The tariffs cure all?
Stopping the supply of fentanyl garners much headlines, yet no one is talking about the demand for the product? Why are the users wanting to use the drug? Who are they and what is driving the demand? The sociologists are sleeping on the job?
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ā¦ maybe since āour most recent unpleasantnessā when everyone suddenly discovered that āeverything had changedā when actually nothing had changed it was just that having the ādown timeā enabled folks to see what had always been the case.
If you think that things have changed or will change in the near future you may experience, as Yogi Berra once said, āā¦ dĆ©jĆ vu all over again.ā What do I mean? You may have encountered or yourself been one of those who as āour most recent unpleasantnessā came to an end, remarked how shocked they were by how much that āthings had changedā. I think good argument could be made that what they were experiencing instead was not that āthings had changedā but instead, under the stress of encountering unavoidable overwhelming evidence had to admit to themselves that this was how things had in fact always been. For whatever reason(s), prior to our most recent unpleasantness, they either could not see or refused to see how things actually were.
Seeing things āas they actually areā has for a great many obviously become unendurable or unacceptable. Maybe they feel the drugs (this one or any other) at least offer the possibility of some hope of engaging the same ārealityā every day. Just a thought ā¦
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Sam Cooper was recently interviewed about his book āWillful Blindness EXPOSEDā ā about the global Fentanyl money laundering operation.
What Iām finding a bit of a puzzler though: His book is being endorsed by mainstream media, many of which are putting forth positive reviews, and the library systems are stocking his book. The āpuzzlerā for me is that I have seen so much censorship, in the media and the libraries and public institutions in the past few years (i.e., no library around here will stock Dr. Farrellās books, nor will the local bookstores sell them) ā that it makes me wonder why this book is getting recognition? (I have not read the book ā just seen a few interviews of Sam Cooper ā and thus, would have no insight as to what aspect of his book makes it so appealing to the mainstream).
Op Ed: China Voted Against the World on Fentanyl. Days Later, It Announced a Perfunctory Crackdown.
Addiction and incapacity to change their lives?
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It is highly addictive and frequently prescribed by practitioners. The patient finds out how addictive it is when practitioners stop prescribing. That is when the black market comes in. Sadly, so many trust their practiotioners and they should be better informed!
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When I lived in Houston before I left in 2012, a neighbor on disability social security used fentanyl patches for her chronic pain. I had no idea at the time. Years later via a telephone conversation she admitted she was concerned about finding another doctor who would issue her prescription when the fentanyl crackdown occurred.
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That is the problem. For many practiotioners it is just another pain releaver like others, which it isnāt. When I was stil working as a nurse it was prescibed as if it was aspirin!