tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post3652282057545219697..comments2024-03-23T19:16:01.555-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: What happened to give us the opioid epidemic?janinsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-10539635903162137142017-12-01T13:28:45.819-08:002017-12-01T13:28:45.819-08:00And here's the link: https://www.newyorker.com...And here's the link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain<br />Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-39263758878075724352017-12-01T13:28:08.638-08:002017-12-01T13:28:08.638-08:00There was a great article in The New Yorker recent...There was a great article in The New Yorker recently that attempted to shame the Sackler family whose name is on every other museum wing in the world for their deliberate marketing of oxycontin as a harmless painkiller to the medical profession when they knew the actual truth. I hope they are shamed out of public existence.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-26665414379979883102017-12-01T12:08:28.951-08:002017-12-01T12:08:28.951-08:00The problem with opioids is making sure the right ...The problem with opioids is making sure the right people get a prescription. When I had my hysterectomy, I went home with a prescription that had codeine. I didn't take all of it because I didn't need it after a couple of days. People should only get a prescription for an opioid when nothing else works and with chronic very bad pain. If they get one for a broken leg, it should be short term. What bothers me with all of this is that the people who need genuine pain relief will be denied it. It's been, or so it appears, like antibiotics, given out too readily. Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-31447695167410668792017-12-01T10:18:11.844-08:002017-12-01T10:18:11.844-08:00This isn't about the opioid epidemic but today...This isn't about the opioid epidemic but today, World AIDS Day, I wonder what is being done for children left orphaned by AIDS, especially in America. This Huffington Post article is several years old but describes a paltry situation.<br /><br />https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-norwood/yes-america-has-aids-orph_b_184239.html<br /><br /><i>We also have an annual federal allocation of some $2 billion to fund extra support and care for American adults who have AIDS — but the United States has no specific government funding to assist American children orphaned by AIDS or living precariously in families where the parent, usually a single mother, has HIV, the AIDS virus. Some years ago, the Health Resources Service Administration, which administers the annual $2 billion stream which is the main federal money for AIDS, forbade local organizations receiving these funds to use them even to provide grief counseling for children when a parent died. The only exception could be if the child, too, had AIDS. Since most children orphaned by AIDS in the United States — particularly now that treatment can prevent maternal transmission of HIV — do not, themselves, have the virus, this meant only a handful of American orphans would receive support or counseling when their parent died. This ruling provoked one of the few outbursts of advocacy for these children; it was changed to allow “brief grief counseling” on parental death.</i>Brandonnoreply@blogger.com