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Liczba zgonów w USA wywołanych przedawkowaniem narkotyków przeciwbólowych (t.j. OxyContin czy Vicodin) już w 2008 roku przekroczyła liczbę zgonów spowodowanych wypadkami drogowymi.

Prescription painkillers overtake car crashes as leading cause of accidental death in America

Prescription painkillers have topped car accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., according to a new report. Research by the National Center for Health Statistics show that drug poisoning is now a more common way to go than being killed on the road.

It follows recent celebrity deaths from painkillers, including Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith. Prescription painkillers are now so popular in the U.S. that there has been a spike in armed robberies at pharmacies and some chemists are refusing to stock them.

The number of robberies has surged by 82 per cent since 2006, from 385 to 701 last year, with 3,500 pharmacies targeted by those desperate to get their hands on the drugs, according to Digg.com. Doctors are also struggling to keep up with the demand for the pills. One third of all Americans take two or more prescription drugs, most commonly narcotics. Without painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, minor aches and pains feel considerably worse for people addicted and withdrawal symptoms include depression, anxiety, and lethargy.

Painkillers overtook car accidents as the leading cause of death back in 2008 but a report detailing the information has only just come out this month. It shows that the number of people dying from the pills has tripled since 1980, while the number of car accidents has dropped by one-and-a-half times since that year. In 2008, 41,000 Americans died from drug poisoning - 77 per cent of which were not intentional - compared to 38,000 road deaths. Between 1999 and 2008, the poisoning death rate increased by 90 per cent, while the road deaths decreased by 15 per cent.

dalej: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/articl.....erica.html

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How They Can Brainwash You in a Psych Ward: Power of Psychiatric Drugs to Cause Homicidal Behavior and Damage the Brain

In the wake of the Batman murders, there is much speculation about what psychiatric drugs James Holmes may have been taking. People are realizing, as never before, the power of these drugs to cause homicidal behavior and damage the brain.

In the case of the Marine, Brandon Raub, the “Facebook thought criminal” who was recently held against his will in a lockup and threatened with the drugs, we see how easy it is for the government to kidnap a citizen and subject him to Soviet-style incarceration.

Washington’s Blog, linked through infowars, has presented a compelling round-up of the reality of forced psychiatric care in America. It is clear that the federal government, on the vaguest of pretexts, can override state laws and put people in psych wards.

In the early 1990s, while researching the extension of the CIA MKULTRA (mind control) program, I had occasion to interview people who had been placed in mental institutions.

This article is derived from their testimony, from numerous articles about the horrendous medical torture at two California prisons, Atascadero and Vacaville, and from Jessica Mitford’s landmark 1974 book, Kind and Usual Punishment.

The October 9, 1970, issue of Medical World News contained an article, “Scaring the Devil Out,” which revealed the use of a drug called succinylcholine at the Atascadero hospital for the criminally insane, and at the Vacaville Medical Facility. Succinylcholine (and a later drug, prolixin) were administered in a dosage “sufficient to induce general paralysis and respiratory arrest lasting up to two minutes.”

In a state of complete terror, the inmates would be lectured to by doctors, who told them they had to change their unacceptable behavior.

There is no essential difference between early basic CIA MKULTRA methods and the worst practices of psychiatrists in mental lockups. They both involve: isolation, duress, force, torture, and drugging.

czytaj dalej: http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/08/28/how-t.....the-brain/

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DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS UP FOR 11TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

CHICAGO (AP) — Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines.

"The big picture is that this is a big problem that has gotten much worse quickly," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which gathered and analyzed the data.

In 2010, the CDC reported, there were 38,329 drug overdose deaths nationwide. Medicines, mostly prescription drugs, were involved in nearly 60 percent of overdose deaths that year, overshadowing deaths from illicit narcotics.

The report appears in Tuesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.

It details which drugs were at play in most of the fatalities. As in previous recent years, opioid drugs — which include OxyContin and Vicodin — were the biggest problem, contributing to 3 out of 4 medication overdose deaths.

Frieden said many doctors and patients don't realize how addictive these drugs can be, and that they're too often prescribed for pain that can be managed with less risky drugs.

dalej: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/drug-overdose-deaths-11th-consecutive-year

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Painkiller addictions worst drug epidemic in US history

Fatal overdoses have reached epidemic levels, exceeding those from heroin and cocaine combined, according to the CDC

Prescriptions for painkillers in the United States have nearly tripled in the past two decades and fatal overdoses reached epidemic levels, exceeding those from heroin and cocaine combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

At the same time, the first-ever global analysis of illicit drug abuse published this month by The Lancet, a British medical journal, found that addictions to heroin and popular painkillers, including Vicodin and OxyContin, kill the most people and cause the greatest health burden, compared to illicit drugs such as marijuana and cocaine.

dalej: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/20.....nause.html

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Composing Only 5% of the World Population, Americans Take 50% of All Pharmaceutical Drugs

While Americans comprise only 5 percent of the world population, we consume an incredible 50 percent of Big Pharma’s drugs, as explained in Jeff Hays’ documentary film, Doctored. Make no mistake. These drugs are meant to keep us imprisoned in poor health, not heal us. It’s time to kick the drug habit America. Tell the drug pushers – Merck, Pfizer, Novartis, Roche, GlaxoSmith Kline, Abbott, Astra-Zeneca, Amgen, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Sanofi (along with the FDA and CDC) that you are going cold turkey, and learn what true health really means

Sadly, Americans are more familiar with names like Abilify, Nexium, Humira, Plavix, Crestor, Advair Diskus, Enbrel, and Cymbalta, the top selling drugs of Big Pharma, than names like Aloe barbadensis, Curcuma longa, Allium sativum, Moringa oleifera, Vitis vinifera L, all indigenous plants that have healed millions around the world.

You’ve likely heard the phrase before – just a dozen huge corporations are keeping Americans popping pills while they rake in billions, but have you really thought of what these numbers translate into, in terms of real health?

Annual sales for just one drug, Humira, was $9.3 billion. That puts Abott squarely at the top of the list as one of the most successful drug companies of all time.

dalej: http://naturalsociety.com/composing-5-pe.....cal-drugs/

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Big Pharma Kills more People than Illegal Drugs

Teenagers are at greater risk of overdosing on prescription drugs than they are on illicit ones, states the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on their website, citing deaths relating to pharmaceutical drugs averaged at a rough estimate of 23,000 in 2013. It’s a disproportionate effect that has a worrying trend, where anxiety related issues in teenagers are the propelling reason for the drug abuse.

Drugs such as OxyContin are now more likely to kill people than Heroin. Tricyclic Antidepressants are also more likely to kill, due to the ignorance in the community of the dangers of these pharmaceutical prescriptions. The aggressive advertising by drug companies are considered in this study to be a large part of the blame, mass marketing their availability to parents and children with the message of safety and benefits outweighing the risks.

“Teens need help before they reach these tipping points for prescription drug abuse. Adults spotting teens with very high levels of anxiety and at least moderate use of other restricted substances should realize that these are students with a high likelihood of prescription drug abuse. Male teens with a high need to be popular and teens in general appear to be at exceptional risk. Campaigns must target parents as well, since they clearly underestimate both the physical risks of prescription drugs and the likelihood that their children will abuse these drugs,” concluded the authors of the study conducted into the use of prescription drugs to combat anxiety related issues

źródło: http://anonhq.com/big-pharma-kills-people-illegal-drugs/

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Surge in opioid epidemic death rate continues, hitting 2.5-fold increase
Drug deaths shift from opioid painkillers to heroin and synthetics, such as fentanyl.

Opioid’s deadly grip on the US continued to tighten in 2015, pushing up death rates across the board, according to new data released Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Overall, drug overdose deaths rose to 16.3 per 100,000 in 2015—that’s 2.5 times the 1999 rate of 6.1 per 100,000. In that time range, increases were seen for both men and women, as well as across all age groups and races, with whites seeing the most dramatic increases. Generally, overdoses of opioid painkillers continued to be a leading killer, but heroin and synthetic opioids, such as deadly fentanyl, are behind an increasing number of deaths.
Drug overdose deaths rose 43 percent in Hispanic persons, 63 percent among blacks, and 240 percent in whites.

Among the age groups, the hardest hit is the 45-to-54 group. While all age groups saw increases in death, the 55-to-64 group saw the biggest increase, with a five-fold jump since 1999.

reszta: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/.....-increase/

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142 osoby dziennie umierają w USA w wyniku przedawkowania opioidów. Trump ogłasza narodowy alert 11.08.2017 PAP

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Prezydent USA Donald Trump ogłosił w czwartek Narodowy Alert Medyczny z powodu epidemii uzależnień od opioidów, w tym syntetycznych środków przeciwbólowych wydawanych na receptę. Przedawkowanie opioidów jest w USA każdego dnia przyczyną śmierci 142 osób.

Ogłoszenie przez prezydenta alertu z powodu tego kryzysu pozwoli władzom lokalnym w społecznościach, w których poziom uzależnienia od opioidów jest szczególnie alarmujący, na korzystanie z federalnego Funduszu Pomocy w Sytuacjach Kryzysowych (Disaster Relief Fund) tak jak w przypadku ogłoszenia klęski żywiołowej na terenach dotkniętych powodzią czy huraganem.

Decyzja prezydenta zniesie lokalne i stanowe ograniczenia w próbach rozwiązywania kryzysu, zwiększy nakłady federalne na profilaktykę i leczenie odwykowe oraz na zakup i negocjowanie z producentami niższych cen leków łagodzących skutki przedawkowania opioidów i opiatów, m.in. narkotyków takich jak opium, morfina czy heroina.

Według danych ministerstwa zdrowia tylko w 2015 r. z powodu zażywania opioidów i opiatów zmarły w Stanach Zjednoczonych 52 tys. osób. Kryzys uzależnienia od opioidów dotknął w USA wszystkie grupy majątkowe i wiekowe. Pod koniec lipca amerykańską opinię publiczną poruszył zgon z powodu przedawkowania opioidów 22-letniego Maxa Barry'ego, syna burmistrzyni miasta Nashville, w stanie Tennessee, Megan Barry.

O ogłoszenie przez prezydenta Narodowego Alertu Medycznego zabiegała powołana przez Trumpa specjalna Prezydencka Komisja ds. Walki z Uzależnieniem od Narkotyków i Kryzysem Opioidowym (Presidential Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and Opioid Crisis) w swoim wstępnym raporcie. Dokument ten był omawiany podczas spotkania członków komisji z prezydentem we wtorek.

Trump, który podczas kampanii wyborczej często mówił o kryzysie opioidowym, w swoim w projekcie budżetu na rok 2018 zaproponował wydatki w wysokości 27,8 mld. dolarów na profilaktykę, leczenie odwykowe i walkę z przemytem narkotyków oraz uzależniających środków przeciwbólowych, takich jak opioidy. Z tej kwoty Biały Dom planuje przeznaczyć 1,3 mld. wyłącznie na profilaktykę i leczenie odwykowe osób uzależnionych od opioidów.
Do tej pory administracja Trumpa w swoich działaniach zmierzających do opanowania epidemii koncentrowała się nie na tych dwóch aspektach, które dotyczą m.in. wielu uzależnionych weteranów wojen w Iraku i w Afganistanie, ale na ściganiu przestępstw związanych z przemytem i nielegalną sprzedażą opioidów i opiatów.

Prokurator generalny i minister sprawiedliwości USA Jeff Sessions w ubiegłym miesiącu poinformował o utworzeniu specjalnej jednostki, która zajmie się wykrywaniem oszustw i nadużyć związanych z dystrybucją narkotycznych środków przeciwbólowych, takich jak opioidy.

Ogłoszenie w czwartek Narodowego Alertu Medycznego zbiega się z doniesieniami mediów, które informują, iż zdaniem funkcjonariuszy Agencji do Walki z Narkotykami (Drug Enforcement Administration) meksykańska mafia narkotykowa rozpoczęła produkcję swojego własnego fentanylu - szczególnie silnego opioidu. Powodujący szybkie uzależnienie fentanyl (zwany także fentanilem) jest zdaniem farmakologów 15 razy silniejszy od heroiny i nawet stukrotnie silniejszy od morfiny. Do tej pory fentanyl szmuglowany przez meksykańskie kartele narkotykowe i sprzedawany w Stanach Zjednoczonych na czarnym rynku pochodził głównie z Chin.

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