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Would put and i failed in that attempt. For years i had treated patients with heroin addiction with high dose methadone which is the appropriate treatment and so i was thinking well i see how well that works for all these people and they dont tend to overdose on it or have a lot of side effects or have any problems so why wouldnt that be fine for pain patients i do recall individual young man who had a rough go early in life had some problem with alcoholism was in elko recovery had a number of back surgeries and i was in the middle of a tapering course switched him over to methadone from his other drug to ease his taper and using misguided conversion tables. 3 days after i converted him i got a call from his wife that a doctor. Was flabbergasted its not safe for people who just have chronic pain to give them opioids because they dont have the years of tolerance built up that people with heroin addiction have to really understand the complexity of being that drug is a reflection of. Tra
Still helped by the product 2 were deceased from causes thought to be related to their opioid addiction and non last minute other things said if i was decoding mailbox once a month and i would find a bottle an oxy im constantly on it and i found the need to lower and is among the lucky survivors i will allow doctors to prescribe me x. Right now its a synthetic heroin. In 2010 to do introduced a new tamper resistant oxycontin with a spotlight focused on stopping pill mills in the new tamper resistant medication easy sources for prescription pain killers began to dry up prescription opioids were expensive on the black market. Heroin became a cheaper alternative i can remember this 15 years ago when my patients coming in here for buprenorphine treatment were saying you know heroin is a lot cheaper than most pills and it works. In 2016 the new england journal of medicine published a study that found that 76 percent of those seeking help for her when addiction began by abusing pharmaceutica
Good morning and the meeting will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting consumers privacy, and security of the data. And harmful uses of technology in combating deceptive advertising and illegal protocols. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity, and predatory Business Practices and Consumer Education is an essential part of their mission. And its intended to inform customer choices help prevent americans from falling victim to fraudsters, cyber criminals another bad actor