Really cheap really inexpensive readily available the shame of addiction keeps us from knowing the actual numbers but at least 2000000 americans and probably millions more are addicted to prescription opioids prescription drugs. Causing more deaths for example than Car Accidents from 1909 to 2070 over 500000 americans have died from an opioid overdose more than all the americans killed on the battlefield since world war 2. We have iraq in rates of foreign like the pattern of children winding up in the foster care system because their parents are addicted kids growing up without parents parents who have lost children you have families decimated towns destroyed to think that it started off with you know company in stanford connecticut. Its a marketing this is the worst manmade epidemic in the history of american medicine its very clear when one looks at the overprescribing of opioids thats a lead to this Public Health crisis that the medical community really forgot the 1st which is do no
In a way they hadnt for years and they. Did the best thing that happened to me if i wasnt on this medication i just wouldnt be able to do the things that im doing now theres no question the strongest and most opioids have serious medical. Or you push the. Pharmaceutical companies all though were not entirely transparent about the addictive the thank. You were told they were non addictive when in fact they were. Taught in medical schools about this is the juice we only get about illnesses that were supposed to cure. Thinking that doctors are always right so if you have a prescription its easy and we talk about opioid painkillers we are centrally talking about. The Drug Companies or the. I tell. Are the pushers and the pharmacists are the suppliers thats how it is seen there is not a city in the United States right now that doesnt have a major opiate addiction problem and its not just in cities its in rural areas in fact in some places its worse in rural areas than anywhere else at the p
Take on some new challenge. Of what, i have no idea yet, ive been so busy, but its been a great run are, and weve gotten a lot done, so im pleased with it. Host well, speaking of that, youre regarded as one of the Telecommunications Experts in the congress because of your background in radio and being on the enc committee. Whats your legacy in telecommunications . Guest you know, thanks, peter. I dont spend a lot of time on that sort of stuff, but i would tell you together the committee did great work opening up spectrum. And really positioning the united states, i think, to have the spectrum when it needed it to advance the new technologies as they come along. And i remember when we passed some of these laws, there were parts of the band that nobody thought had any value that today is like the highest value real estate. Really Young American minds develop new technologies and innovation. I think making sure they have access to spectrum is kind of like, you know, build it and they will
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Feasting in qatar as waters why its the perfect home for the season gentle giants. Ok were going to begin with breaking news and the Russian Hackers that are accused of trying to steal research from several institutions developing a covert 19 vaccine the u. K. The u. S. And canada say hackers are quote almost certainly part of Russian Intelligence Services and celebs theyve been targeting academic and pharmaceutical institutions since the start of the pandemic ok lets go live to paul brennan in london lets talk about this situation 1st of all what more do we know. Well the lot of attention about russias attacks and activities in recent days and will be more next week as well but looking at this specific claim on the specific reports i have at the documents in front of me its an advisory thats been issued by the u. K. s National Cybersecurity center its 14 pages long and what it essentially says is that the group called apt 29 also known in some circles as the jukes some perhaps better