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Big topic today is drug abuse they are also sold drugs alcohol Prescription Medication and even my wana most of these have become accepted and legal in different parts of the world other drugs remain illegal and for good reason drug abuse has been linked to crime and addiction and habit or drug uses and harm themselves and obvious to start off weve got a video message from. A coffee from Nairobi Kenya he and his friends used to brighten up the walls of the neighborhood and highlight issues affecting them check it out. Did you see. Him in his recent. Trip to. Believe these. Was it to do. With you. Tube. You can see more from an Instagram Page and you can always tell us which topics interest you by emailing us via 7 to 7 at d w dot com now to talk about the drug abuse i will be joined right now in the studio by someone who knows a lot about it she is a journalist and filmmaker. Whose documentary about drug use was even nominated for an International Emmy award this is why. Investigative
In rural areas than anywhere else at the peak of the epidemic millions of people in the United States were prescribed 259000000. 00 prescriptions of opioids that means on average every adult is on one opiate you know once or twice a year if not more scares the living out of me opioids are a major category of medical spending according to the centers for Disease Control its about. 24000000000. 00 in direct cost for the medications and other 75000000000. 00 in Health Care Costs people are doing and oxycontin 8010. 00 pack a day thats a 1000. 00 worth of medication the kids who are spending hundreds of this month thousands. Of her own walking. And its cheap. Really cheap really inexpensive and readily available the shame of it. Diction 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. Car accidents from 999 to 2070 over 500000 americans have died from
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Depths. Or a maid in the shallows. No hold on an old shattered by the old georgia. In this episode we explore the ignorance and greed that led to our Current Crisis one of the 1st. Medicine is do no harm. Said that hypocrisy is was the 1st to say this and what that means is that the cure for any medical problem shouldnt be worse than the disease that youre trying to treat a big chunk of america is in chronic pain and pain meds back pain pain arthritis events real and it affects peoples lives and they would like a way to live their lives to take care of their families without being a misnamed what the brain is trained is that different brains in their brain thats not in pain people have it in their hear theres a feel for something gardasil whatever mountain iranians or something out there is going to you know there was this new miracle drug its going to lemonade all your brain inside the company and the drug came out they received so many letters from people who had been suffering for y