Drug Epidemic!

Oh c'mon. Give the gold digger his due.

 

I was wondering if the joke was understood...

 

Some of these fuckers make sacks of hair seem downright Einseinian.

 

Could you elaborate? I don't know enough about the people of Ensenada to know whether this is a complement or a jab

 

Came across this article today, seemed very appropriate for this thread.....thought you'd enjoy.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4647780/America-s-drug-addiction-revealed-new-report.html

United States of drug addiction: Alaska spends the most to get their fix, cocaine is a national favorite, and graduates are the most likely to try sex work to fund their habit, report reveals

• A new report reveals the extent and severity of America's drug problems
• Alaska spends an average of $384 daily, five times more than other states
• Marijuana makes up more than 70 percent of drug use followed by cocaine
• More than 70 percent of people who turned to sex work to fund their habit held at least a bachelor's degree

 

bummer

 

Most of the people that I have met with a past in the sex industry did not venture it as a career though it ended being a lifestyle for a while. Interesting, how drug dependency leads to prostitution and a majority of prostitute are dependent on drugs to carry through.

I have met a few women that legitimately love sex, they don't use drugs and they don't charge a penny.

 

U-S-A!! U-S-A!! We're Number One!!!

 

At a neighborhood dinner party recently I had a conversation with an anesthesiologist, who works at a pain management practice. He was pretty disenchanted with his work, his line of work, his company, his role in the system, etc. It was a pretty disheartening conversation. Basically, he said he and his fellow doctors have daily, weekly, monthly quotas for prescribing pain meds. Not quotas for managing outcomes and improving the lives of their patients, but for the volume and quantity of prescription pain meds they prescribe. Even if I know and suspect as much myself, to me it was a shocking confession.

 

Who is giving them quotas ? Is the place owned by a drug company ?

 

My impression is that he works for a practice with owners. Read up on how doctors are incentivised by drug companies. They don't have to own them. They just give them massive kickbacks in various forms.

 

Its ridiculous. Every time my buddy goes to the dr for even the simplest of aches or soreness, the doc will write him a script for pain meds. I usually only go to the doc for routine maintenance/check up stuff. Fortunately I've never had to go for any sort of major debilitating pain. The one time I had to get root canal work done the dentist refused to prescribe me a narcotic (he was a friend of the family and I was young at the time), and looking back I kind of sorta appreciate that.

The only time I've ever had a pain med was when I inadvertently took a swig from a bottle of prescription cough medicine that was in my parents medicine cabinet that had codeine in it. I look at pain as a good thing, it lets you know you're alive and that something is wrong with you. I probably would refuse pain meds unless it was completely excruciating to the point that I was on the verge of passing out.

 

Pro tip: If you are ever unfortunate enough to get a second degree burn over a significant portion of your upper body, the first time they wheel you down to the hottub for your daily debridement therapy, go ahead & take the pain meds they offer you. I only said "first time" because on day two you'll already know.

This coming from a guy kept on working while a kidney stone made its ureter run.

For clarity: Are you saying that they have quotas for how many/much/often they are allowed to prescribe... or they have quotas for how many/much/often they have to prescribe? Either way is a shitshow, but I'd say limiting the number and making people suffer needlessly is just about as bad as pushing unnecessary pills out the door.

 

The first time I blowed myself up I took the drugs, every time. Tough to shake them when you're discharged (but now they'll send you home with enough 'scrips to make sure you're good and hooked). But mine were only 2nd and 3rd degree.

The second time, well, I wasn't as well done and I tried to get through as much as I could knowing that the shit they give you is tough to shake. 1st and less severe 2nd this time.

I wonder if I do it a third time I get the fourth treatment down the road for free?

 

That's right, tell him! I mean tell me so I can tell him, this neighbor i just met...

Lol...

 

Yeah, me & those little white pills have done the dance off & on for a long time. For about a month now my wife has had five 325-10 hydrocodone on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet. It embarrasses & pisses me off that I know that. I hate the way they call my name.

 

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For clarity: Are you saying that they have quotas for how many/much/often they are allowed to prescribe... or they have quotas for how many/much/often they have to prescribe? Either way is a shitshow, but I'd say limiting the number and making people suffer needlessly is just about as bad as pushing unnecessary pills out the door.[/QUOTE]

You ever heard of a sales quota that limits what you're supposed to sell?

Minimums...

 

You ever heard of a sales quota that limits what you're supposed to sell?

Minimums...[/QUOTE]

The first post did not specify "sales" quotas, merely that there were quotas in place. Given the government's intrusion into health care, and the innate ability of government to impose edicts with unintended consequences, I could see the government stepping in and placing arbitrary limits on prescription counts and strengths to further the war on drugs.