I just happened to stumble on to this streaming video – I think that it was on A&E.
It is the usual sad stories about a number of popular/infamous individuals.
One thing that one thing that was addressed as THREE PHASES of the FENTANYL ODs
The FIRST PHASE – was 1999 -2010 – which dovetailed into the Federal law of The Decade of Pain Law. Which Congress passed and it strongly encouraged practitioners to adequately treat pain. The Joint Commission – that accredits hospitals – made pain managed a MAJOR STANDARD for the hospitals to meet with pts in the hospitals they credentialed. Suddenly – PAIN – became THE FIFTH VITAL SIGN. Hospitals were required to have surveys of discharged pts to see if their pain was properly management.
When the law expired, the political majority of Congress had FLIPPED, the law was not renewed. The FIFTH VITAL SIGN DISAPPEARED, pain was no longer considered as a major standard for hospitals credentialed by Joint Commission to meet.
President Obama had just come to office and Rick Scott soon after became Governor of FL and Pam Bondi became FL Attorney General, and the WAR ON DRUGS took a quantum leap forward.
Here is one of Pam Bondi’s 2014 FL AG re-election campaign ads and how in her first term – she ran all the “Oxy-docs ” out of Florida.
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