The 60 Minutes piece on opioids was an eye opener for me [View all]

[KelleyKramer]

Last edited Mon Oct 16, 2017, 05:01 AM - Edit history (1)

The small town clinic ordering millions of pills, those places are nothing more than dope pushers

I only have a few personal experiences with those kind of drugs. A few years ago I had a bad work accident and ended up in ICU for three days.

When I went home they gave me a scrip for a full 30 days of really strong pills. There is no way I needed that many, I took maybe 4 in the first two days. I don't remember what they were but about 6 months later a friend saw them and said they sell on the street for about $8 to $10 a pill.

And a couple months after the accident I had to have surgery. And when I woke up in the OR, one of the first things they asked was if I wanted some oxicontin for the pain and I quickly said no. Then he asked if I wanted any dilaudid (sp?) and I emphatically said NO, that's even worse!

And he said.. well, you can take it just the one time. I told him that is EXACTLY what the heroin dealers on the street say!

He didn't ask me anything after that

Ever since then I have had a theory, with no proof, but a theory...

These dope companies are playing a numbers game. Sending me home with a big bottle of pills, they know a certain number of people will actually take them all, and many of those people will get addicted and become long term high paying 'customers'

Same thing with the strong stuff at the hospital. They know a certain number of people can take that stuff just a couple times and will become addicted to their high priced 'product'. So that one is literally a numbers game... the more people you give them to the more people you get addicted

Another interesting thing happened about a year before all that. My father had major back surgery. I was with him in the hospital room that first night and the doctor kept coming in and asking why my dad had not hit the button to use the heavy pain killers.
My dad kept telling him 'I don't need it'. The doctor came and asked that about 4 times, then the 5th time the doctor just leaned over my father and punched the button for him anyway.

I remember thinking what the hell was that all about, and immediately thought the doctor was getting something out of that, some kind of kick back. Maybe not cash, but some sort vacation trip or high value perk. The dope dealers were giving that doctor something, it was obvious from his persistence

And again, I have no proof, this is just my personal speculation

The whole damned thing is nothing but a dope pushing racket


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Edit to add....


Video of 60 Minutes segment


https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-whistleblower/


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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-dea-agent-opioid-crisis-fueled-by-drug-industry-and-congress/


Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress

Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities -- knowing that people were dying -- and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA's efforts to stop it


In the midst of the worst drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to keep addictive opioids off U.S. streets was derailed -- that according to Joe Rannazzisi, one of the most important whistleblowers ever interviewed by 60 Minutes. Rannazzisi ran the DEA's Office of Diversion Control, the division that regulates and investigates the pharmaceutical industry. Now in a joint investigation by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post, Rannazzisi tells the inside story of how, he says, the opioid crisis was allowed to spread -- aided by Congress, lobbyists, and a drug distribution industry that shipped, almost unchecked, hundreds of millions of pills to rogue pharmacies and pain clinics providing the rocket fuel for a crisis that, over the last two decades, has claimed 200,000 lives.



JOE RANNAZZISI: This is an industry that's out of control. What they wanna do, is do what they wanna do, and not worry about what the law is. And if they don't follow the law in drug supply, people die. That's just it. People die.