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The FDA Just Approved OxyContin To Be Prescribed To Children
Submitted by Josh Mur via TheAntiMedia.org,
The infamously untrustworthy Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has furthered its reputation as one of America’s most beloved hypocrites with its latest motion. It was reported on Thursday that the FDA has just approved OxyContin prescriptions for children between the ages of 11 and 16 years-old.
For those unfamiliar, OxyContin is an opiate-based pharmaceutical painkiller used to ease severe pain. Aside from being known for its powerful effects on users, it is also notorious for its widespread abuse. Its effects on the mind and body are strikingly similar to heroin, making it dangerously addictive. It typically contains anywhere between 40-160 milligrams of OxyCodone, which lasts around 12 hours thanks to its extended release. However, abusers generally crush the pills to inhale or inject them with a syringe by mixing it with water, thus receiving a dose that is meant to stretch over a 12-hour span almost instantly.
After a 2004 study was abandoned due to an apparent lack of monetary resources, the FDA announced that pediatric studies on the effects of OxyContin would be underway in order to establish whether or not this pharmaceutical version of heroin should be available for children. After a very short period of trials and research, the FDA has concluded that three years is enough time to evaluate the long-term effects of extended use of a highly potent drug in children. Keep in mind that the FDA is the same government organization that has lumped marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms into the same category as Schedule 1 narcotics, deeming them to have zero medicinal value and heightened potential for abuse (because we all know a handful of people addicted to psychedelic mushrooms, right?).
One of the most blatant problems with this new allowance is that opiate addiction itself has become one of the most pressing health crises of modern times. In 2010 alone, 16,651 people died from opiate overdoses — making up 60% of all overdose deaths. Prescription drug overdoses are now responsible for more deaths than all illegal drug overdoses combined. Another recent study has shown that 4 out of 5 new heroin addicts initially became addicted from using prescription opiates. One can’t help but ask whether or not prescribing children OxyContin will lead to heroin addiction at an earlier age.
This is just the latest move which allows for the mass (over)medication of America’s youth. As we reported last year, at least 10,000 toddlers are now prescribed amphetamine-based ADHD drugs in the U.S.
Ironically, despite the fact that marijuana and heroin are all considered to lack any acceptable medicinal value, both of them have synthetic pharmaceutical versions available to patients. For example, Marinol and Cesamet are pharmaceutical drugs that are readily available, typically to cancer patients. The irony is in the fact that these drugs are literally modeled on active ingredients in marijuana. On the other hand, we have the drug of discussion, OxyContin, which, as stated earlier, is modeled around heroin itself. There is clearly either a major conflict of interest, unfathomable stupidity, or perhaps both.
Regardless of the motive behind these contradictions, the message is clear: these regulators have proven themselves unfit to handle this sort of responsibility. Even considering the fact that children will have to undergo a more extensive evaluation than adults to obtain a prescription, these methods and regulations are supported by the imbeciles responsible for the clear absurdities stated above. Furthermore, does not the FDA’s refusal to recognize the inefficiency in its own approved medications while ignoring the success of “alternative” medicine imply that it is guilty of more ignorance than meets the eye?
Health is not a monopoly, it is a state of well-being. The fact that we have corporations and organizations that immensely benefit from the sales of medication implies two things.
First, illness and injury are key components in the demand for sales, manufacturing, and further development of medicine — constituting a clear conflict of interest between the physical and mental well-being of American citizens and the financial well-being of Big Pharma.
Second, it implies that the FDA’s evaluation methods are not nearly efficient enough to safely decide whether or not certain chemicals should be available for human consumption.
This is why a naturally occurring chemical like psilocybin — which is proven to have not only psychological benefits, but physical benefits as well — is considered illegal in the United States.
Does the FDA need to re-evaluate its infrastructure? Do you think it is okay to prescribe children highly addictive medications?
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Rush b happy!
I don't think he can hear you.
Big Pharma will not stop until every man, woman and child are popping pills all day.
“Houston, we have a problem here.”
The next logical step is… SWAT teams stormin' into kindergartens with flashbangs and teargas.
If you have a 5-y.o. user, you must have a 5-y.o. dealer. ;-)
Looney
If I wasn't already medicated, I'd almost think you were trying to...what were we talking about?
+12.74!
Free Jon Corzine!
Oh... and Free Wolf 7! ;-)
Looney
Oxycodone is actually perfectly addicting. Worst drug ever put on the market bar none.
So great move FDA!!!!
"Ask your doctor."
Look, honey. He's wearing a stethoscope. And the people in the commercial are all smiling. And the woman doing the voiceover sounds professional and concerned. I can't seem to make out if there are any side effects...
Go straight to 9:20 for the drug info-skit.
Then watch the whole episode.. it’s good stuff
http://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/310163-trump-cia-military-us/
congratulations to the jewish family that owns the oxy monopoly on their cute tiny new revenue source.
giving children synth heroin, what could go wrong?
Oxy isn't enough. I also require a FEMA trailer and free healthcare. My teeth won't fix themselves. Word to your mother.
Have some serious pain some time and get back to me on them. I think you will change your mind bigtime. They are not for trivial stuff and you do not hand them out like candy, but they have their place. After having had 4 joints replaced and looking at the prospect of having another 2 done in the next couple of years, I know of what I speak.
They won't listen. Many people here will denigrate anything produced by 'big pharma' even if it greatly improves your life.
That said, I agree about the shrooms. Use should be mandatory.
speak for yourself, when I had back surgery all that garbage did for me was make me feel like I had 4 feet of cobwebs around my head, and I could still feel the pain there. granted, the cobwebs were so thick I had to take a second thought to determine if I was hurting or if I just had so much cobweb around my head I couldnt tell...
and I couldnt really get much of anything done otherwise.
f that garbage crap. if you need to be dulled to that extent that this becomes necessary you might as well be in a hospital on morphine. anything short of that, put your big boy pants on and do those exercises they teach you at physical therapy as your new religion.
'course, if you've already neglected yourself to such an extent you're halfway to a dozen joint replacements, that isnt exactly screaming "I take care of myself" anyway...
Well it did make the Perdue Pharma owners billionaires, contributed $640 million as a fine to the DOJ so Holder gould afford the G5, killed thousands and left tens, if not hundred's, of thousands of people addicted, andm because of those addictions, got thousands and thousands of people put in prison to be farmed. There is that.
I'd say shooting a 5 year old is about as difficult as a dog, so the teams are ready
16,651 people died from opiate overdoses
16,651 people died from opiate overdoses
16,651 !!!!....
...just imagine, if 16,651 black boys were shot every year by a policeman.
...yet 16,651!!! people DIE...and probably 10x that many have their lives completely ruined......and we get nothing. NOTHING!! total silence!!!
Black Lies Matter?
Yeah but think about how bad it would be if the totally non-toxic cannabis was available. It would be chaos.
...yet 16,651!!! people DIE...and probably 10x that many have their lives completely ruined......and we get nothing. NOTHING!! total silence!!!
You're in the wrong place.
Here in Land of Enchantment, where our Republican Governor Susanna Martinez signed a law banning civil forfeitures absent criminal convictions and where our DMV has long catered to the many LIBERTARIANS here who don't want to buy liability insurance to self-insure by posting a $25 K cash bond instead (long history here of being Liberty friendly while also Business friendly... like having RECOURSE home loans!) she not just "allowed" but had state Dept. of Health EXPAND the state medical marijuana program and we have probably the the most liberal neeedle-exchange and overall Harm Reduction programs like free acupuncture .... the latest thing they're doing for opiate ODs is putting the new EXPENSIVE nasal-spray naloxone into every city police car.
It's been years that anyone who wanted injectable naloxone could go to a 2-hr briefing by a nurse at a needle exchange site and be given a card saying that that they were a legal carrier of naloxone for ODs and could therefore LEGALLY treat a person in OD with their injection! But just like naltrexone for alcoholics has been made a super-expensive depot injection, they made naloxone for opiate ODs into an expensive nasal spray. But even though we just barely edge out MS for being poorest in the country we have the greatest Harm Reduction programs in the US of A. Free vaccinations for both Hep. B and C, which are not cheap. Free acupuncture in a group setting. As many clean needles as you want. And Medicaid pays for both Suboxone and methadone. (And because of Obamacare, the health Nazi enforcers made it illegal to operate a methadone maintenancd clinic unless they accept Medicaid assignment, private owner wishes be damned. ) They're doing everything they can here.
No you get high fives from the faggots that work for DEA and DOJ and all the judges, bailiff's, attorneys, prison guards and prison suppliers who are so happy we wage this fuccked up unlawful war on drugs.
Does anyone have experience with Bromelain as a pain killer? The outlandish reviews on Amazon make it sound good.
http://www.amazon.com/Foods-Bromelain-2400Gdu-500mg-Vcaps/dp/B000I2028A/...
Bromelain as a pain killer?
kratom works. plenty of kratom addicts in Thailand. and there's even pee testing for it https://www.redwoodtoxicology.com/services/kratom_testing
if you want an unscheduled pain killer for severe pain, kratom is the only contender. nothing else is even close. many can't handle the bitter taste but it really works.
;-) sorta' way to roll a f/b into the mix, don't cha' know
What exactly is "untrustworthy" about the FDAs actions?
Is the author so clueless that he thinks that children NEVER suffer extreme pain from broken bones, cancer and other causes?
Indeed. Oxycontin is a highly effective pain killer. If you have a kid with a broken femur or dislocated knee, you better pray that the docs are willing to give out the powerful drugs. Modern day pain management legitimately has realized well managed pain leads to faster healing.
I happen to be typing this from a hospital as my wife lies suffering. For the record, she has had 59 surgeries. They were all needed. Many were painful. I think pharma can over prescribe, but this particular example is not a good one.
I am afraid the zerohedge comment section has been wittled down to thoughtless anger against everything. I appreciate the articles; we can read them, process them, and buy into what makes sense. That is what we should do.
It is effective! And sometimes it is needed for severe pain, even if it's a child. That's why it's a prescription. It's for a doctor to decide not a gov't agency. Josh says FDA is" ignoring the success of “alternative” medicine "
and links to LSD as an alternative medicine! Really?
never found it much good as a painkiller myself.All talk and no trousers.
You don't know what pain is until your spine starts turning to mush with osteo- myolitis.
Morphine in elephant sized doses did work, but scared the docs shitless.
If the kids are genuinely in a lot of pain, give the ordinary real opiates. We kow far more about them
after 150 years than a synthetic that big pharma wants to sell at premium prices.
It's still legal to grow your own Poppies here in the States...
They make a drink from the dried poppy pod in Pakistan.Bitter as hell, but its a great pain
killer..Cost is just about nothing.
And nobody ever got addicted to the extracts of poppies? Gosh. Learnin' everyday.
You have problems reading ?
I see kids addicted to texting and playing with their smartphones everyday as well.
Yeah, addicted.The gene pool is fucked,so whats your point exactly ?
I was taking about pain killers for acute pain..They're all addictive.
Yes, but you were extolling the virtues of extracts of poppies. Maybe you were extolling the virtues of non-pharma pain killers. If so, I misread it. Indeed, all pain killers that work on acute pain are addictive. It is the nature of the receptors you must whack to get relief. The ZH Commenters' attack on pain killers is simply nuts. We need them. We should thank God we have them.
I happen to have contributed in small ways to fighting inflammation, smoking addiction, and AIDS. These were all miracle drugs and they were all SYNTHETIC. A huge proportion of the drugs you guys all take are SYNTHETIC. It has been years since drugs that are NATURAL have played a big role. We'd be painting our hands on cave walls pharmaceutically speaking if not for SYNTHETIC drugs.
"It has been years since drugs that are NATURAL have played a big role."
Because the natural can't be patented (yet) and production monopolized.
A lot of synthetic drugs are copies of naturally occuring compounds, such as opiates, but if everyone can grow their own where is the money to be made?
Its always about the money...
I happen to have contributed in small ways to fighting inflammation, smoking addiction, and AIDS.
The new frontier of pain medicine could very well come from understanding and tweaking whatever it is in kratom that relieves severe pain and induces euphoria--and with little or no constipation. Interested?
I gotta get some of
that shit. Used to smoke tar
Ihe things neededt's still legal to grow your own Poppies here in the States...
For flowers, yes. For poppy tea, definitely not.
Like many things in criminal law (not just drug law), it's the thought, or intent, that counts.
Growing a large field of poppies and having stainless steel cooking pots and things to filter out the straw and make a gummy tar of crude poppy extract should be more than enough for large-quantity simple possession pled down from manufacturing.
But have a decent lawyer and they could need the actual live flower to prove it's the one and only "papaver somniferum l." as listed in C-2 of the original CSA of 1970: all parts of the plant except the roots and the seeds are C-2; "poppy straw" is C-2. Hogshire's book Opium for the Masses was shown to the jury as evidence of his intent to make poppy tea from the poppy pods he bought by the box as described in that book. But they couldn't determine the exact species listed.
If you were to go by the Alumni Clock at the Duck Pond on Memorial Day weekend you'd see that most of the poppy pods were already nabbed with only some ugly stems oozing black gum left behind by the poppy lovers.
Jim Hogshire beat a WA state charge for the poppy tea he wrote a book about by introducing doubt of the exact species of the dried poppies he bought from florist suppliers. UNM is very proud of its landscaping and if they list the species of the Duck Pond poppies it seems to me that could be compelling evidence if it was authenticated by some kind of expert witness testifying about their landscape plan. So be careful folks.
But then how will the Purdue Pharma owners stay billionaires?
I am recovering from surgery and yes it is painful. I was prescribed Percocet and absolutely hated it. Yes, it helps the pain but, damn, I hate being a drooling mind numbed zombie. I wanted to stop but my surgeon didn't want the pain to get to a certain level for reasons you cited. I really hesitate to give this to a child not knowing the long term consequences when there are alternatives for acute pain.
Personally, when I was in the ER writhing with appendicitis, one shot of morphine really made all the difference before they could find a surgeon. Laying in bed realizing how bad it was for people just 100 years ago without the drugs or the surgical skills made me so grateful I was born at a most fortunate time.
Miffed
We use this stuff properly llike you and a few others are talking about and we're good to go.
My chiropractor has multiple myeloma and is in constant pain. He has used oxy for years. I asked him why he never got addicted and he explained he only uses it to dull the pain to the point where he can live with it. He said he never takes it at a level to get a high because he was afraid that would disrupt the serotonin receptors and start the addictive process. He watched so many in his practice get addicted so he had a motivation not to go down that path. Pain killers can be used responsibly.
Miffed
Roger that, and a benefit of breaking a pill in half when your "entitled" to a whole one is that, should the system break down, you won't be left scrambling with a debilitating level of pain. You have a stash.
The cure for Cancer is being banned. (may have to rewind video to beginning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1oZSrhrlrQ
Oxycontin may be okay in some cases -but the corrupt medical, Pharmaceutical Industry and FDA and media will assure it will be abused to destroy lives and maximize profits. The whole business is evil and corrupt.
59 Surgeries? Dude, something is wrong with the picture. I work in insurance. I take applications. Some people realish in the amount of afflictions/medications they are on. Seriously, the medical establishment will do a surgery on your brain or toenail at the drop of a hat. They, will in fact, do a surgery to prevent further surgeries which may be only speculative at best. I'm inclined to believe that your wife or you are pulling ropes that should not even be strings. Remember when Oblome said Dr.s were cutting off peoples legs to cure a limp? That's pretty much true for some of them and especially if they have a patient who is seeking the attention (Munchausen syndrome).
Actually, many stem, in my opinion, from a botched knee surgery in the early '60s. There are C-sections, ectopic pregnancies, repaired broken femurs, repaired broken heal, repaired decaying spine (probably from body mechanics of the knee). I would say she is more accurately described as a cascading failure superimposed on the statistical anomaly we call outliers. The ones I have witnessed seemed very well reasoned. With that said, I understand your astonishment. It is a staggering number.
The ATV accidents and sports injuries are enormous in this country. Asymmetry resulting from tendon/muscle injuries throws off the spine and every other joint. It also causes early degeneration and arthritis. I met a woman who was a marathon runner in her young. Both her ankles had collapsed by 60. She had to wear the shoes with a brace around her ankles to walk along with a cane. That asymmtry is not really a pain but a sense of agitation from the pull of one side unequal to the pull on the other side, and is very uncomfortable sensation that takes years to go away for those who do no go through rehabilitation/physical therapy to build up the muscles. Patients with good insurance are given the most tests and more often than not scheduled for surgery.
Nobody, including me, wants people in terrible pain to suffer. The point is, oxycontin is horribly worse and no more effective a pain-killer than oxycodone and a couple other alternatives. I mean, all these similar pain-killers can be a huge mistake for anyone who doesn't need super-quick relief, but why they would approve what is probably the very worst of them all for kids can only be intentional evil.
One important point is, quick-acting pain-killers like oxycontin and oxycodone are much more dangerous and harmful, and are thus only appropriate when you need full pain-relief to kick in within 20 minutes (when taken in pill form). Once the short term is taken care of, methadone in particular is just as effective in pain relief, but takes up to 120 minutes (when taken in pill form) to be fully effective. But the damage and dangers are much, much less.
Nonetheless, the medical tyranny is so utterly corrupt, they actually prescribe long-term consumption of these horrific quick-acting drugs for people with chronic pain. That is simply... well... I cannot think of any word vile and nasty enough to characterize this practice.
I hope nobody wants anyone to suffer unbearable pain (take aspirin for cancer). But the frauds called doctors and FDA are nothing more than evil monsters. Period.
Oxycontin IS oxycodone in an extended release formulation. It is the same drug, and is the most effective painkiller out there. All the hype about the evil of Oxycontin is put out by DEA psychos. It is certainly addictive, but addiction is not that big a problem when compared to debilitating pain, especially when the drug is available for a reasonable price. With regular, standardized dosing it is possible to live for 50+ years while dependent on opiates. It is irregular dosing, causing swings from intoxication to withdrawal that causes the vast majority of problems.
ALL drugs should be available on the free market for anyone who wants them, with the price set by supply and demand. The problem is the doctors and pharmacies ripping people off due to the prescription system that forces anyone who feels they need a certain drug to jump through hoops and pay for the privilege.
Indeed, pain clinics around the world are charged with helping patients with unimaginable chronic pain somehow function. They manage the addiction.
I have been around drugs, spent my youth on the bad side of town. Tried them all but heroin and crack. There is a reason we are told not to try heroin. Because the first dose is so wonderful, the feeling it left the user with will be sought after. And never achieved. It is euphoria, an orgasm of the lungs, brain, mind and body all at once for IV drug users. Peace of mind, sense of calm. It is in sharp contrast to the Rat Race they have placed us in.
Lady across the street was a librarian at local university. had the degrees, very intellectual, fit right into the norm. Over 15 years, I watched her husband leave her, watched her lose her job and then her house. Seems she had migraines and for the last 20 years, had been Rx'ed Vicodin. She had to increase dose due to her toleration of the drug and when she did not have the drug, she was in bed, throwing up in a towel. She was a mess.
So she is now living in alone and dependent on Vicodin. Too weird to talk to ... she rambles and seems just very odd in a discontent kind of way. She is a drug addict now. Adn every doctor's office she goes into has labeled her "drug seeker" even after they turned her into one. She is now treated as a street druggie, not a middle class woman who managed to do everything right up to the age of 50.
Opiates are only wonderful if you are in pain. If you are not in pain they are no fun.
People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers.
It is simply insane to take either of those medications on a long term basis when much less harmful but equally effective alternatives are available. There are very good reasons methadone is prescribed for people trying to kick nasty illegal drugs.
Yes, every substance should be available to all. What I object to is the promotion of one of the worst of them for kids. But also, frankly, it is incredibly common that the quick-acting but much more harmful pain-killers are prescribed long term when there is no need for quick-acting on an extended basis.
The appropriate system is one that makes full and honest information available, then lets everyone make their own decisions. But extremely crucial is the information be clear, honest, complete and comprehensible.
Methadone is no panacea
http://www.drugs.com/methadone.html
Of course not! Neither is writhing in pain. Obviously nobody should take any of these chemicals unless their lives are unavoidably unbearable without them.
You are one ignorant motherfucker if you downplay the addictve danger of Oxycontin.
@ Thomas - I disagree about the kids and pain bit. I dislocated both my knees (3 times in total) when much younger; its not pleasant and looks really bad, but I did not require this serious high level kind of pain killer. We can cope with a lot of discomfort especially as it passes fairly quickly, freaked out parents seem to cope less. That is what concerns me, upping the meds on kids so parents are comfortable.
Watched my son with a spiral fracture. Sure was glad he had a drip.
Agree, I've had a cousin with a similar injury, far more painful than what I was referring to above and the pain continued much longer. Its a severity / last resort med IMO especially for kids with brains that are still developing. Lets hope its not over prescribed as the long term consequences could be just as worrisome for a good proportion of the kids.
A couple vicodin every 4 hours will dull the pain. The secret to pain control is not allowing the pain med to wear off before the next dose. Our bodies do have preventative measure capabilities and as a person who has had their share of pain, I can tell you that out ability to tolerate pain threshhold increases as the we are subjected to pain.
He will adopt lots of kids all of a sudden, you know, one's with emotional difficulties, chronic pain, and cancer. He just wants to help.
If drugs cause addiction why isn't every one who has ever used them addicted?
Does the Kid have cancer, is he going to die in 6 months.. there are a lot of doctor responsibilities here..
Idiots popping pills, doctors pushing pills, and people stealing legitimate pills there are a lot of issues here.
Gubmint - dumb and dumber...
we get it
Gubmint - dumb and dumber...
we got it
Just another way for the government to hook an anesthetize America's youth. As if video games and social media weren't enough.
I suppose this is just the logical progression from Ritalin to Adderall (a combination of two amphetamines) to Oxy to ???
"... to Oxy to ???"
To Huxley smile's up from his grave and says "Nailed-IT!!!!"
- Ned
Well opiates are basically the opposite of amphetamines, so you tell me...
Those drugs are progressively more addictive. Your guess is as good as mine as to the next one on the list, but there will be another...
Holy crap! That stuff is just unbelievably horrific and nasty. They must seriously be completely outta their freaking minds!
Methadone maybe. At worst, oxycodone... but only one dose for quick relief of some horrifically painful injury while methadone (longer to take effect) takes over.
Those freaking FDA people are more evil than is humanly possible. Yeah, I know, that's a self-contradiction... assuming they are human.
Disclaimer: Of course you all know what I really think. Nobody has any valid or legitimate basis to tell anyone else what to do, or what not to do (other than harm others). So everyone should be able to put anything they choose into their bodies.
But to "officially approve" this is... just raw, naked evil.
Chill the fuck out :)
Impossible. You must have the scenic view. Everyday people are being murdered in a slow progressive fashion not unlike a frog in a pot of boiling water. When I told the 23 year old girl who was raised on ritalin and found herself on meth that "it is not your fault," she had a look on her face that was a combinatoin of disbelief and relief. The people in America are being fucked with up one side and down the other. Every aspect of their lives are being destroying. TV says everything is well. DOW is UP. But they fail to mention the listed DOW corporations consist of 3,000 companies, not 31,000 as was in the past. The mystery of what is happening is clear - Monopolization after mergers and acquisitions, murders and assassinations.
You chill the fuck out or get the fuck out of our way you good-for-nothing son-of-a-bitch. Those kids are our future goddam it. The infilration of dual citizens and secret agenda agents throughout every industry and straight to the top has taken decades. Now it is done. They have taken over health, education, energy, all of it. Every aspect, locally to the top. Agenda 21 is a genocidal approach and make no mistake...This is war.
Once again, fuck you, fuck you very much.
I thought the DOW was the top 30 Companies!
I forsee a sequel to The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia in the not too distant future...
Or, how about those Benign and Benighted Blacks of Baltimore?
Free Soma tabs!
Regulatory capture
Who are you to tell me what apples i may eat, then tell me i dont own that apple nor do i own its waste.
Children can go from knee high pants to adults in one hard day.
But it seems that some who are grown, would rather be children then adults.
That way they'll be ready to become Heroin addicts to keep funding the CIA and their poppy fields.
God forbid they should have access to marijuana based drugs or weed itself legally; think how much money the corporate prisons would lose!
You ask any cop, DA, or judge and they will tell you "Marijuana is a gateway drug, and it must remain illegal".
But it's AOK to give kids opiates. A fucking OK.
Yeah.
OK.
Honest Ann is right. These people are evil.
HonestAnne is ALWAYS right...
Well each of those professional pieces of shit depend upon a steady stream of "criminals" for their daily bread. Of course they wil say that. WTF will these people do if the government respected the law (consitution) and didn't illegally declare all these people criminals.
Now they can play video games until they brake their fingers off.
Turning the kids into drug addicts? This drug was supposed to be BANNED due to its addictive nature. West Virginia gives you an idea of what this drug does. The state is littered with the refuse of the side effects - ADDICTION. One guy's nose literally MELTED - he needed instant buzz and snorting was his way.
The fucking doctors in ths country have turned into Enemy #2. The experiement is over. They know what they are doing. Putting a monkey on our back that rendered us fully disabled.
The fucking government obviously prefers a nation of idiots and dolts.
The fucking businessmen don't care WHAT happens as long as their wife has the biggest fucking diamond on her hand so their country club friends can go "OH MY GOD, YOU RING IS SO BEAUTIFUL" "YOUR HUSBAND MUST LOVE YOU VERY MUCH".
I met a 23 year old here in Calif. She was raised on Ritalin. Went right into meth. For the 30 min I spoke with her, she was a combination of fear, energized excitement, fragmented joy and anger and her personality was nothing more than nonsensical sentences that came out of no where and ended the conversation when the conversatoin had not even begun
FUCK YOU DOCTORS. I have worked for you for 30 years and I can say I have watched you turn from a scientific empathic mind into the mentality of a predatory businessmen, jamming your appt books full with a patient every 10 min. And you have THE NERVE to spend that few minutes of time with them telling that about your last worldly vacatoin, your kid's private schools and your NEW MANSION. after they have sat in your wwaiting room for 2 hours after their scheduled appointment. Braggarts. You should be funeral home directors. You are USELESS TO US. And now, alternative care providers are dropping like flies. Just as scientists, stabbed to death, shot in the head, all the ways to die that one DOES NOT find in every day life is how the very people who would be able to piece together this Puzzle of Murder of Innocents.
FUCK YOU DOCTORS. FUCK YOU ALL. (Rant over)
(Deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures)
They are estimated to be over 780,000 per year and cost close to $300 billion
We could have an even higher death rate by using Dr. Lucien Leape's 1997 medical and drug error rate of 3 million. (14) Multiplied by the fatality rate of 14 percent (that Leape used in 1994 (16) we arrive at an annual death rate of 420,000 for drug errors and medical errors combined. If we put this number in place of Lazorou's 106,000 drug errors and the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 98,000 medical errors, we could add another 216,000 deaths making a total of 999,936 deaths annually.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/medicine/usamed/deaths.htm
This is a compilation of errors. For a more horrifying path, try examining morbidity and mortality in prescribed drugs used properly. Many adverse drug reactions occur in people taking many pharmaceuticals. People don't realize drug studies are done on one drug to see if there is an efficacy. There is no controlled study what happens when individuals are taking multiple drugs for multiple issues. That study is done in real time when a drug is released by the FDA. The public seems to be blind they are guinea pigs.
Miffed
Miffed, I agree with your post 100%. I remember my grandma... she was never particularly healthy...always had issues her whole life......
I remember the last ten years of her life...she probably took like 40 pills a day. I always thought, even at my young age back then that there was no way in hell that there were any studies done regarding taking a dozen different meds a day....and their combined effect.
RIP Dr Bradstreet, who somehow managed to commit suicide with a shotgun to the chest and then fell into a river, immediately after the FDA raided his offices.
What kind of cowardly piece of shit downvotes this excellent rant and doesn't comment?
Those on the payroll and brainwashed idiots. That's who.
Fuckin A! Bunny keep it up.
Upvote!
Hmmmm............ just a coincidence that Oxy was widely prescribed - and 'illegally' overprescribed - getting millions of adults hooked on this painkiller when the Taliban was cracking down on Opium in Afghanistan and heroin was NOT easily obtained... then POOF! - after a dozen years of the US being in Afghanistan (with Opium now widely grown and a resurgence in Heroin availability) there's a crackdown on prescription drug abuse (especially Oxy) with those millions turning to Heroin as a substitute.....
Gotta love it. The masses are paying for their own SOMA while funding the black part of gov that has been using the drug trade to fund black ops for decades (heroin in Laos, Coke for the CONTRAS, and on and on...) while making themselves fodder for the prison -industrial comples - giving gov an excuse to imprison them whenever it is convenient......
A win-win-win for autocracy - doped populace, lots of $$$$ and the conversion of the masses to a 'criminal' class...
gotta keep the pipeline full so lower the starting age...
so junkies=patriots, fuck yeah
"Special Interest" at work.
America, land of drug induced serial killers!
Be all you can be! Cuz we need you in the Arrrrrmy!
Well, parents.
There must be a way to take your kids out of the system. They are clearly a target,
Spawn a new one?
Pay off a midwife to shut the fuck up and don't put him/herthrough the SSN prison.
The notion that a nation needs a central medical planning board is just plain silly. Relying on a handful of doctors and bureaucrats to tell 320 million people what they ingest into their own bodies makes no sense.
Abolish the FDA and tell these control freaks to go pound sand.
The author is a fucking moron. When your kid is suffering from intractable cancer pain, just give him aspirin.
There is a time for morphine and this is one of them. I remember when my father fell down a shaft in a cage, broken vertebrae. (1950s) In just a month, he was addicted and had to deal with the wean which is no picnic. In my life, I found out what addiction was after taking Klonopin every night for the last year of a bad marriage. Lost med insurance and found myself in full withdrawal mode, alone and without any cash. It took six months to feel normal again. I was literally fit to be tied. It is as if every cell and every nerve in my body was in seizure activity and a form of electrocution in a duller form was the state I was left in for 2 weeks following the last pill. Not one word was stated to me about addiction when I was given this "sleeping pill."
Unfuckingbelievable...or nothing surprises me anymore.
beats the hell out of ritalin
This as the DC US tyranny is also persecuting people and doctors for OxyContin use.
I guess that the profits from the slave-centers, prisons, are not growing fast enough to suit tyranny and Zion.
Maybe they should lay rails to the doors of the prisons?! Initiate Operation Paperclip 2.0, but for SS camp administrators.
*The 13th. amendment to the Constitution made slavery legal in the American country.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Made my uncle shed a tear yesterday. Took him step by step thru the photographic and video evidence of the Moon landings being a hoax. The depth of field anomalies, and duplicate backgrounds, were difficult for him to swallow, but the impossible sounds captured on some of the videos were the proverbial "straw." I felt bad, but then I don't.
Links to your favorite Moon hoax videos?
Future cannon fodder.
Future drone pilots.
Future cancer patients.
Future suicidal maniacs.
Future Chinese slaves.
Yes, preparing America's youth for the future.
Our enemies thank you FDA.
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Jeez, I'venever taken any but I heard that stuff is EXTREMELY addictive.
Sure. If you want to get addicted to something, it will certainly fill your craving.
Believe it or not, the VAST majority of people who use painkillers do so BECAUSE THEY ARE IN PAIN. But our jacked up, convoluted puritanical society can't rid itself of the idea that pain the Judgment Of The Lord, and therefore avoiding it is some kind of blasphemy.
So go ahead, keep enjoying your suffering while you tell yourself it's good for your soul. But the next time I break a couple of ribs, I'm going to reach for the little bottle, and take what I need when I need it. And you know the great thing? Pain itself is a very strong anti-addictive. People who use the stuff for its bona fide medical purpose DON'T usually get addicted. Unless their doctors refuse to prescribe them what they need, and they go to illegal sources to cover the difference. That's what tends to get people hooked.
The FDA is just a puppet of big pharma nothing more and a cover for corporate drug pushers. What is even worse that the psychiatric field it was taken over by patients of E.A. Poe style insane asylum wanting to cure made up mental illnesses of unborn, not to mention the rest of us with restless brain syndrome.
The moral state of medical profession is appalling and causing already thousands of doctors to give up their profession since DSM-IV rules prevent them from helping people while promoting lies, poison and neglect for profit.
An interesting and revealing read of appalling attitudes and practices of the psychiatrist and psychologist automatons of big pharma intertwined into our economical and political system I found at:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/loss-of-beautiful-min...
Can't they bring back the Quaaluddes?
Sickening!
Make sure you coat those gelatin capsules with extra estrogen.
Cannabis can:
-Cure / Treat Cancer
-Treat/Cure High Blood Pressure
-Act as a common pain killer with no addictive attributes
-Act as an apatite booster for cancer patients
-Treats Glaucoma
-Fights Lung Cancers
-Fights IBS and Inflammation as well as helps arthritis
-Boosts metabolism
-Helps Parkinsons patients
-Fights anxiety and ptsd
-Fights symptoms of strokes
-It can act as a seizure suppressant
-etc....
But its illegal.... while.... the FDA is pushing Oxycontin for kids....a drug that is well know for destroying peoples lives, promoting addiction/dependence on not only the drug itself, but eventually other drugs when the prescriptions run out and the patients cant get the oxy.
Oxy IS THE PRIMARY GATEWAY DRUG, and probably the number one cause of addiction to dangerous drugs like heroin in America.
The FDA pushes Oxy, Vaccines etc... to boost the bottom lines of big pharma corporations, the MMR vaccines is DANGEROUS, more people have died from the MMR vaccine than the diseases the vaccine is supposed to prevent...
The FDA is a complete failure/corrupt.
Why don't we just agree that mature adults over the age of 23 should be able to make decisions regarding their own health without having to get permission from The Government (or its designated licensee) to take whatever medication they feel is appropriate? That would cut the cost of medical care AND government in this country by 50% right off the top, while allowing us a quarter of the liberty the Founding Fathers took for granted.
First off - addiction only is possible in about 20% of the population. Among that 20% only 1/2 get enough trauma to trigger addiction.
If drugs cause addiction why are so few who have used the drugs addicte?
And if you get caught growing 4 cannabis plants, you're in much worse trouble than if you were giving Oxy to little kids or raping your neighbor's wife. Or doing a mob beating of an innocent person. Or flash mobbing a store, or robbing a store at gunpoint.
You know why? Because murderjuana that's why. It's a gateway drug! it's evil!
Nevermind that the local liquor store has enough inventory on hand to fatally poison at least 500 people at any given moment.
MURDERJUANA! It's worse than ebola+ricin+confederateflag!
Except in Colorada, where somehow it was legalized and the state did not become a slum. How the fuck?
WE MUST STOP THE EVIL MURDERJUANA.
Take your Oxy and Smarties and shut the fuck up....
-Love Dad
Just as previously mentioned before:
You can go to your job stinking drunk from the night before and find a place to have a nap while you are on the job,
AND, you can take your Oxycontin, crash the fork lift, and call it a day.
BUT, once you smoke a little marijuana, YOU are SCUM of the Earth.
The scourge and SCAM of the DRUG TEST.
Modern humans are pussies. It's that simple. If it's that deep, take a few shots of liquor (I've known heroin addicts that admit it is a more effective painkiller, so spare me the bullshit). If I can make it through a shattered leg, busted knee and ankle, and multiple simultaneous abcessed teeth, it's not impossible.
One thing most people don't think about is that your body slowly grows accustomed to a certain level of pain and will mitigate it. If you numb it with painkillers, the 'blowback' when your nerves come back online is 5x worse than the initial pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WlJ3jax0Q0
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So the author is arguing that the government should be able to tell parents that they can't give a child dying from cancer a medication that alleviates some of their pain? How about the FDA shouldn't be telling anyone what they can and cannot do, but should only make recommendations which people can decide to follow or disregard.
I was on OxyContin when I broke my neck. It's a fantastic pain killer but spaces you out big time.
I couldn't read half a page of a book without crashing, and When i thought a train had come through the lounge room I took myself off them early and flushed them down the toilet.
Oh, just stuff your anti-drug tirade where the sun don't shine.
There needs to be SOMETHING permitted for children in severe pain. Unless you're going to dredge up the antique notion that children's nervous systems aren't mature enough to feel "true pain", which was always as bogus as it gets. Narcotics are about the oldest drugs known to mankind. We've been using them since at least 1500 BCE, and we're pretty familiar with their effects in humans of all ages. So yes, we needed to approve SOMETHING for kids who break their legs, fall off of ladders, have their appendixes removed, develop cancer, and all the other problematic things that cause PAIN. Because pain is not nice, it is cruel to subject CHILDREN to it, and it does horrible things to your body on top of whatever damage is causing the pain.
Hysteria over the abuse potential of a drug necessary to treat REAL injuries and illness just feeds into the prison-industrial slavery complex. We do NOT need to be chasing people out of decent, productive lives because they have pretty ordinary and manageable weaknesses. Drug abuse has only been illegal for about 100 years and only in Anglo-American Puritanical Idiocracies. We do not need to chase people INTO illegal drug abuse by refusing them decent and legal treatment for severe pain. So just STFU about Oxycontin and all the rest of the drug abuse fnord factory. Or go break a leg, and then do without narcotics for the entire time it's healing.
When my son had flesh eating disease I would have given him anything to stop his pain. He was in agony and not sleeping at all. People think that somehow children can't feel pain. Which is total and utter BS.
I could look back in my notebooks to see which pain relievers he was on but I think oxy was one of them. He was 3. He is 21 now and not addicted to anything except video games and a lot of beer on every friday night (he is in engineering and I think that is considered part of the curriculum).
Damn these kids are spoiled nowadays! All we had were quaaludes.
I've tried nearly every drug. I happen to be an expert in them.
I've been addicted to many drugs. Coke, pills, amphetamines, cigarettes, alcohol, etc. What did I do about it? When the addiction started interfering with my daily life I ended it. Hard? Harder than anything you've ever done. Possible? You bet.
Having been an addict, and having known a lot of addicts, I have come to learn something. It's your own damn fault you got addicted. Everyone always blames the drug and never the person. Is it easy to get addicted? You bet! Still your fault though.
Congrats on kicking the habit and on claiming ownership of your addictions.
A child who needs oxycontin has bigger issues than addiction!
They don't hand out oxy for everyday aches and pains...A child with cancer has every right to receive whatever medicine works to keep their pain at bay...regardless of what some people may think about it.
For the author to focus on the addiction potential is typical Calvinist American moralizing. Screw anyone who thinks a child should suffer just so he/she doesn't become "an addict"...
Whether American kids are over-medicated is a totally different issue than the few who are so ill they require potent pain medication to have any quality of life.
When someone is that ill you give them whatever they need and shut up about it, and be thankful you can offer them some relief.
They have been handing out Oxy for everyday aches and pains for years. Purdue Pharma was fined $640 million for falsely promoting Oxy as non-addictive with zero withdrawal. Just a drop in the buket of the profits.
I don't agree that the FDA or any other band of morons from the feds should be involved in telling you what you can and cannot take. I do believe iti is evil that we lock people up who got addicted while that evil family is given a pass and are billionaires. Every penny they have should be stripped in tort court.
People in chronic pain chronically take pain relieverws. - That is addiction.
If you are not in pain - pain relievers will not interest you.
There is also a revolving door between biotech companies and the FDA. That is why GMO are so easily approved without proper trial tests on the effects of GMO on humans, animals and the environment. Bush senior 'deregulated' the FDA which means that the FDA often doesn't have the funds or people and other resources to test GMO and medication and 'rely' on data delivered by the very same companies that want them approved. In the case of Prozac and prescription of it to teenagers for instance this led to cherry picking the evidence regarding increasing suicides among teenagers who were prescribed Prozac. Then teenagers started killing themselves...
Aspertame just called. It agrees and it heartily endorsed Donald Rumseld's chairmanship of the FDA.
this is a non issue. control of pain is a medical issue. where we go wrong is adding lawyers at .gov to tell us how much we hurt and what is good for the hurt. seems lawyers are experts at everything, war, climate, health and medicine..there is no medical treatment to rid us of lawyers posing as do gooders in .gov.
All drugs should be available at the convenience store just like the alcohol and tobacco.
A big ass crack rock, meth rock, or bag of heroin should cost about $1.
Within a year of the new price structure, the drug problem would be solved. The addicts will self solve.
Give a crackhead a rock the size of your fist and watch him overdose within 24 hours. Same for meth.
The government is not my mom. I don't need them to tell me what is safe or not safe for me.
I've been around big rocks and chose not to partake. Not my thing.
But give me a giant bag of fresh bud, and I will leave you alone. I won't be able to kill myself with it though.
That's why it must remain disporportionately illegal compared to some violent crimes and other more harmful drugs (ahem alcohol and tobacco).
Where is madical canabis in this discussion. It's far more beneficial than psilocybin.
The FDA is a criminal organization taking full advantage of the government protected monopoly given to Big Pharma based Allopathic medicine to treat disease.
I keep seeing appendicitis being mentioned as a reason for getting a prescription for Oxy. I had an appendicitis as a child and while it sucked, it was not anything that kept me out of commission for more than a few days. I actually don't remember taking any of the pain medicine prescribed. I did get drugs during surgery, though.
That being said, appendicitis' result from eating a "Western" diet high in refined carbohydrates (sugar, flour, processed shit). They are almost unheard of in traditional/primitive cultures that don't eat grains, or do so in limited amounts.
In summary, modern medicine is a racket seeking to make money off the symptoms (pain) of the problems (appendicitis, etc.) it causes.