Saturday, October 24, 2020

Just My Conspiracy Theory

The CDC Pain Guidelines for Primary Care Physicians caused great injury and pain for thousands of patients. The timing of the Opioid Epidemic is suspicious to me. Everything about our nations War on Drugs is about money, always follow the money....

We knew cutting the supply of pain medications to legitimate patients would drive patients to illegal street drugs. We knew street drugs with unknown substances would cause more overdoses.

Anytime we talk about DEA keep in mind that before the "opioid epidemic" 70% of DEA business was marijuana and marijuana is becoming legal.

DEA is a huge agency with 23 domestic field divisions with 222 field offices and 92 foreign offices in 70 countries. DEA has a budget exceeding $3 billion, and employs 10,169 people, including 4,924 Special Agents and 800 Intelligence Analysts.

I think it’s funny how the “opioid epidemic” came along just as DEA was losing the vast majority of their business. We knew that pushing legitimate patients to the streets would increases the need for cartels to smuggle more heroin and fentanyl into the US.

Because of the enormous profits in the drug trade more people were dragged into selling the cartels products. More smugglers, more drug dealers, and more "criminals" for DEA to arrest. The cartels drugs with unknown substances cause more overdoses that prove the need for more money for more enforcement and the war on drugs continues.

We know a small percentage of people will always abuse drugs or alcohol for emotional reasons. But people will continue to become injured or suffer painful disease and there will always be an increasing number of people who suffer chronic intractable pain looking for pain relief creating customers for pain management physicians or cartels. It's our choice because we know prohibition doesn't work.



Sunday, October 18, 2020

We keep Telling Them Prohibition Doesn't Work .. Now Meth is Back Because of ADD Meds

 It's simple prohibition doesn't work. 

The CDC Pain Guidelines for Family Practice physicians set off the opioid crisis. Causing pain patients to be cut off and left to suffer or turn to the street. 

Mexican cartels picked up the slack and now we have Fentanyl that's 50-100 times more potent than Morphine.

Many of these patients like the pain patients affected by the opioid crisis and cut off their medications will turn to the street. Sadly there is no quality control and who knows what they get when buying from drug dealers rather than their pharmacy.  

Now physicians are cutting patients off or refusing to prescribe ADD medications for patients who have done well on their medications for many years.

Again Mexican cartels will pick up the slack making tons of meth in days. Where I live they stopped a car with 90 Pounds of Meth, it was worth 3.9 million dollars. Another recent traffic stop netted 2200 pounds of meth in Phoenix. Big dent in the cartels business, right?

That 3.9 million works out to $43,333 a pound. One Mexican cartel meth lab produces 7 Tons Every 3 Days thats 14,000 pounds of meth every 3 days. 

That works out to $606,662,000 every 3 days. Multiply that by the number of meth labs the cartels have and you're talking billions of dollars. Only 10 labs would produce 6 billion dollars every 3 days, rounding it off it still works out to 600,000,000,000 that's six hundred billion dollars a year.... 

Now let's add all the profits from Fentanyl, Heroin, Cocaine, and Marijuana and see why we're loosing the war on drugs...