1-in-5 Ohioans say a family member has struggled with opioid addiction

[EvilCat Breath]

The number sounds low.

In any event, it's good that Trump has made this such a high priority.

Cutting Medicaid and ending the ACA will surely help.

You mean we should pay for opioids for addicts? Is that what you are trying to say? Dayum. $#@!s want tax payers to buy birth control. Now addicts want tax payer funded dope. What's next? A martini fund for alcoholics. If Trump ended this, good for him.

[Mini Me]

Under the new law, its really hard to get any opiod.
I fractured my vertebrae a few months ago and was prescribed hydocodone(Norco). You have to account for every pill, and have to sign a notice that you will do it.

[Hoosier8]

After my heart surgery I was given opioids. I threw them away before I took one. My wife and I refuse to take them,

My nephew had physical problems in the Military and think he got hooked there. Iraq vet. Very talented young man that drugs destroyed. Died at 44 from an overdose.

[Dr. Who]

I don't recall the specifics but opiods are needed for certain types of pain and for others are no better than Advil or Tylenol. If you actually need opiods you do not get high from them, you just don't feel the pain. Doctors need to monitor patients and tapper them off properly. Most tapper too fast or not at all.

Opiods make me sick to my stomach if I don't have enough pain for them, so it is very easy for me to know when to stop taking them. And stockpile the left overs if I need them later.

Hubby was prescribed opioids for years but he hated them. They made him feel sick. He went cold turkey after 10 years of opioid consumption and the doctors didn't understand why he wasn't hospitalized for the withdrawal. He told them it was because he hated them from the first pill and couldn't wait to be rid of them.

[Common]

The number sounds low.

In any event, it's good that Trump has made this such a high priority.

Cutting Medicaid and ending the ACA will surely help.

Funny you mentioned trump and not Obama whos adminstration presided over 8 yrs of the opiod epidemic could you explain to us what steps Obama took in his 8 full years to curb the epidemic, did he even acknowledge there was one ?

[Common]

Finally Drs have been stopped from over prescribing Opiods, in Fla Rick Scott put into place state laws that monitor dr prescriptions and limits them. Family Drs dont prescribe opiods anymore, and refer you instead to Pain Drs who are also monitored and restricted. Surgeons and Oral Surgeons limit the amount of tablets they give after surgeries now.

All good steps to curb the legal prescription end. But as long as we have a wide open border illegal drugs will flourish in this country

[Captdon]

Funny you mentioned trump and not Obama whos adminstration presided over 8 yrs of the opiod epidemic could you explain to us what steps Obama took in his 8 full years to curb the epidemic, did he even acknowledge there was one ?

Of course not. This is just Alexa trolling.

[Common Sense]

Funny you mentioned trump and not Obama whos adminstration presided over 8 yrs of the opiod epidemic could you explain to us what steps Obama took in his 8 full years to curb the epidemic, did he even acknowledge there was one ?

Obama calls for more funds, new attitude to fight opioid epidemic

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN0WV07S

[countryboy]

Obama calls for more funds, new attitude to fight opioid epidemic


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN0WV07S

Isn't he about 10 years late?

[DGUtley]

Obama calls for more funds, new attitude to fight opioid epidemic https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN0WV07S

Isn't he about 10 years late?

Time to think out of the box, regardless of who's idea it is. We are losing people b/c of this. Kudo's to Obama for saying something.