Wholeheartedly recommended The John Oliver segment on opioids steals heavily from this (and a couple previous) Frontlines on opioids. The bottom line is this: - opioids were only proscribed for palliative/hospice care prior to Purdue arguing everyone should take them like candy - Doctors gave out opioids like candy - People got hooked to them, doctors stopped prescribing to addicts who don't need opioids for pain management anymore - addicts turn to street drugs because they're available - Grannie goes zero-to-homeless-junkie in 18 months I met one guy who used a methadone clinic. Getting in took a couple years. It's fair to say that if you're on methadone, you have beaten the system and are winning bigly.
I don't understand. Is this a Trump reference? Or is the point that it's really difficult to get access to methadone clinics? My gut tells me that it's really easy to get access what with the amount of people I see nodding off most places I look around Baltimore. Then again, they might actually be on the drugs themselves and not in treatment, but this is all my gut talking. That said, this article by The Upshot is pretty outstanding interactive journalism. Especially the county-by-county breakdown of shares of overdose deaths. Ohio looks so rough.It's fair to say that if you're on methadone, you have beaten the system and are winning bigly.
We have a winnah. The whole point of methadone is they can give you enough to make the craving go away but not so much that you get a high out of it. Those aren't reformed junkies, those are junkies.Then again, they might actually be on the drugs themselves and not in treatment, but this is all my gut talking.