what do you do when the agency that is suppose to provide the “gold standard” of data provides only “blurred data” ?

Drugs Involved in U.S. Overdose Deaths, 1999 to 2017

I am sure that it is probably accurate with one caveat they don’t segregate legal meds from illegal drugs.. Methadone can be legal, Methamphetamine can be legal, Cocaine can be legal, Heroin is all illegal, Synthetics can be legal or illegal… the typical OD toxicology shows 4-7 different substances normally INCLUDING ALCOHOL.. Even if a med is produced by a pharma if it is acquired or possession of someone who did not have them prescribed to them and/or diverted is somehow from the primary distribution system.. it AUTOMATICALLY becomes an ILLEGAL DRUG and this chart does not distinguish between a legal and illegal substance. Could this be because of an agenda by the CDC or other agencies of the Feds to intentionally obscure the clarity of the reality ?.

How does anyone refute the “facts” that the anti-opiate groups use to defend their position when the source of their “facts” is a federal agency – that is suppose to be the “gold standard of health/disease stats” and they are not publishing stats that have any definitive clarity but rather mish-mash of basically “raw data” that ultimately produces mis-directed information.

shouldn’t the American public expect the DETAILED TRUTH from all federal agencies ?

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  1. Just a few days ago I read an artical from CDC saying cpp that commute susiside do so because of the oipiods they are on! I’m so outraged! Could it be there trying to get out in front of the fact that they are responsible for these cpp losing there meds? Or could it be one hand at the CDC does not know what the other hand is doing? I think it’s the first? I also think and believe they will be exposed! The worst part of this is the ppl that are dieing from losing there life saving medication from either suiside or complications of chronic pain like heart disease and becoming weak and frail from no pain control. This needs to be headline NEWS. Who recalls the Nixon administration and how he lied about Vietnam? He went down! Mabey there is hope?

  2. How are “we” going to do that? I agree Trump started this nightmare, but don’t think the Democrats are honest. We need a “populist” Congress. Can’t do any worse!

    • Trump didn’t start this nightmare, the CDC did in 2016 with false stats on overdoses and their ridiculous guidelines for maximum dosing. Trump may be continuing it, but it didn’t start with him .

      • Actually Republican Congress started the “decade of pain” with https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26458017 and when it expired… Obama was in office and picked up where they had left off a decade before. and Trump and Session just kept the ball rolling fueled by all the defective numbers being put out by the CDC and then their unauthorized CDC guidelines … which the DEA and the VA latched on and when in their own direction

  3. Yes! The American public should expect the DETAILED T.R.U.T.H. from our federal agencies, but were NOT getting it…and much of it starts at the top; Trump! As long as there’s dishonest, self-serving officials, there will never be correct information. We must hold them accountable!

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