Addiction: Discover how opioid addiction affects the brain, how evidence-based treatments save lives

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I saw this on Maryland Public TV last night. It is being rerun at several different times, depending on where you are.

It was based in Welch, West Virginia. Really depressing. At one time, there was a chance to do something about this that would have helped forestall the problem. Now, however, the work is being done after the fact.

Addiction

Discover how opioid addiction affects the brain and how evidence-based treatments are saving lives.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

https://weta.org/tv/program/nova

http://www.wvpublic.org/tvschedule

Nova
Addiction #4512
Wednesday, October 17, 09:00 pm on WVPB HD

Duration: 0:56:46

Description: NOVA joins scientists and sufferers alike as they probe the mysteries of addiction.

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Broadcast In: English

Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

[elleng]

1. Thanks, will check it out.

Recently saw Bourdain in WV, but think I missed this one.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I watched that last night, as well. It was quite sobering.

As long as drug manufacturers put profits above human suffering, this problem will continue.

Between 2006 and 2016, drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in Williamson, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data obtained by the House Committee.

Springboro, Ohio-based Miami-Luken sold 6.4 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy from 2008 to 2015, the company disclosed to the panel. That’s more than half of all painkillers shipped to the pharmacy those years. In a single year (2008 to 2009), Miami-Luken’s shipments increased three-fold to the Mingo County town.

Miami-Luken also was a major supplier to the now-closed Save-Rite Pharmacy in the Mingo County town of Kermit, population 400.

The drug wholesaler shipped 5.7 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Save-Rite and a branch pharmacy called Sav-Rite #2 between 2005 and 2011, according records Miami-Luken gave the committee. In 2008, the company provided 5,624 prescription pain pills for every man, woman and child in Kermit.

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/health/drug-firms-shipped-m-pain-pills-to-wv-town-with/article_ef04190c-1763-5a0c-a77a-7da0ff06455b.html

[KT2000]

3. It was very good

I think Vancouver is headed in the right direction. But things are too punitive in the US. Our local police doesn't even want to carry narcan, preferring to let them die because they are "criminals."

Those poor babies though. I wonder how susceptible they will be throughout their lives to becoming addicts themselves.