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78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report 1
#23844012 - 11/18/16 02:17 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report nbcnews.com
Addiction is taking a stunning toll on America and must not be thought of as a "character flaw," the U.S. surgeon general said in a landmark report published Thursday.
Seventy-eight people die each day from opioid overdose, and another 20.8 million have a substance use disorder, but just 10 percent of those 20.8 million receive treatment, Dr. Vivek Murthy wrote in the report, "Facing Addiction in America."
"Substance use disorders represent one of the most pressing public health crises of our time," the report says. "For far too long, too many in our country have viewed addiction as a moral failing. This unfortunate stigma has created an added burden of shame that has made people with substance use disorders less likely to come forward and seek help."
It's the first publication from a surgeon general that has addressed drug and alcohol addiction, though other federal agencies have reported the same findings. The goal of the 400-plus-page report, Murthy said, is to change public attitude toward addiction the way the 1964 surgeon general's landmark report on the dangers of smoking did more than 50 years ago.
"That really helped to focus us as a culture and as a medical profession," Dr. Eric Strain, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told NBC News. "This is a report that likewise hopefully will galvanize us to say, 'Hey, these are conditions that are medical problems, we have a database and approaches that can help. It's not hopeless and we can make a difference in the lives of people.'"
The report was personal for Murthy: Before he became surgeon general two years ago, nurses he worked with as a doctor in Boston begged him to address the drug crisis in America. The problem has been exacerbated by the stigma that surrounds it, he said.
"I've seen the pain that it causes not only [addicts], but also their families," he told NBC News. "Millions of our brothers and sisters have been forced to live in the shadows because they don't feel comfortable coming forward."
"I have people who come up to me all the time ... telling me that they are worried they'll be fired from their job, that they'll be ostracized," he added.
The report comes as America wrestles with a growing heroin epidemic, which has been captured in heartbreaking photos of adults slumped over from overdoses in the presence of young children.
Among the key findings of the report:
Overdoses kill more people than car accidents do.
Approximately 50,000 people died from an alcohol, opioid or other drug overdose in 2014, compared with 32,744 who died from car accidents that year. And the number of people currently struggling with a substance use disorder is more than the number of people suffering from any kind of cancer.
The approach to treating addiction can't be different than treating any other chronic illness, Murthy writes in a preface to his report.
"We must help everyone see that addiction is not a character flaw — it is a chronic illness that we must approach with the same skill and compassion with which we approach heart disease, diabetes, and cancer."
Prevention is just as important as treatment.
It's up to entire communities — teachers and principals, parents, doctors — to keep children from falling through the cracks, Murthy told NBC News. According to his report, individuals who start drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to become addicted later on than those who start at age 20 or later.
"I'm calling the country to action," he said. "We are going to need everybody to address addiction in America."
Surprise interventions, like those on TV, don't work.
Springing a staged confrontation on an addict "may backfire by heightening resistance and diminishing self-esteem on the part of the targeted individual," the report says. Professional clinical programs or services can lead to remission or even full recovery, particularly when supplemented by social services and monitoring after the addict leaves treatment.
"There's reason to be hopeful. We have evidenced-based treatment plans that work," Murthy told NBC News.
More than 25 million people who once had a problem with alcohol or drugs no longer do, according to a national survey cited in the report. The report also commends group recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous, which can help individuals stay on track after a treatment program.
Obamacare has helped.
The Affordable Care Act — known as Obamacare, which President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to repeal — has given 20 million people access to health insurance who wouldn't otherwise have it. Paired with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which makes addiction treatment an essential health benefit, treatment is now possible for millions.
Murthy urged Americans and insurance providers to treat addicts "with the same compassion and care that we give other illnesses."
"I want you to imagine only one in ten people with diabetes or cancer getting treatment," he told NBC News. "We wouldn't tolerate it. It's absolutely imperative that we invest in treatment to get people the help they need."
While the surgeon general's report was lauded by experts, some felt it didn't go far enough.
William Maixner, a professor of anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine and director of Duke's Center for Translational Pain Medicine and Innovative Pain Therapies, told NBC News he had hoped the report would propose alternatives to opioids for pain management.
"There's very little language regarding the need for discovery of new treatments, discovery of new therapies for chronic pain — which is another epidemic," he said. "One of the reasons we have this hidden epidemic in chronic pain is the fact that we don't have good therapies, and many physicians rely on the use of opioids."
"We find, unfortunately, that a large number of these individuals are treated by opioids by well-intended individuals who have very little option but opioids to go to," he added.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Ythan]
#23844024 - 11/18/16 02:28 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Stupid DEA makes the bad drugs good and the good drugs bad, that is our reality folks. Things that cure us are banned while things that make us sick and sicker are plenty available. As are drugs that help you get off said drugs. Maybe population control? Or some other form of subconscious slavery?
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: tdubz]
#23844197 - 11/18/16 05:46 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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You mean people STILL have not figured out that it's poison? It's a poison whip. It's a chemical shackle.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Ythan] 3
#23844431 - 11/18/16 07:53 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks for posting this Ythan, I saw it yesterday.
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According to his report, individuals who start drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to become addicted later on than those who start at age 20 or later.
Anybody familiar with that? I was an established and weekend warrior before I was 15 Drinking age was 18 back then
I also saw that
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"One in seven Americans will face addiction problems in their lives, but only one in 10 will get treatment. In a new report the Surgeon General says that addiction is primarily a public health problem costing $442 billion a year, rather than a criminal one."
https://www.rt.com/usa/367317-1-7-americans-susceptible-drugs/
Accepting my addictions as an allergy or type of chronic illness was critical in my recovery. I quit Heroin at 25, needed treatment at age 56 to finally quit drinking(3 years ago) just quit tobacco 4 weeks ago and I still fight with that every day I still and though.
People who don't have addictions can't understand what it's like to crave. It's not about willpower, being weak or just saying no.
I also heard that only 3% of people who try to stop, stay stopped. I try and do it 1 day at a time.
Be well y'all...
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: vinsue]
#23844546 - 11/18/16 08:43 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Addiction is such a dark and scary thing here in the US. It runs DEEP in my family. The heroin craze has killed at least 25 people I was on a first name basis with in the last ten years. Most of those went from pills to dope to dead
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: vinsue]
#23844904 - 11/18/16 10:51 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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vinsue said: People who don't have addictions can't understand what it's like to crave. It's not about willpower, being weak or just saying no.
I agree but I feel everyone has some kind of addiction be it substance abuse, food/sweets, TV, abusive relationships, people can get addicted to almost anything.
The problem I see lies in people using others addictions to make themselves feel better. Coffee alcohol and tobacco are all commonly abused and tons of people are addicted to them and I bet a lot of people just shrug it off with thoughts like "at least its not coke or heroin, those addicts are the worst". This whole new wave of RC's has just reinforced that I am sure, people will look for any excuse to feel superior...
Our homeless problem is a great example. Most people aren't homeless by choice, some modern grimy hippies kids are sadly but that is different...
Many homeless suffer from mental addictions, many are veterans who struggle with PTSD and substance abuse resulting from their mental issues.
But the majority of people don't care about that, they would rather look down on the homeless and assume it is all their faults which may be the case with some but clearly isn't with all. It doesn't matter if people have their own mental issues and addictions, as long as they can look down on someone else and feel superior they are doing fine. It is a very twisted way of thinking that is very common sadly...
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: vinsue]
#23844934 - 11/18/16 11:04 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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vinsue said: People who don't have addictions can't understand what it's like to crave. It's not about willpower, being weak or just saying no.
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Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground...(9) desperate ground...Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.
With escalating symptoms of physical shock.
This week, a black, homeless person bounced off of swim's fender, apparently, of little importance. Arrest was narrowly averted; pharmaceutical debris, in the nose has already been noticed several times, when under scrutiny. Later, in the week, was unable to hold a needy, pink newborn, screaming for some hours. The other two kids were from druggy mothers, but still young enough to be preoccupied with tv.
Understand, that this makes you come across as being indisposed.
I associate it with my grandmother's garden, an antique candy tin, where she kept the seeds, northern, city gardens, with hanging baskets, and Eastern European pastry fillings. To non-addicts, it's an infrequent, herbal remedy, or more commonly a curio.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: durian_2008]
#23844977 - 11/18/16 11:24 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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How many people died from just kratom and cannabis?
It's cause they want to own patents. If it's man made owned they gotcha by the balls!
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Morel Guy]
#23845081 - 11/18/16 11:59 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sugar is just the juice of a grass or of a root, subsidized, so that all can have it.
Do the same thing with "shatter" or kratom freebases, and tell me what happens to the weaker members of our specie.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: durian_2008]
#23845146 - 11/18/16 12:30 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ya people are dumb and don't respect the source. Like cocaine. Plant extracts vary a lot and more pure isn't always ideal.
I liked and enjoyed kratom isolates. They don't paralyze you like native opiates. They are more expensive than heroin too.
Stay classy shroomery!
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Morel Guy]
#23846107 - 11/18/16 05:54 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Those statistics are alarming and this whole epidemic happened in a period of 5-10 years. I remember a highschool english teacher telling the class this morbid statistic that x percent of the class would be dead in 5 years due to auto accidents.
Now days its likely that whatever percent of the class will die with a needle in their arm or slumped over next to an empty container of pills and a bottle of hard liquor.
It would be nice if opiate addiction and treatment got the kind of funding and support cancer and other things get. Especially considering its the leading cause of death in young people. Unfortunately people wont be as willing to give support/aid for something they feel is self induced.
Its sad because the way to win the war on drugs is through education and rehabilitation. You cant eradicate drugs.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23846148 - 11/18/16 06:06 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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It would be a shame to eradicate drugs, their usually naturally inspired if not nature itself.
I have done very few pure chemicals. Plants have a way of limiting their concentration of the actives.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23846170 - 11/18/16 06:11 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Obamacare has helped.
The Affordable Care Act — known as Obamacare, which President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to repeal — has given 20 million people access to health insurance who wouldn't otherwise have it. Paired with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which makes addiction treatment an essential health benefit, treatment is now possible for millions.
Ah spotted the oh so subtle political propaganda peeking through. Who the fuck has been helped by obama care for their addictions? I cant say i know of any addicts that have been helped by obama care. How about some numbers or statistics? Its obviously doing shit worth of good.
Insurance doesnt cover subs, so how exactly is Obama care helping addicts? I couldnt get any help from obama care when i needed it.
And now something that a huge amount of the population dislikes is going to be repealed! Oh no
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23846279 - 11/18/16 06:53 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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More meaningless bureaucratic drivel that won't do a god damn thing to fix the opioid epidemic. Removing the stigma of being an opioid addict? That's about as useful as saying people should just stop being racist. Stereotypes don't just come from nowhere and they don't just go away either. You want the stigma to go away, stop locking drug users up in cages, stop criminalizing substance use and maybe in a few generations they will start to slowly fade away. As long as drug users are marginalized the stigma will remain. Also if someone needs help getting off of drugs, suggesting they go to a religion based therapy like "Alcoholics Anonymous" isn't really helping legitimize your cause...
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: fapjack]
#23846465 - 11/18/16 07:57 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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The local treatments here offer zero religion.
Where there is a will there is a way. Cannot will people to be sober, something they gotta do. Treatment can help uncover why someone uses. Talking and sharing helps and some people need a higher power.
The only two people I knew to od were different. One was a rapist wigged and the other was a chubby sausage eating German boy with a rich eye surgeon father.
Some people think more dangerous is more powerful. I disagree.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: fapjack]
#23846497 - 11/18/16 08:07 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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fapjack said: More meaningless bureaucratic drivel that won't do a god damn thing to fix the opioid epidemic. Removing the stigma of being an opioid addict? That's about as useful as saying people should just stop being racist. Stereotypes don't just come from nowhere and they don't just go away either. You want the stigma to go away, stop locking drug users up in cages, stop criminalizing substance use and maybe in a few generations they will start to slowly fade away. As long as drug users are marginalized the stigma will remain. Also if someone needs help getting off of drugs, suggesting they go to a religion based therapy like "Alcoholics Anonymous" isn't really helping legitimize your cause...
Thats exactly what im saying. Whoever wrote this put their political bias in but fact of the matter is its largely ignored by everyone.
I was getting at the idea that the money we use to incarcerate and attempt to eradicate drugs should be used for treatment purposes and education. A lot of money and lives are being wasted.
It would be good if addicts actually could get the medicines like suboxone and treatment easier.
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23846522 - 11/18/16 08:15 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Addicts need selection
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Morel Guy] 1
#23848406 - 11/19/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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The reason people demonize the homeless is because it is scarier to think that circumstances could get so bad without input from the affected individual that everything could fall apart, and easier to just blame the person. In order to feel secure about the things seeing a homeless person makes them insecure about, the "housie" has to imagine it is the homeless person's fault they are homeless, because if it is circumstance alone, then it could happen to them. But if it's a person to blame for their own situation, then "it can't happen to me" feelings flood the brain, reinforced by judgements.
Nobody with money wants to realize the horrible realization, "You are poor because I am rich; I am rich because you are poor." To avoid feeling like a total shithead for having so much more than enough (and not being satisfied with it) while someone else has so much less than enough, they say "I have so much more than enough because I AM GREAT, and that person has so much less than enough because THEY ARE SHITTY."
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: Achuma]
#23848726 - 11/19/16 01:47 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well put.
People need to give up the mental gymnastics and realize we are all one huge family.
And family needs to help each other out...
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Re: 78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [Re: musiclover420]
#23850875 - 11/20/16 09:23 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Outsiders are associating mellow, responsible, knowledgeable drug users with the shrill and irresponsible ones, attracting negative attention.
I don't believe in those police, who I can see in academical discussion, in an actual college. I don't get some twisted sense of emotional fulfillment, by playing the role of your mother.
But, if we have no community standards, that is exactly how we will be treated, as though we are all one, big, happy family of co-equals, who can never be mortified.
They can't tell the difference between you and a whacky Dave Chapelle character, because there are no social distinctions.
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