TRANQ, FENTANYL & More - How Big Pharma is destroying the American Society | ENDEVR Documentary

[@ENDEVRDocs]

Mark, a 48 year old father of two, k****d himself less than a week after taking antidepressants. A prescribed cocktail of pills caused Aurélie to have uncontrollable fantasies about decapitating her parents and hurting everyone. We investigate the dangers of prescription pills.

[@gashacker1]

So sad. I know someone who works as a lobbyist for the company that manufactures all of these drugs. Even when these drugs killed his own mother, he kept working his job......

[@ENDEVRDocs]

@@gashacker1 Wow. That has to weigh heavily.

[@stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642]

Prescribing opioids for a headache???thats so wrong

[@stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642]

@@gashacker1 terrible

[@ENDEVRDocs]

@@stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642 Serious. Best to ask one question too many.

[@bradenjones1778]

Getting off fentanyl was not easy. It took me 4 months till I stopped breaking out in cold sweats and fevers. It was a relief when I felt okay again.

[@ENDEVRDocs]

That’s a long time. You stuck it through Bravo!

[@jillbunny90]

You are amazing!!!! You sat in the pain and withdrawal that so many don't. 🩷🩷🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 I hope you have an AMAZING life!!!

[@JasonBrown-dd7dj]

Well done Brad your a warrior

[@JPS-hd8qz]

"They give you the poison for free, than they charge you for the antidote." Bruce Lipton

[@williamwilson6499]

You don’t have to take the poison.

[@H.h.farms5089]

​@@williamwilson6499problem is, they didn't tell patients the pills were addictive when they were prescribed. Years Drs would write scripts and tell patients they was no chance of addiction.

[@AA-iy4gm]

They create alternate routes and slowly over time dose even the basics like many foods, they're filled with slow poison but I agree with you, people still have a choice to avoid it, it requires actively participating in one's own life and not delegating choices to money hungry companies.

[@2Meals]

​​@@williamwilson6499 people lost their jobs and livelihood for refusing the poison. 💉

[@Wendy-Williams-NC]

@@williamwilson6499 So easy for you to say. Nobody intends to get addicted. The kid who gets run down by a drunk driver breaking multiple bones....tell him not to take it. Tell a mom who is ready to end it all from nerve pain.....Do better, sir.

[@ctobolsk]

I was just at the doctor after having broken my femur 2 weeks ago and they didn’t want to give me any pain meds at all. People with legitimate pain are being punished. 2 things can be true at the same time - there can be people who are addicted as well as people who need pain meds. Why do we have to go through these extreme pendulum swings every few years?

[@iggit2]

same.. Had 2 major surgeries.. told to take Tylenol. Meh, no complaints from me but still

[@Wynnithepooh903]

Same they acted as if I was a crackhead, drug dealer or both.

[@janedarby7521]

exactly!

[@maggiesunshinee]

actually, there are MANY things that ARE true at the same time. along with what you said, there are people who have been in long term “pain management” that ARE physically dependent on opioids, but are in a position where they have consistent and reliable access to their medications, and potentially live more a more comfortable life with less negative effects on their mental health, so they don’t end up ABUSING the medications. there are also full blown addicts who experience pain (whether chronic, sporadic, occasional, etc) that deserve to have their pain treated, just as much as a non-addict does; it would just require the slightest bit more time and effort into finding the best and safest solution for each individual. but sadly, no one has genuine compassion and empathy for other human beings. and it seems that the people we trust the most with our health and safety, care almost the least.

[@simhthmss]

Honestly there are some people for whom drug dependency because they NEED pain relief is a much more sensible option than having them in immense pain every second of their lives. Of course doctors need to be vigilant that the drugs aren't being over prescribed but they DO have legitimate uses and should be used where needed. However from what I hear doctors aren't educated in tapering patients off opiates when they obviously become dependent on them, there needs to be more integration so that when the pain has gone and they don't need the painkillers anymore the doctors understand how to do a very slow and well constructed taper. This doesn't need to be such a big deal and there are ways to do this intelligently. The doctors who just drop opiate pain patients when they become dependent are just as bad as the ones who never prescribe any or who prescribe way too many of them when they're not needed.

[@UKNOWMESCP]

AMERICA ISN'T A "COUNTRY" IT'S A BUSINESS!!

[@JosedeJezeus]

Amen.

[@EYGGROUP.]

its still the wild west there, with snake oil sales people

[@JJ-Toreddie]

Corporation to be specific.

[@PatrickBaptist]

Yup that's why it has a "president" for a ruler and not a king.

[@anikajoy5739]

Which is why Trump is the best person for the job.

[@KimA-gb4hs]

The problem is "they" knew it was addictive when they made it, and then they took it away with no substitute for it! Shameful

[@OrlandoGustar]

Maybe they want you guys to try ANYTHING for substitute for it...a "win win" situation for ALL BIG PHARMA....they'll MAKE BILLIONS out of your misery.

[@OldBaldWookiee]

There are things like methadone and suboxone to substitute and prevent withdrawl. However these things especially suboxone are a slippery slope meaning they also have the potential for addiction /abuse just significantly less so than opioids. Also with marijauna becoming more legal/ available more people could turn to THC to help manage pain and opiate withdrawl . Youd be surprised how much better a recovering addict or pain patient can function after a good sativa

[@KimA-gb4hs]

@@OldBaldWookiee good to know and thanks for the info. I believe you're right💯

[@KookyWitch67]

weed for opioid withdrawal?? No it makes you vomit even morr from the coughing

[@fightingtosurvive6527]

​@@OldBaldWookiee Indica is used for pain, or a indica dominant hybrid.

[@krasky]

All tragic stories. This is a bigger problem than “just” the painkillers. Treating symptoms and creating more problems (addiction, death) instead of tackling the causes: wrong diet, wrong lifestyle, wrong job, bad medical care.

[@AA-iy4gm]

We can just look around us and see that they're absolutely not treating anything for anyone, but dosing and creating lifelong pill subscribers and people hardly make it to retirement...

[@Titus-2-Mom]

Instead of treating those things, they're encouraging those lifestyles. They want people to be fat and sick

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

​@@AA-iy4gm And they screaming that SS will be bankrupt soon kinda funny that folks are dying way before retirement

[@RizzyGyatt]

And being too horny

[@zevkej]

Nah its way way way more than that. People are exploited like slaves. Over 50% of Americans are poor and struggling with mental health issues which lead to self destructive behavior. The whole system pushes you to your demise.

[@Jesus_is_LORD444]

Opiates are an important tool, not to be prescribed frivolously. It’s crazy how the addiction happens. You start using opiates to get relief from pain, then the opiates cause more pain, and turmoil than you were originally in. I’m about two years clean off it all now, praise the Lord.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

haha what?? opioids don't cause more pain. Everyone I know who takes them responsibly has great success. You're buying a lie....

[@ichaukan]

We're trained as a society to believe that addiction is some sort of personal "moral failure" for the same reason were trained to believe the same thing about homelessness. It's all so we're less likely to question the system we've been forced to live within, that being thr system of Profitieren Über Alles.

[@micheleshively8557]

Yup. Follow the money 😢

[@simonegacia4429]

I see it as the whole world knows opiates and benzodiazepines are BAD and they still will abuse them. And buying ANY drug, even weed, is so dangerous. For the majority it’s kinda their fault, not all. People will give it a try anyways.

[@JJ-Toreddie]

Facts. Society is brainwashed so the people think the system is right

[@adamwright2596]

Profit over all. For those in the back.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

It is a moral failure though, because when you look at it, two different people both tried the same drugs and only the one who had strong values and strong will power was able to beat addiction. The one with weak morality and a weak support system become addicted. We need to be raising children to have a strong internal monologue so that they are always questioning their actions, desires, etc. and making the best decisions. As someone who has tried many hard drugs without getting addicted, I'll say it's all in the mind. People with strong will have a better chance, but that doesn't make them immune from addiction, just more resistant.

[@Catharticscrapper]

How did a pharmacist not bat an eye at filling a script of 3000 pain pills?

[@johnstiles1322]

$$$$

[@blacktara3936]

Seen this same-sort-of issue, many times. Dosage, duration, interactions, etc., go 'over-looked' by (p)harmacists. The belief that there's a safety net and 'mistakes' will be caught is a mere illusion.

[@Macfromwales]

The doctor got off

[@Macfromwales]

They even had to mute the negative talk about pharmaceutical companies

[@howardgofstein7366]

Why is Box watching Law & Order with a client sitting there?

[@rightersbloc]

GREED is the worse addiction of all...

[@JosedeJezeus]

Corporations are duty-bound to make AS MUCH money as possible for shareholders. The American economy is built on greed and is causing America to implode from the inside. *The Greed Economy*

[@Anthony-dk7de]

Share that bag of hot cheetos

[@JosedeJezeus]

@@Anthony-dk7de *NO* Hot Cheetos MINE!

[@PatrickBaptist]

The Bible says "for the love of money is the root of all evil" 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 10.

[@wokeness420]

This case is greed.

[@livingdreadgurl8252]

The problem comes in when the dea forced doctors to stop writing them threatening their jobs so the doctor takes a person off the pills with not enough tapering and then they are sick and forced to go find it on the streets it’s absolute bs. Real pain patients can’t even get help now

[@JosedeJezeus]

It’s crazy and immoral.

[@ctobolsk]

Absolutely

[@janedarby7521]

exactly!

[@Willson-r5q]

They did this to my mom she was on 750s narcos and blue Xanax stop her cold turkey it almost killed her. She still lives with addiction because they did not help her get off them the proper way.

[@JosedeJezeus]

@@Willson-r5q a “free market” economy is the playground of the narcissist. So is marriage. In this system, sociopaths rule…. This is the opposite of how we lived in tribes. It’s time to end this experiment… our experiment with….. *marriage*

[@WorkUseforwork-ny1ho]

I'm not victim blaming at all. It is definitely the fault of the doctor to prescribe so many pills, but doesn't taking around 100 pills a day set of any alarms in your head? How can a doctor operate so long while prescribing that much to just ONE person?

[@mr.giggles4995]

​@@darekm6859 I'm sure many of the parents put their kids on meds because they were brainwashed into thinking they can trust the experts and that psych drugs will help them, and very few are ever warned about the terrifying adverse effects and withdrawal of psych drugs and are lied to that it's "just the progression of the disease" and not the drugs causing the problems.

[@FalasteeniCalitoGaza]

You don’t just start with a hundred …you start with a small amount it says take one as needed 3 times a day…after a couples you’re stuck and need more physically and mentally

[@AA-iy4gm]

In any case scenario 99 pills a day of anything is suuuper weird. We can't keep delegating even our own reading and thinking to other people....

[@marinschuldt101]

That person would be DEAD.?? That's crazy 😳🙏🙏 F THE SACKLERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MatrixKT]

They all need to be behind bars!

[@Cadychan]

Maybe things would look different if everything in America wasn't so goddamn punitive. Instead of going cold turkey without pain meds, maybe wean onto THC combined with therapy? Or something else? Addiction is seen as a moral failure in the US, and not what it really is - a medical condition.

[@lars5288]

In first place addiction is a personal choice. We all know that addiction exists and can happen to anyone who isn't alerted. Cold turkey is the best way, because even if you prolong addiction with other addictive substances, to overcome it you must quit. It's no help to procrastinate the date, the cold turkey thing is inevitable.

[@paulydwaboutit4326]

You can't talk to ppl like cadychan. They'd rather put all of the blame on the word addiction than take responsibility lol those same ppl will blame a gun for a murder instead of the 1 behind the gun & call it gun violence lol don't waste your time on ppl like that.

[@VIKINGFLYING]

You have to taper extremely slowly from SSRIs and opioids while treating the root causation of depression, pain etc. Doctors in general know nothing about root causations.. Search tapering on KZbin..

[@morphingfaces]

CBD is good for chronic pain

[@JJ-Toreddie]

Without first hand experience there is no value in your assessment

[@lindahill2770]

I understand we are in a very troubled time with the opiod crisis, but I also understand unrelenting pain, and being unable to ease that pain due to misuse of painkillers by others. Until, you've actually had pain so deep and so cruel that you can't see going on anymore and are given something that couldn't possibly touch that pain becauuse someone else abused this medicine that could help, you can't really understand the other side of the coin. There are people who also legitimately need opiods at some point due to breath stealing pain but cant get them. There has to be an answer other than where it is headed.

[@lars5288]

I think that people misunderstand that pain is not an illness, but a symptom. So if there's constant pain, then there is an underlying cause that must be cured. Popping pills might be necessary for terminally ill patients where no cure is possible. But anyone else should look out for curing the underlying cause. Opioids aren't necessary in 99% of all patients who aren't in hospice or hospital. Outside the USA nobody is prescribing opiods to ambulance patients. There is the problem, and of course in patients who still believe having a prescription makes them immune to addiction and side effects. It doesn't, so be careful!

[@Yinyara]

​@@lars5288A lot of chronic pain sufferers have chronic conditions that can't be cured though no matter how willing you are to get rid of the underlying cause. There is a huge difference between chronic pain and temporary pain. It's often the people with temporary pain that start abusing the meds. I'm not from the U.S. but I live in the EU and because of the opioid crisis in the U.S. it's even hard for us here in the EU to get pain meds. Even though there is no crisis over here. All my meds are regulated by the system, all doctors and apothecaries can look in the system to see how much I'm allowed and when I'm allowed to pick up my new prescription etc. The doctor won't prescribe me oxy over here though because of the crisis in the U.S.

[@davidkruse4030]

@@lars5288I think people don’t understand people have sought out the “cure” and had multiple surgeries , had terrible accidents resulting in Permanent damage or have incurable painful conditions. In the right patients and yes with adjunctive therapies opioids can be a necessary tool. Sometimes there is no “cure” only thing that can be done is to ease suffering.

[@barbaraknowles2713]

Grow poppies 😊

[@teekolinski491]

The biggest misunderstanding the masses have about opiate & benzo addiction is the hellish & excruciating withdrawals the patient/addict has to endure. Withdrawals can actually kill you.

[@annwilliams6438]

Yes. AND there are many people whose quality of life will deteriorate so badly with the massive chronic pain they are subjected to that they would rather un-alive themselves than carry on without pain killers. This factor has NOT been addressed- and people wonder why so many people who were suddenly taken off of their painkillers went to the cocaine dealers???

[@sighndlease]

for benzo's yes. for opiates, no it cannot kill you

[@witchywomen6650]

🎯

[@witchywomen6650]

​@@sighndleaseWth yes opiates as well. 100%!!!! 🙄

[@sighndlease]

@@witchywomen6650 no opiates will make you want to kill youself lmfao but cannot kill you. alcohol and benzos are the only ones that you can actually die from withdrawal. other drugs are just physically horrendous

[@dlively7828]

As I’m watching this, the ads are White Claw. Let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about the physical, mental, emotional, familial destruction caused by alcohol addiction. Let’s talk about the access to alcohol. Not everyone abuses alcohol. Just like not everyone abuses opiods. I have had 14 reconstructive surgeries in 9 years. I have taken opioids off and on but never on a consist basis. While I have experienced physical dependency, I’ve never become full blown addicted. I think it has to do with the nature of my injury combined with the abundance of joy and support I have from my family. This is always such a confusing topic for me because I feel so much empathy for those that get addicted and I also feel so guilty anytime I have to take a pain medication. I tell myself I should be able to push through the pain. But given the nature of my injury, I can’t even breathe because of the pain somedays.

[@magickmarck]

Important point: that dependence is different than addiction. A point you made above. Nowadays it seems almost impossible to get real pain meds -- my parents have had joints replaced and only received Tramadol and Ibuprofen for pain. I understand on one hand, and they've gotten along okay, but why not give people some relief when theyre going thru a stressful surgery like this? Its ridiculous.

[@dlively7828]

@@magickmarck I hear you. I went to a surgeon who, for the first rx fill, gave me hydrocodone. Great. Efficient enough. When I went back for a postop check up, the awful PA said she would only give me a Tramadol refill. It was my 13th surgery. Tramadol doesn't even touch my pain in the slightest because of my history and tolerance. She ended up being let go shortly after that because she just sucked in general and had a terrible dr/patient rapport.

[@felineapoptosis7911]

Unlike opioids alcohol withdrawal can actually kill you from seizures. Opioids you may wanna die but in the vast majority of cases will not.

[@mathewdibella4207]

My blood pressure has been 197/125 while detoxing from opiates at age of 25, non smoker, and other than drug addiction the epitome of young and healthy. It looks like heart failure and is usually recorded as such.

[@janedarby7521]

exactly!

[@fightingtosurvive6527]

There is no way that a doctor can prescribe 100 opioid pain pills a day for a patient. Because their DEA license would have been immediately flagged. It's impossible and a pharmacist wouldn't fill 100 pills a day either. I'm retired from the medical field but you don't even have to work in the medical field that's just common sense.

[@jonathannighs]

Back in the day you technically could... i guess by going to different pharmacies with multiple scripts and multiple doages and types of opiods

[@ianandrews6890]

With a centralised healthcare & prescription drug system it would be possible to prevent individuals being given megadoses . However , the USA has always favored decentralization , to maximize monetary rewards of providers . The consumer's interests come last , especially if they aren't wealthy.

[@oldsquirrel1083]

@@jonathannighs You could always go doctor shopping, too, Before computers & databases that medical professionals & pharmacies could access, it was a whole lot easier.

[@aliwooz913]

3,000 percs a month??? Holy cow that's alot of street value

[@toynazi]

I live in West Virginia, which was literally ground zero in this mess. It is still going on but only with different street drugs now.

[@rossberning6538]

Is West Virginia really that bad? That sucks man!! The problem really is getting out of hand

[@toynazi]

@@rossberning6538 Yes, It was one of the first places that it hit hard. There are alot of documentaries about it here. There was one where they followed the EMS fire chief around and went to overdose after overdose. They had teams of EMT's that only responded to overdoses if that tells you anything.

[@strongfoot2009]

Street drugs do more harm than pharmacists' drugs.

[@wendyrobertson-c6m]

Getting sober takes more than 90 days. Those 90 day programs aren't long enough by any means. Most times it leads right back to the same behaviors because they don't delve deep enough to get to the root of the problem. There isn't enough time in 90 days to peel through the layers of the many problems that are covering the true issue of the addiction. Getting to the heart of the problem takes time, effort and hard work to get to the root cause of the addiction. I know this through personal experience with addiction and recovery.

[@jillbunny90]

Absolutely! A year long program is needed. Sadly, most do not accept people with felonies, and even those that do are becoming fewer and fewer due to money.

[@janedarby7521]

medical and physical, then you eed spiritual healing, no not religion, spiritual!

[@straightto8]

Been there, done that, I got the prize which is all the side affects from opiates. Took them orally, had four failed lower back surgeries, two were multi-level fusions, others were revisions. Now I have an internal pain pump which is targeted to the area of the fusions. I don’t know what was worse, having the back issues/surgeries, or the pain pills. If only time could be turned back to try to avoid all this.

[@juleslund1515]

The doctor prescribed the man 100 opiate pain pills every day? Come on...

[@Bonesph]

I used to get 6 30mg oxycodone and 6 10mg hydrocodone a day. In the weakest strength pill that would be 56 pills a day.

[@DAHOMIECHRIS420]

yeaaaaa... sounds a little ridiculous

[@Wendy-Williams-NC]

Those doctors are around....\

[@ruirodrigues2938]

@@DAHOMIECHRIS420 little? I never heard anyone taking more than 3 pills of whatever per day with 8 hours interval...

[@RainyDayModz]

Need that doc lmao

[@ML-mk2my]

This has become my #1 TY channel, by a landslide. “Where have you been all my life ?” Absolutely amazing content ! 👏🏻👏🏻 KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK 👏🏻👏🏻

[@ENDEVRDocs]

wow thank you so much 😊

[@natalieeuley1734]

I love this channel too. It would be my top channel if I could handle serious topics 24/7. But I just can't, so I don't watch ENDEVR as much as I would like. But when I do watch it, it's always so good.

[@Jay-uu4wu]

3,000 pills a month don’t even make sense from a doctor

[@karissareeves]

209 days clean from fentanyl ❤ love yall, you can do it too!!

[@ENDEVRDocs]

bravo 👍🏻 Seriously. That is awesome.

[@MambaLife08]

How did you do it!?! Congratulations btw 🙏🏾🫶🏾 God bless you

[@MrSubsound90]

This is punishing the dealer and letting the supplier walk.

[@Auny111]

If you're here listening/watching this documentary and haven't seen it yet, you need to watch 'Dopesick' next. So good, so enlightening.

[@JosedeJezeus]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@alanj9978]

Canada's supplying free "safe supply" opioids to addicts. They buy them from ... Purdue. Can't make this up. Of course the addicts sell them so they can buy the fentanyl they actually want, and then the dealers sell them to new addicts including high schoolers.

[@englishmenintown8622]

Thank you 😊 Going to do that.

[@flips_abird]

Check out Medicating Normal too!

[@dave8484]

Also read empire of pain it goes in and explains like dopesick how the sackler family purposely got people hooked and started the opioid pandemic

[@kennymmmKay]

If I had to choose addiction or unbearable pain I'd choose addiction so I can function and survive in this unforgiving world

[@jesusortiz8499]

Me too

[@marierejoiceinjesus3846]

I'm in pain all day, every day for over 10 years now. I always refused pain killers because of the awareness of addiction. I don't regret my decision at all.

[@shananagins2468]

Me too, I hate them and I’d rather feel than not

[@shananagins2468]

Jesus is my comfort

[@asdzxc4167]

Research kratom.

[@fraxizztv6433]

​@@asdzxc4167kratom may be a plant, but it's just another drug, really. As an active kratom addict, I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy.

[@jamesr.vanpattenjr.8963]

I'm with you!!!!!

[@JasonWebb_369]

It’s happening in Japan, too. I realized this after being prescribed antidepressants by a bought and paid for quack at Matsushima Clinic in Yomitan Village, Okinawa. I hope the doctor tries to sue me for defamation or slander. If he does, he’ll be digging his own grave instead of leading people to an early one.

[@ontime7482]

I take care of all my pains with dabs, it works great!

[@luckylala1224]

99 pills a day!!! Come on now... Thats just crazy!!! Idc if its just aspirin, 99 a day is just CRAZY!!!!

[@ENDEVRDocs]

it is absolutely crazy.

[@jenna7817]

This frustrates me. This particular doctor was ridiculously out of line, but now doctors are afraid to give out any! I barely got enough after my 2nd abdominal surgery and got even less for my 3rd (12 pills! So 3 days worth and thats it.). I can't take NSAIDs as I only have 1 kidney and tylenol alone does not cut it. Surgeon says to get any additional from the primary and primary says to get it from the surgeon. Round and round it goes. Absolutely ridiculous. There has to be some responsibility put onto the patient, educate them, but allow them access to what they need to sleep and heal properly. I also have chronic pain that I've spent many nights crying in pain and tylenol does nothing. I dont even bother asking my primary because I know how that will go. It's horrible.

[@skinsnation4404]

You should ask your primary care doctor for a referral to a pain management Dr

[@jenna7817]

@skinsnation4404 thanks! I will do that

[@jodyljohnson8515]

​@@jenna7817I was lucky enough to have been referred to a pain clinic! I was able to feel results, rather than just having a bandaid fix! I'm still a work in progress, but I'm getting better! Lots of luck to ya💞✌️

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

Im in excruciating pain every step i take every night i lay down every morning moving to get outta bed its painful to stand my knee locks snd the pain is breath taking snd i refuse the meds i want answers of what snd how we fix it.not a bandande thats gonna bring a lable as addict how about taking away the labels

[@H.h.farms5089]

Something has to be done about this problem. As an addict in recovery, I can absolutely understand why people wanna just cut out opioids completely pretty much, but I also understand the anger at Drs because they think everyone asking about pain meds is just someone that's useless. Drs have become inhuman in the sense they don't seem to understand pain meds is all that's allowing some to be able to work, to be able to go out and do anything with friends and family. There has to be a way to ease the restrictions. Yes I agree drugs are bad but if you are pretty much bed ridden from pain but a Dr won't write anything, what then, cause while I'm not bed ridden, I have lost my ability to work or do anything really physical. So many people truly do need pain meds but can't get em. More people would be able and certainly willing to work. Are there gonna be bad apples that abuse things, yeah, if things are not set up right then absolutely, however it absolutely could be set up for success. This is a serious problem that needs worked out.

[@JosedeJezeus]

How can a person be considered an expert in something they have never experienced themselves? A pain management doctor who has never had the kind of pain that his patients do, cannot be an expert in that experience. Donators need to be humbled.

[@birdflipper]

For her atty to say it wasnt the amt of narcotics the doctor prescribed that killed them is utterly detestable. Idc what the ailment is-99 pills is a lethal amt of medication to prescribe to anyone!!!

[@Shelley-j2y]

He's an attorney, that's his job to lie.

[@thebigsho665]

I didn't hear 99 a day how would or could the pharmacy even fill that

[@JJ-Toreddie]

He isn't lying. It is a choice to take something or not to. I've walked the walk so I can talk the talk.

[@birdflipper]

@@JJ-Toreddie I doubt you would be walking at all with 99 pills of anything in your body!

[@felineapoptosis7911]

@cassandra9699 well I mean opioid dependence and any drug abuse is unpredictable. There are a minority of people who would be tolerant enough to handle 495mg of oxycodone throughout the day. It would be deadly for someone who was not using large amounts daily but now people are SHOOTING up to a GRAM of fentanyl a day. In a medical setting fentanyl is dosed in MICROGRAMS and is typically not utilized in an outpatient setting. When it is tho it’s in a patch and does not have the same amount of recreational value as illegal powdered fentanyl or fentanyl analogues that are even stronger than fentanyl. It is an absurd amount to be prescribed tho and hopefully it wasn’t exactly correct. Doctors like this exacerbated an issue caused by pharmaceutical companies and the FDA endorsing an opioid compound as non addictive and approved ridiculous doses as well as fraudulently lying about the clinical studies that were completed. Unfortunately not all doctors have the best interest of the patient or are just slow in the sense of using their brain before accepting the pushed agenda of pharmaceutical companies.

[@jBurn801]

From 0:57 - 1:54 is missing audio for me.

[@donnaturner1550]

I have never taken Oxycodone in a large or long course. My Doctor in the 80's would only let me take for 5 days and then 5 weeks off as he didn't want me to become addicted. I haven't taken any in 36 years. I do Chiropractic adjustments.

[@djbarnes11]

The Sackler family were also partly responsible for the Valium epidemic in the 70s 80s the drug was given the all clear non addictive status by grandad Sackler for his buddy Roche . The level of death and destruction left by this family is quite remarkable, I do pray for all the addicts that they can find life again, and for the families of lost ones may justice prevail

[@buildertrash4102]

Valium quite literally wrecked my life. I didn’t even know they were addictive!. It took a horrendous 2&1/2 year withdrawal to get off them. I almost died. I’ve made it out the other side but I’m damaged, physically and emotionally. Evil drug.

[@djbarnes11]

@@buildertrash4102 clinics in London were full of Valium addicts. Valium and gin the housewives sin was a common expression in the 80s. It was renowned for having terrible withdrawals, I’m pleased you managed to kick this drug good luck for the future. Justice to the people who suffered from these so called none addictive substances!

[@urmommabear5monthsago]

This is old news and you can’t get a doctor to prescribe you an opioid now even if you need it. I had hysterectomy surgery and they gave me pain management for 12 hours then Tylenol or ibuprofen. I was sent home with a prescription for Tylenol and I lived.

[@electricamir248]

You really have to know more than doctors to navigate and survive our health system.

[@radar5464]

💯. Have to become an expert of sorts to avoid quackery that makes things worse not better

[@kathygarcia629]

I have lived with chronic pain for 32 years from Fibromyalgia. It's miserable most days. I will not get addicted to opioids, I refuse. I have seen first hand the damage addictions do to families. If I wanted to, I could get these drugs because of my diagnosis, no thanks.

[@RussellD11]

the Cause?>> GREED

[@lindasutton4014]

No sound at .59 thru 1:56 minutes.

[@malegria9641]

I’ve been on antidepressants for two years. They worked for about two months.

[@tina-mariecrocker5687]

Those drugs are so very dangerous

[@johnsmith5470]

If he was getting 100 perc 30s a day he was dealing them. Maybe partnered with the docror. Theyre worth $30 each. In 2012 $10-$15 each.

[@frmula1fan51]

This is nothing new. I had surgery back 95. I was in high school. My mom wouldn't let me take whatever pain med I was prescribed because she said it was addictive. My mom isn't a doctor or medical professional.

[@ScottSchnell-cz8hi]

The Bible in greek warned of this. The old serpent overcame the world by "pharmakeia", pharmacy.

[@pardewski]

Not the docs fault that people are selling them.. For those of us with LEGITIMATE PAIN, they are a god send..

[@heidiiiiiiii]

How did this happen with the 100 pills a day? Same one? Did any pharmacists raise alarms??

[@TheAnthoula14]

This is obviously a very complicated problem with no easy answers but what makes things harder is that opiates have been the only real option for crisis level pain since day dot. Thats why they still use them during surgeries, they may not prescribe them anymore, but someone gets a heart transplant or their leg amputated, they will never have asprin in their IV. If someone ever does come up with a non opiate based medication that has equal pain control, it will be a massive change in the world.

[@sueridgard9068]

I am a nurse and when I did my training in the 80's we knew that the schedule 7 drugs were the opiate based pain meds and were only given for a short period of time because they are addictive. e. g pethidine. Omnopon and morphine. Morphine was used mostly for terminally I'll people. For chronic pain you should not be prescribed opioids. There are other medications that can be used.

[@jocelynerousseau7098]

Not just America, it is everywhere! I am A Canadian and happening here as well. I truly BLAME PHATMA AND GOVERNMENT! It is all about MONEY

[@mashobane6177]

Canada is in America. So it is still America.

[@Domfootstitch]

Why does the law and order logo appear in the background at 4:03? Did you guys direct him to do that on that TV in the back? Additionally, the voice over sounded kind of unusual. Is the voice over AI? The audio suddenly mutes near the end, too. What is going on with this doc?

[@lisadawnrussell]

In this era of all information free on youtube, no one can claim complete ignorance and blame a DR!

[@Shelley-j2y]

Yes, they can. A professional should be knowledgeable about what they are prescribing in the age of the technology.

[@talktrendswithKristen]

Yeah people really think that a KZbin video is more knowledgeable than a doctor??? You sound completely crazy. A professional should know WAY MORE THAN AN AVERAGE PERSON!! That's why there are people called "professionals"! Yeah let me tell my doctor he's wrong because a KZbin video says something else! !

[@Shelley-j2y]

@@talktrendswithKristen Hey, it's your choice. Over 250,000 people die every year because they listened to their doctor. Doctors are human, not God. Some people like to think for themselves. I wonder how many people are regretting listening to their doctors after getting the cjabs? Do some research before you shame others. Bigpharma is big $$$$.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

100 pills a day is one every 15 minutes. That's a ridiculous amount of pain and this sounds like somebody who got tangled up with that great big network marketing opioid sales pharmacy company that has some people go to prison too.

[@sheliadean9548]

I live in Tennessee and the same thing happened to my sister.

[@PatrickBaptist]

Same, near Johnson city, got lots of kin ffered up on the legal dope......

[@milenasings]

This is a perfect example of pure evil. It all come around at some point.

[@SamRicheson]

great content, unfinished editing. Audio cuts out multiple times. Music choice is inappropriate at times. 19:05

[@JJ-Toreddie]

Purdue Pharmaceutical is just a company. Who owns Purdue Pharmaceutical you may ask. It is the Sackler family

[@amymichelle1916]

Yes, it's the Sackler family

[@el_gringo_rojo766]

There’s not too many options for doctors to treat pain. It’s sad really. If you get a patient in severe pain what else can they do for them? Until they come out with alternatives that actually work, doctors still need to treat their patients. People who live with chronic pain are also victims. People would rather shoot themselves in some cases than live with chronic SEVERE pain.

[@GreenAppelPie]

The guilty pharmaceutical had to pay $635 after making billions and billions, yeah I bet that hurt

[@kishanelson26]

How was the pharmacy filling that amount

[@Signaman-z9d]

One question.Why haven't the tried for a cure for drug addiction. 🤔

[@msJjbluematrix]

And now because of junkies, people who suffer from chronic pain conditions can't get help. I have seen my residents suffer from severe pain because doctors don't want to deal with people with pain issues. Retired laborers of all stripes that put their bodies through the ringer for decades are now told to take tylenol and get an ice pack because doctors are scared of getting sued.

[@aaronwatter]

You're %100 right that people in pain are not being treated, and doctors are being not just sued but held criminally liable, but it's a trap to pit people in different types of pain against each other. Rather than "ending the stigma", we're now just spreading it more evenly. It's as if everyone is a "junkie" now, including those in physical pain. In reality, NO ONE should be stigmatized for whatever their pain and preference in relief is. What we should be really upset about is Prohibition.

[@yonikki]

My 9yo son had kidney surgery 2 years ago, (congenital hydronephrosis). The pediatric surgeon gave me a prescription of antibiotics ... and a prescription of Oxycontin! I waited to get home to throw the Oxy Rx in the trash bin. My son healed perfectly fine (minimal discomfort) without even needing children's Tylenol.

[@elliesummer5249]

A 9 year old would never become addicted to pain meds for surgery when taken as prescribed! Just STOP, we have veterans that have had limbs blown off that need opioids for some sense of a normal life! This prohibition must stop, as everyone at some point in life will have to take an opioid for pain! Imagine yourself in a horrendous car accident with several broken bones and severe injuries, you will be begging for pain medication and it won’t be the Tylenol that gets rid of such horrendous pain! I hope they have a no opioid policy so you can suffer in severe pain just like you want others to do! Complete BS! My BIL died from alcohol addiction, maybe we should start closing bars and liquor stores and throwing the owners in jail so we don’t have anymore alcohol addiction? Get off your high horse and realize life happens quickly and you may just need an opioid, which is the only drug approved by the FDA for pain control! Ibuprofen is for inflammation and Tylenol is for fevers NOT pain!

[@jonathannighs]

That's not really noble that's more like child abuse

[@reddbendd]

I have been using cannabis since 13 due to chronic low back pain. I started using opiates as well recently as it has gotten worse. Anyone that says I need treatment gets blocked. I do not talk to my family anymore because they think I am a drug addict. The paramedics that come check on me every week are just fine with it though, so, whatever

[@yonikki]

@@elliesummer5249 lol wut?

[@yonikki]

@@jonathannighs he's a quarterback and plays tackle football ... but, I'll relay your message 😆

[@maureenstevens6824]

Prescriptions for 100 pills a day, 3,000 per month is reckless endangerment, no way around it.

[@thor800]

this isnt about tranq or fentanyl at all and seems like a repackaged opioid documentary from 10 years ago with AI dubbed commentary

[@lifeoflw84]

People are so addicted to pills in okc it’s crazy.. my husbands whole family is ate up with this horrible addiction that all started from their drs over medicated people!!! We got them cut off but they dr hop and will find more as we just found out.. so now we just love them from a distance!!

[@OldBaldWookiee]

I hope they realize whats important. Usually it takes some kind of rock bottom. I was addicted to pills heroin and meth I've been clean 5 years now . I've seen people nod out stop breathing and turn blue ive seen people die its sad . Those who arent addicts don't understand how hard it is . Took me about 17 years to finally turn my life around after about 6 attempts to get clean

[@janycebrown4071]

​@@OldBaldWookieeoxytocin for pain turned into a 15 year addiction! The last 4 years I was using Fentanyl! 7 years of Suboxone saved my life ❤ Recovery is POSSIBLE! Last July was my last 2mg dose of Suboxone!

[@jonathannighs]

You got some one kicked off their pain pills?

[@Dead_Again1313]

​@@jonathannighs That's what it sounds like. Brutal

[@msjsq1966]

I'm new to this channel and this was really well done. Thank you!

[@monkeyRL]

Kinda odd. There's about a minute or so of audio at the very beginning that's missing...lemme just get my tinfoil hat, LOL

[@bonniegaither3994]

Pain is there for a reason. It’s telling you that there’s a problem that needs to be addressed. If you just take away the pain you risk further damage to whatever the problem is.

[@monkeyseemonkeydo2597]

Yes! This is how our bodies communicate.

[@IndelibleHD]

I'm assuming you've never been crawling the walls in pain when pain medication is needed.

[@bonniegaither3994]

@@IndelibleHD , yes. I’ve been in pain. But that’s the point. Pain doesn’t just show up for no reason. Yes, you can eliminate the pain and at the same time, figure the root cause. As he said, those opioids are for (dying) cancer patients, not for headaches and toothaches.

[@felineapoptosis7911]

What if the root cause is addressed with surgery but the pain does not subside? What if the surgeon damages your nerves that you have nerve damage? What if an amputee feels pain in their missing limb for no reason? I agree with you for the most part but there are countless scenarios where unfortunately this is simply not true.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

haha no. Go to med school. Chronic pain persists often after an injury is healed. The body does complicated things. Your big mouth is causing pain patients to have a difficult time getting their life-saving meds.

[@silvasun5326]

It’s amazing to see people with serious opioid addiction being directed to these abstinence based treatment centres. It is well documented that opioid substitution treatment is by far the most effective treatment for this health problem. Abstinence attempts fail most of the time for this addiction. Praying to Jesus probably won’t work either. Bobs ranch looked awful….at odds with best practice…and dangerous.

[@aaronwatter]

Mind you, abstinence is often quite attainable if the desire and motivation is there. But yes, our insistence on abstinence being the only legit recovery is what's killing us. I'm abstinent about nine out of ten days, not counting the Adderall, caffeine, nicotine, psilocybin micro-dosing etc. Otherwise, I guess "relapse" occurs daily. 😜

[@Speedy636Germany]

Documentary from 2018. Should've been mentioned in the title or desc.

[@reneehouser2925]

I'm so sick of the few people keeping everyone else from going to recess. Millions, probably hundreds of millions of people have taken Rx painkillers without these terrible outcomes. As a 55 year old woman who has never even drank a beer- I couldn't get a painkiller throughout menopause, for any other of my conditions or even from my damn dentist!!! Don't blame the alcohol, the bar or the liquor store for those who become alcoholics & abuse their families or kill innocent people driving drunk- it's the ADDICT, not the substance. I'm so sick of this BS opiate crisis preventing every decent stable adult from getting any adequate pain relief.... Total nonsense! 😡

[@JasonBrown-dd7dj]

You sound like an addict

[@blacksailsinthesun]

Saying there's less than 1% chance of people becoming addicted is like saying there's less than 1% chance of people getting addicted to tabacco after smoking cigarettes.. I'm 35 and fortunate enough to have grown up in the uk, i had problems with depression and addiction to tramadol after operations due to a breast tumour . i am fully confident in saying if i had grown up in America I would be dead by now, I would of died of an over dose or i would have taken my life.i have nothing but extreme empathy and sympathy for all people young and old who have lost thier lives or lost loved ones to this unimaginable evil which is only a thing because of money and the greed of people like the sacklers

[@stargazerbird]

I am surprised people accept them in the first place. My dentist gave me an opioid painkiller to take after my dental surgery. I took just one and it totally knocked me out and I got the super relaxed pleasant feeling I had heard you get from drugs. Freaked me out and I never took it again. Clearly addictive.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

There's something wrong with you if you discovered a drug that can make you relax and take away pain but got "freaked out" by being too weak-minded to resist abusing it. Grow some balls. Opioids should be in everyone's medicine cabinet and they are very effective tools when taken responsibly.

[@iandalrymple7255]

I agree the pharma companies are culpable. Going up a step though my anger is more directed at the regulatory bodies and the revolving door system in place between regulatory and pharma manufacturers. If this could be corrected I believe this would not have happened and would be prevented

[@noah_am_i]

I suffered a back injury and specifically told the doctor I did not want pain medicine. I worked with physical therapy and completely resolved my pain without any medicine. No one shoves the pill down your throat

[@krystalsteele9271]

I am born in raised in OKC.... To get pain meds it used to be as easy as going to the Dr and leave with a script. They have cracked down on the pill mills so now We have A LOT of people on fentanyl and blues which are a pill made of fentanyl.

[@lauralilley8606]

Dr. Regan Nichols deceased on 2/25/2022, cause not stated. Poetic justice factor unknown.

[@kimberlyfrey8740]

Why doesnt anyone do a film on Kensington in Philadelphia? It’s the heart of this. Wanna know what is coming to your town next, look up Kensington .

[@ernstraedecker6174]

There are hundreds, probably thousands of videos about Kensington Av. on KZbin. By the way, the local govt finally cleaned the area up some two weeks ago. Watch East Hastings, Vancouver, for more of the same.

[@kimberlyfrey8740]

@@ernstraedecker6174 i dont mean just people using their phone to film addicts. I mean a real in depth documentary to educate how it came to be that way. And what good is pushing them off one street gonna do? They just moved back into people’s neighborhoods again. They tried and failed with this before. There is a reason why law enforcement “allows” it. Think about it. With so many people, it’s just easier to keep them in a general area. When you start scattering them in other areas, crime rates go up, overdose deaths go up, more people go unaccounted for, there becomes more than one street that is littered with trash and needles, etc. Its an election year so the mayor gotta do something to get the votes. Just saying it’s not a coincidence this happened now

[@needmoreramsay]

These pain killers are INCREDIBLY addictive because they reduce/eliminate pain AND they make you feel INCREDIBLY GOOD !!! Like the absolute BEST, HAPPIEST, GREATEST MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE feelings extended over a few hours. Every time you take a couple, you get that relief and that sensation (the "DRAGON"). Your brain and body is hardwired to feel like that because it's a reward sensation. The problem becomes that feeling diminishes with every dose, more pills are required and the reward feelings are less and less. It gets to the point where you become violently sick without constantly taking the medicine and you no longer get that happy feeling. This is "CHASING THE DRAGON'. It literally can happen to ANYONE.

[@rejectedjeepers7317]

Lost a good friend to prescription abuse. He got so many prescribed to him for his legitimate illness but it was too much. We tried to find a rehab to get his pain and addiction under control but he didn't make it. Now those that need regulated medicine for pain are suffering because of greed. It's so sad.....

[@rloperfido3817]

I love how doctors said oh we were Duped into prescribing oxy cotton etc. yea OK ISN'T THAT CONVENIENT it easy to blame your patients that you turned them into addicts. & There response always the patient some how tricked them to over prescribing.

[@bobsthea]

when share prices and big profit is much more important than humans, these sort of thing happened

[@bryandraughn9830]

It's a little bit LATE in the game to realize that thousands of doctors prescribed millions of pills and then we had problems. Yes, lots of doctors were completely irresponsible and I've had many of them. The pharmaceutical company can't prescribe you pills.

[@lisan.5453]

Maybe I'm old school.. I'm only 36.. in Elementary School they taught us to say NO to drugs, why try something you know is addicting??

[@alexpeters1080]

Maybe cos you're in pain and trusted your family doctor not to try addict or kill you

[@tradesmanbear9738]

When u prescribe that much a day that’s on you period I’m not a doctor but I even know that’s outrageous. If they only need 1-4 a day then that’s what they should get not 90

[@felineapoptosis7911]

When you take 4 per day, for 1 month, that =120?

[@hiddenamericachannel]

17:37 that's literally THE worst way to try and kick narcotics. This is why the relapse rate for narcotics is like 90 percent. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Years ago I kicked legal opiates cold turkey and felt like I was hit by a train. I didn't sleep properly for 6 month, I had constant flu like symptoms & I honestly NEVER felt right after. 90 days is NO where near long enough to quit this stuff. (I actually ended up in the hospital with life threatening pneumonia the withdrawal was so bad & I almost died.) In my opinion alll this treatment will do is pi$$ the person off, lower their tolerance, get them incredibly sick and make them MORE likely to OD when they get through the treatment. This method is a way to set people up for failure, imo 😔

[@noah_am_i]

I don’t know the answer. People kill themselves over pain. People over dose on pain pills. What is the answer? If any…

[@IStaySt0n3d_OSRS]

I wonder if Kyle ever stayed clean. Hope he did

[@brianstephens1488]

Tough subject. These decisions need to be left to people who are experts in the field, but most importantly, not someone who is emotionally involved. A mom's opinion on anything that their child uses and it, took their life, is compromised and corrupted at best. An expert in their field, should never be relying on another person's emotions.

[@cherylmillard2067]

Most doctors are prescribing opiates wrong, and patients are taking them wrong, a person should only take what's needed to control their pain, not what's prescribed for that whole day. If you're prescribed six per day and your pain is low, you take three for example, not six, this leaves you enough for when six doesn't cover it on those extremely bad days. This way your body does not become accustomed to the higher dose, and you don't run out before the end of your prescription. Less is more in the long term, a pain person can get secondary pain issues related to opioid use itself like allodynia and hyperalgesia. A person should never take enough to be completely pain free. Break through pain should also be managed. I have written a very simplified version.

[@mackenzieonyx7586]

And just why is "tranq" in the title???

[@tonyl1483]

Can’t watch it volume keeps kicking out😢 20:14

[@OrlandoGustar]

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is ALSO A VICTIM of OPIODS....he has been taking FENTANYL for pain he incurred from a motorcycle accident when he was just a Mayor in Davao City.

[@EYGGROUP.]

opioids should come with a massive health warning on the box much the same as tobacco

[@wellwait4197]

I’m not letting the doctor or pharmaceutical companies off and I know that families are in immense grief but people always know when they’re doing something wrong. In the end it’s the patients responsibly to manage their conditions. It’s their lives. When I had my back surgery and was prescribed these medication I immediately knew they made me feel too good and to be careful. But I will readily admit I don’t have an addictive personality.

[@novalea]

There's no such thing as "an addictive personality". That's some pseudosciency nonesense from the 90's. That's not how addiction works.

[@wellwait4197]

@@novalea . Well delightful call it whatever you choose. I’ve done every drug known, including heroin and fentanyl and nothing stuck (not that I’m happy to admit that) like it does to others. I know most doctors used to say it’s a mental disorder, but whatever you call it, some get addicted and some don’t. Have a nice day delightful and maybe look into some Valium because your very uptight.