All month on cspan we are featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle and High School Students created videos answering the question, what issued to you most want the 2020 president ial candidate to address . Our second prize High School Award goes to madison daniels. 12thgraders. Theirning injury winning entry opioid drug and opioid crisis, and a crisis it is. Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. Ae misuse of and addiction opioid, including prescription pain relievers and synthetic opioids is a serious National Crisis that affects Public Health and social and economic welfare. Here is one of michigan cities within opioid crisis. That i dont have exact numbers. During that time heroin ods went from seven to 32. That was a 400 increase. In the primary care world they are trying to limit controlled Substance Abuse and prescribing. Most Purdue Pharma introduced oxycodone in 1996 and it was aggressively promoted. Sales went from in 1996 to in 1996 to almost 1. 1 billion. 48 millionthe High Availability of oxycodone correlated with increased abuse and addiction. By 2004, oxycodone had become a leading drug of abuse in the United States. This was the beginning of the modern opioid crisis. We are suing the opioid companies. We are arguing they have cost hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars because of the extra police, fire needed and other problems. Purdue pharma is pushing these prescriptions. Early in my career, we were still of the opinion that opioid use dependence or a narcotic dependence was very rare, addiction was rare and that an opioid or narcotic would not be addictive. That was based on some studies that were published. Companies said these are great, these are wonderful. They knew they were addictive and they did not say anything about it. I think some of these drug companies, some of the people that made these decisions should go to jail. I dont mean a fine. They should be in jail. Everyone is affected by this crisis. I have several patients who have children or siblings who are struggling with opioid use disorder. I have seen how it impacts them as well. When i was about 13, my mom called her dealer. She asked for a bag, and she asked my grandma to borrow some money, and if she could take the car to the gas station and if i could drive. She ended up robbing them in front of me. I couldve gotten killed. My grandma couldve gotten killed. It is an epidemic that knows no race, gender, income, or marital status and no political party. I am talking to them about how else to manage your pain in an effort to limit the amount of narcotics that are out in the community. My beautiful, wonderful baby daughter gets left out in a lot of the story and that is part of the pain. I was not present and i barely remember her. Not being able to see my mom i always got straight as. I could not go home to tell her because she was always high or not really there. I just wish she was there. Even the youngest in the community are affected. Neonatal abstinence syndrome has and hasns to babies symptoms including hyper irritability, gastrointestinal dysfunction and respiratory distress. Other symptoms may include seizure, longterm Health Issues with vision and hearing, or problems with learning and behavior. In some cases, nas can lead to sudden infant death syndrome. Usually occurring in the babys sleep. We will treat the babies with methadone or morphine and then gradually take them off of that. Wean them down. Things that other than putting them on medication, we can swaddle them tightly and walk with them, hold them. What can be done . A lot needs to be done to solve this. Number one, educating people, explaining the risk. Number two, telling Health Care Providers to be cautious in how much they are dispensing. We need better resources for people who have opioid abuse disorder. It needs to be something that is available quickly. We need to have better regulations like we have now where we are monitoring peoples peoples prescriptions. Is there a simple panacea to solve the problem . No. It is the individual. The police. The people in charge. Parents and doctors and hospitals. And yes, the drug manufacturers. The smaller states are not getting enough of these grants to make an impact. To really be part of the solution. We offer a chance for someone who was an addict, you can come to the police and say i am an addict and i need help. You give us your drugs and you are assigned an angel to counsel you. Than they are taken to the hospital. Dear president ial candidates, we need your help to solve the opioid crisis. Start setting more regulations for pharmaceutical companies and doctors along with increased support for states battling the epidemic. Lets beat this now and save future generations. 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