CHICAGO—The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a report (PDF) today showing a 44.4 percent decrease in opioid prescribing nationwide in the past decade. At the same time, the country is facing a worsening drug-related overdose and death epidemic.
Report shows decreases in opioid prescribing, increase in overdoses
Tag: Opioids
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Two months after Emergent completed its acquisition of the Narcan monopoly, HHS began recommending that doctors co-prescribe the drug alongside opioid painkillers. However, HHS offered no measures aimed at preventing the over-prescription of opioid painkillers like fentanyl and has remained silent regarding efforts to make opioid painkillers a controlled, schedule 1 substance. After the HHS recommendation regarding Narcan, several states subsequently passed laws requiring doctors to co-prescribe the nasal spray. Emergent’s sale of Narcan, which now costs $150 per dose, predictably spiked.
Why would they make a medication, that has an actual medicinal use, a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance?! Even some of the medications, listed as Schedule 1, have a medicinal purpose, such as marijuana and hemp-derived CBD Oil!!
A year earlier in 1989, Ibrahim El-Hibri, a Venezuelan citizen who had made a fortune working for US telecommunications companies, had become a silent partner in Porton International. His son, Fuad El-Hibri, was made director of Porton Products, Ltd, a Porton International subsidiary, which was the conduit by which the El-Hibri family had made a killing selling anthrax vaccines to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states at $300 to $500 a dose. Fuad El-Hibri had previously been an intelligence contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton and an executive at the Wall Street giant, CitiGroup.
This article states that Ibrahim was Lebanese. The links provided above don’t show the content suggesting that he is from Venezuela, but it may be that I am on a mobile device (iPad Mini)?!
Fuad El-Hibri, a 40-year-old German businessman with a Yale University management degree, formed a team of investors to buy the business, which included a $100 million contract with the Pentagon.
His bid faced a problem, though: He and his father, Ibrahim El-Hibri, a wealthy international financier from Lebanon, dominated ownership of the company, which they named BioPort.
Both were considered friendly to the United States. Father and son had directed a company involved in Britain’s anthrax vaccine program and they had worldwide interests in cell phone networks and other ventures.
Maybe I’m just being nitpicky?! 🤷🏼♀️
Analyzing the Opioid Crisis: 65 Articles by Dr. Josh Bloom
People Rarely Die After Using Opioids Prescribed for Them
Although prescription pain medication is commonly blamed for the “opioid epidemic,” such drugs play a small and shrinking role in deaths involving this category of psychoactive substances. A recent study of opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts underlines this crucial point, finding that prescription analgesics were detected without heroin or fentanyl in less than 17 percent of cases. Furthermore, just 1 percent of decedents had prescriptions for the opioids that showed up in toxicology tests.
— Read on reason.com/2020/01/23/people-rarely-die-after-using-opioids-prescribed-for-them/
As someone with chronic pain, I used to follow this more closely. After having my pain med(Vicodin, which isn’t an opioid) because of Jeff Sessions’ going after doctors prescribing pain medications, I gave up. One reason why you see me posting often, online. I’m in pain daily, because I cannot get anything prescribed, and I won’t do illegal drugs. I’m hoping that my state will at least lift the ban on Kratom, but for now I am trying a higher dose of CBD tablets. I’m tired of trying things that don’t work, though.
OxyContin sells in China with same tactics discredited in U.S.
The documents and interviews indicate that representatives from the Sacklers’ Chinese affiliate, Mundipharma, tell doctors that time-release painkillers like OxyContin are less addictive than other opioids—the same pitch Purdue admitted was false in U.S. court more than a decade ago.
— Read on web.archive.org/web/20191122035647/https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-oxycontin-china-sales-20191120-ecsjtj7idraedh33fodocc75e4-story.html
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