Breitbart says illegals are cause of opioid epidemic

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As per usual, for many once a scapegoat has been identified no further questioning is required. The left seem determined to pin all the blame on the medical profession, which is an easy target, however there are many culprits. Not least a porous border where fake opiods enter the US. It is just far too lazy to claim that if Breitbart says something it must be bullshit.

Is the Opioid Crisis Too Complicated for Our Political Elites?
By Jerry Rogers
April 12, 2018
Is the Opioid Crisis Too Complicated for Our Political Elites?
The United States is experiencing an opioid epidemic affecting more than 2 million Americans. In March of 2018, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reported:

Every day, more than 115 Americans die after overdosing on opioids. The misuse of and addiction to opioids — including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl — is a serious national crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total “economic burden” of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.

Certain facts related to opioid use are undeniable. For instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that between June 2016 and June 2017, drug overdoses killed more than 66,000 people in the U.S. Nor is there disagreement among the experts about this fact: America is in the throes of an existential drug crisis.

However, sundry government officials and media elites are coalescing around an accepted — yet wholly inaccurate — narrative about what has triggered the epidemic. The narrative goes like this: Greedy pharmaceutical companies seeking to boost profits in the late 1990s pushed the medical community to over-prescribe opioids while misleading doctors about the fact that patients would become addicted.

Among other things, this narrative neglects how America’s border control policies have impacted opioid abuse and how other factors besides prescription-drug abuse have all exacerbated the crisis, including joblessness, heroin, and fentanyl, and expanding Medicaid access to higher-income earners.

“Everyone,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan liked to say, “is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Unfortunately, as with many policy debates in Washington, D.C., the debate about opioid abuse is obscured by opinions and ideological biases that are being propagandized as facts.

The opioid crisis is complicated. But complicated doesn’t work in newsrooms or on Capitol Hill. It’s far more effective to have a “boogeyman” — some group to blame and from which to extract recompense. To paraphrase the great Roman orator Tacitus: the crowning injustice of political warfare is that all claim credit for success, while defeat is laid to the account of one. In the political fight over what to do about the opioid epidemic, Washington’s political class has decided to charge America’s pharmaceutical industry as guilty.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/art...mplicated_for_the_political_class_110593.html

 

[Fentoine Lum]

As per usual, for many once a scapegoat has been identified no further questioning is required. The left seem determined to pin all the blame on the medical profession, which is an easy target, however there are many culprits. Not least a porous border where fake opiods enter the US. It is just far too lazy to claim that if Breitbart says something it must be bullshit.

rtain facts related to opioid use are undeniable. For instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that between June 2016 and June 2017, drug overdoses killed more than 66,000 people in the U.S. Nor is there disagreement among the experts about this fact: America is in the throes of an existential drug crisis.

However, sundry government officials and media elites are coalescing around an accepted — yet wholly inaccurate — narrative about what has triggered the epidemic. The narrative goes like this: Greedy pharmaceutical companies seeking to boost profits in the late 1990s pushed the medical community to over-prescribe opioids while misleading doctors about the fact that patients would become addicted.

Certain facts related to opioid use are undeniable. For instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that between June 2016 and June 2017, drug overdoses killed more than 66,000 people in the U.S. Nor is there disagreement among the experts about this fact: America is in the throes of an existential drug crisis.

However, sundry government officials and media elites are coalescing around an accepted — yet wholly inaccurate — narrative about what has triggered the epidemic. The narrative goes like this: Greedy pharmaceutical companies seeking to boost profits in the late 1990s pushed the medical community to over-prescribe opioids while misleading doctors about the fact that patients would become addicted.

Among other things, this narrative neglects how America’s border control policies have impacted opioid abuse and how other factors besides prescription-drug

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/art...mplicated_for_the_political_class_110593.html

We expect the corporate narrative from our half dozen multinational corporation owned state media machine, thanks.

 

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We expect the corporate narrative from our half dozen multinational corporation owned state media machine, thanks.

Lol

 

[kudzu]

It is not BreitFart, but Congressman Paul Gosar, the same guy who all six of his brothers and sisters endorsed his opponent in the last election. And all he did was pharaphrased brief parts of a journalist's book, nothing more than the Congressman pimping the opioid problem to demogogue the border security issue, and a sophomore attempt at that

Oh ! That creep! I'd forgotten the name Paul Gosar.

 

[kudzu]

See Purdue Pharma you fucking idiot.

Oxycontin: How Purdue Pharma Helped Spark The Opioid Epidemic ...

In 1996 Purdue Pharma introduced a new drug – a time-released formulation of oxycodone, an opioid painkiller. OyxContin, as the drug was called, was touted as having a low risk of addiction.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-a...w-purdue-pharma-helped-spark-opioid-epidemic/

 

[Adolf_Twitler]

Illegals are bankrupting our schools and hospitals and welfare system. Killing thousands on our highways every year. And giving us the opioid problem too!!. But liberals still DEFEND these evil hideous creatures.

We just had a non-partisan Prison reform bill go through to give your daddy a winning piece of legislation.

It only went through because of the amount of White Hillbillies now caught up in the Opioid Crisis and now the Hillbilly White Trump Yip Yap Republicans want to do something about it.

Amazing how this stuff works isn't it? LOL!

 

[kudzu]

We just had a non-partisan Prison reform bill go through to give your daddy a winning piece of legislation.

It only went through because of the amount of White Hillbillies now caught up in the Opioid Crisis and now the Hillbilly White Trump Yip Yap Republicans want to do something about it.

Amazing how this stuff works isn't it? LOL!

He doesn't know.. He blames everything on blacks or migrants.

Big Pharma drove the opioid crisis... https://www.iflscience.com/health-a...w-purdue-pharma-helped-spark-opioid-epidemic/


And, it is especially bad in places like Kentucky and West Virginia.

 

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He doesn't know.. He blames everything on blacks or migrants.

Big Pharma drove the opioid crisis... https://www.iflscience.com/health-a...w-purdue-pharma-helped-spark-opioid-epidemic/


And, it is especially bad in places like Kentucky and West Virginia.

Why are you so misinformed? Seems to me that there is a deliberate attempt to pin everything on Big Pharna but ignore the role played by Mexico in producing fake opoids.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/art...mplicated_for_the_political_class_110593.html

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/art...mplicated_for_the_political_class_110593.html

 

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Illegals are bankrupting our schools and hospitals and welfare system. Killing thousands on our highways every year. And giving us the opioid problem too!!. But liberals still DEFEND these evil hideous creatures.

Sorry man, but unless you are sitting on a really poor border town OR ARE PRETTY LOW on the socioeconomic and education/skill scale, those folks are NOT having an effect on your life. That's just math.

I find their level of desperation for fear of immediate physical harm or or even just needing work to support themselves and their families understandable even if I don't think they should be able to 'wander in'. But I think you and your ilk are the hideous creatures in your contemptible take down.

I'm about as religious as a doorknob and I still OFTEN find myself running the old adage through my brain, there but by the grace of God, go I.
(You might wanna get that tattoo'd on your arm and when you are feeling superior, take a glance).

 

[kudzu]

Why are you so misinformed? Seems to me that there is a deliberate attempt to pin everything on Big Pharna but ignore the role played by Mexico in producing fake opoids.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/art...mplicated_for_the_political_class_110593.html

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/art...mplicated_for_the_political_class_110593.html

Opioid Data Analysis and Resources | Drug Overdose | CDC ...

The rate of drug overdose deaths involving opioids has been on the rise since 1999, and CDC is tracking how and when opioid overdose deaths from the different types of opioids have increased. The graph below shows rates of overdose deaths associated with three categories of opioids, as well as all opioids overall.


https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/analysis.html

 

[Centerleftfl]

Brietbart is dragging you around by the shorthairs.

 

[kudzu]

The CDC.

The CDC created this crisis when they, without regulatory authority, and for the first time in the history of medicine, attempted to limit dosage of all opioid (opiate, narcotic) pain medicine, disregarding medical textbooks and decades of clinical experience.

We have, yet again, ignited fears of addiction and overdose death, reminiscent of the great sweeping fears of the Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush Wars on Drugs. This war is different. Now we have significant non-addiction casualties with 6 million pain refugees as collateral damage from failed government programs and increasing, palpable Fear of Addiction (FOA) creating the worst health care crisis in American history. The unprecedented, forced loss of treatment for people with serious, lifelong, painful diseases is appalling, especially when measured in lost years of life. In my 40 years of practice I have never seen nor imagined anything this cruel — especially not for a “medical reason”, all out of fear of being possessed by opioids.

We are at the 100 year mark now in the ongoing War on Drugs and one trillion dollars in wasted taxpayer expenses, all while not preventing a single case of addiction. We see addiction disease as immoral, wrong choices, a characterological disorder worse than organized crime, murder or smuggling. We are talking about the “dope fiends”, the scary, worst of the immoral worst.


https://medium.com/@ThomasKlineMD/t...recommendations-revised-10-31-18-89559573eb86

 

[Centerleftfl]

Don't forget ebola and smallpox.

The proof free zone.

 

[kudzu]

Nowhere does the CDC blame illegal immigrants for the Opioid Crisis. Havana, what's your game?

 

[Centerleftfl]

We just had a non-partisan Prison reform bill go through to give your daddy a winning piece of legislation.

It only went through because of the amount of White Hillbillies now caught up in the Opioid Crisis and now the Hillbilly White Trump Yip Yap Republicans want to do something about it.

Amazing how this stuff works isn't it? LOL!

Sadly you are CORRECT! (Plus the assholes who now have privatized much of it, realize how fucking expensive it REALLY is).

 

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Love the way you go for the open goal rather than address the Real Clear Policy article I posted. Very lazy but to be expected sadly.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/art...mplicated_for_the_political_class_110593.html

 

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Nowhere does the CDC blame illegal immigrants for the Opioid Crisis. Havana, what's your game?

I posted an article from Real Clear Policy that doesn't suit you narrative, my game is the truth what's yours?

 

[Centerleftfl]

Why the fuck would anyone pay any attention at all to what Breitbart says?

Got me! Hell, now that the MERCERS pulled their monies and BANNON lost his job, who's running the damn thing? Of course Bannon goes in and out of favor with the Wing-set and gets beaten back then resurfaces. He's like a bad case of herpes.

(Is he in or out with TRUMP right now? I've lost track).

 

[kudzu]

I posted an article from Real Clear Policy that doesn't suit you narrative, my game is the truth what's yours?

Republicans Try to Blame Opioids on Immigrants, Are Ridiculed ...

[the opioid crisis is] . . . most destructive [in] rural areas that don’t have sanctuary cities and indeed generally don’t have cities at all. Recent immigrants are rare, yet opioid addiction is rampant. That’s because the opioid epidemic was made in America, not in Mexico, China, or any other foreign country.

https://americasvoice.org/blog/opioids-hearing/

 

[Centerleftfl]

Nowhere does the CDC blame illegal immigrants for the Opioid Crisis. Havana, what's your game?

You know kudzu, I like most everyone who is still 'above ground' and has some wrinkles and grey hairs to prove it have had my share of ups and downs. Lost jobs, missed opportunities, things (people) I wanted I couldn't get, shrinking net worth, yada yada yada. I've had SOME 'poor pitiful me' periods! But I'll be GD if I ever felt the need to punch down! Not because I'm noble or that moral but because I was rational enough to realize it wouldn't solve a GD thing.

One caveat. I have no problem counter punching the P'sOS who do punch down!