I work for an Emergency service in Kansas. We recognized it on the east and west coast and began to prepare. Several years ago we became equipped with Narcan. I used it twice on the same person in one day. That was yesterday. In the last two years, we have seen a massive increase in overdoses and deaths primarily linked to Fentanyl which is another opioid they usually mix with heroin and inject. Or sometimes they chew the slow release patches. There is actually a huge risk to first responders now because the powdery substances can be inhaled and absorbed by accident when working on an OD patient. So, many crews carry Narcan specifically for themselves. It's scary as shit. I ALWAYS check for needles, and powder on the floor before I take a knee and start bagging an unresponsive person.

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Blake Northcutt NO ONE MIXES IN FENT. People hate it. Its tens of times more potent, and dealers press it and mix it in to save money at the expense of others

@SmokeRingHalo

5 жыл бұрын

That was a waste of some good Narcan.

@blakenorthcutt9733

5 жыл бұрын

@@iLeviathan I can see how that sentence may have been interpreted that way.

@abu3490

5 жыл бұрын

The country side is full of depressed people because there isn't a lot of jobs over there. City people are stressed out having to work more than 0ne job to support a family. Not only that but crime rates are increasing fast

@almostskater3210

5 жыл бұрын

+Blake Northcutt Ya dude, the addicts aren't the ones mixing fentanyl with their heroin 99% of the time. Fentanyl sucks.

It's because everyone hates their life now

@RingwormFTW

4 жыл бұрын

"Life" has been commercialized.

Needs to be a ban on prescription drug adverts as they are here in the UK. If you needed these drugs you would have access to them through your doctor rather than have them be advertised to people that havent been diagnosed or aren't even ill.

@teamhex

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the US and New Zealand are the only countries with Rx commercials. They should be banned.

@haidengeary8277

5 жыл бұрын

Pain meds arent really advertised. The issue has nothing to do with advertising, and pain meds, in my area anyway, are very strictly given out. In fact, drug seekers in the past have brought this on.

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Haiden G It has much more to do with the way the new laws were implemented

@YungSeanGaming

5 жыл бұрын

Opioids aren't advertised..... look into things before speaking

@Hals

5 жыл бұрын

Lobby and corrupt (by law) politicians are a thing in the U.S. it's really hard to do this :( All about the money

As someone who goes to a reputable pain management doctor, some of these “pain clinics” are real and not just a front for pill pushing drs. They’ve weened me off painkillers in a safe way, and drug test every month and make you sign a contract that you cannot get prescription pain medicine from any other doctors (if you have to go to get your tonsils out and need pain medicine for that your pain management doctor has to be involved and know about it and THEY write the script so they can monitor it) There are a lot of shitty doctors out there but there are some great ones that saved me from having to take heroin to help my pain.

@MikeHawk-tj3dz

5 жыл бұрын

Shelby Reece I too have to go to pain management and I hate how they are treating everyone like criminals. They stopped my pills cold turkey and now im suffering insane withdrawls on my own.

@AuroraAlchemy

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Hawk I feel your pain, literally. I’ve been on pain management for years and the crackdown has made getting my meds every month so stressful it only exasperates my health conditions and causes me more pain. All of this propaganda is hurting real people with real pain. There are cancer patients at my clinic who can’t get their pain meds now because of this nonsense. It’s not real scripts that are the problem. It’s fentanyl from china being sold on the street.

People are just sadder I guess. Don't know why per se, but there's just so much more suicides, od's, people disconnecting from the population (hikikomoris and shit). Plus imho glorification of synthetic opioids in pop culture plays a HUGE role in overuse of those. And that shit more or less is going all over 1st world countries.

@travellingmerchant2915

5 жыл бұрын

Cuz life became really hard in america

@rikitikitoki

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, plus people are just more depressed due to the fact that on the internet u see all these people living happy, lavish lives and u just think that your life is shit.

@oblonghas

5 жыл бұрын

so many factors influencing this its impossible to list them all. Lack of spiritual belief, lack of support for people who feel out of place in society, lack of good role models, lack of trust on a massive scale, fucking disgusting amounts of greed and mind control from corporations and industries, destruction and removal of "natural" earth environments. All of these getting worse and worse daily. I think its natural for people to feel bad about what's going on, but the real problem is the lack of knowledge on how to deal with these issues, and the degree of reliance that the general population has on substance to alleviate these pains for them. We'll hit a tipping point soon enough, and who knows where it goes from there.

@jackdoff2391

5 жыл бұрын

Because staying in your room and playing video games is so easy for our generation and we don't get out and socialize. People stay at home unemployed and get depressed because they don't have a purpose in life. If we get jobs back in America people will have a job to support their family and feel happy about themselves. And sucide rates will go down and people will start to learn that drugs are bad. Even marijuana in my opinion, cause it gets people going down the wrong path. It's a gateway drug that teenagers and adults are using to get high and try to escape lives problems.

@brostopros1575

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly I think that social media makes the world very disconnecting because all you see now is perfection and greatness and when you feel you can’t achieve this it is super depressing leading to this extra sadness

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@1738gabe

5 жыл бұрын

frozenstein did

@notwrath5462

5 жыл бұрын

“I lost everything... EVERYTHING”

@voLumez

5 жыл бұрын

WinRAR is awful use 7zip

@doodooballs80

5 жыл бұрын

WinRAR go hard fool

@voLumez

5 жыл бұрын

@@doodooballs80 you can't beat open sauce

I live in Connecticut and last week to day in one of our cities we had 80 overdoses in one night because some guy laced a bunch of opioids (New Haven)

I've never seen any of these pain clinics you're talking about but as someone who is prescribed pain killers I gotta say they aren't that easy to get. I've had to get multiple exams, x-rays, physical therapy and see a pain management doctor who is the only one allowed to prescribe me pain medication. Plus pharmacies are linked and can look up your medications. So if you just recently got a fill they won't fill another. I have to see my doctor every 3 months, they will only write the 3 scripts and all of them are dated to the fill date. Laws have majorly cracked down on everyone. Seems to me that ever since laws have gotten harder on everyone it's done the opposite of helping.

@Savisoundman1

5 жыл бұрын

Michael S thats exactly why more people are using heroin now. If your gonna abuse drugs you will find a way to abuse them. People that don’t have chronic pain don’t understand the hoops people have to jump through now. And everyone has an answer.

@MrMikeauto0722

5 жыл бұрын

It's gotten so much harder. I use to be able to just call my pharmacy once a month to get a refill. Also the pharmacy carries a limited supply these days so if you're due for a fill and they don't have it, you'll have to wait. You could try another pharmacy but most doctors won't allow it and if the pharmacy doesn't know who you are they'll most likely turn you down. I can understand some restrictions but it has gotten so hard. Not to mention that people with chronic pain who don't abuse their meds usually get treated with a certain degree of stigma regardless.

@CmdrPwnage

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, that's been my experience as well. And they also drug test us every month which is bullshit.

@martymcfly88mph35

5 жыл бұрын

That's because they cracked down on the walk in oxycontin clinics.

@thatoneguy8575

5 жыл бұрын

CmdrPwn same here.

I got surgery in high school for torn ACL and they just writing me more and more scripts for opiates and they even upped the mg. And I was only 17

@thozby

5 жыл бұрын

wow

@gabrielsvastha7807

5 жыл бұрын

America really sucks

@MrBossness19

5 жыл бұрын

Shelby I’m 16 just tore my pcl and had the same thing happen to me a couple months ago

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Shelby Yeah, and you would literally have been unable to attend school without them. Do you not understand under proper care, there is no risk?

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

MrBossness19 And yet you're already off them. Funny how that works

i was in a serious near fatal head on (60 mph) about 20 years back, i was on hydrocodone for nearly 15 years, i quit cold turkey, it was hard but i did it, about a week ago i had to go on for an ouppatient surgery where they had to cut me open, they made a 4 or 5 inch incision in me without any kinda pain meds, cleaned out the wound, stuffed it full of gauze (that i had to remove the next day) and they did not give me any after i left, i just had to rough it, i am in so much pain, but i guess this is what happens when druggies abuse them, it makes it hard on those of us who really need them. my doctor said to take some ibuprofen. im in my 50s, been through hell and let me tell you, it sucks to not get it when you need it.

@thatfunnyguy182

5 жыл бұрын

It’s not the “druggies who abuse them” who are at fault, it’s the doctors who over prescribed to profit. Once your body tells you that you need the chemical to survive, there’s not much of a choice anymore. My brother was addicted for 8 years after getting his wisdom teeth pulled, he never wanted to become addicted.

@shelr8139

5 жыл бұрын

It is NOT safe to quit cold turkey off an opioid after 15 years of use... without the guidance of a dr or rehab clinic. and that’s also the doctors fault for not prescribing even Tylenol with codine after a surgery not junkies fault.

@reinux

5 жыл бұрын

That's fucked up. No one should have to go through what you're going through.

@je163

5 жыл бұрын

@@thatfunnyguy182 I have heard of this happening to other people, it's messed up

@torba23

5 жыл бұрын

why didn't they give you ketamine during the surgery? that would at least have knocked you out during it

My uncle got one of these prescriptions and had to be extremely careful with the drug and didnt want to take it. He ended up dying from side affects at the age of 40

@ChristopherGray00

5 жыл бұрын

Was it fentanyl?

It's not really pharma right now, most of the pain pill addicts have switched to heroin because of the massive crackdown on pills. In the past 8-10 years there has been a massive lowering in how many opiates are prescribed because of pressure from the DEA put on doctors. The big problem is heroin now which is even worse then the pills.

@Hals

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah this is old news. As in, they finally (after big outcry) changed some laws and appearently it's actually hard(er) to get pills now. Hence people make the switch to cheaper Heroin or Fent. The supply got cut off and they are still addicted. + It's way cheaper. Not everywhere, but in some states this seems to be happening.

@pluto8404

5 жыл бұрын

Prohibition worked for weed, it will work for prescription drugs..... smh

@maizeandblue5102

5 жыл бұрын

That's not really it though. As you can see, the line that really spiked recently is synthetic opioids. Specifically counterfeit Fentanyl being sold on the streets for cheap, and also Fentanyl being cut with other drugs, like heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines, and even fake prescription opioids that are pressed and sold with Fentanyl. Fentanyl is over 20 times more potent than Heroin, so it leads to many unexpected overdoses. Heroin is bad right now in the US. But fentanyl is why synthetic opioids deaths are so high. Heroin is an opioid derived from morphine (a natural opioid found in opium from the poppy plant), unlike Fentanyl, which is a synthetic (man-made) opioid. So it's in a different category.

You have no idea how hard in some states it can be to get ANYTHING from pain clinics, most will only give you pain injection shots now. Florida it used to be easy to get anything not any more but as far as I can tell just as many people are using

I've been taking opiates since 2011 due to an accident I was in involving an 18 wheeler. Some people rely on and do not abuse prescription drugs. But due to the massive backlash many doctors do not just throw these drugs at people anymore which is good. However this has also caused issues making doctors afraid to prescribe these drugs at all forcing people to seek other options.But people who deal with chronic pain every day rely on some of these medications. I myself have tried several types of weed and medical cannabis and it honestly does nothing for me. I have more negative side effects than anything else. So until something new comes out it is what it is.

At exactly 1:55 what you were saying really resonated with me. I even had a similar conversation with my grandfather about statistically comparing average debt and average payments per month from 1970 to now. Just for a loaf of bread I'm paying an extra $2. For $1200 a month my grandpa was able to afford an 3 bedroom 2 bath house in Colorado. You'd be lucky to find a studio apartment at $1200 in Colorado now. I some how was still yelled at and called over paid and ungrateful. Most people my age don't even rent apartments, we rent rooms now. We can't afford loans for houses. We know that when we try to retire social security won't be there for us, neither will it be even for my parents. We're even being punished for not having health care. And if you're in a similar boat as me, you make too much to qualify for government health care, but would go broke if you had to pay for private health care. So now you're stuck in the loop of not having healthcare and being penalized for it, but knowing it's more affordable for you to just get penalized for it... But if youre penalized too often you can go to jail... Jesus I'm getting depressed just writting this out.. wonder why these stats have drastically increased *thinking emoji*

I live Monroe, MI, the city with the most overdoses in Michigan and it's unreal. There's one of those clinics about 1/4 of a mile from my house and at 7 am every morning it's packed, the line to get in flows onto the street. I go to the grocery store and the amount of people you see that just look drugged out of their mind is insane.

Lol there’s about 10 weed stores on the same street where I live.

@ellam1841

3 жыл бұрын

When that became legal and easy to buy, did the street prices/quality change?

Nooooo, Ethan. No. No, no. It's not prescriptions that are driving the surge in overdoses. It's almost entirely because of elicit opioids like counterfeit fentanyl and heroin, both of which are extremely cheap and easy to make. Actual abuse rates of legitimate prescription opioids are pretty low and haven't changed in decades of their availability on the market, and the vast majority of the overdoses that involve prescriptions are due to a combination of prescription and elicit drugs, and they almost never involve people who have actually been prescribed those drugs for legitimate purposes. I love you guys, but your take is based on misinformation.

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

B FISH Man. This was the last straw. I can no longer watch these streams. Ethan is such an entitled person with no care towards the average human now.

@wikkedawsome

5 жыл бұрын

i really hope you are joking m8. otherwise you need to seek medical help to get your head out of your arse.

@keramie

5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! As someone with chronic pain who has family and friends suffering as well, I know first hand it is not easy to get prescribed pain pills. It seems like most people's view of this is warped if they haven't experienced much of the medical system themselves.

@Akkbar21

5 жыл бұрын

They are always going off without knowing shit about what they talk about. Yes Rx opiates are a problem, yes they have been over prescribed. Thing is, that’s been cut down massively and now people who are legit in need are at risk of being shut out because of overreactions. Ethan constantly talks out of his ass. These are people who are held up as the wise sages by young people because the standards for intelligence is so fucking low these days.

@obligatoriunu

5 жыл бұрын

!!!!

in the last 15-20 years, technology has gotten better. this makes it easier to find drugs. combined with more and more people becoming unhappy in life, overdoses and deaths are on the rise

@semioticsfountain

4 жыл бұрын

@👁 is this a joke or are you actually this dumb

@semioticsfountain

4 жыл бұрын

@👁 i may be wrong but i think people use music as a coping mechanism for what they dont have, if i feel like i want to do some dumb illegal stuff i listen music about people who have done stuff like that, but maybe thats just me

@semioticsfountain

4 жыл бұрын

@👁 yeah, ok that i can agree with. We have come to a conclusion. good argument 🤝

I had a spinal cord injury a few years ago and the operation I had to ‘fix’ me made me worse I have been on pretty strong opioids since. I really have to keep track on what I take because sometimes with the meds I forget I even took some in the day. If I don’t then it could go bad really quickly.

Too much Flintstone gummies

@madaakusto6771

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah man I just hit some of them and sum Capri-Suns and I'm fucked up

@temptation9748

5 жыл бұрын

Them shits had me tripping for days

@thatoneguy8575

5 жыл бұрын

YABA DABA DOOO!

@5000_swaggg

5 жыл бұрын

@@thatoneguy8575 *dies*

@ethanlucier2544

5 жыл бұрын

Funny joke wrong time

Uh pain clinics don't do that. Actual pain management does not do that in the slightest. We need to find a way to help addicts up front and long term and find a solution to opiate overdoses and overprescribing without hurting chronic pain patients. I'm not going to say I'm smart enough to know exactly what we need to do, but we cant let chronic pain patients suffer and kill themselves. I have intractable pain bc my spine and all my joints are crumbling which started when I was 22-23 out of the blue, so I dont just need a certain amount of opiates daily to have a life worth living that isn't just bed bound and screaming in pain, I need to be on opiates to control my pain so that the amount of adrenaline my body produces because of it does not affect my heart muscles too quickly and give me a heart attack, which is how many intractable pain patients die anyway in their 50-60s - and still with the medicine i am on, most of my day has to be in bed because opiates do not take away all of the pain. I'm in pain in my dreams, that started about 2 years ago. And even with opiates, chronic and intractable pain patients know we will still always feel the pain, it just makes it bearable, and that's all we are asking for so that we have a chance at seeing our family and doing things we enjoy and having memories to look back on. I am terrified that one day my doctors will have their arms twisted because of the opiate crisis to the point where they will no longer be able to give me my Rx, and I don't know how long my heart will last after that.

@kimmyfreak200

5 жыл бұрын

my doctor cut me off cuz he got mad at me... he pretends all of a sudden nothing is wrong with me and I didn't do anything I was honest and had proof and did a urine test. He let me sit for an extra 2 hours and told the staff to let me know I get nothing. I was tossing and turning for days without anything. He was a cruel vicious psycho. This is terrifying to me since he saw all the 37 years of medical records I have showing pain, falls, broken bones, arthritis, neuropathy, scoliosis, and muscle spasms, muscle pain, joint pain, leg length descrepency, muscular dystrophy, and progressive worsening condition... yet he acts like i'm normal all of a sudden.. i hope the abusers had their fun cuz its affecting my life and all i did was go to one outdoor event (all summer!! i should be allowed to enjoy some recreational time like other humans) it required walking and i have a cain and so I ran out 1 day early which happens all the time and his own P.A. told me he was impressed I had good control yet the doctor who has always been a maniac tells me I lack control. Not to mention my meds were stolen by a friend and i haven't had a social life in years cuz people judge the stigma is so bad now. I can tell the judging people have never taken pain meds when you hurt it doesn't give you a cure or make you feel euphoric it takes some of it away but its not that great at all. I heard euphoria is only experienced by drug abusers cuz they take it and have no pain happening so the body produces the feeling of euphoria because it doesn't know what else to do in the body... why can't these doctors stop abusing their power and take real pain seriously. I'm so lucky my primary doctor saved me but this has been a hellish experience for years their mouthy P.A. (the other one) said no one needs pain meds only people who had failed back surgery...thats ignorant, reductive, and down plays every nerve muscle and back problem people may have! plus i had 2 failed hip surgeries at age 10...i was a kid having both my hips put back in the socket and nearly died from pancreatitis... yeah i'm just having fun...my life is a total party.. not to mention discrimination against disabled people we get cut out of normal events cuz no one wants to be near us... and we ask for help for pain and yet we all of a sudden are normal? society lost its dam mind! no soul anymore no humanity...most of all no common sense.

I traveled the united states for the 2nd time in 2 years, came back from a 3 month trip last month. Im from the netherlands, and I was shocked by the amount of addicts in the city's. I spoke with an older man from san diego with this, and he told me that ronald reagon closed a lot of treatment facilities in the 80's. He also told me that some farmaceutical companys made millions by getting people hooked on strong legal drugs, and when the presciption stopped, many people wanted the same effect, and went to take illegal hard drugs. If his story is only partly true, it is still a very sad story...

Big shout out to h3h3. This video can save a life. Lots of love

Let’s not forget how we have around 4,800 troops stationed in seized poppy fields in Afghanistan ... smh these conspiracy theories are becoming more and more realistic as time passes

@Psalm_23

5 жыл бұрын

Most of them its just the mainstream media brainwashes too many people

@WheatSn4ckBread

5 жыл бұрын

You do know we were actually paying farmers in Afghanistan to grow other crops instead of poppy.

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Luca Riviello You do realize that the overdoses have nothing to do with H?

@KingdomOfDimensions

5 жыл бұрын

No Name Almost all opiates are either extracted/isolated from poppy or synthesized using other opiates found in poppy. I have no idea where you heard that only heroin comes from poppy.

@stasia2706

5 жыл бұрын

+NextTimeTech it's no coincidence that it has become the norm to consider anyone who questions the official story a batshit lunatic. It is awfully convenient for the government that conspiracy theories are seen as insane and laughable. People who theorized about widespread government surveillance were laughed at and mocked repeatedly until it was proven to actually be happening.

Honestly I think that social media makes the world very disconnecting because all you see now is perfection and greatness and when you feel you can’t achieve this it is super depressing leading to this extra sadness. I felt like this a lot on social media and when I got off it didn’t fix everything but my mood is actually way better. Being able to just live up to my standards instead of feeling not good enough based on others photos or not getting enough streaks or likes stupid shit like thay

Nah you're confused. That high number is fentanyl. Which is on the street.

@martymcfly88mph35

5 жыл бұрын

Yup 100%. 3 people I knew died in the last year to it... including my younger brother.

@rikeiii

5 жыл бұрын

It's Fentanyl they are talking out of their asses

@Afrofries

5 жыл бұрын

Fent that looks like oxys. Some you can take 3 of them, some you take one and it's way too strong depends on the batch...

@andrewsav4865

5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU, I was not having how badly they misinterpreted those statistics... it's easy to look at a graph and draw baseless conclusions it's a lot harder to actually research and understand a topic. This is the only H3H3 video I've ever felt inclined to dislike, don't cover topical issues if you're not going to at least have a staff member do the research.

@joncortezz

5 жыл бұрын

Still why you taking shit that you aren't supposed to be taking?

Man thank you! I live in Atlanta and i constantly theorize the reason for all the traffic incidents that fuck us on the daily are due to people driving on downers or any motor skill impairing prescription.

Lucid Dreams lyric “I take prescription drugs to make myself A-OK” you tell me

Love you h3h3

Thanks guys. This is a very personal issue I can’t talk about with anybody. So hearing somebody I respect talk about it is surprisingly helpful :-)

Last year my mom "overdosed" on prescription drugs. Her doctor prescribed her these high doses of anxiety medicine and sleeping pills. She took the right amount and never missed a dose or took more than her doctor told her. The mixture of drugs messed her mind up and one night she committed suicide. She would NEVER do that if she was in her right of mind. The drugs messed up with her brain and she most likely was sleepwalking and did it with no thought. We tried to sue the doctor but it didn't go through. These doctors prescribing these drugs at high dosages are killing people. No one should have to go through that, not even my worst enemy.

It’s really sad but a lot of people use prescription pills to commit suicide and I know that there’s been a raise in suicide but idk if the raise in pill related suicides correlated to the raise in prescription overdoses

@Eternalsunshinejewelry

4 жыл бұрын

I tried to kill myself because on my antidepressants

My brother passed away from a faulty fentanyl patch that had leaked too much into his system. He was prescribed this patch for back pain and muscle spasms. He was only 20. That should NOT have happened... it infuriates me that doctors so easily prescribe this stuff.

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Caitlyn Jones You know that the legal change is why

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Caitlyn Jones If all this misinformation wasn't being spreaf

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Caitlyn Jones fent is the most dangerous. It is responsible for most deaths.

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Caitlyn Jones The fact the doctor gave him fent patches means that your brother was on pain medication for years or that the laws have made it impossible to prescribe the appropriate medicine

@iLeviathan

5 жыл бұрын

Caitlyn Jones Imagine if be was given 5mg percocet instead.

I can tell you about my state, in Florida about 8-10 years ago a law was passed that a doctor from anywhere in the country could legally open pill Mills in Florida and then 1000's of offices open up across the state and then ppl would "doctor shop" at multiple dr's then in many cases traffic them to other states creating u huge demand everywhere

I was in a bad car accident and was prescribed OxyContin. The doctor didn’t tell me the risks or anything. Fast forward 5 years, I was a heroin junkie and lost everything I worked for. I’m now 3 years clean, it was the hardest fucking thing I’ve ever done (and continue to do). Opiates are like getting a key to a room that you always want to be in. You forget about everything and all you care about is that next fix.

Fentanyl is the biggest reason for this spike. It has been used a lot more by doctors and hospitals and produced more. I microscopic amount can kill a person. I'd be curious to see the breakdown of the prescription medicines that have contributed to this significant rise in prescription overdose.

I go to Tijuana usually once a month to see my Dad and My aunts always ask for medicine they can't get here in the USA unless you have a prescription. You literally just walk into a small drug store and ask one of the doctors for a certain medicine and they'll sell you it, that easy. But it has to be a small little drug store not one of those company drug stores.

@estebanduvanzzDelgado

5 жыл бұрын

ƧḤȺÐɎ that's normal in Mexico and Mexicans are not dying from ridiculous amounts of drug's prescriptions

@oscarmarin8973

5 жыл бұрын

I know it's normal in Mexico I've been going to Tijuana for 8 years and sometimes to Michoacán. I'm just saying it's easy to get prescription drugs that aren't allowed here in USA.

I got on pain meds after a bad wreck. Broke both my ankles, my wrist & fractured my neck. It didn't take me long to realize I was addicted once I had healed back up & still needed the meds to get going everyday so I went on Suboxone program & was off everything within 6 months. I have lost many friends to fentynal, pain pills, heroin etc I never wanted to be on pain meds. I cut it quick.

An interesting documentary that relates to this topic is Escape Fire, it was made in 2012 but for sure has some very interesting points about the health care system, pain medication and the pharmacologic/medical device companies. The bleeding edge on netflix also talks about this "healthcare culture".

I think this is an issue that needs more looking into but, you can get codeine over the counter in most of Europe, Canada and I'm sure other areas of the world. I would like to see those stats. Something is wrong with America. Its not the drugs or the sale of guns that is making things worse, its the people.

@888dni888

5 жыл бұрын

It's about whatever drug is dominating the market really. Codeine is available over the counter in NZ, but their people are dying of meth and synthetic cannabis because that's what's being pushed instead.

@dirkjewitt5037

5 жыл бұрын

but isn't that a good example of what I am basically saying? There problem is the opposite of Americas addictions. The chart he shows has cocaine, meth and such, as a lower death rate than opioids. Legalizing drugs make them less interesting and not taboo. The fact that NZ is having a problem with meth proves this point. Meth is illegal ,Tylenol with codeine isn't. People in NZ can freely get Codeine products any time they want to but they are more drawn to something else. This proves what I said before. Its people and not the substance.

@stuffums

5 жыл бұрын

Codeine is incredibly weak. Like 1/100th the strength of H and 1/10000 of fentanyl

@kara4718

5 жыл бұрын

Dude, Dirk, you have NO idea what you're talking about. Why do you think you can compare crystal meth to tylenol with codeine lol are you 12 years old or what

@dirkjewitt5037

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not comparing one drug to the other, what I am saying is that blaming Big Pharma on everything just doesn't make sense. I'm stating that I think people need to be held accountable for their behavior. I was also wanting to know the statistics on drug deaths from other countries not just the US. I agree that the drug industry needs over hauling and some of these companies also need to be held accountable. People have been getting impaired since probably before they figured out social engineering. And I do have an idea of what I am saying. If one society seems to be able to curve their appetite for death and another doesn't, then that says a lot about what is going on in those societies. In the US there are a lot of drugs that have been deemed harmful to its citizens, codeine being one of them. So if it is bad in the US then why isn't it bad any where else? Dude, Kara, why isn't this a logical question and how do you find it an argument that a 12 year old would make? There is a problem in the US and I don't think its just guns or drugs causing it.

Anyone wondering what’s happening with the overdose numbers rising (even just this year), check out the kratom ban.

It's absolutely crazy. I had a friend go to a festival and use a public restroom... Ended up in the ER overdosing off residue he had touched (fentanyl) during the time in the bathroom. Be safe everyone 🖤

THAT 1 SPIKE IS FENTALIN!

Is it so crazy to ask (not assume, ask) if having opioids, anti-psychotics, and antidepressants as some of your top prescribed drugs, has any correlation with gun violence? Just throwing it out there.

I noticed how methadone is at the top methadone is a drug that they give you to get off painkillers I know people that benefit from painkillers but I known people that get off them and go on methadone and who become more addicts than anything I myself need to take painkillers because of a head injury that I have gotten from someone trying to kill me with a bat I probably would have off myself because of pain that I feel in my head every day if people were to only use drugs responsibly and know their limits then this probably wouldn't be a problem

@KIWIKIMI14

5 жыл бұрын

Ladiesman4590 0 it’s sad because people get addicted to the weining drugs like methadone and suboxone. I’ve been there & it’s no fun. It’s so unfortunate for all of these people.

I broke my leg in a dirtbike wreck, definitely started to feel the pull off oxys on me before I cut em off and went green

Ty for the real content

Population growth is also a factor when looking at those types if graphs

@chrischeng7552

5 жыл бұрын

i hadnt realised the population tripled in half a decade

@aidan6492

5 жыл бұрын

Kapteeni Finland the population has gone up 2 billion since the 90s

@SocialistFinn1

5 жыл бұрын

@@aidan6492, so? The US population hasn't grown at that rate, also good job liking your own comment to make it seem like others are as dumb as you...

@aidan6492

5 жыл бұрын

Kapteeni Finland man, just take the information. My point is that figures such as that one may seem large, but you just need to take into account other factors before you decide if the issue is in fact as large as u think

@aidan6492

5 жыл бұрын

Kapteeni Finland and u r also very hostile

Please bring Kyle Kulinski on from Secular Talk. He has good viewpoints and facts regarding these topics.

@endriu55

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck yes, I always supported the idea of making basically every substance legal on the same basis as alcohol and tobacco but after watching few videos of his where he talked about drugs, people's misconceptions about drugs use and criminal field associated with it, then it 'waked me up' for real and I couldn't believe how society can just blindly agree to take away their freedom and how basically everything bad surrounding drugs would be less of an issue or not an issue at all if all drugs were legal. Eh, it's a very broad topic but if I had to put it i one sentence I'd say "most people are fucking blind".

As a former heroin user. It deeply hurts me to see this problem continue to grow and grow. I've been clean and sober since February 2015. Coming up on 4 years clean and never been happier! I started on prescription pain pills that I got from an illegitimate doctor when I was far far to young to be taking my own "health care" into my hands. I heard about a crooked doctor in town who would write me prescriptions for nearly anything I wanted. I went in at 15 years old. My first appointment the doctor said "ahh so you have back pain huh? How about 3 of the 10\375mg Norco a day sound. You need anything else?" And that was the beginning of the end. I went through years of legal trouble because of the awful decisions I made while deep in my addiction as a young man. And I dragged many others down with me during that time in my life. I fully take responsibility for the poor choices I made and now try to give back by managing a transitional housing unit (halfway house) where we hold meetings and provide a safe and comfortable place for those who need it. I know I probably just sound like another crazy person rambling in the comments section but topics like these remind me of how I got to where I am today. Thank you.

Thank you for bringing this up! It needs to be heard by everyone! Just remember the money is in the medication not in the cure....

I've only overdosed on fupa before

@filthycazual697

5 жыл бұрын

i heard candice overdosed on fupa

@aheathen9387

5 жыл бұрын

Legalize Fupa

@lakertein

5 жыл бұрын

What’s fupa

@munjee2

5 жыл бұрын

@@lakertein it's had some specific meaning but now it's just excess fat that buldges out

@R33fth3b33f

5 жыл бұрын

lakertein fat upper penis (pussy) area

Do we not remember the shit doctors use to give people in the 50's to the mid 80's? That shit was insane. Way more addictive. Way stronger. It's not just now. & they don't give you shit like that anymore. There is no "unlimited supply" for a prescription. I have scoliosis that can't be fixed. Ibuprofen has killed one of my kidneys. Pain killers are sometimes the only thing that helps, even with smoking weed & taking cbd. They DON'T prescribe these like they do anymore. I have to go into my doctor once every two weeks to make sure I'm taking the 60 pills I'm given correctly. They do it with everyone. You're late on this. This would've been correct 6-2 years ago

@obligatoriunu

5 жыл бұрын

I have had a similar experience!!!

@dusteinmclean8149

5 жыл бұрын

they are late to the party. the real issue now is the way the patients they got addicted are being fucked by control , without proper help. or the people that need them being unable to get them and having to buy them from a drug dealer who gets huge supplies due to not needing insurance and covering out of pocket.

@moistmayonese1205

5 жыл бұрын

Miranda Lopour How bad is your scoliosis if you need painkillers? And why can’t it be fixed with the metal bar?

@JustPorcupines

5 жыл бұрын

I have scoliosis as well. Once every few years, it gets so bad I can't stand up straight, breathing causes so much pain I feel sick, and I can't sleep. When I would see my doctor(actually multiple different doctors over the past 15 years) I'm given nothing more than ibuprofen. Meanwhile, I've had friends who complained about general back pain, and were given potent opiates, without limits. Some doctors are honest and adhere to good medical practices, while others are more like customer service representatives, looking to make their patient happy.... or it's caused by kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, giving doctors a financial incentive to dispense opiates.

@moistmayonese1205

5 жыл бұрын

Don't Worry About It How many degrees do you have then? I have about 40 and I won’t get any pain.

I had a friend die from his doctor switching his prescription to something he was allergic to. RIP Brian,

I’m from Arkansas’s and it’s very evident how bad not only prescription drugs but other drugs like meth have gotten in the past couple years.

Cultural reason: Young men are being alienated and losing their sense of purpose.

The reality is that people in the developed world have never lived in a more privileged time (at least in material wealth). The problem is social and psychological, modern technology has enabled us to communicate faster and easier than ever yet we are physically more isolated than ever. Most of us are walking cell phone addicts so to me it's no mystery why a lot of us can seamlessly transition into other dopamine increasing substances.

I am so glad I watched this, never heard of this before

Hey where do I get the shirt Ethan is wearing in this podcast? I don't see it in the h3 store, papa bless

It's cultural, it's economical and more human than people care to admit... cause now everyone all ever cares about is to be right not to be truthful, like how prisoners are used to manufacture a bunch of stuff generating billions a year... If you think these people have any regard for life you are naive

Robbie rotten is dead, h3h3 talk about that loss to the meme community

@NovaAndCat

5 жыл бұрын

@Turquoise Cheetah yeah you right but the newer generations got a wind of him thru the comedy

@digitalcyclone7218

5 жыл бұрын

i wish it would've been jake paul instead the innocent always suffer

@NovaAndCat

5 жыл бұрын

@User Great Even he himself said on his Facebook page "The memers may die, but the memes live on." so your barking at the wrong tree

@Corio626

5 жыл бұрын

@@digitalcyclone7218 You wish death on people you dislike. That's an attractive character trait.

@digitalcyclone7218

5 жыл бұрын

+Couch Potajoe What? First off, Jake Paul is an awful person to pretty much everyone. You most likely don't know the full story on him or you don't really care much. I'm not the type of person to "wish death upon someone" if it's a petty thing like having a differing opinion. He's a terrible person, and not just to me. Secondly, I was trying to make the point that "innocent people are the ones that suffer." Look at all the past deaths this year: Stephan Hawking, XXXTemtacion, and now him. Also, what about the whole school shooting trend as well? Now look at all the overall terrible people, they're pretty much living successfully. Sure, you can hide behind the fact that my point was terrible, I wouldn't blame you for that. Just trying to reply with a decent response.

My father overdosed on painkillers just a week ago, luckily he’s alive and home now but it was horrifying when he started throwing up everywhere nonstop then going unconscious and when we got him to the hospital they had to put straps on him as he kept trying to get up and leave, he was very confused whenever he woke up.

In my small town, irricana, Alberta Canada. A population of max 1200, we had 4 overdoses in the same high school classroom

It seems Doctors in the US dont wanna try to help their patients in a sincere way. My doctor wont even give out antibiotics, unless really needed, to keep the resistance down. So glad I dont live in the "greatest" country on earth! :)

@mingus445_gaming

5 жыл бұрын

JC! It's a Bomb!

@ChristopherGray00

5 жыл бұрын

sure we have shittier healthcare but at least we dont live in a shack like you

My doctor has been prescribing me 280x 30mg codeine phosphate a month, for the past 2 years. Its such great pain relief for my acute joint pain which hasn't stopped for years. Along with other controlled drugs. I'm addicted to nearly every drug im prescribed.such as sleeping pills, And I bring a shopping bag sized of meds home each month. It's going to be such a hard time getting off of them all.. But at least I'm not addicted to street drugs I guess

My country (the Netherlands) has become breaking bad irl lately, like I feel like in every farm there's a secret drug lab. Its insane.

I have just had surgery 2 days ago and have been prescribed opioid medicine, little bit worried now haha

people are bored and life's easy enough that we don't have to spend much energy getting food or keeping shelter, but it still sucks enough that people want to get high and escape. (edit: I'm disappointed I have to clarify this, but obviously I'm not saying life is easy and definitely not for everyone, I'm just saying it's easier than it was in the past. I'm also talking about drug addiction in the first world, i know some people struggle with food and shelter, but most of those people aren't popping oxy's.)

@anonjfjf9123

5 жыл бұрын

Minnesota Fatz Easy enough for a mentally stable person who had parents with their heads on their shoulders. Lots of people didnt have that and dont even know how to make Kraft Dinner let alone wake up for a job everyday or manage money for bills. They get depressed at how usless they are and just fall further down the hole

@rivertrash9862

5 жыл бұрын

Anon JFJF I actually did grow up around that kind of stuff and if you read my whole comment you'd see i made it clear life still sucks. Thanks for trying, but we do not need you taking up for us in the youtube comment section.

@travellingmerchant2915

5 жыл бұрын

Not really easy to get shelter for some people

@anonjfjf9123

5 жыл бұрын

Minnesota Fatz lol what the fuck are you trying to say? Do you feel like I personally attacked your or something? Chill the fuck out you should have kept the original comment telling me to fuck off lol

@rivertrash9862

5 жыл бұрын

Anon JFJF I think i made it clear... I'm not saying life is easy, I'm saying compared to the past we definitely have a lot more free time to obsess over our problems and look for some escape.

Its because of the crazy amount of people using it in high school, out of the 200-400 people I know currently in high school easily half of them do drugs and such. If you do weed, after a while it'll stop doing stuff to you and people venture off into bad stuff like this.

@kingofpain11111

5 жыл бұрын

isaiah veirs well it depends upon age. You’re less likely to gateway from marijuana to other stuff the older you are when you try it.

@jagram16

5 жыл бұрын

NursKul It doesn’t matter if it’s weed or not, any drug in general is just fucking stupid since it gives no benefit whatsoever in the long term for your life.

@carolinabeacher1558

5 жыл бұрын

i had a relative give me a shotgun at 7 years old, i then smoked for the first time at age 13 with a school friend, it was expensive, so most the time i went to my pantry for alcohol or the fridge for beers. as i got older i started smoking weed in my late teens, i was fine, then one day went out with some clients who took me to a comedy jam, i got drunk, tried coke for the first time, loved it, fisrt time i tried pills, i was drinking, first time i tried shrooms, i was drinking. etc, every bad drug i tried was while i was drinking, if anything they should be watching drinkers, we do stupid stuff when drinking.

@kingofpain11111

5 жыл бұрын

Jag Ram what the fuck are you talking about? I’m gonna assume you just mean narcotics and even more specifically pain medication. Ok, here’s why you are wrong. Surgery and post surgery. Then there’s chronic pain. Thousands have it so bad they can’t get out of bed and many are young developmental children. For them to go grow and live life, they may need pain medication to help them grow up and move on with their life after the pain goes away.

@RyanSmith-ns3mq

5 жыл бұрын

Even the DEA no longer believes in the gateway drug theory. It's not the result of using drugs that leads to people trying stronger, deadlier drugs, it all comes down to vulnerability of the user. If they experienced something traumatic or are currently suffering some kind of mental illness they are more likely not to care what happens to them and try narcotics. In the case of teens it's about social maturity and how susceptible they are to peer pressure that determines if they'll use drugs early in life. Other then that I've been a pothead for 10 years and never felt the need to try narcotics.

yall should out sources in the description, id love the data

The problem with pain as a health care provider is that pain is subjective so we can't say if a patient is really experiencing pain or not and we really have no clue the intensity of their pain. I'm in nursing school right now and it's being shoved down our throats that we can't tell a patient if they are experiencing pain or not and to give them their pain meds if they are prescribed. It is sad and it's such a hard issue to tackle because nurses are are being told to give pain meds anytime the patient wants them (within the proper dosage). Great topic to discuss and always love your videos guys!

the internet. easier to learn about drugs. easier to buy drugs. (and the synthetic opioids spike is just fentanyl becoming a thing)

@camero220

5 жыл бұрын

the internet also makes it impossible to find out the exact dosage and wether or not it's mixed with something i.e. fentanyl, which can then lead to overdoses

You could say, drug addiction is a *_hard to swallow piiiillllll_*

@davidsteele2198

5 жыл бұрын

OrealmO dammit

@spicypretzel7616

5 жыл бұрын

OrealmO dosent make much sense now does it

@zestylemonfish5965

5 жыл бұрын

Khalid Ch. I mean the thought of it

@lightxdark3505

5 жыл бұрын

Too early

@Vett13

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect

When I had my appendectomy, the hospital gave me morphine through an IV before the surgery and it really was one of the best feelings I had ever felt. After the surgery, they gave me a prescription of oxy. I was only 16. Luckily I didn’t like oxy that much and I haven’t touched painkillers since but i’m definitely scared of what I might do if they’re in my presence.

I imagine that the synthetic opioids includes fentynol, which is fairly new and used to lace heroine. It’s extremely strong and unpredictable. The addiction usually starts on prescriptions and then once they build a tolerance they move to heroine and fentynol.

I would disagree with blaming doctors for “handing them out like candy”, many addicts will go to several doctors at several different times to get opioids. When one doctor won’t prescribe them, they go to another ER doctor complaining of pain, until they get a new script. I saw this first hand while interning. Now why aren’t pharmacists able to see how many times a patient has had an opioid prescription filled? Many doctors now, because of this crisis, only give 30 day supplies and in lower dosages. We’re also becoming more and more of a society that just wants a quick fix to a problem. Have back pain? Just pop opioids that will fix your problem.... in reality, physical therapy is what you need but then your health insurance won’t cover it and you can’t take off from work 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

@oddlem

5 жыл бұрын

This. I haven't personally seen it myself (since I'm not an RN yet), but I'm going into the medical field and have heard many stories of this.

@WubbyPunch

5 жыл бұрын

Trish Greene well, in my experience it’s 100% true. Of course there are doctors who aren’t. But there are doctors who give away scrips to pain meds like nobodies business. Ie my stepdads Doctor. He almost died and his doctor was also sued by other people right after. He’s lost his license since. It’s happening.

@kylehill9097

5 жыл бұрын

Pharmacists can see everywhere that patients have filled narcotics and controlled substances. It even gives the doctor, drug, and pharmacy that it gets filled at. In michigan it's a program called MAPS. I think the problem also is with people who sell as well that aren't pharmacy hoping

@TheTrishJGreene

5 жыл бұрын

I’m sure there are doctors that will prescribe pain meds like nobody’s business, I just feel majority of the problem isn’t one doctor prescribing it to one patient over and over again, without losing their license, and without seeing repercussions. According to a study I read for my MCAT, doctors will prescribe antibiotics for viral infections like respiratory infections when they feel pressure from the patient to do so. I believe that’s true for opiates too; doctors don’t want to lose patients, get bad reviews, or have anyone question them for mal-practice, so to avoid this, if they feel the only way to keep their patient is to give them opiates, they’ll give them to the them. Now who is to blame in that scenario? A patient pressing a doctor to give them opiates because they’re a self-chosen addict, or the doctor that doesn’t want to lose patients? 🤷🏼‍♀️ it’s a societal problem

@sup8437

5 жыл бұрын

Physical therapy isnt always the answer. For me pt would just cause more injuries because of my eds. The only thing that helps me function at a realatively normal level is opiates and cbd. If i didnt have them id be bed bound from the pain.

It really shouldn’t be surprising after the soundcloud rappers became so popular and sudenly these kind of drugs are so edgy and cool to take

@anonjfjf9123

5 жыл бұрын

József Albek So we need to teach our kid to stop trying to be cool and fit in with a bunch of mindless fucking morons and to be confident to stray from the path and be different and better

@madaakusto6771

5 жыл бұрын

@@anonjfjf9123 Some kids are just dumb. Teaching them to be good Christian boys will make them angrier and want to rebel once they get freedom

@seaneas7054

5 жыл бұрын

Most of the people taking them prescriptionally are middle aged people who hate New wave rap

@anonjfjf9123

5 жыл бұрын

+NotLeviathan Yeet uh thats not what i meant at all. i wouldnt teach them to believe in something thats not real. i mean teach them to not feel the need to join the group of kids whose paren ts buy them everythin g and listen to shit music and do stupid things. be a kid who gets their work done and whose idea of fun doesnt invovle looking a certain way and being loud and stupid

@asAbsolute

5 жыл бұрын

NotLeviathan Yeet Nah, I was raised right and I turned out good. Have some self control.

I was recently prescribed Valium for anxiety. The kicker is that this was the first time that I had seen this particular doctor. After only a 10 minute consultation he decided that he would prescribe me one of the most addictive drugs because I needed to be “fixed” (his words). I will not be fulfilling this prescription.

Recovering addict here. Started with a doctor. Unfortunately, I didn't know I was an addict until I was addicted.

Both my parents have crushes knees, crushed disks in back, my mothers shoulder is nothing but dust. They need a higher dose of them but they wont give it to them anymore because of people doing this! This is wrong! Its not their fault that others do this to themselves. -Please up vote this because they are torturing my parents!- Edit: please up vote it so eithen can see. Thats the only reason why I said it. I could careless if any my normal comments. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Watching my father cry at night is aweful. I even had to take his hunter knife away from him because im so scared he'll kill himself from how much pain he is in. My mother cant even move and is bed ridden. They cut his high dose down to nothing. They said its "just the withdraw" but no YOU CAN NOT take someone who was at 180 down to 30 less than 6 months.... my mother almost had a heart attack because the drastic change and she had a higher dose of 230. Now its been almost 2 years and they are getting worse... I dont know what to do. Please help!

@tmproductions18

5 жыл бұрын

I agree and feel where you are coming from. Multiple herniated disc and pain managements want to only give you the weakest kind of opiates which doesn’t work for people who has been on painkillers for an extended time. There are still docs out there that will give oxycodone and will help your parents out. I was driving an hour away at one point to my one doctor who gave me about anything as long as your passing drug test. Tell them just to find an old doctor who is new or has reviews of giving out medications. Younger docs are too aware of how addictive they are and unless you have cancer or something serious; you’re not getting opiates

@xenoto7148

5 жыл бұрын

Happening to my father as well. He hardly has any discs left at all, and they are cutting his meds in half! I have three ruptured discs and I know it’s only a matter of time that the smaller amount I take comes under fire. It sucks that I actually started enjoying life. Now I get to fear going back to wanting to give up every day. Mark my words: they will be trading ppl illegally obtaining and ODing to a death crisis of those in chronic pain committing suicide. And it will be due to SJWs and politicians.

@ParadiseofDarkness

5 жыл бұрын

@@tmproductions18 Ttm 87 in washington state they are 100% axing doctors who will help out they patients. If they dont follow the new rules they will loss their license. One docotor I knew lost his because he couldnt and didnt have the heart to cut his older patients. Be did 70 and up who are riddle in hell of full-blown arthritis or full on broken bodies that they cant even get out of bed without screaming. Even breathing is hell.... Maybe in your state but washington they are the leading charge of torturing people who really need meds and not giving it. My parents went to 20 pain doctors now after ours retired because he didnt was to be bullied... these pain doctors dont care and there was one who said the get bonus points if they cut people down.... this doctor even braged he cut a cancer patient and she was in stage 3........ In my state no... you live in hell.

@ParadiseofDarkness

5 жыл бұрын

@@xenoto7148 I'm sorry your dad is having issues too and for you dealing with your own issues. It freaken sucks... Indeedy... and they wont get blame for people killing themselves because people couldnt handle the dangerously high pain too... its sickening.

@ParadiseofDarkness

5 жыл бұрын

@Brandon Donnelly in evil washingtion state they left. My parents go to the famous surgerns and their old pain doctor before retiring becuase of this bullshit here in this state of hell. All the doctors and pain doctors now SUCK now even the pros.

Drug overdoses have increased because the population has increased, that’s my guess🤷🏼‍♂️

@SocialistFinn1

5 жыл бұрын

No dumbass there is no place in the world where the population increases that quickly.

@anomalouspossession9415

5 жыл бұрын

Except several Asian countries.

@SocialistFinn1

5 жыл бұрын

@@anomalouspossession9415, nope, if you look at how quickly the overdoses have increased, there is no place on earth where the population has increased at the same rate

@anomalouspossession9415

5 жыл бұрын

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@salem927

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahaha

My dad got emphysema and got depressed because he couldn't work anymore, he eventually got addicted to the pain medication he got prescribed, He just used to walk into the doctors and got prescribed oxys, valium, oxazapam a whole cocktail, I tried my best to hide them and limit the amount he was taking but one day when i was out he found them and took the lot and he went to sleep and never woke up.

A doctors office right next to the factory I work at got raided by the FBI and apparently 20 million dollars worth of opioids got prescribed through them. The raid has made this talk so much more real to me

I wish opioids where never created. My 13 year old sister died from using opioids. I feel like it’s just another form of population control.

@generic-george

5 жыл бұрын

Opiods/opiates are a great source of pain relief. If taken correctly, they are harmless.

@amyr1285

5 жыл бұрын

Turquoise Cheetah you have no idea what kind of life my sister and I lived. You have no idea what we were going through to make a 13 year old girl do drugs. If you’re gonna blame anyone it should be my mother. Not a child that OBVIOUSLY didn’t get taught any better. And, how do you think half of these people get addicted to pain killers? Cause they’re prescribed them. Most people start out doing them because they need them. I’m sure the ORIGINAL use of opioids wasn’t as innocent as you think. I’m sure there is something else in this world that could be used to help with pain. Something that isn’t as addictive or strong. Don’t be so judgmental about people that are addicted to drugs. Don’t just assume that everyone that does drugs is some useless loser that could never (or has never) contributed to society. Cause if you want to say all that then, think about this, how much contributing is someone doing that is in so much pain that they need to take that type of medication? It’s basically the exact same thing.

@iHaveTheDocuments

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit man!

@HoaxManTheOne

5 жыл бұрын

when a 13 year old is using opioids your parents have fucked up beyond believe. nothing else to add. stop spreading lies.

@damiansconberg4715

5 жыл бұрын

@Turquoise Cheetah forms of cannabis can easily replace opioids

Glad to see that someone else doesn't buy into the "harmlessness" of marijuana.

@novasnotvibing

5 жыл бұрын

Oh shut the fuck up

@carolinabeacher1558

5 жыл бұрын

im in my 50s, it does not effect me negatively at all, in fact on the days im in horrible pain, i can take one hit of regular weed and be feeling so good, i will get up and do physical activity no matter how much it hurts me. its much safer than the pills i was on for 15 plus years.

@anonjfjf9123

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah for someone who is too immature to handle money and can't balance fun and real life, it can be bad. Some people just love the high and want it constantly, and the immaturity part comes in when your mind wants the high and you cant discipline yourself enough to save the money for something more important. I think it's OK if someone can prove they can use money for bills and other important things and still get high and take care of responsibility. It becomes dangerous to someone who has little impulse control and maybe they had generous parents and the person is used to getting money given to them or they have a sense that life is easy cause they havent had to deal with it yet.

@lc9271

5 жыл бұрын

Still leagues safer than addictive painkillers.

@aheathen9387

5 жыл бұрын

Marijuana has never *Killed* anyone. We have a right to medicate ourselves. But things like Marijuana are immensely more safe than cigs or alcohol.

Its a hopelessness that we all feel

My brother started out with prescription opioids for his migraines which lead him to heroin and ultimately killed him, yet companies still give no crap and care more about money than people's lives.

This is a sub-cultural issue caused by rap culture. It's also the cause of other issues but that's besides the point

@carolinabeacher1558

5 жыл бұрын

no its not, i listened to rap, i didnt try those drugs until i got drunk.

@doctordoom1851

5 жыл бұрын

Where's your proof of that?

First To like my own comment

@SilentDaydreams

5 жыл бұрын

Funny and original

@overusedcondom581

5 жыл бұрын

*_HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL_*

@yameenahmed4314

5 жыл бұрын

@@overusedcondom581 thanks

I think a big part is accessibility. the internet in particular. people are more connected and you can buy anything on the web these days (legal or not). we can connect with people we don't even know, if we want something. it's just a few clicks away to find someone that has connections. There's also an uprise of drug culture in music and social media. many kids see their peers and favorite celebs self medicating and making it seem cool. Kids are impressionable. also the fact that mental health in young people is becoming a bigger issue and many of these kids don't know how to help themselves so they take drugs to take the edge off and end up in a worse state. I myself have bipolar disorder and psychosis and for the first few years, i felt helpless and i could only gain some control if i self medicated. this of course was an awful idea but i didn't know ay better and saw no other option. it was so easy for me to get ahold of substances and the young culture around me saw it as a normal thing. Kids have always broken rules and done something to get a buzz in one way or another but now we have more access to worse things. its a complicated mess really. mental health, laws, the internet and youth culture as well as gang and money making all play a part and i'm sure there are many other things too

I take meds for my epilepsy, one is a mild benzoyl. I had a co-worker take my prescription paper from work. I had to jump through hoops to get my prescription actually filled because some dumbass said he was picking up my meds. They gave him my meds!!!! And then when I needed them they said "well we need to make sure you aren't abusing them" ??!!!?!?!!

After California legalized weed a lot of crime and deaths have risen, legalizing weed was and will never bring any good, if you use it for medical reasons then so be it but you can buy it legally for and only that reason, weed is not essential for life and should be illegal for all states.

@damiansconberg4715

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah let's put people in prison and have the tax payers pay for it even though people are gonna smoke weed regardless of laws

@doctordoom1851

5 жыл бұрын

Literally nobody dies from smoking marijuana. Alcohol and cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands of people every year and those things are still legal, you are a moron.

I got prescribed so many pain killers once that I couldn’t keep them down so they prescribed me medicine that makes it so you just can’t puke and it only takes a few minutes to work. After that it felt like I wasn’t even attached to my body because I was so fucked off the drugs

I am 15 years old. A month ago, i had epididimytis and a doctor from the hospital gave me a presciption for probably the strongest antibiotics out there for a month. I went straight to the pharmacy and the lady there told me that if i take one pill of those i would DIE. I went to another hospital and got normal antibiotics.

As someone with SLE Lupus with pain every day to the point I can't even function most of the time, because of the epidemic it's extremely hard for me to get medication for my pain. What little I do get is very heavily regulated. I go to a pain clinic in October and I'm hoping they won't see me as a pill popper and actually help me.

I've seen how hard drugs affect older people as well (senior citizens). I work retail and had someone come in the other day barely able to talk and walk because of her pain killers; she was knocking stuff over and just off of it. Her husband explained that she was in a lot of pain and they were trying different medications for her and he apologized for her behavior. It's not always young teenagers getting fucked up off of painkillers

I got my wisdom tooth pulled out and was given pain killers. Didn't get addicted. I crushed 3 fingers at work, was giving Painkillers like candy. I didn't get addicted. I even threw away my prescription for more. But the crazy part is, a punch of people were telling me if I had Meds for sale or if I can do them a favor to get some more. Here's a fact, if you break a bone or crush something, Don't smoke weed. It just intensify the pain more.

Thats a really large and sudden spike, there must have been some specific trigger that caused it.

I'm born and raised from west Virginia and we were number 1 for this, I don't know if we still are but it's so sad...its like something that is just part of growing up. For me (im23 now), you go to middle school and start smoking weed or cigarettes, by high school you're starting to try pills, and by the end of high school you're trying cocaine and heroine. It's fucked up, it's not shocking to anyone anymore.