TIME Magazine Photojournalism As You Seldom See Today.
March 5 Issue is "The Opioid Diaries" and is the entire issue. Full of photos and no other content covering other topics. Quite a statement.
How about a link, if we're going to talk about pictures, let's see pictures.
Hard to link to a printed magazine that just came in the mail.
As much press as mass shootings are getting, this is one area where so many lives are being senselessly lost that could be saved with proper oversight and governance. It's beyond me that we have fought a war on drugs and yet one of the most devastating drugs is being manufactured and sold legally.
SteveR wrote:
As much press as mass shootings are getting, this is one area where so many lives are being senselessly lost that could be saved with proper oversight and governance. It's beyond me that we have fought a war on drugs and yet one of the most devastating drugs is being manufactured and sold legally.
I've read a lot about this epidemic recently. And that's what it is. An epidemic. The problem originated with the big pharmaceuticals. They pushed the product on physicians with what basically amount to bribes to push the product on patients. Very addictive products and very profitable for Big Pharm and doctors with lower ethics. The number of doctors in my area who have been charged with crimes and lost their license is incredible. They're basically known as "Pill Farms" even if most is injected. Get a patient addicted and you have repeat business. Everybody is making money except the ones who are dying from an overdose. Disgusting.
SteveR wrote:
As much press as mass shootings are getting, this is one area where so many lives are being senselessly lost that could be saved with proper oversight and governance. It's beyond me that we have fought a war on drugs and yet one of the most devastating drugs is being manufactured and sold legally.
A health and welfare problem the world over.
SteveR wrote:
As much press as mass shootings are getting, this is one area where so many lives are being senselessly lost that could be saved with proper oversight and governance. It's beyond me that we have fought a war on drugs and yet one of the most devastating drugs is being manufactured and sold legally.
We've also had a "War on Poverty" and look how good that has turned out.
SteveR wrote:
As much press as mass shootings are getting, this is one area where so many lives are being senselessly lost that could be saved with proper oversight and governance. It's beyond me that we have fought a war on drugs and yet one of the most devastating drugs is being manufactured and sold legally.
Yep. America is addicted to Vicodin. It’s insidiously evil... even more so because Big Pharma/Big Med “legitimizes” it. But so is tobacco evil, yet for very different reasons.
It all comes down to one word, guns included.... impulse.
SteveR wrote:
As much press as mass shootings are getting, this is one area where so many lives are being senselessly lost that could be saved with proper oversight and governance. It's beyond me that we have fought a war on drugs and yet one of the most devastating drugs is being manufactured and sold legally.
Absolutely agree.
I travel regularly, and I'm also amazed when I get back to the US and find EVEN MORE drug advertising on TV... It doesn't happen anywhere else in the World (most countries restrict advertising to over-the-counter drugs).
If the drug companies took just one month of that advertising budget and gave that to an EMT and LEO supported Charitable Medical Facility to take the initiative in treatment and reviewing the "why's and how's?" of people descending into and then climbing out of this addiction epidemic, then just maybe, we'd start to see a way out of this crisis? If nothing else, it would probably fund the treatment for a thousand or more human beings in crisis, which would be a damn sight better use of that advertising money, than trying to convince me every 10 minutes that I have some obscure disease and need to tell my doctor to prescribe for me some even more obscure drug?
How can we help people over their need to self-medicate with something, anything, when every other advert (I swear on some channels it's more than 50%!) we see on TV is counselling us to ask for a drug to immediately, painlessly fix our problem?
dirtpusher wrote:
It all comes down to one word, guns included.... impulse.
A random seemingly mindless shooting might be an impulse. Getting addicted to a doctor prescribed pain reliever is hardly an impulse. It takes time.
pounder35 wrote:
A random seemingly mindless shooting might be an impulse. Getting addicted to a doctor prescribed pain reliever is hardly an impulse. It takes time.
To take the drugs are impulse. Takes 30 minutes to make up thier mind if they like them.
BB4A wrote:
Absolutely agree.
I travel regularly, and I'm also amazed when I get back to the US and find EVEN MORE drug advertising on TV... It doesn't happen anywhere else in the World (most countries restrict advertising to over-the-counter drugs).
If the drug companies took just one month of that advertising budget and gave that to an EMT and LEO supported Charitable Medical Facility to take the initiative in treatment and reviewing the "why's and how's?" of people descending into and then climbing out of this addiction epidemic, then just maybe, we'd start to see a way out of this crisis? If nothing else, it would probably fund the treatment for a thousand or more human beings in crisis, which would be a damn sight better use of that advertising money, than trying to convince me every 10 minutes that I have some obscure disease and need to tell my doctor to prescribe for me some even more obscure drug?
How can we help people over their need to self-medicate with something, anything, when every other advert (I swear on some channels it's more than 50%!) we see on TV is counselling us to ask for a drug to immediately, painlessly fix our problem?
Absolutely agree. br br I travel regularly, and ... (
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Ban drug advertising just like happened to tobacco products years ago. I'm not talking about baby aspirin. I'm talking about prescription drugs. The ones that tell you to ask your doctor about so and so and then spend half of the commercial talking about the side effects. Your left eyeball might fall out. One leg might get shorter than the other. You might experience puss in your stool. If you experience any of these problems stop taking this drug and consult your doctor right away. What bullshit. It's as bad as the personal injury ambulance chasers. Need to go back to banning attorneys from advertising on TV.
pounder35 wrote:
Ban drug advertising just like happened to tobacco products years ago. I'm not talking about baby aspirin. I'm talking about prescription drugs. The ones that tell you to ask your doctor about so and so and then spend half of the commercial talking about the side effects. Your left eyeball might fall out. One leg might get shorter than the other. You might experience puss in your stool. If you experience any of these problems stop taking this drug and consult your doctor right away. What bullshit. It's as butd as the personal injury ambulance chasers. Need to go back to banning attorneys from advertising on TV.
Ban drug advertising just like happened to tobacco... (
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But then we won't know how much more dangerous they are than the original ailment.
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