Part of the nation's opioid addiction problem stems from "a very overly medicated society," retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, the Homeland Security Secretary nominee, told his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
"It's amazing to me, but I just found out very recently that an old friend, who's not so old, just 62 years old, after a very successful life, just overdosed on heroin." Kelly said the heroin was cheaper and more available to his friend than the opioids for which she apparently could not get a prescription.
"And of course, part of the problem, I think, and this I think would be outside my area if I'm confirmed, but part of the problem is, we are a very overly medicated society. Huge amounts of opiods are prescribed legally for things that in the past, probably would not receive that level of medication. So the point is, huge problem, getting worse, and the profits are just unbelievable to the cartels that control the whole marketing and transporting."
"One hundred percent of the heroin that we consume in the United States is in fact produced in Mexico, and it's creeping down now into Central America," Kelly said.
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Liar Liar Pants on Fire.
ReplyDeleteThere is virtually no poppy production in Mexico.
The heroin comes out of US-controlled Afghanistan and he knows full well that the US Military is involved in heroin smuggling into the entirety of Western Nations.
I am so looking forward to the marijuana dispensary opening in Salisbury. I have been wanting to try the CBD oil for chronic pain. It would be a God-send for it to relieve me of pain. I could stop using pain pills and not have to deal with clueless pain control "specialists" and their rude staff.
ReplyDeleteI can see where some people switch to heroin when they cannot get the medicine they do need, being it is cheaper and don't have to feel like a second class citizen or a criminal to get pain meds. But now, they actually will become criminals and second class citizens and put their lives at risk to try to find relief which some quacks will not give them.
They have heroin out there now that can stop a heart just by touching it or inhaling the dust.
So much for doctors' creed, "do no harm". Maybe they don't directly but patients having to resort to street drugs because some politician or gov't agency tells these "specialists" what they can prescribe and how much.
Government needs to get out of dr offices and between a doctor and his/her patients.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteLiar Liar Pants on Fire.
There is virtually no poppy production in Mexico.
The heroin comes out of US-controlled Afghanistan and he knows full well that the US Military is involved in heroin smuggling into the entirety of Western Nations.
January 13, 2017 at 12:41 PM
Unless you are calling yourself a liar, you are not accurate or current.
In Mexico, a profound change is occurring in the drug trade.
Where cartels once focused on smuggling marijuana and cocaine to the United States, they are now turning more and more to a new product: heroin.
The nonprofit Hudson Institute estimated the amount of pure heroin produced in Mexico in 2015 rose 67% over the 2014 numbers, and 170% over the estimates for 2013. Officials from both Mexico and the United States estimated at least a 50% jump in production in 2014, according to the New York Times.
The BBC’s Ian Pannell has found that Mexican supply networks for heroin are threatening to replace traditional smuggling routes from Central Asia and Afghanistan.
I wonder how many people would never have take drugs if they were not flushed into municipal water treatment systems. Anti-depressant medications have been found in public water systems due to people flushing the chemicals that cannot be cleared by water treatment centers. If you grow up with these chemical and then move away and begin to suffer symptoms maybe it is just a case of your first time off of the medication.
ReplyDeleteAnti-depressant medications have been found in public water systems due to people flushing the chemicals that cannot be cleared by water treatment centers. If you grow up with these chemical and then move away and begin to suffer symptoms maybe it is just a case of your first time off of the medication.
ReplyDeleteJanuary 13, 2017 at 4:31 PM
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-tap-water_N.htm