Ads tell real stories of Americans' opioid dependency
The Trump administration debuted the first of four anti-opioid ads Thursday, part of its efforts to combat America's deadly opioid epidemic.
The ad debuted Thursday morning on theToday Show on NBC. It features the story of Amy P. from Columbus, Ohio, who was over-prescribed Vicodin following a knee surgery. When her prescription eventually ran out, she crashed her car to obtain more drugs. The ad depicts a reenactor, portraying Amy, ramming her car into a dumpster.
"I didn't know it would be this addictive. I didn't know how far I'd go to get more," the voiceover says just before Amy's crash.
The ads will feature real stories of Americans who have made similarly drastic decisions motivated by opioid addiction, according to information provided during a press briefing Thursday morning. The stories were selected to put faces to the overwhelming number of opioid-associated overdose deaths each year: more than 42,000 in 2016, according to the CDC.
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Is there anybody who tries heroin with the goal of becoming addicted? Probably not, but it happens before they know it, and not only are they slaves to the drug, but slaves to the suppliers.
ReplyDeleteWith the way gun stats are reported, I don't believe that 42,000 number.
ReplyDeleteIt probably includes things like people killed in robberies that had opiods in their system -- it wasn't the bullet that killed them....oh noooo, it was the drugs.
If they are REALLY worried about legal drugs killing Americans (that's the issue, right??), they SHOULD be HYSTERICAL over alcohol and cigarettes. THEY kill ....wait for it.......a MILLION Americans a year!! A Million!!
For the cheerleaders, that is over 23 times the opiod deaths!
Where is the hysteria over THAT??
You people are ready for an all-out war on opiods, with all the bells and whistles, like 24 hour surveillance, increasing jail sentences, searches of thousands of innocent people, doctors being told how to work by POLICE (!??), your name in several databases because you HAD a percoset prescription, and generally, MORE restrictions and elimination of MORE of our rights and privacy. For your own good. That one ALWAYS works for the cheerleaders). You NEED strangers to tell you how to run your life.
And their logic (42,00 deaths!! polish the swatiska's!!!) never gets questioned. Don't look over there...hey!! Over here!!
Keep cheering.