Change how doctors think about prescribing opioids, encouraging them to prescribe much shorter durations of treatment. Lower doses of the medications. And also in many cases, encouraging them to think about not starting a patient on opioid, if thats not necessary. Other kinds of perception medications, even trying modification first to deal with pain. Host executive action from the president yesterday, the cdc making initial guidelines on overprescribing. What about on capitol hill . As the senate left, they just pass the bill dealing with opioid addiction. What would that do . Sarah that bill would direct some money the federal government already appropriated. It would do two things. It would try and help support prevention programs, once thats try and prevent drug abuse and from even beginning. Also help support treatment programs throughout the country to help those suffering from drug abuse. Host seems like one of the big amendments was some 600 million by senator shaheen. That ame
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They took him in. It was actually a wonderful environment for my nephew, having some structure, having some order, having some discipline, having some basic stability. By the end of that year in school miriam had come back to him. She was out of the crack house, she was still struggling with but itd alcohol abuse, was not as bad as it has been. She was able to care for joey again. And then a few years ago miriam died of an overdose. Joey, her son, found her in her bed. The coroner ruled it asks said corn ruled it orner ruled it accidental. These tragedies are hopping all are happening all over this country. With peril and sometimes people make decisions bound and determined to destroy themselves. As a family you wonder if i could have done more, was there a way to pull her back, was there a way to change the path she was on. There are other journeys that have happier endings. Journeys like the one paul briefly described. That journey was my fathers journey. Which occurred when i was a
If i did not have to go to these drug houses to buy marijuana, i would not have been subjected to the crack cocaine, heroin, the meth, etc. Host mike, thanks so much. We will hear from fred in michigan, democrats line. Governmentt is the going to do to save those that are crippled and in need of opiates . Twice have been told that i was going to die. Once from a car wreck, once from people breaking into my house for drugs. My exgirlfriend told them that andd 20 pounds of pot 20,000 and the next thing i know, im nearly beaten to death with a hammer and a bat. Host so you were prescribed some sort of opiate . On norco and oxycontin. They walked away with hundred 78 and about 15 pills. And 8th of pot. And they put it in the paper as a drug case. All these doctors are running out of this area. Poor people dont have the ability to make it to a doctor. Host weve got about 10 more minutes. I did want to show you a pretty graphic look at how the problem has expanded. This is a graphic done onl
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