See, I know that you know that the opioid crisis
is largely a product of the marketing efforts by Purdue and the Sackler family.
No, it's because of the
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You already know that they lied for years about how addictive drugs like oxycontin are.
Let's talk about the
"CDC Deliberately LIES About Pain Patients!"
I'll let you watch the video for all the gory details, but here's a quick summary:
The CDC has been miscounting opioid deaths at least since 2005.
In particular, deaths caused by illicitly manufactured fentanyl on the black market
have been misattributed to prescription opioids.
In addition, they've been wrongly attributing opioids as a single cause of death
when the
All of that results in a category error where pain patients, the doctors that prescribe their pain medicine,
and the pharmaceutical companies that make the medicine are
and pain patients are conflated with drug abusers
when these are two completely different demographic groups with only about a 0.6% overlap.
Yes, only 0.6% of prescription opioid patients become addicted, and only 0.2% overdose.
The CDC was aware of these issues back in 2005,
but instead of fixing the issue, they instead hired the PR firm PRR Inc. in order to cover for their mistakes
and mislead the public about the
Everything people
And Second Thought is no different.
Even though this information is out there for anyone who wants to do
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And that they pushed these drugs on doctors using massive amounts of money leading to over-prescribing,
and to the nearly 140 opioid-related deaths a day we have here in the states.
As anyone who's done the
And it's a
Here's something else you can see supported in the same video:
pain patients who are bogusly denied their pain medication often resort to
because the pain is just too much for them to deal with.
Something like 45,000 Americans die from suicide each year, easily exceeding opioid overdose deaths.
Nationwide, that rate has risen by over 30% since 1999.
We
that being denied pain medicine is the cause of a lot of these suicides.
A survey of over 3100 pain patients
showed that 40% of them have considered suicide because their pain is poorly treated.
But we have no idea how many suicides are pain patients, because the CDC
You're pretty well informed about these facts.
Not if you subscribe to
We'll be looking at how the logic of drug criminalization
and the nature of capitalism's relationship to the state profoundly shaped this event.
Of course. As anyone who watches my channel knows, capitalism has no relationship to the state!
If it has a relationship to the state, then it isn't capitalism. By definition.
I'm linking to that video as well.
You've probably wondered before why some drugs are illegal to consume and others are not.
Why is it heroin, not alcohol, that can put you behind bars?
Because when we tried that with alcohol, it was a
We haven't learned that lesson yet with heroin, although we should have.
But that's
By the way, just for those of you who keep accusing me of portraying these people in the worst light possible,
I'll point out that I'm skipping his insane conspiracy theories
about coffee and tobacco being pushed on people by big corporations
who want workers to be addicted to stimulants,
as well as his bewildering association of them with white supremacy.
You don't need me to debunk all that anyway.
So, yes, what you'll be seeing are his
- According to Michel Foucault... - Yeah, we'll skip this crap, too.
But you see what I mean:
Drugs like fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is both more potent and cheaper to produce than most other opioids,
comes into the US primarily through Latin America, and the drug's comparatively easier potential for overdose
has made it a target of the US's political apparatus.
In targeting fentanyl in their speeches,
presidents and elected politicians of all stripes are promoting a vision of a drug free society,
the idea that if we can get rid of dangerous fentanyl, we can get rid of our drug problem.
But make no mistake: the real aim of these policies
is to focus state protection on the pharmaceutical corporations that benefit American interests.
Anyone who knows anything about prescription opioids knows that this just an incredible
In order for this to be the case, the government would have to
subjecting them to what is tantamount to
solely for wanting to manage their pain in a safe, non-abusive way.
In order for this to be the case, the government would not have psychopathically
classified prescription opioids as Schedule II narcotics.
Also, in order for this to be the case, the CDC would have to be
not propping up
If what he's saying is at all true, then how come all of his talking points
about these evil pharmaceutical companies come
For companies like Purdue, this is all great news.
The relative morality of pharmaceutical opioids over their illicit counterparts
and the implantation of the US as a dominant military and economic power in Latin America
allows them to expand their operations away from the US,
where pharmaceutical opioid consumption has been declining since 2012.
Yeah,
It isn't because there are fewer pain patients!
It's because that's when Obama moved prescription opioids to Schedule II, like I said,
resulting in pain patients being faced with the choice of suffering with their pain,
turning to the black market for pain relief, or committing suicide.
By the way, the constant trend throughout this so-called "opioid epidemic"
is that, while opioid prescriptions have gone
And even then, it's gone down by illicit heroin users;
it's users of illicitly-manufactured fentanyl that's causing the numbers to rise.
That's fentanyl manufactured by black market players,
Purdue has absolutely nothing to do with this!
And that, as I've pointed out repeatedly, is why lying sociopaths like Second Thought
will continually bleat on and on about
but then, as soon as they talk about overdoses, drop the word "prescription"
and just say "opioids": because they're
and blame pain patients and those who treat them for the problem.
If this sounds complicated and a bit all over the place, it's because it is.
No, it's because you're trying to confuse the issue so that people will believe your crap.
If you can only remember one thing from this episode, let it be this:
at the heart of this nexus of pharmaceutical national and geopolitical interests
is the consistent persecution of the poor of racial minorities
and of the people of foreign countries in the search of higher profits and greater global power.
See? Not one word about the persecution of pain patients!
Because he
He is no better than the drug warriors. in fact, he's one of them.
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