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It’s a dangerous thing to trust experts from the government. I’d think one of the first things Fuacci should have done was declared the partnership of his team and the Chinese in Wuhan, what they were working on, symptoms to watch for and a plan to address any outbreaks. Instead, we got the sh-t storm that followed. But I do agree, credit Trump for basically saving the country.

Good Lord.

What would your new path look like?

I hate that it went down like this, but someone had to lose. It’s the politics of contraband, It’s the smuggler’s blues.

No more so than usual. Lighten up a bit.

No need to get upset. The issues with opioids and all that go with them are well known and well documented. People have different tolerances and the lightning in the bottle worked better for you than others.

That’s probably why we had the issue. One guy faces pain and trauma head on, the other wants to get looped. Glad it worked for you though.

The problem is multi-faceted, but often the doctor shopper was hooked by a trusted medical professional who sold out for the money, or didn’t follow the trends and problems that in retrospect seems pretty obvious. Kudos to the good docs who avoided this whole mess. My dentist and I were speaking about this one day—he had torn an ACL or had some other knee issue, and his doc wrote some obscene amount of pills for pain. Can’t recall dosage but he got something like 25 pills in the prescription. He was stunned…and that was one script, one time long after I as a layman understood there was a problem. In the end, I we likely dealt with the tip of the iceberg worst offenders, and the finger being pointed at pharma gave offending physicians a finger to point away from themselves.

That’s because the walls be a’closin!

Absolutely, though what was amazing was the scope of the problem and how it snuck up on the medical profession. Just goes to show when you put a profit motive out there it often just comes back to $$$. At the same time though, I’m certain there are more than a few family members of addicts living and dead wishing the doc who got their family members hooked had gotten the blowed up treatment before they ever suggested/prescribed anything.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/opioids-doctors-prescriptions-payments/ all too familiar a problem.

See, this is how we learn and grow together. Thank you.

You seem profoundly concerned about this, but I used a hashtag. The guy is obviously a legophobe.

Where are you getting this? The one and only man ever capable of corruption in Ukraine was forced out of power in an heroic act that may have maybe possibly coincidentally occasionally had some benefits for other people. That happened years ago.

Or, they are really tiny people and ate on a Lego table. #perspective All are welcome, all are loved.