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[Autumn]

1. What a fucking waste.

[cemaphonic]

2. Looks like it does little to address one of the chief causes of the current epidemic.

This isn't one of those periodic flare-ups where heroin becomes fashionable among recreational drug users, and has a lot more to do with prescription painkillers like Oxycontin being over-prescribed.

Needs less of a "War on Drugs" approach, and more of a "make sure hospitals and doctors are doing their jobs responsibly" approach.

[jwirr]

3. Lack of communication between hospitals, doctors and treatment

centers is a really big problem. I have no idea if this is in this bill but at this point a patient in any of those situations can refuse to let them communicate - thus it becomes a pipe line for more drugs. Even the treatment center is just another source of drugs in between doctors visits.

And we are finally talking about letting people out of the jails. We need a program that allows the local treatment center to reach into the jail so that there can be a link to help even before the prisoner is released.

I want to read the actual bill before I reject it. They may have even had enough sense to listen to the local level who has to deal with this.

[SusanLarson]

10. Overprescribed

I would rather 10 druggies get their fix, than one person in legitimate pain be denied relief.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. Welcome to DU

My wife suffers bad leg pain due to rheumatoid arthritis and neuropathy. The hoops she has to jump through are getting worse.

[valerief]

4. So what's in the bill? Force pharma to produce more opiods? Send more troops into Afghanistan

to protect more poppy fields? Shovel more money at private prisons with "programs?"

Anything this Senate says it'll do to "help citizens" means it'll help the .01% to steal more money from the Treasury.

[Dustlawyer]

5. The problem not mentioned is the effect it has already been having for people who need

these prescriptions. Their doctors are afraid to write these prescriptions, while those wanting to abuse these powerful drugs can still find pill doctors who will.

Both my mother and father-in-law recently had surgeries and were given Tramodol, a very mild pain reliever instead of the stronger stuff. I watched both suffer extreme pain with no relief.

I agree something needs to be done about this problem of abuse, but there needs to be safe guards to protect patients with real pain, those with allergies to alternative medications, and those with chronic pain that have no alternatives they can use. So far all efforts have failed to correct the problem, have not only failed, but hurt those who need these medications. They are piss tested and treated like criminals for the crime of being in severe pain!

[fbc]

8. Exactly! They caused the heroin epidemic by reducing access to painkillers.

There are people living in incredible pain that need these drugs and when you take them away buying heroin from dealers is all they have left.

[SoapBox]

9. Yes!

A complete failure to fully understand those that are in pain and how to help them, instead of making them suffer due to the freaks that find ways around regulation.

Telling someone in constant pain to take a Tylenol, doesn't cut it.

[musiclawyer]

6. Legalize weed. The obvious first step

Most reps are too dumbass to grasp concept

[lovuian]

7. The Hospitals need to change Pain as the 5th Vital sign

We need to not dispense pain killers like candy

this addiction is due to medical prescription drugs

children especially should really be discouraged from pain killers and use only as necessary

this addiction started with US Medical community

[FighttheFuture]

15. They don't. Class II Drigs like Oxy are much harder to get these days, to the point of stupidity.

They need to find better ways to handle this because many people do need these types of drugs for pain management.

[iscooterliberally]

11. I know I probably sound like a broken record, but here I go again.

As adults we can buy a semi automatic combat rifle without a prescription, but not a bottle of vicodin or percocet? How are those more dangerous than a freaking gun? I mean really, how could they not see that restricting access to regulated drugs wouldn't open the floodgates to unregulated drugs? Our elected officials are truly clueless on this problem. If we restrict sales of Tanqueray, then bathtub gin will replace it. Gin will not go away, it will only become far more dangerous. The choice is between more dangerous or less dangerous. The controlled substances act hands all the control to organized crime. These drug warriors are pro crime and anti-freedom, while trying to sell us on their 'tough on crime' bullshit.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Treatment, not incarceration!

I'm in AA and know yet someone else who died of drug addiction issues earlier this week...

[Cassiopeia]

13. The war on drugs rages on

and the real problems continue to be ignored.

Such a fucking waste.

[Sunlei]

14. I think the Drug Sales Corps should pay for treatment. They knew a ridiculous amount of Oxycontin

dosages were sold.

Treatment probably needs to be changed aswell, it has to high a failure rate and will swamp our healthcare system.

I did not realize "More than 47,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2014". There must be millions of addicted people.

And then there is the meth. problem, God is that stuff addictive and easy to make.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. Exactly how many of these assbites

take money from pharmaceuticals but are AGAINST cannabis? Fuckers.