16×9 – Dying by Prescription: Oxycontin Controversy

Very sad story to watch/hear. The problem is people abuse doctors orders
and you cannot blame doctors. It is everyone’s choice what they do. Abuse
is much worse than blaming someone for other peoples actions.?

+St Kittz Against weed, most people don’t know how much it fucks with your
head. Happened to me and watched it happen to many others. And I’m not
talking the kind where once the highs gone it’s over, I mean permanent. ?

#DyingFromOpiates #HellNoBigPharm #GoNatural #NeedlessDeath
#Addiction ?

What I find interesting is that the mother who’s son had the kidney stones,
is saying (imo) that her son was incapable of recognizing that the drugs
were not helping him. That as an adult, he chose the option of not taking
responsibility for his own health and pain management. I find that
incredibly hard to swallow. Yes the doctor(s) seem to have lost the plot
but gone are the days where doctors are treated as gods. I feel badly for
this mother in her loss, however, to turn around and attempt to ban
oxycontin permanently is unacceptable. What I find distressing about these
type of media fear mongering “documentaries” is that they do not focus on
those who this type of drug does help, where people do follow instructions,
take it as it is intended to be taken, and for the purpose of. Statistics
of those who take it to live a life of quality, who do not have problems
with it … are in fact much higher than those who have had or are having
with it. In addition, in my research,I am finding that in the age group
18-24, they aren’t taking it for pain at all. They steal it from others,
because it makes them feel “better” as in able to talk to others, makes
them feel confident etc. So clearly in these cases, we are dealing with
psychological issues and abuse. I think the media needs to be far more
responsible in how they are reporting on this issue, and ensure that they
are putting it out there in a balanced and far more factual basis. ?

Blaming the pills for your sons overdose is like blaming gun makers because
he shot someone- it was his responsibility as an adult to treat the
medication with the respect it deserves. It clearly states the dangers of
overdose and dependance on the flyer that the pharmacists gives you with
these drugs, and sometimes right on the label. Besides, by now if you don’t
know these drugs are dangerously addictive and carry the potential for
overdose you have been living under a rock. I am an x-opiate addict, I was
addicted for over twenty years to every kind of painkiller you can think of
but mostly toward the end it was oxycontin. I accept full responsibility
for my actions, it was my fault not the doctor or the pill-and when it was
time to make it stop it was my responsibility to make it happen, no one
could go through the pain and sickness for me. Ppl need to start taking
responsibility for themselves and their own actions. I’ve been sober now
for over five years and have no problem accepting it was entirely my fault
that i suffered like I did and made those around me suffer as well. ?

This may sound extreme, but i am against making any drug illegal, even
heroin should be legalized again. My reasons are quite simple :

1. it doesn’t work, period. Even in environments like jails, with extreme
monitoring, and freedom being heftily restricted, you have a flourishing
drug market. So the idea to be able to control drugs in a free society is
absurd !

2. But it is not only that the war on drugs doesn’t work, it has created a
multi billion dollar industry, financing terrorism, financing all kinds of
other illegal operations (seed money to get them up and running),
destabilizes whole countries (in Mexiko we have more deaths through the
drug war, then we had in Irak during the height of the terror, or that we
have in syria due to the vivil war, and that is just one example. Colombia
is still recovering from the chaos Escobar has caused etc.), converts poor
neighborhoods into shooting alleys, where gangs fight over drug territory
etc.etc.etc.

3. All that for what exactly ? Which goals did the war on drugs achieve,
that we couldn’t have achieved otherwise ? NONE ! A police crackdown on
drugs achieves 2 things : a rise in prize, and a sinking quality, that´s it.

So instead of wasting the money on a war on drugs that doesn’t work, and
in fact is making things worse, we should stop the war on drugs altogether,
and invest the money in programs that are working. Our jails would go from
overpopulated to underpopulated, our police could work on other crimes
(which would also sink, especially robberies and burglaries, since a lot of
crime is done to score drug money.?

what do you expect when you abuse opioids and overdose from them? and
combine it with other CNS meds? you people are ridiculous ?

Be safe look up how to do and how to do it safely. I find telling someone
no don’t do it, doesn’t work. but if you give someone the truth and how to
be safe its better… No doing something once want make you become addicted
but it does open a door you’ll never be able to shut.

People who do heroin or opiates every now and then are called chippers most
never become addicted. They’re your neighbors teachers and uncles. And its
almost impossible to die from smoking it since 30-40% is lost to the air
(still addicting and may still kill you of course.).?

are u fucked in the head its a fucking drug u idiot. Drugs legal it sounds
like you would be one of the reasons they are illegal dumbass .. LOL
laughing at you u idiot.?