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The increasing epidemic of opioid and heroin addiction is increasing the spread of HIV. Previously an urban issue, it has now spread to poor, rural areas. Why in our amazing country, would people choose this path?
Interactive - The Guardian
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Addiction plays no favorites. Rich or poor, it can happen to anyone especially accident victims as well as disabled vets who needed narcotics for pain management. The new laws enacted to curb medication amounts given to those in pain are a factor in my opinion. Once addicted, the sudden end to those narcotics is more than some people can bear. They unfortunately see street drugs as their only recourse.
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Col Rebecca Lorraine thanks for the read and share, very informational right next door to my state. Federal, state, local government must take the lead in this epidemic and stop this horrific disease.
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Col Rebecca Lorraine
I truly wish there were other options to prevent the spread of addiction and HIV. People just don't seem to care any more. We are being defeated by our own lack of moral compass. It is sad, indeed.
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Capt Tom Brown
Lack of jobs resulting in extreme poverty. I have never quite understood how people get the opioids if they are prescription. Obviously, they do from somewhere. Paying for the drugs is supposed to be a very large cost yet no works except say, sex workers, yet people are ostensibly so poor shouldn't be able to even pay for that. Next sharing needles and going back to everyone having sex on everyone else. Treatment and prevention cost a lot of money which the fed gvt is slow to provide. I agree it is tragically sad and depressing.
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I am a chronic pain patient. One of the providers I used to see just had his license revoked, and all his employees had theirs revoked, because of concern over opiate overdoses and deaths.
It's a huge issue right now - Big Pharma and the medical world got lots of pain patients hooked on high dose opiates, and then when the DEA slammed on the brakes, people had two choices - rehab and street drugs. When you are in severe pain, the prospect of rehab and perhaps worsening your pain is terrifying.
I am currently on quite a low dose and in fact voluntarily chose to reduce from my high dose last summer, but I was terrified, and it was two months of withdrawal. In the end it was worth it though, for a number of factors, but not everyone has access to the quality providers I do...
It's a huge issue right now - Big Pharma and the medical world got lots of pain patients hooked on high dose opiates, and then when the DEA slammed on the brakes, people had two choices - rehab and street drugs. When you are in severe pain, the prospect of rehab and perhaps worsening your pain is terrifying.
I am currently on quite a low dose and in fact voluntarily chose to reduce from my high dose last summer, but I was terrified, and it was two months of withdrawal. In the end it was worth it though, for a number of factors, but not everyone has access to the quality providers I do...
Col Rebecca Lorraine
Rural counties across the US becoming a powder keg for HIV outbreak
The CDC has determined a county’s vulnerability with a recipe that includes high rates of fatal overdoses, prescription opioid sales and searing poverty
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PO1 Brian Austin
Col Rebecca Lorraine - People get prescriptions and sell the pills. They crush the pills, then cook it, then inject it, sharing needles, having sex...the perfect storm. I see it all the time where i work. There are 12 homeless junkies that do exactly that. I find the paraphernalia, used syringes, burnt foil or spoons, all over the place, along with sex in dumpsters and the occasional OD. It's something i really wish i could unsee. Where i work is hardly a "city", maybe 70,000 pop., mostly rural, with some strip malls and housing developments.
And now there is new synthetic opioid hitting the streets, officially called U-4-77-00, that doesn't even have a name yet. It's similar to Fentanyl and 50 times stronger than heroin. Big Pharma just keeps crankin' them out.
And now there is new synthetic opioid hitting the streets, officially called U-4-77-00, that doesn't even have a name yet. It's similar to Fentanyl and 50 times stronger than heroin. Big Pharma just keeps crankin' them out.
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Col Rebecca Lorraine - That is certainly a great question. For instance how is Fentanyl being used as a cutting agent for heroin and cocaine? It's pretty mind boggling...
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