Opioids hears the accused that to reconnect calls. A Family Doctor for over 22 years shes now suspected of being a prescription murderer. The judge has to ascertain if there is enough material to go to trial. The plaintiffs in the room have all lost a child a brother a friend from an opioid overdose. Dr nichols was their doctor she was the one prescribing the trucks. Let him serve unbox im an attorney at Oklahoma City i practice crippled events ive got a Police Officer and ive been a prosecutor and ive been a judge ive been here all my life born and raised in oklahoma. All right the hard to the Oil Production were right on the edge of were cowboys are the and so weve got a lot of people in here that are hard working people and its a pretty peaceful city as far as that goes. Box knows these roads inside out and whos on 1st name terms with the local people all his career hes defended this community but to date the clients have changed before i was having people from more the Poverty Level people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children that become addicted to the opiates now its every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high in. All of what effected 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. Not for nothing turning. This Oklahoma City lawyer has never seen a case like this and you victim wants to press charges. The man who can see you can see you. Have a seat and that marshall has been raising her 2 children alone since her husband died of a painkiller overdose my math shows thats not a 9 per day that she would prescribe him and he passed away and got 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 of course once you have that surgery its never quite the same and then they did some other treatment and he had. 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 dose 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 person theyre trained and 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 come 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 invaded america pain has become a market and the idea of not suffering even likely is a good thing 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 page. Imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. Imagine with less pain and amongst the pain killers on prescriptions or 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 be 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 they originally prescribed for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things are body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays its used for a lot of Different Things these pills. Are found to know other 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 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 a ticking bombs whos aware of that fact did dr nichols know. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today against a midwest city doctor Regen 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 thats a. Good thing a midwest city darkie doctor im homeless tonight 3000000 jobs davis im just really not a clinician. Raising as many times as you just got and he. Was very happy she got a rest question on t. V. Oh very happy that it went on there for it was said was this is will be dark here for you did she harm i didnt know any internet i met a man why america should surrender men and manage to. A met. You. Mean these are navy have spent their entire life in this house this is where their 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 burdened 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 could take one pill. You know and now youre having to take 2 or 3 pain pills because the pain is so bad. So it just increased and its just a vicious cycle because you know youve 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 those. 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 time 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 to do it maybe just that the love of money may be good thats work because i know that when she chose to be a doctor i wish they had all of that as she chose to want to help people. Cold war 2. 00 targeting china is off the ground gaining momentum some say china must pay for the well others claim it is an existential Security Threat to the washington still others say washington to concede he lives in the. Same wrong. I mean you get to shape out these days become educated and gain from it because of the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. We go to work so you stay home. Part of something is better than 100 percent of nothing and so losing money is his part of the Money Laundering model as a model of Business Model and we look at these unicorns these startups and Silicon Valley like the ones you mentioned we work. That way fair goob are if we were left there all losing money exponentially so many after the asters stuff well maybe the model is to lose money and so theres laundering the money who is laundering the money. And. 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 names 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 overacting and reckless disregard for her patients when we believe that she was genuinely attempting to care for them. Is a big step for the government thats a. 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 but killed 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. Of. The most medicated country in the world klein we are a country of if that is the fast food quick fix is now now i now feel bad heres a pill her heres a pill tell disfunction heres a pill all of those things are right there at a doctors pay pay is good pain or mines is 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. Sub or other. Im good well cool man are you feeling. Us take. This. All right ron. Or did your mom in here and then well good well get everything started. Right after you guys. Are. Really. 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 you know 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 kalb out 30 days for you to really begin to see a change. This is live and man theres only 3 ways out of this which is get sober which is what i pray for you on the 2nd one is is prison if youre lucky. 3rd one is. The very. I dont know how else to say it but on them mike and i cant do this in the room or as. Our own so much rather not see how. Them who were at this moment i dont know. Really would be on the view i want to. Crawl through here. Kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids. How it feels to learn like my body is a lot of. My thought process its slow. For just about a lot of pain or in the. South emotions in me its just i cant keep my emotions in one place and you know on top of. Her i just are of the. Lot of our friends and its all of us friends 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 was. Fighting back tears every day i think thats how i wanted things and it was just blocking out that pain. And made me feel good it made me forget it. 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 tell me about things of loss for family and that wasnt enough that wasnt enough to write or change. Mentally in my head but now its gotten close to suicide. Well 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 these. In my office while the lawsuit against purdue pharma. So full on 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 his country to go to battle. My counter is publicly accusing pharmaceutical companies of having caused this epidemic. He wanted to prove that he and his team have been investigating for more than a year. Yes my name is rigi whitton an attorney here in Oklahoma City. And my mind is model burrage my lawyer in oklahoma. Carol hunter hired my law firm Whitman Burrage to represent the state of oklahoma and. Try to recoup all of the costs that the state has incurred because of the Opioid Epidemic we need this person. And. 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 over feel because of the 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. Its pretty amazing. Their estimates bring the cost of the epidemic to 7000000000. 00 in oklahoma. City this is story corps 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 crosses ever since the death his son brian had a nice that also related to drugs and so when the attorney general talked to us 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 the Incoming Freshman athletes at the university of oklahoma im going to tell on. A story about my son brandon and that the power of addiction and how dangerous it is. And. Maybe. Save somebodys life. I think i got a chance to shake almost everybody saying 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 ran 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 also when i had more hair. As a cute little kid. 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 and the drug that brought him down was 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 when i tell this story is 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. 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