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Study of existing data biased to indicate prescription driven crisis.
Age-adjusted totals make it easier to blame rx.
But age-specific data tells a different story. Rx primarily elderly, disabled with few OD, while youth without Rx are majority OD.
Study of existing data biased to indicate prescription driven crisis.
Age-adjusted totals make it easier to blame rx.
But age-specific data tells a different story. Rx primarily elderly, disabled with few OD, while youth without Rx are majority OD.
These charts tell that story. Yourh without prescriptions overdose at rates up to six times higher than elderly with opioid rx.
Yet, what's reported in media is a prescription-driven crisis, using rise in rx over 20 years. Ignoring how that rx was used!
Yet, what's reported in media is a prescription-driven crisis, using rise in rx over 20 years. Ignoring how that rx was used!
A good investigative reporter should have noted something ELSE when they correlate increases in opioid rx with OD spikes...
Medical advancements increased need for pain care by the MILLIONS. People that should be DEAD or bedbound, walking, working, LIVING.
And opioids helped..
Medical advancements increased need for pain care by the MILLIONS. People that should be DEAD or bedbound, walking, working, LIVING.
And opioids helped..
That touted FIRST WAVE pushed at the PROOF that prescriptions CREATED a crisis, by simply pushing aggregate numbers of OD with rx rise, ignores this NEED completely!
This thread breaks that down, showing that NEED amounted to TENS OF BILLIONS of doses.
This thread breaks that down, showing that NEED amounted to TENS OF BILLIONS of doses.
Proper correlation of tens of millions of survivors needing pain care, with parallel increase in prescribing, more than accounts for DEA pill numbers pushed out by @washingtonpost.
Yet, that leaves increases in drug overdoses dangling without a source.
I'm getting to that..
Yet, that leaves increases in drug overdoses dangling without a source.
I'm getting to that..
ADDICTION RATES for population have remained STEADY over the last 20 years, and even PRIOR to that.
Little change in addiction for all substances, including alcohol (alcohol is a pink elephant in room!).
If addiction didn't increase, and rx didn't increase OD...what DID?
Little change in addiction for all substances, including alcohol (alcohol is a pink elephant in room!).
If addiction didn't increase, and rx didn't increase OD...what DID?
What do these folks have in common?
Chase Bolling, son of Eric Bolling.
CDC Director Robert Redfield Jr. son.
Tom Petty.
Prince.
They were not addicts, and...
...they overdosed on illicit fentanyl.
Two were party boyz.
The other two?
Treating PAIN.
kqed.org/pop/107245/cel…
Chase Bolling, son of Eric Bolling.
CDC Director Robert Redfield Jr. son.
Tom Petty.
Prince.
They were not addicts, and...
...they overdosed on illicit fentanyl.
Two were party boyz.
The other two?
Treating PAIN.
kqed.org/pop/107245/cel…
Illicit fentanyl is no New Kid On Da Block.
Its part of the death stats, under 'synthetic opioid'. Written off as rx opioid, because coroners didn't waste time in the 2000's testing for it.
But they did test for it in a crisis, a NEW twist in Ongoing Opioid Epidemic.
Its part of the death stats, under 'synthetic opioid'. Written off as rx opioid, because coroners didn't waste time in the 2000's testing for it.
But they did test for it in a crisis, a NEW twist in Ongoing Opioid Epidemic.
Was that last year? Or 2012, when overdoses were spiking due to fentanyl?
No, that language was used in 1991.
For a FENTANYL epidemic dating to 1988.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19967…
No, that language was used in 1991.
For a FENTANYL epidemic dating to 1988.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19967…
Yet, that wasn't the beginning. This article dates to 1981. Same language.
From heroin coming back in from Vietnam, to China White, Mexi brown, Afganistan, etc, there's ALWAYS been an illegal drug overdose problem.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.310…
From heroin coming back in from Vietnam, to China White, Mexi brown, Afganistan, etc, there's ALWAYS been an illegal drug overdose problem.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.310…
This 'opioid epidemic' did not START with Andrew Kolodny's 'first wave' PROPaganda..
..its not stopping after every prescription opioid is gone, and all our disabled, elderly, wounded, and suffering have died in miserable pain.
So, why are we destroying pain care, and lives??
..its not stopping after every prescription opioid is gone, and all our disabled, elderly, wounded, and suffering have died in miserable pain.
So, why are we destroying pain care, and lives??
@threadreaderapp unroll please kind sir.
