This was posted on YOUTUBE.com in Feb, 2014 and it is using stats from 2008 when the pill mills in Florida was a growing crisis and IMO.. the video suggests that it is going on today in Florida.. It is like watching a video/movie on the civil war and think that it is still going on .. With TWO BROTHERS being addicted.. it would appear that this family’s gene pool has some very serious mental health issues.
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STAGE ONE: First move-create a need.
They never explained, even now, how addicts in Ohio or Tennessee knew exactly where to go to ‘score’ opiates, but the local FL DEA SAC just couldn’t grasp the situation that was going on all around them 24/7/365 for years.
Just another sign of Corporations over Constituents and the sell out of the American people to big money interests, corruption plain and simple. BIG PHARMA gets a great scenario. Pump out pills for profit, then when it becomes addiction they keep control by coming out w/ tamper abuse resistant versions, then pills for treatment (suboxone). Never see to much about how most addicts can defeat the abuse resistant features in a matter of minutes or how w/ added costs legit patients can no longer afford their meds, let alone the drug tests that almost mandatory to receive a schedule II med for more than a month.
The media propaganda plays in the background as a soundtrack to this tragedy. It would be laughable if not for the collateral damage inflicted upon innocent patients left to suffer.
IMO, the whole situation w/ the pill mills was intentionally left alone, left to fester, so DEA could claim an ‘epidemic’. Then when outcry over poor little Johnny’s OD came pouring in the FEDS could come to the rescue, of the situation they helped create (another common theme no?) Once their foot was in the door of the health system, it was kicked in. As w/ all Fed Govt agencies, give them an inch and they’ll take a mile. This led to PDMPs which nobody, neither pharmacists nor doctors use, but DEA and police find helpful. They were supposed to be secure and only available to law enforcement w/ a warrant and would promised to PROTECT legit patients by showing they played by the rules and that it would help them keep access to needed meds. Nothing further from the truth.
Duped so bad by brainwashing, you can still visit pain advocacy blogs TODAY and newspaper comment sections to find patients claiming and asking the DEA to help them. Some even w/ child-like pleas to the DEA that if they only knew that innocents like themselves were hurt by all this too……blah blah blah……… naiveté on display. The DEA know exactly what is going on and who is hurting as a result. They knew b4 this all began, its their job to know this stuff. But try to tell them that the DEA considers THEM as addicts too, based on the fact that they take opioid analgesics on a daily basis, and you will be censored perhaps even banned from commenting on such boards. I imagine for some the truth hurts AND is too offensive/controversial, too far off the ‘official script’.
It was a nice touch too how they prosecuted pharmacists and pharmacies for filling prescriptions written by doctors with valid DEA licenses because they were supposed to know better. Better than the DEA? It is DEA’s job to monitor and enforce diversion, set quotas [resulting in shortages] and monitor and enforce the actions of its registrants (doctors). Media chimed in on que w/ their sensationalism until every American now associates pain management w/ pill mills and opiate users (even disabled & vets) as addicts. A perfect storm that produced a windfall for everyone, everyone except legit patients that is. Patients painted as the main source of diverted drugs when hundreds of thousands are pilfered by Hospital and pharmacy employees hijackers, organized crime, and god knows who else. Under-medicated in an epidemic, who’d a thunk?
So how does this all play in. Connecting dots to find the big picture…..everyone at each other’s throats instead of working together + focusing on the real problem, the DEA who still lies w/ regularity despite pharmacists coming forward to tell of ‘visits’ by DEA agents ordering them how, when, where, and to whom they should fill an Rx. UNWRITTEN RULES FOUND NOWHERE IN STATE FEDERAL OR LAW OR THE DEA’s OWN WEBSITE. Fill only local Rx when it is legal to fill an Rx from ANYWHERE IN THE USA. But they would never do that. Always look for who is to profit by the action/inaction. Pharmacists have nothing to gain but increased scrutiny and a place in the unemployment line or prison for dong ‘whats right’. Despite laws to protect them, whistle blowers, both official and unofficial, are under attack so these pharmacists are brave and moral men. If more do not come forward their profession is going to be in more jeopardy than it is already. They are going to be replaced by bean counting machines. It is a shame as pharmacists were once one of the most respected members of a community. All the lying, profiling, and misinformation given out, it will take years to regain that trust, if ever.
After the first reports, like Geraldo Rivera interviewing Marines at a base surrounded by fields of poppy flowers, you didn’t see much about how a country, Afghanistan could go from almost no opium/heroin production to the world’s largest supplier of them in a matter of a couple yrs. Exhibit A- Soldier apologizing to farmer for destroying some of his crop was offered assistance to compensate him! They say they didn’t want to alienate the population and push them into the arms of the Taliban. Then when that angle got old or debunked they switched to saying Taliban was pressuring farmers to grow poppies. No mention or explanation how a population still living in the stone age could mount operations to transport 80% {?} of the worlds heroin out of the country right under the nose of DEA, CIA, NATO, and Afghanistan’s puppet regime. Pretty clever fellers those Afghans.
The families of these unfortunate addicts like those in the video play the role of pawns in the DEA’s war on drugs and dont even know it. They think they are ‘helping’ save someone like little Johnny.
Personal responsibility is something that needs to be taught from the earliest age. I believe the lack of this one character trait, and its result of blaming someone, something, somewhere for their problem other than themselves or their loved ones who knowingly smoked a pill (still cant get over that scene) while taking handfuls of xanax washed down w/ Jack Daniels. BUT it was all these drug diversion pain patients who are at fault and their doctors too.
Timing is everything goes the saying. So it should set off alarm bells the way this game has played out but it is all but ignored by mainstream media. It should be front page news how the country’s surge in heroin related deaths and ODs coincided w/ our occupation of Afghanistan and at the exact same time a new war on opioids left many engaged w/ the health system (even minimally by corrupt doctors) out in the cold w/out their fix. Naturally they do what addicts do. Stop and turn their life around? Uh, no, they seek out a different source on the street HEROIN which just so happened to be available w/ incredible never before seen purity in larger and larger quantities.
Meanwhile the crisis actors(police, healthcare workers, EMTs, church leaders,etc) are seen wrenching their hands and crying over ‘the children’ and the need to get together and beat back this scourge. Enter KoolAid Kolodney and it is plain to see that the drug treatment community was welcoming this shift in paradigm w/ open arms and solutions, they just needed, a scapegoat and oh yeah more funding you understand.
We turn a blind eye over there in Afghanistan, while funding a game of hide and go seek between addicts and cops in the US. I say addicts because most low level ‘dealers’ are just addicts trying to support their habit. But when caught up in the system (a guaranteed outcome just a matter of time for an addict) they can be exploited by the criminal justice/prison Industrial Complex, then the Dept of Defense. DOD?
Yes. mention defense contractors and abuse and American’s minds conjure up thoughts of Halliburton. In actuality some of the worst offenders are DOD contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman. They ’employ’ non-violent drug offenders at minimum security for-profit prisons at roughly .23 per hr. A win win for everyone except the American taxpayer (recurring theme no?) who foots the bill for costs of incarcerating another citizen who has hurt nobody but himself. Not to mention undercutting American jobs and small business owners by driving down labor and the competing w/ an impossible disadvantage between their costs of doing business.
https://youtu.be/q-5_7Xg9z9M?list=PLLj766JD58Iqhw9O7Zzh0qX7khScTm0r8
So What to do, what to do? Well, the FL BoP, per last meeting on Rx ‘epidemic’ and collateral damage ie: lack of access to needed meds has decided the answer is in setting up a sub-committee and focusing on education! That way addiction and patient access can both be addressed (out of the spotlight) w/out even a suggestion or mention of the DEAs duplicitous and ever increasing corruption,lies, lack of credibility and accountability. You know its bad when other govt agencies and Congress is calling an agency out on incompetence! GAO report and DEAs disregard for direct orders from Congress NOT to appropriate funds for raiding legal MMJ dispensaries in compliance w/ state laws.
Sheeesh what a soap opera..
My solution? De-fund this dinosaur from another era. It is no longer needed, if it ever was.States have the means to enforce laws/rules w/in their health systems. No need for more bureaucracy.
I agree! This documentary was totally irresponsible the first time i watched it when it first came out! The damage this depiction of oxy users far-reaching & despicable! Yes, there are those who’ll do whatever they can to score narcotic scripts but the majority of oxy users are NOT drug abusers!