The Poverty Level people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children who have become addicted to the opiates every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high and. All of what affected by the opiate use. He represents several families from this town everyone has lost a relative deceased of a cardiac arrest following a painkiller overdose drugs prescribed by dr nichols. Thats about it really is this and. This Oklahoma City lawyer has never seen a case like this and you victim wants to press charges. Come in you can see you can see you. Have a seat and that marshall has been raising her 2 children alone since her husband died. Painkiller overdose my math shows thats 99. 00 per day that she would prescribe you and he passed away like my 2nd. One in 20122012. He was a fireman she works in education counselor a regular family all it took was back surgery to turn everything over in a few months her husband became addicted to the painkillers prescribed by got to nichols the course once you have that surgery its never quite the same and then they get some other treatment anyhow and you know its a matter issues with just on the judge just injuries it from being to having such a physical job and i think it just snowballed you know he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer. More drugs than the regular drug dealers of the street would prescribe but shes doing it in the name of medicine. According to her doctor nicholas would swiftly see patients without any physical exam a few dollars for a prescription her husband would have been prescribed 100. 00 pills a day 3000. 00 a month the doctor should have been the response well course and theyre trained in thats what their job is is to make sure theyre treating you in a healthy manner and theyre doing whats best for you and not whats going to bring harm to you. It happens to just your next door neighbor to your uncle miltie firefighters here call a City Police Officer to your School Teacher to your you know its a its not a its not a disease that is specific it could hit anybody. How come opioids indeed given their pain has become a market and the idea of not suffering even likely as they get in drug stores that look like fast food anyone can shop for pain killers physical or psychological a painkiller exists for almost any reason. Imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. Imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. Imagine with less pain and amongst the pain killers on prescriptions are the opioids usually prescribed for back aches or headaches 2000000 americans are addicted to these pills for a reason that most ignore their opium based. Im jason b. Minute and i am the chair of psychiatry at Oklahoma State universitys center for Health Sciences our oath is essentially 1st do no harm and i think that thats one of the biggest problems is that doctors dont realize that by prescribe opioids. That they could doing more harm than good and weve seen that in a lot a lot of cases what were they originally prescribed for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things to your body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays its used for a lot of Different Things these pills a cool hydrocodone. The content. Of the drugs that are legally sold on the market share the same component a powerful narcotic heroin and sometimes they are a 1000 times more concentrated. The opioid compound comes from a plant called the opium poppy and these plants are really grown mostly in asia and then theyre imported by Drug Companies into the United States but what we do with the pills is we take the good parts of the flour that you would smoke and we concentrate them in a little pill. And so the pills are much more potent than smoking ever was but in the United States we outlawed the smoking of opium in the early 1900 if you get a 3 day per script theres a 13 percent chance that youll be taking those opioids a year later so whether its a few prescriptions or a few pills its a very small amount that it takes to get addicted. To the left a lethal dosage of heroin to the right its a quick lived to opium samples. To date you know you did something for your pain talk to your doctor. To be able to not feel pain has become a tacit agreement between doctor and patient this is what price these drugs are ticking bombs. Whos aware of that fact did dr nichols know. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today against a midwest city dr breggin nichols is already accused are prescribing a massive amount of opioids to 5 patients who later died when i heard that there was 4 other deaths that i sort of thing oh good evening the midwest city doggie doctor you know i mustered up 3000000 jobs they were just reading and listening to the doctor raising as many times and stuff and he. Was very happy she got a rest question on t. V. Oh very happy that there were no 4 it was sad because this is all 3 doctors i mean did she harm i didnt know any internet i met a man why america should certain men and marriage to. A met. Do you mean these are innate he has spent her entire life in this house this is where the daughter chelsea was born 21 years ago here also that she passed away as a painkiller overdose in 2013 their story is one of an analgesic Burden Family hiding in the secret and shame with addiction. Shes headed for back surgeries dr nichols was lizas doctor for 7 years she was the 1st to fall into the trap when i 1st started seeing her i thought she was going to be ok and she was giving me Pain Medicine to help my back but as the years go by course your body gets used to that medicine so that it doesnt work you know you used to take one pain you know and now you have to stay 2 or 3 pain pills because the pain is so bad. So it just increase its just a vicious cycle because you know you got to have the medicine but you know you dont want to have to take that much medicine but you cant i could work and do my job if i didnt have. Lisa had her own addiction what she didnt know is that her daughter was doing the same thing for 3 years chelsea had diabetes which causes muscular pains it was her turn to consult with dr nichols. Night i asked her about the quantity of medicine she was given her and her response to me was chelsea was an adult that she could talk to me about chelseas medical but she could talk to me about chelseas diabetes but she wouldnt talk to me about. The medication that she was i did trust her maybe money feeder too or. Maybe just that the love of money maybe thats worth because i know that when she chose to be a doctor i would bet on it that she chose to want to help people. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Place a nation full of nudity. Are you going the right way or are you being. Direct. What is true whats his face. In the world. Corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or remain in the shallows. Part of something is better than 100 percent of nothing and so losing money is this part of the Money Laundering model as a model of Business Model and we look at these uniforms these startups and Silicon Valley like the ones you mention we work that way fair goober and we were left there all losing money exponentially so many after the asters stuff well maybe the model is to lose money and so who is laundering the money who is laundering the money. We go to work. Straight home. And in another one of the eyes sway you go for. Benefits wolf movie theater. Plus weve got it all so hard not to think of the mother disappeared this moment to look like that and i dont miss dorothy and if. This is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights aimed at his own weight. The floor looking for the 50 pound is worthless woody allen where its running a whole new level of oxycodone a q i think is this is the found that is a compliment thank you. We met dr nichols almost a year ago i think she has a very good heart she wants to help people maybe a little awkward but shes got a really sweet heart my name is tommy adler im in a criminal defense attorney here in Oklahoma City we represent dr Ragan Nichols or i really like her very much. Doctors lose patients all the time. To accuse a doctor of. Acting in reckless disregard for her patients when we believe that she was genuinely attempting to care for them. Is a big step for the government that say. That exposes doctors to a lot of risk and these were troubled people these patients were abusing the things that they had access to. It wasnt the amounts that dr nichols prescribed these people that killed them it was the amounts that they decided to take. Her line of defense is set to shift away the shadow of responsibilities dr nichols was an irreproachable professional who was duped by drug addicts and she never had any awareness that her patients were facing any danger whatsoever nowadays in Oklahoma City addiction can be seen at every corner. I think america got here because we are the most medicated country in the world klein we are a country of if that its a fast food quick fix is now now i now feel that. Heres a pill her heres a pill tell disfunction heres a pill all of those things are right there at a doctors pad but wayne is a good painter minds that were alive. He went to the center as a patient since then hes become the head of the facility in order to save others like himself everyone here has to learn to live without pain killers this private ranches 30 places a year it receives 40 requests a day at 21 years old kyle is in rehab for the 1st time to. Sub rather to dora. Im good paul cool man i feel and. I gotcha. Us stay clean. Are you ready alright ran. Your mom in here and well good will get everything started. Right after you guys. Carl. Has been to college and hes the father of a little boy but 4 years ago he became addicted to opioids and then heroin. Writes opiates heroin and oxycontin anything else and now ok and this is the 1st treatment on right all right are you feeling very emotional. The motion of everybody shes waiting for her boy to come back. Its going to take cal bout 30 days for you to really begin to see a change. So is life and death man theres only 3 ways out of this which is get sober which is what i pray for you on the 2nd one is his prison if youre lucky. 3rd one is. De berry. I dont know how else to say it but im right and i cant do this anymore as. Our own so much that i would rather not see. Them who are or at this moment i dont know. Really will be on the view i want to. Crawl through to get here. Kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids. How it feels toward my body is a lot. Like thought process its slow. And just about all over again or in the. South emotions in me its just i cant keep my emotions in one place and you know its all up with. Her i just are of the opiate. A lot of our friends and its all of us and. After that. We in my friends kind of stuck together and were doing these pills and it was just blocking out so much pain or so stressed out i. Fighting back tears every day i think thats hard id think it was just blocking out that pain. And then me feel good it they forget it they actually helped me out with a lot of things depend on it. I was. That was my girl you know that was my love and then. Just this last year like too many too many bad things ive lost my family and that wasnt enough that wasnt enough to write room change and mentally in my head but ive gotten close to suicide. These pills are. A. Little. Just like tobacco addiction the dangers of opioids have been hidden it has taken 20 years for the government to take action for financial fees. In my office while the lawsuit against purdue pharma. So long and janssen pharmaceuticals. In putting this lawsuit together. We believe these companies are culpable for the tragic heartbreaking number of oklahomans who have become addicted or who have died as a result of the Opioid Epidemic in our state. Hes the Oklahoma Attorney general and the 1st one in this country to go to battle. My counter is publicly accusing pharmaceutical companies of having caused this epidemic. He wanted to prove he and his team have been investigating for more than a year. Yes my name is regina when the attorney here in Oklahoma City. In my mind this model burrage i am my lawyer in oklahoma. General hunter hired my law firm verged to represent the state of oklahoma and. Try to recoup all of the costs that the state has incurred because of the Opioid Epidemic and we need this person as a. Case. I think were going to be able to prove that 80 percent of all the crime in the state of oklahoma is directly caused by this Opioid Epidemic and our prisons are overfilled because of that loss of productivity of taxpaying citizens costs the state money but im anxious to get this 1st this 1st battle started. What they did to this country. Is from. Their estimates bring the cost of the epidemic to 7000000000. 00 in oklahoma. This is story cool hearing will take place in a few days. Today reggie which will explain his motivations to a group of students that this struggle is a personal one. Partner a gene has been involved in the opioid addiction the opioid crossus ever since the death of his son brian and i had a nice that also related to drugs and so when the attorney general talked about representing the state. In this case. I think he knew that we both had family members and because of the epidemic. Were going to talk to Incoming Freshman athletes at the university of oklahoma im going to tell a. Story about my son brandon. That the power of addiction and how dangerous it is and maybe. Save somebodys life. I think i got a chance to shake almost everybodys hand when you came in i was trying to figure out what sport you are its hard to guess every sport from your you know your size but thank you guys for coming. So let me introduce you to my co speakers and this is brandon. And moran is not here today and ill tell you why later this is me when i was at o. U. And i had this young son and also when i had more hair. Brown was a cute little kid brand his plan was to go to college and play football which he did. He ended up playing on a National ChampionshipFootball Team never got in any kind of trouble in the drug that brought him down as an opioid and it did not come from the streets it came from a pharmacy i just told him stop using those pills and i found out its not that easy i found out its like telling a diabetic to use more willpower and stop needing insulin you cant do that thats crazy. I never told him about addiction i never warned him. And so now i i have survivor guilt now but im living with it so i started a foundation called fighting addiction through education because i think education is the key to this problem and when i tell this story at schools it gets so quiet you could hear a pin drop and theyre not really interested in me theyre interested in brandon they i show pictures of him he was one of them hes just ordinary kid and if an ordinary kid like brandon can end up getting hooked they could and that is the truth these pills that big pharma sells. Theyre essentially heroin pills most people dont know that but these opioids are essentially the same this heroin thats the key telling patients that theyre not addictive thats the killer literally thank you guys for being a good audience and im hoping some of the information i shared with you today might help you in a good way. Never managed to quit. In someone responsible for his misery. Pharmaceutical. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area rush up. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. 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