Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Johnson & Johnson fined $572M in landmark opioid crisis trial" video.

Those of us with chronic pain are being killed by the DEA because it's getting harder and harder to get the pain medication that allows us to lead a normal life. The "opioid crisis" is not being caused by people who need these life saving drugs. It's coming from China and illegal drug labs. Since the DEA seems to be totally incapable of stopping those sources of supply to street users, they attack those of us with chronic, debilitating pain, threaten doctors with losing their licenses if they don't get us off opioids regardless of the consequences to their patients, and declare victory. This whole thing is nothing but a moral panic, and everyone from President Trump on down is buying into it. .
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@turnne Really? Tell me about those "standard drugs". Give me some names. Of course narcotics get you habituated. That's how they work. It's a choice between sitting in a chair or layinging in bed all day because the pain is so bad you can't do any normal activities or being habituated. People like me don't have to turn to the streets, at least not yet. The ones getting narcotics on the street, and it's mostly heroin and fentanyl, do so to get high. The only effect I get from narcotics is enough pain relief to make life tolerable. When we can no longer get enough narcotics for effective pain relief we'll just die from things like pneumonia and general wasting. That's part of the plan. The more of us who die, the longer Social Security and Medicare will last.
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@turnne You really have no idea about chronic acute pain, do you? Anyone with insurance will continue to get any narcotics prescribed by a doctor paid for. That''s not an issue at all. Where did you even come up with that idea? The problem is the constant pressure being placed on doctors by the DEA and their own liability insurance carriers to take their patients off narcotics regardless of the patient's subjective reporting of pain. If some people turn ot illegal sources, it won't be because of addiction, it will because of unbearable pain. That's the difference between addiction and habituation. Addicts want to get high. Habituated chronic pain patients want to be able to stand up or turn their neck without excruciating pain. As I wrote in my original comment, narcotics cause habituation in chronic pain patients. It's the way narcotics work. That's not the same as people who have the disease of addiction with no other medical condition.
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