GOP Medicaid cuts would hit states fighting opioid epidemic

[guno]

They are going to kill off their cracka goyim flyover trailer dwelling rube base





The Republican drive to roll back Barack Obama's health care law is on a collision course with a national opioid epidemic that's not letting up.

Medicaid cuts resulting from the GOP legislation would hit hard in states deeply affected by the addiction crisis and struggling to turn the corner, according to state data and concerned lawmakers in both parties.

The House health care bill would phase out expanded Medicaid, which allows states to provide federally backed insurance to low-income adults previously not eligible. Many people in that demographic are in their 20s and 30s and dealing with opioid addiction. Dollars from Washington have allowed states to boost

GOP Medicaid cuts would hit states fighting opioid epidemic

 

[Old Rocks]

And, of course, since the fat senile old orange clown is going to supply all those tens of thousands of coal mining jobs, they cut the funds for retraining the coal miners.

 

[guno]

They only care about zygotes and fetuses

http://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/...bies-lifetime-outcomes-valley-view/414018001/





The disabled will pay for the GOP’s Medicaid cuts

 

[RodISHI]

Apparently the druggies and those hooked on pharmaceuticals will have to find a new source for pain relief (whether it is real or perceived pain). They should be allowed to grow their own poppies and weed; no selling it or using it while working or driving but just for their own use it shouldn't be illegal.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Guano says the war on drugs must be ramped up.

 

[RodISHI]

They only care about zygotes and fetuses

Medicaid cuts will hurt babies' lifetime outcomes: Neonatologists





The disabled will pay for the GOP’s Medicaid cuts

Why should the taxpayer pay for druggies to drug babies that they may have or could have taken care of by using a day after pill prior to getting to that full pg stage?

 

[RodISHI]

Guano says the war on drugs must be ramped up.

Sure its all those "goyims" yet he hasn't got it figured out yet that is what he/she is yet regardless of what he/she claims to be.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Guano says the war on drugs must be ramped up.

Sure its all those "goyims" yet he hasn't got it figured out yet that is what he/she is yet regardless of what he/she claims to be.

Or likely 'it'.

 

[RodISHI]

Guano says the war on drugs must be ramped up.

Sure its all those "goyims" yet he hasn't got it figured out yet that is what he/she is yet regardless of what he/she claims to be.

Or likely 'it'.

Yes I didn't think about being politically correct prior to hitting enter, cuse me....

 

[waltky]

Opioid Overdoses Take Toll on Medical Community...

Opioid Overdoses Take Toll on Medical Community
December 07, 2017 — Within seconds of pulling out of the station parking lot, Major Mike Will gets his first call to respond to a crisis. Wills switches on his lights and siren and picks up the pace.

A thirty-year veteran of the Louisville's emergency medical services, he has witnessed the explosion in opioid overdoses that have ravaged the city over the past two-years. "The information we have right now is a 52-year old adult male who is unconscious, CPR in progress. And it look like an overdose," he tells us. The epidemic is taking a toll on Louisville's first responders who field an average of over 20 overdose calls a day. "When I first started, we could anticipate making narcotic or opioid overdose calls maybe five times a year," he says. "And in the past year or two we have several of our crews that are making five in a 12 or 16 hour shift." As overdoses have steadily risen in cities and small towns across the country, officials have been searching for answers. Louisville reached a crisis point last August, with 151 overdoses over a span of four days.

Doctor on the front lines

Dr. Robert Couch, an emergency room physician and medical director at Louisville's Norton Audubon Hospital, was on call at that time. He saw nine overdoses in five hours. "We have been seeing heroin overdoses for a long time. But what was unusual about this overdose experience was it was taking larger and larger doses of the antidote Naloxone to reverse the effects of it," he says. "So we knew that it wasn't just heroin." Couch had learned of a similar spike in overdose cases in Ohio and West Virginia several weeks earlier. According to toxicology reports, those cases were caused by heroin mixed with Carfentanil, an opioid derivative often known as "the elephant tranquilizer," that is 5,000 times more powerful than heroin. "It is toxic in microgram quantities," says Couch. "And so I suspected what other communities had seen was moving into Louisville at that time."

Paramedics and firefighters treat a man who was found unresponsive on a sidewalk after overdosing on opioids in Everett, Massachusetts​

According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Fentanyl and Carfentanil are synthetic opioids predominantly manufactured in underground laboratories in China. Often sold as research chemicals, they can be bought on the dark web. Cheaper to produce than heroin, they are often delivered to the U.S. through the mail. Dealers then mix the synthetics with their heroin to boost profits. The results are often deadly. "Unfortunately, users don't know what they are getting," says Couch. "Heroin is toxic enough as it is. These other derivatives can cause death almost immediately through respiratory depression."

Posters comparing lethal amounts of heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil, are on display during a news conference at DEA Headquarters in Arlington Va.​

Fentanyl and its derivatives have forced emergency rooms across the country to change their protocols for overdose patients. "A couple of years ago we would start with a very small dose, say 0.4 milligrams of Naloxone and that would be effective," Couch tells us. "That dose has increased to about 2 milligrams and now we are using 4 milligrams of Naloxone just to restore breathing initially." Naloxone can suppress opioids in the body for about 30 minutes, which is long enough to treat a typical heroin overdose. The Fentanyl derivatives are so potent emergency rooms are having to re-dose patients as the Naloxone wears off. "People can re-sedate and be right back in the throes of their overdose even though they have been administered the reversal agent," Couch says.

Fear on the streets

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One Woman's Journey Through Oxycodone Addiction
December 07, 2017 — Before it became the worst day of her life, Allison Norland spread a blanket on the grass outside her father-in–law's house so her infant daughter could crawl on the soft ground. New to motherhood, her first child was a surprise. "I found out when I was six and a half months pregnant, which was unbelievable for me," she said. "Then I went to the hospital, found out I was in labor, obviously still using."

The daughter of an alcoholic, Allison says she has a highly addictive personality. Her drug use started with marijuana when she was 18. "I would start kind of hanging out with my sister and the older crowd and drink, and then the coke [cocaine] started. I was actually dating a man at the time who was selling weed and cocaine. So, easy access I guess," she told us. At 19, she met the man she would eventually marry. He introduced her to Oxycodone, a commonly prescribed, but highly addictive, semi-synthetic opioid. "We started using when we would go out of town to visit his friends and then it kind of proceeded to [finding] some people down where we live who were selling [Oxycodone] and it kind of became more common place," she said.

Allison Norland at The Village Rehabilitation Center in Miami​

After two back-to-back car accidents while driving high, she was sent to a pain doctor for her injuries. "It was straight to 30 milligrams of Oxycodone. I was getting 90 pills a month. That doctor shut down and I went to another doctor and proceeded to 150 pills a month," she said. "I was using every day."

Pain medication

She says the doctors never asked her if she had a history of illegal drug use or had ever abused opioids. Estimates are six out of 10 heroin users on the street started out with pain medication prescribed by a doctor. As the opioid crisis has exploded across the country, the medical community has come under scrutiny for the way they treat pain, and addiction specialists often point a finger directly at the conduct of the medical community. Allison developed what she described as an intense addiction. The birth of her daughter was her wake-up call. Her obvious drug use was called to the attention of child protective services in Miami-Dade County where she lived. She says they almost took her newborn from her. "I was so guilty and so ashamed that I had let that go on as long as I did. But I had her, she was healthy, no withdrawal symptoms, no anything," she said. She stayed clean for seven months. Then tragedy struck. As Allison watched her daughter play on the blanket that day in the back yard, her father-in-law accidentally drove his car off the driveway, striking and killing the little girl.

A women’s therapy session at the Village Rehabilitation Center in Miami​

After seeing her daughter in the hospital for the last time, Allison drove straight to where she knew she could get pills. She says she used every day for the next year. "Every day I pushed the limit further and further because I didn't know how to be anymore, and what to be anymore. To go from being a mom and loving this thing so much, so much more than I love myself, to having her gone and this absence in my heart, it was really hard," she said. The incident left Allison with Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and depression. The years passed in a fog. After an arrest, and time at another rehabilitation facility, Allison was ordered by the court to go to The Village, in Miami Florida, one of several residential and outpatient rehab centers run by Westcare, a non-profit healthcare corporation that specializes in addiction services.

Treating addiction

 

[deanrd]

GOP Medicaid cuts would hit states fighting opioid epidemic

They don't care. Duh! If you have a healthcare policy of "let them die", they will never help anyone except the super rich.