, again, I was not able to get pain relief. This change in politics has literally conditioned these health care people to have no ability to understand suffering because their jobs are on the line.
Why do I have to suffer because of the poor life choices of others, they can just call their dealer and get the fix that will kill them, meanwhile my whole life was in shambles from pain.
don't be so judgmental. you weren't refused treatment at the hospital because of "poor life choices of other people who you said can call their drug dealers." you don't know other peoples circumstances in life. YOU HAVE ONLY THE DOCTORS WHO REFUSED TO HELP YOU TO BLAME. stop the scapegoating... perhaps maybe don't vote republican (if you do, kind of sound like a republican, frankly) because it is them who are putting the screws to pain sufferers.
This is a made up epidemic not poor choices by people Don't get me wrong people are dying the numbers are being cooked and the people who are dying are those who are mixing their Opiates with 100% synthetic opiods like fentanyl oxymorphone and tramadol. The entrance of Gabapentin a substance that renders oxycodone/oxycontin and hydrocodone not to be absorbed by your body has caused major problems because doctors have to result to unnecessary higher dosages or stronger opiates that in fact do lead to patient addiction because their bodies don't need very strong medicine if they take the opiate alone with an anti inflammatory.
You can thank Trump for that..... he's really making America great again. I'm so angry I actually drank the koolaid and voted for that asshole. His brother was killed by an acholic, so anyone that needs pain or anxiety meds are drug addicts that need to be thinned out of the herd.
Trump and the US Government are currently practicing Eugenics. They are banking on chronic pain patients killing themselves because they estimate we consume inordinate amounts of healthcare dollars. This is not true. Chronic pain patients have the lowest rate of addiction, abuse, and diversion, at a mere 0.3%! The rate of addiction among all other patient populations is 3%.
Trump has no empathy for the very Americans that voted him in! If we want this to change, we need to ban together and not vote for Trump in 2020!!
If there is a God, maybe he'll die a slow painful death without access to pain or anxiety medicine. Give him aspirin and Hydroxizine for the anxiety. I hate Trump so much right now and I was his biggest supporter.
#opiates #opioids #ourpain #benzos #chronicpain #pain #trumpdoesntcare #saynototrump #opioidhysteria #opiatehysteria
IzzyMan It’s ALL of us, Man! I’ve had 3 extractions since August of last year and the two that had to be surgically cut out were the worst! The Dentist sent me home with gauze and told me to alternate between Tylenol and ibuprofen (ice and heat later). I did that but was in so much pain from the incisions I called my family doctor to see if he’d have mercy on me. He reiterated the Dentists advice so I called the Dentist back- I had to drive 40 miles again to their office to get a script of 5 tablets. I was relieved though for a couple of days then, ran out that Saturday. Called my family doctor back Saturday and the Doctor I used to see who is much older called in 20 tablets when my Doctor wasn’t in that day- no questions asked. I later got scolded for his partner prescribing 20 tablets for ORAL SURGERY on that Saturday because he wasn’t in office to say no!
*ORAL SURGERY!*
Craziest damn thing ever.
*NOW* is the NOT the time to be in pain in any way that requires something stronger than ibuprofen or Tylenol. God have mercy on us all if we do! ♥️🙏🏼
this started way back before Obama so it's hard to blame one political party but none them understand the opioid epidemic isn't an epidemic with opioids it's an epidemic created by synthesising opiates from black pepper extract
Wait... How long have we been in Afghanistan?
What is the history of the CIA, mi5.... British east India trading company...
Oh yeah.... Doctors are to blame.
The Taliban was destroying the Opium fields until the US invaded. Now the Taliban is supporting growing Opium as a source of revenue.
Veteran suicides higher then soldiers KIA, students and teachers being shot in campuses nationwide steadily rising. Then they do shit like pass tax breaks, adding insult to every injury.
Pharmacies pushed Oxycotin, which is an actual heroin (they claim otherwise). They gave many of those prescriptions to people that did need it (they were lied to by the pharmacies into believing they were non addictive). Pharmacies have been making billions of dollars of profits off these drugs.
you hit it right on the head why is it that were guarding Poppyfields I'm just curious if they wanted to a Raticate it why is Afghanistan still 90% of the worlds opium and heroin distributors things that make you go hmmmm
Edward Agora Feenman, I'm glad to hear that there is someone that knows the truth. Most people are blind to the facts. The heroin comes thru Canada a British Royal family owned country. The media diverts the attention to Mexico Being the primary perpetrator. The CIA Smuggles Cocaine along with the Clintons and Bush cartels.
I am a disabled stroke victim that suffers from chronic pain every minute of every day with no quality of life ever since I lost my legal pain medication and forced to take Subutex as a result of this I am bedridden 22 hours a day or more with no quality of life just pain it is all I know and it is getting worse every day.
And the government wonders whyso many are committing suicide. They should live with major constant pain for years or decades.
Now we put pain patients in line with drug addicts literally making us take methadone instead of pills.
I think it's disgusting to have actual addicts on high dose maintenace treatments with dihydrocodeine, methadone, heroin, hydromorphone literally finding jobs after years in homelessness and disgrace but pretending that letting someone back into his life is dangerous and causes deaths, so you deny them their fundamental right to a treatment.
Having lupus I was on pain pills. I stopped cold turkey. After doing so my heart went into a fib. Now I have a pacemaker.
Dr Tennant is a REAL Doctor of compassion and caring. May God bless him.