Opioid crisis may be worse than thought l ABC News

1. No one talks about the chronic pain patients committing suicide because they’ve been kicked off their meds.

2. Good

   Dead junkie is a good junkie

3. So Big Pharma is evil because of opiates but now we need Big Pharma to save us from a deadly virus. This is not adding up also DOCTORS are NOT prescribing Narcotics to cancer patients.

4. Yes but this is not a prescription drug crisis. Now, anyone buying drugs on the street is likely getting fentanyl. Forcing patients with legitimate prescriptions to get off their medication is not going to help the issue. We need effective treatment options. https://www.opiates.com/opioid-detox-against-fentanyl-abuse/

5. ABSOLUTE B.S!!! Fentanyl fentanyl fentanyl fentanyl fentanyl Fentanyl

6. Nobody said twenny-twenny was going to be easy, in today's societie
   welcome to the new generation where the end is near.

7. Tell us about the CDC study of ppl committing suicide bc of the illegally created opuod crisis?

8. I Love Hearing The Truth
   About white folks And There Opioid Heroin Meth Addiction worldwide🤔 Never Takeing Responsibility 🤔All Way Saying It's Pharmaceutical Company It's Doctors Faultault 🤔 All way Saying pharmaceutical company Doctors Should Go 2 prison 🤔 How about locking up all these white Junkie walking around like The walking Dead Zombies Committing Crimes 2 support their Drug Addiction worldwide🤔 European 96% Addiction Opioids Heroin Meth world wide🤔😁

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9. Elderly and very ill can’t get pain meds. Let the drug addicts check out. They won’t be missed.

10. All pain medication in USA is opiate compounds. They refuse to prescribe an opiate-antagonist, Naloxone, (Talwin NX), to counteract the addiction effect. The AMA is creating this problem.

11. "Just stop doing it, it's not that hard!!!! " lol

12. What a stupid title. Nobody THOUGHT that it wasn't bad.

13. I agree with other comments. The goverment is causing many who suffer in severe chronic pain sccaring doctors to where thier refusing patients meds or cutting patientts pain meds down so low doesnt manage thier pain.People in the public and veterens have and are commiting suicide no longer to cope with life without medication they need to have any quality of life !!#
    I would have commited suicide myself and had plans to but I found kratom that helps me to live life without severe chronic pain.The FDA and CDC hass also tried to ban kratom.
    leaving many more to suffer in five states it is banned many still suffering in those five states and those who dont know about kratom and how much it will help them..I didnt know about it for 5 months after my DR quit perscribing pain meds my pain level got so high raising my blood presure causing me to have two strokes!! They dont care of the effect opiod crisses has on people in pain who are suffering instead of stopping the street drugs coming into our couuntry to get thier numbers down they attack people living in pain.

14. My leg was in pain and had swelled up while in the emergency room. I could not receive any medication because the doctor said I may give them to other people

15. Wow

16. Sounds about white💊💉😂😳😰🤢😵

17. Smoke weed instead

18. In my opinion using opioids for pain relief is so antiquated anyway when they have made leaps and bounds in every aspect of life, we’re talking technology, in the medical field, everything and then they have to hand you a pill that was produced a thousand years ago (exaggerates) to relieve pain! Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that pill when I need it I’m just thankful my pain is not like some of these people who’s really suffering from severe pain! My point is are they really looking for advancements in pain relief or are they satisfied with the money they receive from the opiates?!

19. The fact it took American like 10 years to realize the opiod epidemic, just proves how ignorant Americans are. Out of sight, Out of mind.

20. Too bad Andrew yang is no longer running for president. He is the one who see this problem and want to do something about it.

21. Reports like these is a reason I can't get what I need the honest person.

22. Are they including the people who die in hospice care , intentionally medicated to death?

23. I use to be a truck driver. I've seen entire communities wiped out by this epidemic. I would ratther smoke weed!

24. But hey Purdue Pharma share holders and the entire Sakler family made Billions off the misinformation and the massive sales of Oxycontin so all is good right? This single family is almost entirely to blame for Millions of lives and families ruined or negatively effected and billions of dollars in medical cost and lost productivity due to this enormous epidemic. And people said the likes of Pablo Escobar and ElChapo Guzman were bad guys! I disagree they didn't hide who they were and they also supported large poor communities from their profits. This family has done little if anything to help the communities it ravaged with their so called safe opioid pain pills they dished out like m&m's to millions of unsuspecting Americans. This family should be in prison along with the young Black and Hispanic men that are serving long prison terms for drug sales literally laughable when compared to these monsters of the drug game.

25. Searching for weapons of mass destruction where opioids grow. Then import them now it’s an issue

26. The only "crisis" is denying chronic pain patients medications that being them relief…..

27. STFU about this already!! People with true, real chronic pain are being deprived of a quality life because of the fear mongering! A friend had a csection a month ago and was given a THREE day prescription for vicodin. What’s worse, her pharmacy couldn’t/wouldn’t fill it because they didn’t have “advance notice.” She had to suffer for 2-3 days with only ibuprofen until her pharmacy could fill her piddly prescription of 5mg vicodin. She suffered and is still suffering from kidney problems after being recommended 1,000mg ibuprofen every 4-6 hours!!! The fear mongering has GOT to stop!!! It’s ruining more lives than legally prescribed opioids/opiates are!!! And the abusers and addicts will always get their fix somewhere! It’s normal people who are paying the price!!

28. Big surprise with Kellyanne Conway leading the way. #dumptrump2020

29. You dont even know bout black market opiod addictions

30. Exactly!

31. Please god help any addict ! Make it stop ! Only god can help

32. Add this breakdown to the coronavirus outbreak and you have a recipe for population change – not good.

33. legalize cannabis in all 50 states 21+ … FAR BETTER OPTION THAN OPIOIDS… CANNABIS U CAN NOT OVER DOSE ON… IT IS EASY TO OVERDOSE ON PAINKILLERS AND OPIOIDS ALIKE!!

34. As a person who has experienced this crisis firsthand I can say that its unfortunate how people who need this medication are treated like criminals. I definitely felt uncomfortable asking doctors for it because I knew I'd get turned away. But when you can't get up to use the bathroom without having help it puts a new perspective on things. So I used what I could find but that cost me years of my life and happiness. Thanks big pharma

35. And to think Democrats want to keep our borders open so these illegal drugs can keep pouring in and killing people.

36. It's not even called opioid it's called opiates….. what the heck is wrong with this country making pain patients suffer in the name of protecting them from a overdose. GIVE ME A BREAK. TREAT PAIN PATENTS WITH DIGNITY!!!!

37. Sad.

38. What the heck are you talking about, a bunch of B.S. the Pain Medication is for patients with real pain. People who mix other drugs & alcohol
    & die. Are giving a bad name for legit pain patients. I'm sick of all these false statistics. & their mixing fetinol from China plus synthetic heroin & rolling it in to one big statistic.

39. That the government money make the world go round sorry people's

40. Lmao "crisis" shows tylonal…
    Givin I dont even take those, but when i get muscle relaxers for my back. They go VERY WELL with a glass of bourbon!!!

41. This might balloon healthcare expenditure , a bottomless pit !

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