Too many musicians and actors have died of drug overdose...look at Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and many more. They have these doctors, who willingly give them the drugs because they get paid lots of money.. Most of these drugs are highly addictive and should be outlawed in my opinion, they should find others things for pain..
Drug addiction, particularly to opiates, is a physical, biochemical problem, and it shouldn't be a crime. Criminalizing addiction doesn't solve anything but only creates more problems.
For those that are concerned with some drugs being hard to obtain you should be worried .
Fact is it was a nightmare to get any physician to prescribe shedule II drugs even when it was desperately needed.
In todays World is even much much harder than it was just a few years ago , people who really need them WILL have a very hard time obtaining them.
The DEA has recently changed things around making it even more difficult to get these drugs prescribed , now physicians are being told to only prescribe opiates up to 2 weeks and not refill after that period.
So yes, the people that have abused them have definitely screwed your chance to ever get them prescribed again , it's BS but true.
Real hard, I have a bottle of Percocet I don't want right here. Didn't hit my pain drip once after surgery, Told them at the hospital I didn't need them, told the doctor I didn't need or want them, and because my insurance covered them guess what was sitting with my stuff when I was released to go home. If I was crooked I could sell them right now and make a good bit of quick cash.
My former physician prescribed hydrocodone, which is Vicodin or nor on. She prescribed 7.5/750, 90 pills, or what she considered a 3 month supply. Of course I still have about 70 of them, it took me 3 months to use 20. I won't sell them, and I'll be set for the rest of this year and part of next year.
In southwest Florida where I live, they have "PILL MILLS", where the ONLY thing going on in those Doctors do nothing BUT prescribe hard core opiates, all day/week long. So, not sure WHERE you get your information from. Fact is, prescription drug use rivals illegal drug use. And, is preferable to druggies because if they get caught with them, they cannot be arrested. Greedy Doctors are LEGALIZED DRUG DEALERS, with an office instead of a street corner.
BS. Big pharma gives docs incentives to push drugs on their patients. 70% of US citizens are on 1 at least one prescription. The 3rd leading cause of death in the US is due to prescription drugs and medical mistakes.
Whatever anyone says, it varies state by state. In Texas, the DEA and DPS jointly enforce all scheduled narcotics. I have been taking schedule II and III drugs for 6 years, due to chronic pain. Without them, I could not perform a physically demanding job in hospital maintenance. If I fail a random drug test, which costs me $200.00 or so after insurance, I am screwed! If I ever decided to choose Oxycontin and came up short by a couple of days, I will lose the service of that pain clinic. To top that off, I highly doubt that medicinal Marijuana will EVER be legal in the state, as WAY too much of it enters illegally. My dollars worth-Gearhead222
Look at Pam Bondi from FL weekly postings. In FL she is taking out the illegal drug dealers more than anyone realizes. Last week 9 were removed from society... How can she do go by us when our president lets out 92 a few weeks ago and it took 5 federal agencies to put 9 behind bars. Heck Obama even bought them lunch on our dime.. Crack dealers NEED to stay in jail. They take our kids from us for LIFE.. We never will get them back and the gov't paid treatment plans are a joke.
The pharmaceutical companies are making a killing, literally. Funerals, tributes, poetry, thats all for the living, the dead are dead, nothing makes any difference to the dead. But the pharmaceutical companies, are no better than Pablo Escobar, they know it, and they don't care.
Prince?s emergency landing days before his death was caused by a drug overdose: #$%$ does this mean? Landing from where? What emergency? Did the author even read this story before printing it? Be nice to have an article actually written by a journalism major.
I understand that nothing has been confirmed, however if he did OD on painkillers, I would not be surprised. When anyone in the entertainment industry goes too soon ( age ) the majority of time it is found that drugs, illegal or prescription played a role in the individuals death.
News Media? That's funny. If I was a member of today's media, and I use that term in the loosest of terms, I'd be ashamed to admit it. There is no more media of any kind in this country. It no longer exists.
And those individuals within the media, those who used to be called journalists, have all been replaced by subjective self-aggrandizing storytellers, instigators, sensationalists, advertising copywriters, promoters, pornographers, prostitutes who pander to both sides of the political aisle; and when all else fails, they are nothing more than vacillators taking whatever side best suits prolonging the hype to sell more commercials and generate more clicks.
You know, each year the Dictionary Industry, as I refer to it since that's what it's become, just another business caring more about profit margins and web traffic than it does being the custodians of language, but each year they gather to announce additions and deletions of words, or what they mistakenly deem as words.
At their next meeting, the words "media" and "journalism" should be deleted, or at the very least, have their definitions drastically modified, to illustrate how those two terms no longer come anywhere close to resembling their definitions when first introduced.
Thinking that the media as a whole, or journalists specifically, care whether or not what they report is factual, unbiased, relevant and/or nonincendiary, is like thinking the tow truck driver cares who was at fault as the cars involved are being towed away after an accident. No matter who caused the crash, the media organizations, the journalists and that driver are all getting paid.
Media? Journalist? Who are you kidding! Unless of course you preface it with, "Once Upon A Time.....".
Not sure what you are trying to say in regards to this article...this is a report on what information the investigators have released, and the comments that the family attorney made...???
Where is the "subjective self-aggrandizing storytellers, instigators, sensationalists, advertising copywriters, promoters, pornographers, prostitutes who pander to both sides of the political aisle"?
I see comments calling legitimate users as addicts. Some of us are dependent on them in order to get through a day of minimal existence. I have had six major surgeries including both total knee replacements. I can understand Prince's thought process that if a little does a little a lot will do a lot. I have found keeping my doses to a minimum gives me more relief,taking too often build more tolerance. Please try to understand the difference between addiction and dependency,the difference is necessity.
To the thumbs down I pray for your sake you never need to take opioids,it is not a euphoric feeling. They give you side effects that are not comfortable. When you can't sleep at night from the pain, you'll wish you had something to dull the pain.
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Thanks for the info, I am researching the implant right now Although it seems very promising I do no agree with the view that they have on addiction. It is not addiction if your body needs it physically to survive. When I am in very severe pain (which is most of the time), my body's reaction is passing out, throwing up, convulsions, spiked fevers..etc. Yes, I need pain meds to survive. In 8 years, even tho my disease just gets worse with time, I have not increased the dose. In fact I could decrease the dose if Marijuana was legal. and affordable. But I will definitely do more research on this implant.
I think we already knew this. There was a story days ago by a man who claimed to have been his former drug dealer. As in sold him huge amounts of opioids at a time, since he claimed Prince had huge stage fright and was unable to perform without the drugs. And unable to be in a room with more than 5 people without them. It seemed pretty believable.
I read on the Internet that Prince was suffering from a degenerative hip. He was in pain. If in pain, you do what you have to, to stop the pain. Heavy-duty pills.
Prior reports of Prince's health status -- over a period of years -- indicated that he has been on pain killers for decades. They helped him work through his physical pains when he was doing what he loved -- entertaining his fans with all the physical aspects of his performance. That's not a claim they didn't kill him -- just a comment on how NOT shocking this information is.
The responsibility for helping patients with pain avoid dangerous addiction falls on the prescribing physician. I would suppose it becomes difficult for them to fulfill that responsibility when the patient is wealthy, a public figure, and has contacts to supply him without whatever he feels he needs.
I reiterate a statement I made the fist day the reports of his death hit the web:
many of the greats in most forms of entertainment have depended on chemical assistance to push themselves up to the level of creativity they sought.
If Prince was using opioids to give his gift to the world, I can't fault the man. His music and style didn't appeal to me, but his vitality and the power of his performances caught my attention and made me recognize the artistry of his work.
But can't we let him be remembered for that talent and devotion to his position as an entertainer rather than s slightly sordid aspect of his passing?
The longer your on those meds, the more of them you need, and a side effect of opiods is to quit breathing. I have been on them for several years because of injuries sustained while in the Navy, and I can tell you those meds are not to play with, even taking mine as prescribed I am still in pain and have all kinds of respiratory problems associated with my Morphine, three a day with muscle relaxers on top of them isn't the way I envisioned my life, It would be a better option for people to smoke pot, less side effects and never have I heard of someone overdosing, unless they eat to much afterwards.
Don't Be A Tool, I spent 21 years as a heroin addict because of unidentified injuries while in the Army. When it was hard to come by I went to doctors and got strong opioid pharmaceuticals. I understand the challenges and risks of opiates and the automatic addiction syndrome that sets in with long term use. But ,y primary point is that there are reasons that people make choices and I consider the reason given for Princes using less selfish than most.
So long as being an addict is grounds for criminal charges those who would wish to break the addiction are dissuaded by expected actions of law enforcement and the courts.
Allan you have a lot of class. You stated the facts beautifully.
"But can't we let him be remembered for that talent and devotion to his position as an entertainer rather than s slightly sordid aspect of his passing?"
You're exactly right in what you said in this paragraph.
Prince had a gift, he shared his gift with us, and we should accept and be thankful for what he shared. The bottom line is he was an amazing artist, performer, singer, musician and songwriter. The fact that he was so amazing and that he was willing to share should be his legacy,
with all of his money Prince could have got his Medicinal MJ card. instead prince believed the "Lies" of Big Pharma & his Doctors that say taking these opiates are safe & they are not. it is literally impossible to overdose on MJ unlike all of the Deaths occurring from Prescription drugs.
Let him rest in peace people. And did you in notice his siblings are already on the "what do I get" bandwagon. That vault was locked because he didn't want that music published. The poor man hasn't been gone a couple days and they have already opened it. And did you see what media outlet they chose?? The Star, yeah top journalism there.
