The OTHER Opioid Crisis

07/29/2023

Have you ever spoken to an Elder Addict 👀

They'll all tell you, these drugs aren't what they used to be. You used to have to almost TRY to Overdose, even when it came to he**in as long as you were a regular user.

I wish we could go back to the "drug problem" our Country had before all of the pharmaceutical and gov. Restrictions, back when entire generations weren't being lost to this. Back when chronic pain patients were getting their pain treated with necessary drugs and therefore didn't view turning to the streets for relief and/or su***de as their only escape.

I wish we could go back. Before the fear, the panic and interventions, I wish we could've spent the money on resources for recovery and addicts instead of trying to stop a problem that has always been inevitable.

Addiction has always been, and always will be.
Back in the day, it wasn't always a life sentence. The restrictions brought about mass waves of even stronger drugs and new ways to get high, which in turn just means new ways to die.

Because an addict will always find a way, restrictions or not. No one wins with the crackdown on prescription pain relief, far more have died since the regulations than ever before.

07/28/2023

" By the time anyone else reads this I will be dead. Yes, I am afraid of the unknown, but I am much more afraid of the known I have been living with for the past twenty years. I have coined a term that I feel covers what has been happening to the CPPs in this country: Eugenocide (a combination of Eugenics and Genocide). These policies and laws are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths directly or indirectly, and include many veterans. To be clear, I’m not the only patient to choose su***de, rational or otherwise, and until the pendulum swings back the other way I will be far from the last. "

I’m a 55yr old female, single mother of two adult children who’s planning rational su***de. In 2013, at 34 years old, I was injured in a workplace accident. Subsequently I underwent 15 major surgeries including five failed back surgeries, one failed Total Hip Replacement (THR), and one THR emerg...

07/28/2023

07/28/2023

Cutting perscription pain medication has not stopped addiction, it has not stopped overdose..
It has only increased dramatically since the crackdown on prescription opioids. Many CPPs were cut off or cut down so significantly, they turned to the streets to find some kind of pain management and relief.
So why must it continue, who does it help, and why are so many chronic pain patients who are truly in need left to suffer .. unable to make their own informed medical decisions in regard to treatment???