Anti-Media bracht afgelopen zondag een artikel van The Free Thought. Hierin aandacht voor het gebruik van opiaten in de VS en dan m.n. het gebruik van voorgeschreven pijnstillers……
Volgens de schrijver, Claire Bernish, overlijden dagelijks gemiddeld 91 VS burgers aan het gebruik van pijnstillers als OxyContin (oxycodone) en illegale drugs als heroïne. Maar al te vaak, stappen chronische pijnpatiënten over van OxyContin of Vicodin (hydrocodon) naar heroïne, daar ze niet voldoende pijnstilling vinden in de voorgeschreven medicatie. Overigens een fiks deel van die 91 dagelijkse doden, is te betreuren door de inname van een hogere, dan de voorgeschreven dosis, daar men ondanks de voortdurende pijn geen hogere dosis krijgt voorgeschreven door de arts.
Ook aandacht voor de illegale oorlog tegen Afghanistan, waar voor de inval van de VS nog amper papaver werd verbouwd, is de productie nu hoger dan ooit tevoren…….. Binnen 6 maanden na de VS inval, was de productie van opium van 185 ton gestegen naar 3.400 ton…….. Het schijnt zelfs voor te komen, dat VS militairen papavervelden bewaken voor bevriende ‘krijgsheren…………’ (zie de foto in het Free Thought artikel hieronder)
Wel wil ik aantekenen dat het aantal alcoholdoden in de VS, de 91 dagelijkse ‘opiumdoden’ ver moet overtreffen. In Nederland gaat het dagelijks om een gemiddelde van 12 alcoholdoden per dag, dit getal zou voor de VS op rond de 200 doden per dag moeten liggen…… Tja, de harddrug alcohol is nu eenmaal ‘sociaal geaccepteerd’, ook al maakt deze harddrug vergeleken met alle andere harddrugs opgeteld, verreweg de meeste dodelijke slachtoffers……….. (dit nog naast de andere directe en indirecte schade door overmatig alcoholgebruik, zoals kanker, verkeersdoden, mishandeling, scheiding enz.)
Lees en zie de hypocrisie van de VS en haar oorlog tegen drugs, die nog steeds doorgaat, ook al zei Obama er een streep onder te hebben gezet…….. Een oorlog waarin de VS overheid (zelfs de DEA) niet treuzelt om zelf beter te worden van bijvoorbeeld het heroïne of cocaïne gebruik in dit ‘land…..’ Zie wat dat laatste betreft o.a. de tweede (laatste) link in het artikel van Free Thought.
Eén ding is zeker, het jaarlijkse aantal doden door opiaten in de VS, ligt 10 keer hoger dan het aantal doden dat in 20 jaar tijd door terrorisme in de VS te betreuren was…. Let wel: voor die doden door terrorisme voerde en voert de VS illegaal oorlog in een fiks aantal landen, het aantal mensen dat daarbij werd vermoord, overtreft het cijfer met drugsdoden (ook die door alcohol) op een gigantische manier…… Zo heeft alleen de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak tot nu toe al aan meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen het leven gekost……..
In
One Year, Opiates Killed Ten Times as Many Americans as ALL Terror
Attacks in Last 20 Years
April
28, 2017
So,
why, then, has a killer of tens of thousands each year still on the
loose inside those putatively impermeable borders? How could this
executioner, unmasked and identified, roam main streets of small
towns as comfortably as a seedy alley in some decrepit corner of an
urban metroplex — unhindered by the threat of detention or
arrest?
How
could this nefarious reaper sever the lives of ninety-one Americans
each and every day, yet — rather than earn a notorious status as
Enemy of the Public Number One — this killer is encouraged to
thrive, intentionally or not, by those supposedly the most trusted to
guard us from bodily harm?
Since
the attacks of 9/11, the United States has waged the pernicious War
on Terror — combating a concept most of its citizenry will never
encounter firsthand — nearly everywhere on the planet, even
toppling ostensively brutal but sovereign regimes in its name.
Yet,
Terror — its tactics used most often by disciples fighting in the
name of religion — has not been as efficacious in destroying
American lives as the opioid medications prescribed,
without irony, to kill their pain.
Since
1995, terrorists of varied stripe have killed 3,181
people in the U.S. — nearly 3,000 of them in the September 11
attacks, which sparked the nation’s unending war, alone.
That’s
a startling figure, indeed — particularly in a country known for
Orwellian surveillance and tracking of visitors and citizens, alike —
but terror’s death toll cannot be examined separately from known
killers more easily stopped.
In
2014, the span of a single year, an astounding 29,467
Americans died by
overdose of opioid-related drugs, including prescriptions — and the
following year saw more than 15,000 lose their lives to overdose on
opioid medications legally prescribed by medical personnel.
Unintentional
drug overdose is now the primary
cause of accidental death’
in the U.S. — and prescription opioid industry bears a significant
bulk of culpability in the problem.
Many
opiate addicts never sought the escape of a substance recreationally
— but were given prescriptions for medications like Vicodin
(hydrocodone) or even OxyContin (oxycodone) following surgery, a
serious injury, or as treatment for the chronic pain of another
illness.
What
might seem innocuous when written by a physician can quickly turn
malevolent — a single month of prescribed medication might not be
sufficient to fight the pain of a complex fracture or chronic
ailment. If the prescriber then refuses an extension of that opioid —
all-too frequently, under the benign premise of preventing dependence
— that patient might seek other means to procure the same relief.
Many
turn to heroin — highly illegal, but readily available from the
black market — and without the rigorous federal restrictions
guarding its legal opioid brethren. In fact, a large percentage of
heroin addicts began using after prescriptions for strong opioids
like OxyContin ran their course, leaving the patients suffering
without recourse.
Every
day, around
1,000 people are treated in hospital emergency rooms for misuse of
prescription opioids —
and in 2014, alone, roughly 2,000,000 abused or were dependent on
those opioid medications. One-quarter, given such a prescription on a
long but terminal basis, struggles with dependency.
Fifteen-thousand
people perished by overdosing on prescription opioid painkillers in
2015 — and the figures compiled
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grow
exponentially by the year. Even as the War on Terror rages on around
the globe.
Indeed,
veteran American troops have stumbled on that war’s undiscussed
elephant in the room while fighting the supposed terrorists we’re
made to believe threaten our security, overseas in Afghanistan —
the origin, by most reports, of the majority of the world’s
opium supply.
Standing guard
over fields of opium poppies isn’t
expressly stated in U.S. military recruitment brochures, yet troops
returning stateside report that media images showing them doing so
are entirely accurate.
Immediately
prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan some sixteen years ago —
in an irony of tragic shame to warhawk politicians and the
pharmaceutical industry — the Taliban had all-but eradicated the
opium poppy from the fertile lands under its control, evidenced by a
record-smashing low, 185-ton,
harvest.
Reversing
that became paramount priority — even before dust kicked up by the
boots of incoming soldiers had time to settle.
“Within
six months of the U.S. invasion,” wrote Matthieu
Aikins for the December 4, 2014, Rolling
Stone, “the
warlords we backed were running the opium trade, and the spring of
2002 saw a bumper harvest of 3,400 tons.”
To
call the revival a success would severely undercut the facts.
Production of Afghani opium doubled by
2014, and Afghanistan’s potent poppies — rumored to be rivaled in
quantity only by secreted
fields of the North Korean government —
soon dominated markets, comprising 90
percent of
the entire planet’s supply.
Opiates
fuel a crisis of dependence and addiction that — in tandem with a
dearth of treatment programs attainable by those with low incomes or
lacking insurance — has mushroomed into an epidemic, without
indication of diminishing soon.
Correlation
might not equal causation, but that span and gravity of that epidemic
run in lockstep with the astronomical rise in production of
Afghanistan’s opium — and both share a birthdate roughly
coinciding with the U.S. invasion.
Opiates
are profitable. Opioid prescription painkillers — doled out to
Americans for temporary relief of pain, four
times more often than
in 1999 — are Big Pharma’s bread and butter. Even when the health
of the millions stands in peril — an epidemic reaching across
class, gender, race, and income lines to perfect a stranglehold —
prescription opioids profit their manufacturers and distributors so
many billions, ethics can’t take priority.
Sadly,
and with tragic irony, the opioid crisis rekindled the flames of
another highly ineffective war — the war on drugs. This most
violent, futile, and rights-violating attack on Americans does
nothing to stop the problem and only serves to bolster the bottom
line of the prison industrial complex.
In
fact, the war on drugs has served its purpose in creating the very
crisis it ostensibly fights — a result known by all those who’ve
ever taken the time to study the
horrid effects of prohibition.
It
must be understood, black-clad terrorists shouting, ‘Death to
America!’ might offer a captivating tidbit for nightly national
news. However, in actuality, these militants do not present so much
as a distant threat to anyone living in the confines of the United
States.
Rather,
the unscrupulous players in the pharmaceutical industry, motivated by
profit more than individuals’ long-term health — and their
lackeys in government, specialists in lax legislation tough in
language, only — whose decisions, given the chain of responsibility
in crises, can ultimately destroy countless families.
Our
government will wage this War on Terror, assumedly until the ‘threat’
of ‘terrorism’ decreases substantially. In the meantime, the
opium overseas, guarded by U.S. troops and tended by local farmers
both incentivized by and hawkishly watched by Taliban warlords, will
be to blame for the epidemic killing scores the terrorists otherwise
couldn’t.
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Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u hieronder aantreft, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘hydrocodon’.