The DEA and various law enforcement agencies are having “drug take back days” trying to get people to clean out their medicine cabinet and toss their “old meds”.. they quote the TONS of medications that they collect… but.. no one keeps track of unused antibiotics, eye/ear drops and controlled substances.. but they always REPORT the TONS of medication that are collected.. suggesting that it is all controlled meds.
Some of the chain drug stores are putting in permanent “take-back drug boxes” in hopes of getting more unused medications out of homes. How much they will collect and/or if they collect any controlled medications at all is yet to be determined.
Likewise, by the end of the year all – or nearly all states – will have passed laws making Naloxone capable of being sold OTC. I have already seen one WV bureaucrat boasting that they had REVIVED ONE PERSON on SIX SEPARATE OCCASIONS
They are already boasting about how many doses of Naloxone that has been administered.. suggesting of how many lives they have SAVED.
It has been reported that the CDC has been counting each substance in a deceased person’s toxicology report as a separate cause of death.. so a SINGLE PERSON’S death can be counted multiple times toward the total number of deaths from various substance abuse.
Just wait until 2018 gets here and the data for 2017 starts getting reported… the total number of doses of Naloxone administered will skyrocket, the number of “opiate related deaths” will continue to increase.. the TONS of medications “reclaimed” and disposed of will dramatically increase..
We may be looking at the total number of people abusing some substances may increase because of the liberal availability and use of Naloxone and the developing use of Naloxone is nothing more than a “catch and release” program.. there is little/nothing in place to help these people to start a recovery process.
PREDICTION: As 2018 unfolds, we will probably see the bureaucrats start searching for a NEW METHODOLOGY to stop substance abuse.
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Where are the pharmaceutical companies in this? They would be fighting hard and lobbying to get their medication sold. Money runs the world. Why aren’t they fighting the DEA?
The DEA controls the limits of controls that the Pharmas can produce annually. IMO.. that is why the Pharmas appear to be such cowards towards all of this… Go after the DEA and they could cut production limits 10%-20%/yr while they use every “trick in the book” to stall any outcome… After all the DEA is under the Cabinet level dept of the DOJ.
Wow!