THE OPIOID CRISIS CONTINUES TO DESTROY LIVES AND FAMILIES
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND NEW DATA INDICATES THAT THERE
ARE CERTAIN COMPANIES THAT ARE GUILTY OF SPREADING OPIOIDS AND
SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WHERE ADDICTION HAS BEEN
THE WORST, SO WEST VIRGINIA IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT AND HERE
IS THE DATA THAT WE JUST LEARNED FROM A REPORTER FROM THE
CHARLESTON GAZETTE MAIL.
HIS NAME IS ERIC ERIE AND HE FINDS:
NO, THOSE DRUG COMPANIES PROBABLY THOUGHT THOSE 2900
PEOPLE ARE IN A LOT OF PAIN AND THEY ARE REALLY GOING TO NEED
THIS SO THE REASON WHY THAT IS A GREAT PIECE OF REPORTING BY THE
CHARLESTON GAZETTE MAIL AND IT GIVES YOU CONTEXT INTO HOW
MUCH THE COMPANY'S NEW.
THEY KNEW THAT IT WASN'T GOING FOR THIS 2900 PEOPLE.
THEY KNEW THEY WERE RUNNING PILL MILLS AND THEY KNEW IT WAS
FOR ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF THOSE DRUGS.
THEY ALSO KNOW THAT IT IS A GATEWAY DRUG.
NOT MARIJUANA, THAT WAS A LIE ALL ALONG.
THIS IS ACTUAL GATEWAY DRUG.
THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLAYERS IN THE OPIOID CRISIS.
A COURSE OR ARE THERE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES
THAT ENCOURAGE LOVER PRESCRIPTION OF THESE
OPIOIDS, BUT THEN THERE ARE THE DRUG WHOLESALERS THAT
ESSENTIALLY SHIP OUT THESE PAINKILLERS TO VARIOUS
PHARMACIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
THE WHOLESALERS THAT WERE GUILTY OF SENDING OR SHIPPING THE
SUPERFLUOUS AMOUNTS OF DRUGS TO WEST VIRGINIA WERE MIAMI
LUKEN AND H.D.
SMITH.
IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT HOW MUCH OF AN IMPACT THIS IS
HAVE, IF YOU LOOK AT WEST VIRGINIA AS A WHOLE, FOR
EXAMPLE:
YOU SEE THE DISPARITY THERE.
RELATIVELY SMALL POPULATION, A HUGE FLOW OF DRUGS
INTO THE STATE.
TO JUXTAPOSE THAT AGAINST DEATH BY A CAR ACCIDENT, THEY WERE
15 PER 1000 PEOPLE.
I WANT TO DIVE INTO THAT.
HOMICIDE FOR 5.9.
IF YOU PUT HOMICIDES IN CAR ACCIDENTS TOGETHER" YOU'RE
NOWHERE NEAR THE PEOPLE DYING FROM OPIOID OVERDOSE.
THEY PICK WEST VIRGINIA TO FUNNEL THESE DRUGS IN.
THEY KNOW THE PEOPLE IN WEST VIRGINIA ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE
780 MILLION PILLS, THEY DO THAT BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT IS A
DISTRIBUTION CENTER FOR ILLEGAL PEDDLING OF THOSE DRUGS.
THERE IS NO WAY THOSE DRUG COMPANIES, LOOK AT THEIR
INTERNAL NUMBERS AGO THAT MAKE SENSE AND I BET THE PEOPLE
OF WEST VIRGINIA DO MAY NEED THAT MANY PAINKILLERS.
THEY KNOW EXACT WHAT IS GOING ON AND SINCE WEST VIRGINIA IS
A HUB OF THAT, IF YOU ARE THE HUB IT HITS YOU THE
HARDEST BECAUSE IT IS EVERYWHERE.
THOSE ARE STUNNING NUMBERS.
TO GET BEYOND CAR CRASHES FOR CAUSE OF DEATH IS MASSIVE
AND NOW THEY ARE ABOUT THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF CAR
CRASHES IS OPIOID DEATHS IN WEST VIRGINIA.
EXACTLY.
BY THE WAY, THOSE WITH THE NUMBERS FOR 2016.
THE NUMBERS FOR 2017 ARE NOT LOOKING GOOD.
IT'S NOT JUST WEST VIRGINIA, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE
COUNTRY AS A WHOLE.
IT'S NOT JUST WEST VIRGINIA THAT IS SUFFERING, THERE ARE OTHER
AREAS OF THE COUNTRY THAT ARE SUFFERING FROM OPIOID ADDICTION
WHICH BY THE WAY, LATER, BECAUSE OF STRICTER REGULATIONS TURNS
INTO HEROIN ADDICTION BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SO BADLY ADDICTED
THAT THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO HELP WITH THAT ADDICTION.
WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THE WITHDRAWS ARE DEVASTATING.
I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THE LAST COUPLE OF THINGS HERE.
THE BASIS FOR OPIOID MEDICINE, IT SOUNDS LIKE OPIOID IS
PERSPECTIVES IN PAINKILLERS LEGAL, IT MUST BE OKAY.
NO, THE BASIS IS OPIUM, THE SAME THING THAT GOES INTO HEROIN AND
OPIUM.
JUST AS DANGEROUS AS THOUGH ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE THESE DRUGS,
WE JUST MET MADE THEM LEGAL UNLIKE CORPORATIONS MAKE A
GAZILLION DOLLARS A PROFIT OFF OF THEM AND THEN INSTEAD OF DRUG
DEALERS, THEY DRESS UP IN TIES AND SUITS AND THEY PEDAL ALL OF
THIS BUT IS DRUG DEALING AND IT DOES GET PEOPLE ADDICTED AND WAY
MORE ADDICTED THAN MARIJUANA, NOT EVEN CLOSE AND NUMBER
OF DEATHS FROM MARIJUANA AND THAT SAME TIME PERIOD,
2017 WAS THE ROAD.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM OPIOIDS IS 67,000.
THERE ARE SO MANY DEATHS FROM OPIOIDS IN THE COUNTRY THAT FOR
THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE 1960S OUR LIFE EXPECTANCY OVERALL FOR
THE WHOLE COUNTRY HAS GONE DOWN THE LAST TWO YEARS ON THAT
ALONE.
THAT IS AMAZING.
BUT LUCKILY, WE HAVE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL THAT IS
HYPER FOCUSED ON PAINKILLERS AND GOING AFTER THESE
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AS OPPOSED TO YOU KNOW, STATES
THAT OF LEGALIZED MARIJUANA FOR RECREATIONAL USE.
ALL RIGHT, WE DO NOT HAVE THAT.
WE HAVE AN ASS CLOWN.
JEFF SESSIONS IS GOING AFTER MARIJUANA BUT WORSE THAN
THAT, DONALD TRUMP DECLARED INNOCENT NATIONAL EMERGENCY
AND THEN PROCEEDED TO NOT ONLY DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, BUT
HAS NOW GUTTED AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH PROGRAM DESIGNED TO
COMBAT OPIOID ABUSE, CUT FUNDING FOR BY 95%.
THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU.
WEST VIRGINIA VOTED FOR TRUMP MORE THAN I BELIEVE ANY
OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY AND NOW, HE IS JUST LAUGHING AT YOU.
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