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This interview with the Rubin family is part of a documentary called Pain Killers.. Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has called the increase in opioid overdoses a “national health crisis” and says legislative changes are coming soon. Dr. David Juurlink, head of clinical pharmacology and toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre says “This is unquestionably an epidemic. It might be the biggest drug safety problem that North America has ever faced. We have more deaths in the U.S. from opioids than we have for HIV. One person every 30 minutes or so dies from the use of these drugs. Anyone who says this is not an epidemic is wrong. There are more now than 100,000 tombstones to suggest otherwise. It’s the greatest drug safety crisis of our time, and we must face some unpleasant truths and ask some difficult questions. ”. Find more at: http://www.contextwithlornadueck.com. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ContextTV. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ContextTV
A growing number of kids and teens are being sent to the hospital for opioid abuse. Researchers looked at pediatric hospital records from 1997 to 2012 and found a 165-percent increase in opioid poisonings among one to 19-year-olds. Poisoning among teens that was linked to self harm grew by 140-percent and there was a 300-percent jump in cases where teen’s opioid abuse led to an accidental poisoning. Heroin poisonings among adolescents also increased drastically.
For health experts a worst fear has come true alarming numbers out of Cook County show a sharp spike in overdose deaths from opioids. Those on the front lines of the crisis call it yet another indirect symptom of coronavirus and the effects of quarantine.
In total, there were 772 drug overdose deaths among older teens in 2015, with two-thirds more deaths among males than females. Between 2014 and. The increase in the number of kids winding up in intensive care units has been driven by possible suicide attempts among those aged 18 and younge. Drug overdose deaths involving any opioid―prescription opioids (including methadone), other synthetic opioids, and heroin―rose from 18,515 deaths in 2007 to 47,600 deaths in 2017; before declining to 46,802 in 2018.
More than 68% of deaths occurred among males (Figure 3). Among overdose deaths involving opioids, more than half of those who died were aged 25 to 44 years, and more than two-thirds of all overdose deaths involved men. MONDAY, Feb. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) More than a quarter of all opioid overdoses in the United States involve teenagers, and a full fifth of those cases were likely suicide attempts, new. The rate increased from 3.1 deaths per 100,000 teens to 3.7 per 100,000, CNN reports.
Most overdose deaths among teens were unintentional, although female deaths were more than twice as likely as male deaths to be suicides. Overdose death rates among those ages 15 to 19 were highest for opioid drugs, specifically heroin. 1 day ago · Evidence of current or past substance use disorder treatment was more common among opioid overdose deaths (18.6% with stimulants, 19.1% without stimulants) than nonopioid overdose deaths (less than 10%). Among overdose deaths, 37% occurred with a bystander present. “For one-quarter of deaths, there was evidence of a mental health diagnosis.
Update: Teen overdose deaths from prescription drug use continued to rise in 2016 (873 deaths) and 2017 (1,050 deaths). This number decreased in 2018, to 790 deaths, but deaths involving synthetic opioids increased (for all ages) by 10 percent in 2018. That increase was probably due to the use (intentional or unintentional) of fentanyl. In 2015, however, there were 772 total drug overdose deaths among people aged 15 to 19, the report said.
Those deaths included about 500 males and almost 300 females. In 2018, 67,367 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. The age-adjusted rate of overdose deaths decreased by 4.6% from 2017 (21.7 per 100,000) to 2018 (20.7 per 100,000).
Opioids—mainly synthetic opioids (other than methadone)—are currently the main driver of drug overdose deaths.
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These increases have also been associated with dramatic rises in opioid overdose deaths, more than doubling, from 1988 to 1999, among those aged 15–44 years.
This is reflected, for example, in the fact that the number of emergency department visits related to nonmedical use of opioid pain relievers increased by nearly 80% for 17-year-olds and more than doubled for 18–20 and 21–24-year-olds from 2004 to 2008 (NSDUH, data not shown).
• Opioid overdose is responsible for >50% of drug-related deaths in young people ages 15 to 24 years.
from Pediatric Secrets E-Book by Richard A. Polin, Mark F. Ditmar Elsevier Health Sciences, 2020
Still others blame the introduction of extremely potent opioid derivatives such as fentanyl, which have also purportedly contributed to the critical rates of opioid overdoses (CDC, 2018b).
Most of the increase in drug overdose deaths is related to prescription opioids and mirrors an increase in opioid prescribing (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012b).
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This was NOT caused by opioids alone… This man was probably combining benzodiazepines or alcohol with the opioids. Opioids LOWER your blood pressure which actually reduces risks for stroke and heart attacks. Benzodiazepines(especially withdrawals) are the drugs which affect blood pressure in a negative way. I have been on pain management opioid therapy for over 10 years. I am in PERFECT health, normal blood pressure and low risk for heart disease. I exercise, eat an organic diet and practice keeping my mind sharp. When used with a general understanding of opioid pharmacology and caution, opioids are among the safest and most effective pain medications out there. The only stories we hear however are the extreme cases of life destroying addictions. How about shinning the light on the POSITIVE effects of opioids? Maybe show the people with chronic pain that couldn’t get out of bed but now with meds can raise their children, work a job and enjoy life… Too much of ANYTHING can destroy or harm your quality of life. Water can kill you from hyperhydration, should we lobby against H20?
Hell naw.. Americans in pain. What happen to that boy… Dam now he’s special needs.. His mind warp.. Drugs is destructive.. Legal or illegal.. Only the strong survive.. Lessons been taught just say no.. So..
You never know what is ahead for him in life. Many people in wheelchairs get married and have children. If you ask him if he is happy and happy to be alive I am sure the answer would be yes.
There haven’t been an increase in deaths its been the same, last year yall blew up the opioid pandemic, and since covid19 and blm, you haven’t covered the opiod pandemic once. There have actually been less deaths due to homeless people being afraid to share needles cause of covid19. Quit trying to fear monger people. Yall should have talked more about this than blm. More people die from od, than blm deaths
Very sorry for the young men. I’m a husband to my beautiful wife of 25 years. She is a quad mother for 17 years. Who has an automobile accident going to church/ trying to help her brethren to seek the Lord. We have gone through every human emotional stage more me, than my dear who is unequivocally stronger than me. She is my super-woman! My point is that I’ll bluntly tell you that opioids play a roll in your son’s tragedyBut only truth sets men free. Your son brought this chattering experience upon himself. I lovingly with tears in my eyes in no way is being compassionless, judgemental, holier than thoughetc. Guns,drugs don’t kill peopleis the misuse or abuse. Even in traffic school we are thought that 99% of automobile accidents are preventablethe 1% is referred too as an act of Godyet some one is mostly found at fault because a decision or lack off a decision resulted in the accident/ which is the reason is called an accident/ otherwise is treated as homocide. Hence, my proposal for you is that you begin with the truth. We are all broken, we all make decisions and eventually endure the consequences. That being said: I pray for your son prompt recuperation and hope that this video would save as many as possible from the dangers of narcotics incorrectly prescribed or abused. May the truth & light of Christ penetrate every crevice of our fallen state. John 3:16
Hey hes not dead! Hes still with you mom& dad! I see expressions on his face of happiness!! Yes hes got challenges but love, LOVE…. is the answer dont look back at what could’ve should’ve been. He lived and that is a blessing!! Enjoy your time with him. God bless
I used to have a addiction to Ambian but after I told someone I was helped, it is still hard at times but I am much better. If you have a addiction to prescription drugs tell someone and get help.
i bet the government is paying for this druggie’s outrageous medical bills & these people voted for trump!! now, mommy & daddy keep busy feeling good about all they are NOW DOING, YUK!
They really need to stop prescribing so many pain killers unless it is for terminal illness…They have non addicting pain killers that work just as well as these addictive medications work…It is very sad that this affects so many people world wide…
So I can’t get my pain medications (that I can’t function without) because some kid overdosed? It’s not like he was forced to do it. It’s tragic, but why are chronic pain patients being punished for this foolishness???
It was scary when she said that drugs and alcohol weren’t in her home and she didn’t do those thing but it wasn’t enough. That right there is one of my biggest fears. Everyone in my family has had some sort of opioid addiction and me the youngest has never touched a drug a day in my life or had more then a glass of wine out of fear. I pray every night that I never had to face that battle as a parent.
Thats not what opiates do that’s what reckless behavior does. We don’t blame forks for fat people and we shouldn’t blame a drug for choices. This is incredibly sad and I wish it never happened to anyone but lets be honest when saying what led to something. Half the kids i went to school with are junkies and half of them od’d and died but none have ever experienced anything remotely close to this sad, sad story.
Everyone knows that America went too far with opioids, I Can See most of the prescription opioids users strongly protect them and explain that if they are taken for the right reasons and in right dose they safe. I’m on buprenorphine for pain for the last 2 years and I can clearly see my problem with addiction today. The truth is that over 65% ( I believe much more )of prescriptions opioid users should never been put on this kind of medication. I think this type of medication should be used only in palliative care and post-operation pain or cancer pain. Some how before 1980 opioids was used only for advanced cancer treatment, terminal etc. and people manage with out them.
With the Calif edd giving califs drug addicts thousands of dollars they are all running past meth and heroin and putting it all on fetynal. The checks are now arriving and my cities fetty deaths are skyrocketing. If you add up the suicides caused by the edd’s ignoring of desperate struggling residents and add the fetty. Deaths caused by edd fraud money it will surpass the daily covid 19 deaths. “Hey newsome, I have a new daily death toll for you to memorize on a daily basis.”
With Gate’s detailed Ted talk on this issue 5 years ago and Fauci’s personal financial investment, (i.e., how much money they stands to gain https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/8/anthony-fauci-sets-stage-mandatory-vaccine/ ); with the fact that this virus was man-made; with the fact that the covid case numbers and death numbers are being manufacture/inflated with policies to intentionally misrepresent them, how is this an actual pandemic? It would seem that given the irrational decision making & attacks against our world’s economies, something more sinister is going on. A manufactured virus with manufactured false case numbers indicates criminal intensions is afoot. This is not a pandemic but a crime scene. Some things to consider. The death numbers are fake, and the fatality rate is at.006%, so how is this an actual pandemic? Also, the CDC got caught fraudulently padded their covid case number and was forced to do a recount. Reports showing that up to 80% of people tested are given a false positive for covid. Research what the low standards are for ‘Probable Case Definition’, allowing almost any scenario/situation to meet the qualifications to be declared a covid case, which are added to the total covid case count. Research the deceptive standards for what makes up a covid death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls57z3RXcOc.... https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/melanie-arter/cdc-director-i-think-youre-correct-about-inflated-covid-death https://www.westernjournal.com/dr-birx-govt-counting-death-anyone-coronavirus-covid-19-death-regardless-conditions/ Research how hospitals are getting paid to label death as covid related and more than double the amount if they use a ventilator. You should investigate how and why the covid case numbers represents false cases and inflated number. You’re being lied to. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/moreperfectunion/smoking-hot-news-florida-hospital-reports-98-posit-t4068.html https://www.jhconline.com/southwest-florida-hospitals-show-100-positive-tests-but-say-data-is-wrong.html https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/07/15/huge-scandal-300-florida-covid-test-sites-reported-false-100-positivity-rate/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttVDJTCoEe4 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/03/facemasks-coronavirus-says-cdc-who/ “CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others. The use of facemasks is also crucial for health workers and people who are taking care of someone in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27OmxHr6Zm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP2UYpzLof0&feature=youtu.be I think both Gates & Fauci are upset the many Americans have caught on to this Plan-demic BS and will not be buying their vaccine. The drug pushers will not be getting the return on investment they thought they would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0wWmQu1nFs&fbclid=IwAR0BVrTAnSkpYtJJHFNn5suo-yrgmMdQaMj4qYN8B7hgiGUVZZs01HVfZrs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeC1m9hkqVM&fbclid=IwAR113alaJTs1W8ZdMZM8rHJCQVWagH_veGCItSx4hCLQPSjq_wr1uWI0Swo All covid lies from the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLhbaJ7bFbc
This was NOT caused by opioids alone… This man was probably combining benzodiazepines or alcohol with the opioids. Opioids LOWER your blood pressure which actually reduces risks for stroke and heart attacks. Benzodiazepines(especially withdrawals) are the drugs which affect blood pressure in a negative way. I have been on pain management opioid therapy for over 10 years. I am in PERFECT health, normal blood pressure and low risk for heart disease. I exercise, eat an organic diet and practice keeping my mind sharp. When used with a general understanding of opioid pharmacology and caution, opioids are among the safest and most effective pain medications out there. The only stories we hear however are the extreme cases of life destroying addictions. How about shinning the light on the POSITIVE effects of opioids? Maybe show the people with chronic pain that couldn’t get out of bed but now with meds can raise their children, work a job and enjoy life…
Too much of ANYTHING can destroy or harm your quality of life. Water can kill you from hyperhydration, should we lobby against H20?
Hell naw.. Americans in pain. What happen to that boy… Dam now he’s special needs.. His mind warp.. Drugs is destructive.. Legal or illegal.. Only the strong survive.. Lessons been taught just say no.. So..
You never know what is ahead for him in life. Many people in wheelchairs get married and have children. If you ask him if he is happy and happy to be alive I am sure the answer would be yes.
There haven’t been an increase in deaths its been the same, last year yall blew up the opioid pandemic, and since covid19 and blm, you haven’t covered the opiod pandemic once. There have actually been less deaths due to homeless people being afraid to share needles cause of covid19. Quit trying to fear monger people. Yall should have talked more about this than blm. More people die from od, than blm deaths
Very sorry for the young men. I’m a husband to my beautiful wife of 25 years. She is a quad mother for 17 years. Who has an automobile accident going to church/ trying to help her brethren to seek the Lord. We have gone through every human emotional stage more me, than my dear who is unequivocally stronger than me. She is my super-woman! My point is that I’ll bluntly tell you that opioids play a roll in your son’s tragedyBut only truth sets men free. Your son brought this chattering experience upon himself. I lovingly with tears in my eyes in no way is being compassionless, judgemental, holier than thoughetc. Guns,drugs don’t kill peopleis the misuse or abuse. Even in traffic school we are thought that 99% of automobile accidents are preventablethe 1% is referred too as an act of Godyet some one is mostly found at fault because a decision or lack off a decision resulted in the accident/ which is the reason is called an accident/ otherwise is treated as homocide. Hence, my proposal for you is that you begin with the truth. We are all broken, we all make decisions and eventually endure the consequences. That being said: I pray for your son prompt recuperation and hope that this video would save as many as possible from the dangers of narcotics incorrectly prescribed or abused. May the truth & light of Christ penetrate every crevice of our fallen state. John 3:16
Hey hes not dead! Hes still with you mom& dad! I see expressions on his face of happiness!! Yes hes got challenges but love, LOVE…. is the answer dont look back at what could’ve should’ve been. He lived and that is a blessing!! Enjoy your time with him. God bless
I used to have a addiction to Ambian but after I told someone I was helped, it is still hard at times but I am much better. If you have a addiction to prescription drugs tell someone and get help.
i bet the government is paying for this druggie’s outrageous medical bills & these people voted for trump!! now, mommy & daddy keep busy feeling good
about all they are NOW DOING, YUK!
You have to add in shyness/no friends to the good household. When you have friends, you can get into any sort of trouble. Group mentality is volatile.
They really need to stop prescribing so many pain killers unless it is for terminal illness…They have non addicting pain killers that work just as well as these addictive medications work…It is very sad that this affects so many people world wide…
So I can’t get my pain medications (that I can’t function without) because some kid overdosed? It’s not like he was forced to do it. It’s tragic, but why are chronic pain patients being punished for this foolishness???
It was scary when she said that drugs and alcohol weren’t in her home and she didn’t do those thing but it wasn’t enough. That right there is one of my biggest fears. Everyone in my family has had some sort of opioid addiction and me the youngest has never touched a drug a day in my life or had more then a glass of wine out of fear. I pray every night that I never had to face that battle as a parent.
Thats not what opiates do that’s what reckless behavior does. We don’t blame forks for fat people and we shouldn’t blame a drug for choices. This is incredibly sad and I wish it never happened to anyone but lets be honest when saying what led to something. Half the kids i went to school with are junkies and half of them od’d and died but none have ever experienced anything remotely close to this sad, sad story.
Everyone knows that America went too far with opioids, I Can See most of the prescription opioids users strongly protect them and explain that if they are taken for the right reasons and in right dose they safe. I’m on buprenorphine for pain for the last 2 years and I can clearly see my problem with addiction today.
The truth is that over 65% ( I believe much more )of prescriptions opioid users should never been put on this kind of medication.
I think this type of medication should be used only in palliative care and post-operation pain or cancer pain.
Some how before 1980 opioids was used only for advanced cancer treatment, terminal etc. and people manage with out them.
With the Calif edd giving califs drug addicts thousands of dollars they are all running past meth and heroin and putting it all on fetynal. The checks are now arriving and my cities fetty deaths are skyrocketing. If you add up the suicides caused by the edd’s ignoring of desperate struggling residents and add the fetty. Deaths caused by edd fraud money it will surpass the daily covid 19 deaths. “Hey newsome, I have a new daily death toll for you to memorize on a daily basis.”
With Gate’s detailed Ted talk on this issue 5 years ago and Fauci’s personal financial investment, (i.e., how much money they stands to gain https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/8/anthony-fauci-sets-stage-mandatory-vaccine/ ); with the fact that this virus was man-made; with the fact that the covid case numbers and death numbers are being manufacture/inflated with policies to intentionally misrepresent them, how is this an actual pandemic? It would seem that given the irrational decision making & attacks against our world’s economies, something more sinister is going on. A manufactured virus with manufactured false case numbers indicates criminal intensions is afoot. This is not a pandemic but a crime scene. Some things to consider. The death numbers are fake, and the fatality rate is at.006%, so how is this an actual pandemic? Also, the CDC got caught fraudulently padded their covid case number and was forced to do a recount. Reports showing that up to 80% of people tested are given a false positive for covid. Research what the low standards are for ‘Probable Case Definition’, allowing almost any scenario/situation to meet the qualifications to be declared a covid case, which are added to the total covid case count. Research the deceptive standards for what makes up a covid death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls57z3RXcOc.... https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/melanie-arter/cdc-director-i-think-youre-correct-about-inflated-covid-death
https://www.westernjournal.com/dr-birx-govt-counting-death-anyone-coronavirus-covid-19-death-regardless-conditions/ Research how hospitals are getting paid to label death as covid related and more than double the amount if they use a ventilator. You should investigate how and why the covid case numbers represents false cases and inflated number. You’re being lied to. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/moreperfectunion/smoking-hot-news-florida-hospital-reports-98-posit-t4068.html
https://www.jhconline.com/southwest-florida-hospitals-show-100-positive-tests-but-say-data-is-wrong.html
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/07/15/huge-scandal-300-florida-covid-test-sites-reported-false-100-positivity-rate/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttVDJTCoEe4 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/03/facemasks-coronavirus-says-cdc-who/ “CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others. The use of facemasks is also crucial for health workers and people who are taking care of someone in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27OmxHr6Zm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP2UYpzLof0&feature=youtu.be I think both Gates & Fauci are upset the many Americans have caught on to this Plan-demic BS and will not be buying their vaccine. The drug pushers will not be getting the return on investment they thought they would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0wWmQu1nFs&fbclid=IwAR0BVrTAnSkpYtJJHFNn5suo-yrgmMdQaMj4qYN8B7hgiGUVZZs01HVfZrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeC1m9hkqVM&fbclid=IwAR113alaJTs1W8ZdMZM8rHJCQVWagH_veGCItSx4hCLQPSjq_wr1uWI0Swo
All covid lies from the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLhbaJ7bFbc