health crisis

Legally prescribed opioids include Demerol, Dilaudid, Morphine, Codeine, Percocet, OxyCotin, Vicodin & others.

These drugs can cause a physical dependence. This means that a person relies on the drug to prevent withdrawal symptoms. Over time, more of the drug is needed for the same effect. This is called drug tolerance.

Narcotics reduce nerve excitability by reducing pain messages the brain receives.

While painkillers are important treatment in medical care, there is an epidemic of pain medication addiction.

Pain killers have been aggressively marketed by manufacturers since the 1980's.

Year after year, drug companies shipped pain pills in increasingly stronger formulations.

The U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdoses & deaths.

2 million

The increase in abuse has caused a serious outbreak of HIV and Hepatitis.

2016 the FDA required immediate release opioids to carry a warning of risk of abuse, addiction and death.

Now immediate/extended release opioids must provide information regarding Serotonin syndrome, Adrenal insufficiency & Androgen deficiency.

Withdrawl Symptoms: Agitation/confusion, high bp, twitching, sweating, diarrhea, fever, seizure, addiction.

Big pharma has created the crisis and now they are making money selling medicine to treat people harmed by the crisis they created.

Treatments "DRUG CASCADE"

• Buprenorphine
• Naloxone
• Probuphine
• Suboxone
• Vivitrol
• Movantik

Pharma is responsible for it's actions and lies.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). Symptoms babies may have if mothers used addicting drugs during pregnancy. This is often called withdrawl.

neonatal victims experience

• Tremors, hyperactive reflexes, seizures
• Excessive/high pitched crying, sneezing, irritability
• Poor feeding, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, decreased weight gain
• Sweating, fever
• Poor fetal growth, pre-term birth