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.
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