With people divided evenly by parties, lied to by big business through media and through schools and churches we ran smack into shock and awe of the designed transfer of wealth and power from the people of America to the elite. Zero tolerance, criminalizing descent and minor offenses, imprisoning thousands. Increasing the military at the expense of everything else. Taking the future by exporting jobs with bonuses, stealing investments including housing, torture, lies, NSA if you look at even the actors, the people who are paid to look good they do not have that golden glow Americans had when we had a future, health care, tolerance, compassion. Many of those that have fallen in this thing probably turn to something to survive.
Also they are not prescribing too many pills for pain, they are prescribing too few and have been for some time. But, the 10 minute doctor appointments do not allow for solving problems that lead to the pain. Insurance companies cannot measure pain with a test so Drs are stuck in hell between desperate suffering patients and insurance companies and their own administration helping them. Add to that the huge increase in making everything regarding chemical dependency punitive of course we have a problem but not treating pain is stupid and futile.
This has to stop. Doctors and pharmacists cannot be Narcs AND caregivers. Wanting pain relief is not the same as drug seeking and that is exactly what this is trying to convince you. We need to stop thinking we can read about some one in an article and diagnose them or label them and put the money into making this a golden place again where people want to live and flourish.