Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "How the Government is Making the Opioid Crisis Worse" video.

  1. Pushing those who suffer chronic pain from a doctors care to the underground heroin market is not an unintended consequence of short-sighted legislation. The people who brought and pushed through the reforms to pain med availability were fully aware what the consequences would be.  A primer in clear thinking follows: Who controls the government? Those who provide the candidates for office with the money necessary to be elected. Who provides this money? Mostly the financial and banking industries and a few very rich families that make massive political contributions in order to buy the legislation they want. If you haven't noticed it doesn't matter one bit whether a democrat of republican wins any particular election in the US. In either case the same people are still calling the shots. And they basically operate out of the reptilian brain. Who would profit from pushing those dependent on opioids into buying illegal drugs? These same banking interests. Why is that so?  Who do you think launders (20 -50% ) and invests the billions of dollars made by the major criminal organizations? When these changes were open to discussion before they were put through, expert after expert testified that exactly what has happened would happen: suicide, and an illegal drug epidemic. It may seem harsh, but personally I do not care one bit about the individuals people who die from drug use. I think it is stupid to continually revive and care for those who OD. Let them die, it's an easy way to go, in many cases death by opioids is like an angel of mercy from their horrendous lives and act as a sort of Darwinian disposal method for society as a whole. Of course if these drugs were decriminalized and the people were actually cared about by our society they could easily live a normal life while using. In fact the example of Portugal (and other countries that take reality into consideration) have proven that their policies actually causes a decrease in drug use. Even the use of marijuana has decreased among teenagers in the Netherlands since it was legalized, and eventually the same will happen in the states in the USA that have same laws concerning it. It just won't be cool because it isn't edgy any longer and doesn't represent a revolutionary or risky act.
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  2. Bertha you have bought into a narrative that is faulty from the get go. It has been proven time and time again that repressive laws do not diminish the use of drugs at all. In countries that have the death penalty for drug use -- drugs are still used illegally and always will be. In countries that have decriminalized the use of drugs and treatment is centered around health issues and not criminal issues the use of drugs decreases. Those are the facts and anyone who disputes them is either ignorant of the truth concerning this issue, or is making money from the draconian system that we have been bamboozled into. Got that? Probably not. Try reading what you are replying to and actually fact checking before knee-jerking.
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  3. Obviously you have no idea at all what you are talking about. To bad that people as immune from facts as you are are not intelligent enough to realize what a fool you are. Anybody who you don't agree with is a criminal dope dealer. . . you are an idiot and a fool and the kind of person who is leading to the degradation of our culture with you knee jerk reactions which you think are the equal to actual investigation and research into unbiased resources.
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  4. Pushing those who suffer chronic pain from a doctors care to the underground heroin market is not an unintended consequence of short-sighted legislation. The people who brought and pushed through the reforms to pain med availability were fully aware what the consequences would be.  A primer in clear thinking follows: Who controls the government? Those who provide the candidates for office with the money necessary to be elected. Who provides this money?  Mostly the financial and banking industries and a few very rich families that make massive political contributions in order to buy the legislation they want.If you haven't noticed it doesn't matter one bit whether a democrat of republican wins any particular election in the US. In either case the same people are still calling the shots. And they basically operate out of the reptilian brain. Who would profit from pushing those dependent on opioids into buying illegal drugs? These same banking interests. Why is that so? Who do you think launders (20 -50% ) and invests the billions of dollars made by the major criminal organizations? When these changes were open to discussion before they were put through, expert after expert testified that exactly what has happened would happen: suicide, and an illegal drug epidemic. It may seem harsh, but personally I do not care one bit about the individuals people who die from drug use. I think it is stupid to continually revive and care for those who OD. Let them die, it's an easy way to go, in many cases death by opioids is like an angel of mercy from their horrendous lives and act as a sort of Darwinian disposal method for society as a whole. Of course if these drugs were decriminalized and the people were actually cared about by our society they could easily live a normal life while using. In fact the example of Portugal (and other countries that take reality into consideration) have proven that their policies actually causes a decrease in drug use. Even the use of marijuana has decreased among teenagers in the Netherlands since it was legalized, and eventually the same will happen in the states in the USA that have same laws concerning it. It just won't be cool because it isn't edgy any longer and doesn't represent a revolutionary or risky act.
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  5. Berth -- any idiot can say anything on youtube. All you have proved here is that your a moron undeserving of any further response.
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