This video answers key questions about the opioid crisis in Canada and across North America. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have been increasing. In 2016 there were 2,861 apparent opioid-related deaths were recorded in Canada and at least 1,460 from January to June 2017, which makes it the deadliest drug crisis in Canadian history.. This video was made by McMaster students Angie Ibrahim, Reuben Douma, Jessica Amin and Ariel Huynh. Copyright McMaster University 2018. References: Government of Canada (2018). Apparent opioid-related deaths. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-abuse/prescription-drug-abuse/opioids/apparent-opioid-related-deaths.html
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year.. Dr. Jaime Fernandez, Pediatric Neonatologist with Homestead Hospital, says the opioid epidemic is startling, because it makes these moms completely dysfunctional and incapable of taking care of their babies.
Carfentanil is 10,000 times stronger than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl, Amelia Santaniello reports (1:59). WCCO 4 News At 6 – May 19, 2017
Spurned by physicians, more users seem to be turning to street drugs that contain fentanyl and similar substances. Fatal drug overdose deaths in the United States rose by 12% from 2016 to 2017. And illicit synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are linked to an estimated 60% of opioid-related deaths. Visit www.mdedge.com for more details.
This webinar features the Children and Recovering Mothers (CHARM) collaborative based in Burlington, VT. CHARM is a multidisciplinary group of agencies serving pregnant women with opioid dependence, their infants and families. Discussion centers on services provided and collaborative practice elements across systems at multiple points of intervention – prenatal, birth, and postpartum. Learn more at http://www.samhsa.gov/medication-assisted-treatment.
Since 2005, there has been a sixfold increase in Kentucky of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) — from 175 babies in 2005 to more than 1,050 babies in 2014. This rise in exposure can be attributed partly to the surge in heroin abuse.. At the conclusion of this offering, the participant will be able to: 1. Describe the medication used for substitution and maintenance in pregnancy.. 2. Describe the proper prenatal monitoring for pregnant women who are addicted to opiates.
This talk will discuss the pharmacology of opioids including why people respond to opioids differently. The main focus of this session will be on the use of opioids during pregnancy and the potential effects on the newborn, including the development of neonatal abstinence syndrome or neonatal opioid withdrawal. Recent research, ongoing and future research studies in neonatal abstinence syndrome will be presented for discussion.. PRESENTERS. Lauren E Kelly Ph.D., M.Sc., C.C.R.P.. Dr. Lauren E Kelly has a PhD in Pharmacology and completed two post-doctoral fellowships at the Hospital for Sick Children and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Dr. Kelly is a systematic reviewer with the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group and a Certified Clinical Research Professional. She was recruited to the University of Manitoba in September 2017 and is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics & Child Health and Community Health Sciences. Dr. Kelly has been working in pediatric clinical research since 2008 and her research focuses on pediatric and neonatal opioid response.
Opioids Increasingly Tied to Deaths of Pregnant Women. TUESDAY, Nov. 20, 2018 As the U.S. opioid epidemic rages unchecked, new research shows that pregnancy-related deaths due to opioid misuse more than doubled between 2007 and 2016.
Deaths during or soon after pregnancy rose 34 percent during that time, and the percentage involving heroin, fentanyl or prescription painkillers (such as. The vast majority of opioid-related deaths in the study group (70 percent) occurred either during pregnancy or within 42 days after terminating a pregnancy, according to the new report. Also, the underlying class of drugs implicated in a pregnant woman’s death shifted over the decade, with fewer fatalities involving methadone. Opioids increasingly tied to deaths of pregnant women by Alan Mozes, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—As the U.S. opioid epidemic rages unchecked, new research shows that pregnancy-related deaths due.
Across the country, the number of pregnant women addicted to opioids more than quadrupled from 1999 to 2014, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The analysis, published. As an example, for mothers, opioid use disorder has been linked to maternal death 1,2; for babies, opioid use disorder or long-term opioid use has been linked to poor fetal growth, preterm birth, stillbirth, specific birth defects, and neonatal abstinence syndrome (see below) 3,4. The effects of prenatal opioid exposure on children over time are largely unknown.
In some cases, pregnant women with opioid use disorder may also be prescribed opioids. “Buprenorphine or methadone is prescribed as medication for opioid use disorder. Methadone and Buprenorphine Can Effectively Treat Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy. Methadone has been used to treat pregnant women with opioid use disorder since the 1970s and was recognized as the standard of care by 1998. 1,4 Since then, studies have shown that buprenorphine is also an effective treatment option. 10 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the.
Opioid medications, commonly called narcotics, are derived from the poppy plant. Some opioids are available as prescription medications. While these medications are an important option for managing pain, repetitive use can lead to dependence, physical tolerance, craving, inability to control use and continued use despite harmful consequences (opioid use disorder). Opioid use disorder during pregnancy has been linked with serious negative health outcomes for pregnant women and developing babies, including preterm birth, stillbirth, maternal mortality, and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS).
Opioids Increasingly Tied to Deaths of Pregnant Women “Overdose deaths continue to be unacceptably high, and targeted efforts are needed to reduce the number of deaths.
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Women who take chronic opioids during pregnancy are at risk for tolerance, and the neonate is at risk for opioid withdrawal syndrome.
Medical withdrawal of the pregnant patient from opioids is not recommended because of the high rate of relapse, which exposes the mother to increased risk and also increases the likelihood of fetal intrauterine death.
Opioids During pregnancy, 1% of women report opiate use and as many as 4% test positive for opiates.138 Because there is no known teratogenic effect of maternal opiates on the fetus, the goals of treating opiate dependence during pregnancy are to minimize maternal and neonatal morbidity.
Although some of the direct effects of opiates remain unclear, what is clear is that opiate use in pregnancy causes neonatal abstinence syndrome and that a majority of neonates born to regular opiate users will go through some form of withdrawal (Hayes & Brown, 2012; Ko et al.,
The opioids are also distributed to the fetus in pregnant women, accounting for the respiratory depression produced in the fetus when the mother is given opioids near term.
Kutluk Oktay, MD, FACOG is one of the world's foremost experts in fertility preservation as well as ovarian stimulation and in vitro fertilization for infertility treatments. He developed and performed the world's first ovarian transplantation procedures as well as pioneered new ovarian stimulation protocols for embryo and oocyte freezing for breast and endometrial cancer patients.
I have chronic pain in my back. I’ve served my country in the military and now I suffer every day. I’m not saying that nothing needs to be done however coming down on doctors is not the answer. Why should I suffer because others that don’t need the drugs I take abuse them. I’m being punished for their actions. I used to be on oxycodone 30s. I stopped using them long enough for my tolerance to drop and now I’m on 15s. However my doctor has told me due to government involvement he cannot up my dose to 20s so I am suffering because it’s time for my medication to be increased and my doctor can’t because some asshole in a high paying government position has decided what’s best for my healthcare. It’s rediculose at best. It’s criminal at the least. Please find another way to deal with drug abusers. My suffering isn’t the answer. It’s not fair to me or millions of others
So, why’s that in North America. There are people in ohter parts of the world too but no one talks about a Russian or European opioid crisis. What’s so special about those places that there is none?
“Opioid epidemic: How many deaths are too many? What can be done to make a change…” (Pain Management perspective).
Dr. Leon Margolin Presentation at the Case Western Reserve University Life Learning Program meeting called: ” The Opioid Epidemic: Where are we now?”
Please find the slides of the presentation in the link attached. 1) https://www.dropbox.com/s/s99usked5j4u7zk/Leon-Margolin-CW-presentation-2.pdf?dl=0 2) https://www.dropbox.com/s/o68fz2bu1s4wo69/Opioid-Conference-flyer-FINAL.pdf?dl=0
We would like to thank Sheryl Hirsh, Case Western Reserve University and Academy of Medicine for organizing and sponsoring this event.
YOU CAN BE A HERO YOU CAN SAVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THIS IS THE SOLUTION
This is the moment where you can finally do something about the thousands of young Americans that are dying each year from opioids. We invented a new idea. A device with the sole purpose of preventing people from dying, before they can receive the help they need, who are abusing opioids such as heroin. An idea for a medical devise that would save someone from an over-dose was thought up, designed, and engineered on paper, but in order for it to materialize, funds are needed in order to manufacture the device. There has been an estimate for the cost of manufacturing. A lot of hard work and dedication has been done to perfect the engineering, and it would only be best if a patent was applied to make sure the devise gets licenses out to as many manufactures as possible in order to get the medical devise, Into the hands of those that use unregulated opioids that are sold on the street in which our government can’t control, and never will. It’s our sister’s and brother’s, fathers and mothers Innocent people who are dying by the hundreds of thousands every year, and are the real victims of the war on drugs, which our government has inflicted on its own people. This isn’t a joke. The sooner we can acquire investment, the more lives you can save. Once this device gets on the market, as a donation by you, you will be responsible for saving not thousands, but millions of lives. We only need to raise $50,000 to make this a reality. Every person that makes a donation, will be an investor, and a hero. Your donation will be in our records, and when we succeed, we will give back your donation with a metal of recognition as a hero to the American people.
You can make a donation at this link below
http:/gf.me/u/w9db5n
COMMUNAL ADDRESS
My fellow American brothers and sisters, Lord be with us. – If governments sold Safe opiates, “yes there is a such thing”, that were regulated by government, as long as they were cheaper than heroin, people would not purchase illegal narcotic’s that are cut with synthetic opioids that government cooked up; that are from “3 to 5,000” times stronger than heroin. We wouldn’t be losing our brothers and sisters; “people”, that choose to use opiates to improve their lives, because why live in pain when you can take a simple pill. Pain does kill you over time believe it or not, and living in pain is completely exhausting. You can’t sleep or think straight because all your thinking about is the pain, and to get relief from it. I would pay a million dollars for that relief. Taking away pain is the ultimate improvement in someone’s life, but people want to talk like its wrong. In order to create a safe environment for “all” with-out the discrimination of any culture is the answer to solving the opioid epidemic. God created the poppy with 20 alkaloids, but when chemist started extracting morphine and the other separate alkaloids, you have a problem. The government has around 65 synthetic opioid’s that are “schedule 1”, and over 20 that are “schedule 2” WHY? Why have they created all these? Blame the government, not the street dealers. Most heroin dealers that push their product on the streets, are basically selling to pay for their own habit. If Safe opiates where cheap, then current addicts wouldn’t have to deal heroin to pay for their habit. The government is the biggest drug dealer there is, and Purdue Pharma’s top executives; the company that invented OxyContin, First lied, and said that it wasn’t as addictive as morphine or other types of narcotic pain medications, but the side effects of oxycontin are the same as heroin, and within the first 4 years of OxyContin’s release. 200,000 people that were legally prescribed had died from over-doses. The person who worked for the F.D.A. that approved Oxycontin, for use in pain management quit working for the government and started working for this company, Purdue Pharma within the same year. America is suppose to be the land of justice, “FAIRNESS”, and it’s not justice when impoverished street dealers get life sentences for selling a substance to someone that dies from it, when these corporations are killing millions of people for the same exact thing, and the harshest penalty for their actions are misdemeanors. “All pharmaceutical companies”, are regulated by the government. In order to be a pharmaceutical company, you need to be chartered or contracted with the government, which is called a corporation; and all corporations have to pay corporate taxes on the revenue made. Use to be 35% tax, but President Trump has lowered it to 25%. The more money the drug companies make the more money the federal government pockets. Medicaid is nothing more than the governments way of money laundering. Policies passed by the government make Medicaid pay any for prescription no matter the cost. It’s the middleclass worker that flips the bill for grandma’s $30,000 per month or more medications. Billions of tax dollars are being spent on something that should only cost thousands of dollars. 30,000 dollars in taxes are used to pay for something that only cost a few dollars to produce, and these corporations are paying the government billions of dollars that are used for political interest without anyone realizing it. We just think that our hard-earned dollars are being used for social security, which pays for Medicaid etc. We don’t think twice about this taxation, but we would if it were used in a unneeded manner. This is why Americans are dying. The government “wants” you to blame the heroin dealers. It’s their game. As long as narcotics are illegal. The government keeps the monopoly for themselves. Illegal narcotic also gives governmental authority justification to steal “and to impose fines for profit” from the people. Last year alone $5.3 billion in property forfeitures had been seized from illegal activities like drug trafficking, and dealing. More cash and property had been stolen by the police than did criminals get from burglaries and robberies last year. Is it just a coincidence? that when the government made narcotics illegal, within the same year violated the constitution to amend it to impose income taxes which both happen in the year “1913”. But the government actually didn’t make narcotics illegal then. They only passed “The Harrison Narcotic Tax Act in 1914”, which only tells you one thing. The people running the government during this time were passing bills, left and right, and amending the constitution in order to increase revenue, to increase government power, and control over the economy. 1913 is also the same year the Federal Reserve was created. Which is the governments BANK. Government is supposed to only regulate. How can you regulate something that is out-right prohibited? because obviously the current agenda by our policy makers aren’t working. Secondly, Drugs are materials which are “possessed and owned”, which is classified as property. Which is a constitutional right. Government is also forbidden from interfering with contracts between individuals or groups. So, in a since, Heroin dealing would be protected under the constitution. Which sounds wrong, but sad but true. Government has the resources to innovate real solutions or they just don’t care for heroin addict, which seems to be the bias attitude in society. Their perfect propaganda I would say. Our government also likes to televise addicts from the street. They brainwash people in believing that if you use illegal drugs; you will eventually become a homeless drug fiend, that begs for money, while shooting up in a dark alley, but this is far from the truth, and is only the dirty side of what illegal narcotics have caused in this country. Most people who are homeless are alcoholics. If narcotics were consumed as a beverage, like they had been with patent medicines before 1905. Alcohol, by far, would be the worst, and most toxic, dangerous naturally occurring substance, that someone could consume. There wasn’t a social movement against narcotics like there was with alcohol. No-one probably knows that John F. Kennedy was dependent on narcotics because of a back injury. Was he running the country from a dark alley? no he wasn’t. He was in the highest office, leading a nation. We all know what happened with alcohol prohibition. It’s even fact that the F.B.I. was intentionally putting deadly chemicals in alcohol during the prohibition. So, people would get sick or die from drinking. Just so society would once and for all demonize alcohol. Well history does repeat itself, because I wonder how fentanyl gets into the heroin supply. Then after how many years were those nicotine vapor devices been on the market. all of a sudden, teenagers start dying by the handful because of vaping. Well, God Bless, and stay strong.
I am so sick of losers who get addicted to opioids and blaming it on everybody but themselves: doctors, manufacturers, other countries and now, pharmacies. Pretty soon they will be suing UPS and Fedex for delivering them. It was never a secret that they were addictive and it is the addict themselves that are 100% responsible for their addictions. I use low dose opioids to manage chronic pain, that without, I could not work, be active or even leave home for more than anything absolutely necessary. Now, because of all these loser addicts, my access to a normal life is constantly being threatened. All this constitutes addicts victimizing everybody with deep pockets and now even people that need them legitimately. If you are an addict and are contributing to this problem, I hope you overdose and die a long, slow and painful death. You are a completely worthless piece of shit to the rest of society. Go die on your own time.
Alcohol is responsible for five times the amount of deaths as all other drugs combined. Where’s one single person to talk about the (legal) booze crisis???
I have chronic pain in my back. I’ve served my country in the military and now I suffer every day. I’m not saying that nothing needs to be done however coming down on doctors is not the answer. Why should I suffer because others that don’t need the drugs I take abuse them. I’m being punished for their actions. I used to be on oxycodone 30s. I stopped using them long enough for my tolerance to drop and now I’m on 15s. However my doctor has told me due to government involvement he cannot up my dose to 20s so I am suffering because it’s time for my medication to be increased and my doctor can’t because some asshole in a high paying government position has decided what’s best for my healthcare. It’s rediculose at best. It’s criminal at the least. Please find another way to deal with drug abusers. My suffering isn’t the answer. It’s not fair to me or millions of others
Do you want viable patients in horrifying pain to now have to use heroin? Well then you Quacks are getting your wish! Cut with Chinese Fentanyl!
So, why’s that in North America. There are people in ohter parts of the world too but no one talks about a Russian or European opioid crisis. What’s so special about those places that there is none?
“Opioid epidemic: How many deaths are too many? What can be done to make a change…” (Pain Management perspective).
Dr. Leon Margolin Presentation at the Case Western Reserve University Life Learning Program meeting called: ” The Opioid Epidemic: Where are we now?”
Please find the slides of the presentation in the link attached.
1) https://www.dropbox.com/s/s99usked5j4u7zk/Leon-Margolin-CW-presentation-2.pdf?dl=0
2) https://www.dropbox.com/s/o68fz2bu1s4wo69/Opioid-Conference-flyer-FINAL.pdf?dl=0
We would like to thank Sheryl Hirsh, Case Western Reserve University and Academy of Medicine for organizing and sponsoring this event.
https://youtu.be/ujAS9UnHbgU
YOU CAN BE A HERO YOU CAN SAVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THIS IS THE SOLUTION
This is the moment where you can finally do something about
the thousands of young Americans that are dying each year from opioids. We
invented a new idea. A device with the sole purpose of preventing people from
dying, before they can receive the help they need, who are abusing opioids such
as heroin. An idea for a medical devise that would save someone from an
over-dose was thought up, designed, and engineered on paper, but in order for
it to materialize, funds are needed in order to manufacture the device. There
has been an estimate for the cost of manufacturing. A lot of hard work and
dedication has been done to perfect the engineering, and it would only be best
if a patent was applied to make sure the devise gets licenses out to as many manufactures
as possible in order to get the medical devise, Into the hands of those that use
unregulated opioids that are sold on the street in which our government can’t
control, and never will. It’s our sister’s and brother’s, fathers and mothers Innocent
people who are dying by the hundreds of thousands every year, and are the real
victims of the war on drugs, which our government has inflicted on its own
people. This isn’t a joke. The sooner we can acquire investment, the more lives
you can save. Once this device gets on the market, as a donation by you, you
will be responsible for saving not thousands, but millions of lives. We only
need to raise $50,000 to make this a reality. Every person that makes a
donation, will be an investor, and a hero. Your donation will be in our records,
and when we succeed, we will give back your donation with a metal of
recognition as a hero to the American people.
You can make a donation at this link below
http:/gf.me/u/w9db5n
COMMUNAL ADDRESS
My fellow American brothers and sisters, Lord be with us. –
If governments sold Safe opiates, “yes there is a such thing”, that
were regulated by government, as long as they were cheaper than heroin,
people would not purchase illegal narcotic’s that are cut with synthetic
opioids that government cooked up; that are from “3 to 5,000” times
stronger than heroin. We wouldn’t be losing our brothers and sisters;
“people”, that choose to use opiates to improve their lives, because
why live in pain when you can take a simple pill. Pain does kill you over time
believe it or not, and living in pain is completely exhausting. You can’t sleep
or think straight because all your thinking about is the pain, and to get
relief from it. I would pay a million dollars for that relief. Taking away pain
is the ultimate improvement in someone’s life, but people want to talk like its
wrong. In order to create a safe environment for “all” with-out the
discrimination of any culture is the answer to solving the opioid
epidemic. God created the poppy with 20
alkaloids, but when chemist started extracting morphine and the other separate
alkaloids, you have a problem. The government has around 65 synthetic opioid’s
that are “schedule 1”, and over 20 that are “schedule 2”
WHY? Why have they created all these? Blame the government, not the street
dealers. Most heroin dealers that push their product on the streets, are
basically selling to pay for their own habit. If Safe opiates where cheap, then
current addicts wouldn’t have to deal heroin to pay for their habit. The
government is the biggest drug dealer there is, and Purdue Pharma’s top
executives; the company that invented OxyContin, First lied, and said that it
wasn’t as addictive as morphine or other types of narcotic pain medications,
but the side effects of oxycontin are the same as heroin, and within the first
4 years of OxyContin’s release. 200,000 people that were legally prescribed had
died from over-doses. The person who worked for the F.D.A. that approved
Oxycontin, for use in pain management quit working for the government and
started working for this company, Purdue Pharma within the same year. America
is suppose to be the land of justice, “FAIRNESS”, and it’s not
justice when impoverished street dealers get life sentences for selling a
substance to someone that dies from it, when these corporations are killing
millions of people for the same exact thing, and the harshest penalty for their
actions are misdemeanors. “All
pharmaceutical companies”, are regulated by the government. In order to be
a pharmaceutical company, you need to be chartered or contracted with the
government, which is called a corporation; and all corporations have to pay
corporate taxes on the revenue made. Use to be 35% tax, but President Trump has
lowered it to 25%. The more money the drug companies make the more money the
federal government pockets. Medicaid is nothing more than the governments way
of money laundering. Policies passed by the government make Medicaid pay any
for prescription no matter the cost. It’s the middleclass worker that flips the
bill for grandma’s $30,000 per month or more medications. Billions of tax
dollars are being spent on something that should only cost thousands of
dollars. 30,000 dollars in taxes are used to pay for something that only cost a
few dollars to produce, and these corporations are paying the government
billions of dollars that are used for political interest without anyone
realizing it. We just think that our hard-earned dollars are being used for
social security, which pays for Medicaid etc. We don’t think twice about this
taxation, but we would if it were used in a unneeded manner. This is why
Americans are dying. The government “wants” you to blame the heroin
dealers. It’s their game. As long as narcotics are illegal. The government
keeps the monopoly for themselves. Illegal narcotic also gives governmental
authority justification to steal “and to impose fines for profit”
from the people. Last year alone $5.3 billion in property forfeitures had been
seized from illegal activities like drug trafficking, and dealing. More cash
and property had been stolen by the police than did criminals get from
burglaries and robberies last year. Is it just a coincidence? that when the
government made narcotics illegal, within the same year violated the
constitution to amend it to impose income taxes which both happen in the year
“1913”. But the government actually didn’t make narcotics illegal
then. They only passed “The Harrison Narcotic Tax Act in 1914”, which
only tells you one thing. The people running the government during this time
were passing bills, left and right, and amending the constitution in order to
increase revenue, to increase government power, and control over the economy.
1913 is also the same year the Federal Reserve was created. Which is the
governments BANK. Government is supposed to only regulate. How can you regulate
something that is out-right prohibited? because obviously the current agenda by
our policy makers aren’t working. Secondly, Drugs are materials which are
“possessed and owned”, which is classified as property. Which is a
constitutional right. Government is also forbidden from interfering with
contracts between individuals or groups. So, in a since, Heroin dealing would
be protected under the constitution. Which sounds wrong, but sad but true.
Government has the resources to innovate real solutions or they just don’t care
for heroin addict, which seems to be the bias attitude in society. Their
perfect propaganda I would say. Our government also likes to televise addicts
from the street. They brainwash people in believing that if you use illegal
drugs; you will eventually become a homeless drug fiend, that begs for money,
while shooting up in a dark alley, but this is far from the truth, and is only
the dirty side of what illegal narcotics have caused in this country. Most
people who are homeless are alcoholics. If narcotics were consumed as a
beverage, like they had been with patent medicines before 1905. Alcohol, by
far, would be the worst, and most toxic, dangerous naturally occurring
substance, that someone could consume. There wasn’t a social movement against
narcotics like there was with alcohol. No-one probably knows that John F.
Kennedy was dependent on narcotics because of a back injury. Was he running the
country from a dark alley? no he wasn’t. He was in the highest office, leading
a nation. We all know what happened with alcohol prohibition. It’s even fact
that the F.B.I. was intentionally putting deadly chemicals in alcohol during
the prohibition. So, people would get sick or die from drinking. Just so
society would once and for all demonize alcohol. Well history does repeat
itself, because I wonder how fentanyl gets into the heroin supply. Then after
how many years were those nicotine vapor devices been on the market. all of a
sudden, teenagers start dying by the handful because of vaping. Well, God
Bless, and stay strong.
I am so sick of losers who get addicted to opioids and blaming it on everybody but themselves: doctors, manufacturers, other countries and now, pharmacies. Pretty soon they will be suing UPS and Fedex for delivering them. It was never a secret that they were addictive and it is the addict themselves that are 100% responsible for their addictions. I use low dose opioids to manage chronic pain, that without, I could not work, be active or even leave home for more than anything absolutely necessary. Now, because of all these loser addicts, my access to a normal life is constantly being threatened. All this constitutes addicts victimizing everybody with deep pockets and now even people that need them legitimately. If you are an addict and are contributing to this problem, I hope you overdose and die a long, slow and painful death. You are a completely worthless piece of shit to the rest of society. Go die on your own time.
Alcohol is responsible for five times the amount of deaths as all other drugs combined. Where’s one single person to talk about the (legal) booze crisis???