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mr_lebowski

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1. And how many beds were added to treatment facilities and how many new Suboxone patient slots ...

Reply to dlwickham (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:20 PM

Jan 2018

were created at doctors offices, and how many new methadone clinics were built or expanded?

Cause if those numbers did not simultaneously increase, guess what? Then the streets are likely being flooded with Meth & Heroin to take up the slack.

Oh, and the prisons are likely getting seriously overcrowded and overwhelmed.

And god help the people currently going cold turkey off of Valium or Xanax ... you think kicking Oxy is rough (and it damn sure is) ... Xannies and Valium are even worse, and detox much more likely to be deadly.

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WV pharmacies dispensed 31M fewer painkillers and other powerful drugs last year [View all] dlwickham Jan 2018 OP

And how many beds were added to treatment facilities and how many new Suboxone patient slots ... mr_lebowski Jan 2018 #1

Add klonopin to that list. Benzodiazapene withdrawal is the worst and most deadly of all withdrawals dewsgirl Jan 2018 #5

Oh, yeah, forgot the Klonnies ... that whole class ... even the 'pseudos' like Ambien are abused mr_lebowski Jan 2018 #8

They gotta fill up all those private prisons they built in the '90s BumRushDaShow Jan 2018 #7

Yeah, 'cause the streets are flooded with carfentanil now. Ligyron Jan 2018 #2

It's stronger mg-per-mg but its not a better high ... fentanyl is the dirt-weed of opioids really mr_lebowski Jan 2018 #9

I was being somewhat sarcastic. Ligyron Jan 2018 #13

But there's this... Rollo Jan 2018 #3

Skyrocketing could be a stretch given we don't know the actual count ... mr_lebowski Jan 2018 #10

Oh, I don't know. Opiods tend to make one stop caring... I find that disturbing... Rollo Jan 2018 #11

I'll just leave this link here pecosbob Jan 2018 #4

Here in Washington State, we integrate careful opioid prescribing with Aristus Jan 2018 #6

How to stop drug use without a wall GusBob Jan 2018 #12