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Become addicts or theyd be sent to. These 6 cases show how wrong those views were. In this little film the public was assured with certification that content would show no risk of addiction despite its high concentration in opium to make it believable a real doctor and real patients witness. That this treatment usually reserved for patients in the terminal phase of cancer can be used without any danger for common pain. They are going to enjoy every day you know you can really enjoy must say i have been on this new pain medication i have not missed one day of work and this medication does not turn you into a zombie it is turned me into an active person again. Whereas addiction is the 1st known risk of an opioid the figures shown by pretty farmer a purely and solely on reliable some patients may be afraid of taking opioids because theyre perceived as too strong or addictive. But that is far from actual fact less than one percent of patients taking opioids actually become addicted. Since 1988 doctors supervise their patients developing addiction and getting this internal memo from the Laboratory Keeps on encouraging us representatives to sell the cost that miracle pill using bonuses premiums and all sorts of gadgets in only 5 years oxycontin went from 600000 prescriptions a year to more than 6000000. Nowadays 30 pharma is the 1st Company Standing its used in the lawsuit filed by the state of oklahoma in order to prove its responsibility the team relies on doc to kalani. In the 1st 6 years of the release of oxycontin produced sponsored 20000 Educational Programs across the United States they gave money to the professional societies to advocate for more opioids the organization that regulates hospitals took money from them the organization that regulates doctors in different states took money from them from all of these Different Directions we were told to prescribe much more the opioid lobby the manufacturers and distributors of opioids spent 880000000 dollars over a 10 year period the walking efforts for more cautious prescribing that they spent 8 times more than the gun lobby in the United States in has spent in trying to block gun regulations. The manufacturers of opiates are spending more money trying to block regulations on all. The nice breads and is disseminated year after year during that time the epidemic takes root hidden in the shadows for so long the addiction of a 1000000 american citizens suddenly comes to light this days with the most people showing up for treatment saying theyre addicted to the pills show up as read. And this is 99. 2001. 2003. 2005200720 extension 09 what you can see is that in every state in the United States weve seen a very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids Big Companies were aware that these pills were dangerous addictive of course and could kill people of course they would yes they were aware before they put out their drug and when the drug started to get prescribed it was very clear early on there was a Public Health problem associated with this so there was overwhelming evidence that the products that were making them rich were killing people. Back and we wanted to find the patients that testified in this that really johnny passed away in 2008 in an accident caused by oxycontin his wife confided he had become addicted to it lauren was addicted for years now shes free if it became addicted and was also found dead of a cardiac arrest 3 patients out of 6 had become addicted as for the doctor who appeared in the film here is his answer. Its not acceptable to say i dont believe in using strong pain medications for chronic pain we need to stop saying this. Is. Just. That we follow it thank you for the mildew we have we love you so much. Over and all my family in jesus christ my prick. Still sticks just to see you here little me chelsea came here a lot but i just feel like shes here with me every time i come here i just feel her presence you know it makes me shine inside we struggle with this whole its a daily thing you gotta let it go people say you have to let it go tell us tell us how you do kind of. If it happened to one person you know ok it was an accident this is 5. Thats right. I mean i dont know what our thinking was i really dont i would like to know what her thinking was how did she think that was helping. Him see was 21 when she passed away the same age as kyle who still struggling for his life. Kylas began his 1st days of therapy at the center. In his struggle against the addiction only speech seems to be the hyper serenity. Ok so what i want to do is look at the stuff that we this morning. Every single one of us through. All of us have. Several of the guys that are in here. Ask its. They got injured dad introduced him to the opiates and whenever they take the opiates they find out hey not only does this make me physically feel better but emotionally i feel better. So what of opiates. Made me feel like a better person. Like id be in the house all day and then once i got high i could go out and do whatever on a new. Everybody else here is dealing with the same thing and you know i can relate to a lot of these people stories and its just. A lot imo i dont feel alone anymore and so. Thats thats going to feel lot better. On day 15 of his treatment col relapsed. One of the patients who brought in heroin secretly. He couldnt resist. After he plunged back he was sent to this facility. Monitored under high surveillance away from his family and son hes following his treatment to be able to go back to the ranch. Ready. Here every fall we thank you for this day look we think this were about to receive we think this is just being on a 4 year stretch with it and i just cant seem to stop and. Yeah its highly addictive. Why is it so hard to be sober because you have pain i guess is just now im so over a half feelings. And. I mean to see how i would just pass out. Or. They maybe. Carried on. For me went to church this morning you know but i got problems. Oh ok. Well its almost 12 so im going to run by and pick up cash and come out there to you so you can spend some time with him. Good luck. To and ill give you a call here after a little bit. By. History on better. His relationship with me his relationship with his brother his relationship with the son carls burned every bridge possible. Even though hes her us the most we so have to be someones to be there for him and we dont theres times that we dont want to so we have to set our feelings aside and support him. I think really the most difficult as far as anger is this of just knowing. All the all these Companies Know what their jobs are doing and they will say it they are so hopeful when the ruling more lives in the world join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see that. Happen panama the pool of guys to my fellow waiter both of whom. Ballack itself in order to see that i. Was in this way got to dog so hard not to think im the mother decided to go but there was a plant that i was and i know this top and i think. This is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. To. The floor and you can feel the fee was out of his will to sort it out the rabbit hole and leave it at about that but i came out on the. What i think is this is the that is accompanied. I think the only time weve ever had any sort of opiates in my house was after my surgery last year. At that time we knew about it way ahead yeah we had those yeah i assured my mom wouldnt let me take care of them i was so scared thats what they prescribe him he had the same exact stuff that my brother got addicted to oxy r. C. Cars. Which the street name for the season and if you actually referred to as heroin according to my brother there even were addicting one and he had legitimate surgery and i freaked out i was like no you cant take these and here he had just had his appendix taken out he needed the hump and i didnt want him taking them because i wasnt going to go through this again. Just like calls family the whole country is in a state of awareness wanting to change things and contain the epidemic. At the Oklahoma University and then seen an aggressive alliance was formed researcher andrew culottes me lawyer ritchie with me and dr jason beam and theyve all gathered to establish a common fight plan against every single laboratory. Case. Dr beaman has created the 1st College Education program with the country on pain killers addiction. And also what provide education to all of the prescribers from dennis starkers about marriage right then and there. We think that there. More to the result you were prescribing than any of our other initiatives i think the overwhelming response has been that the doctors that are graduating now and going out into practice are not person and weve seen over 20 percent decline in a prescription in oklahoma over the last 2 years and my medical students will never be involved in this overprescribing behavior and there are definitely some doctors have knowingly contributed to this problem they saw an opportunity to make money and they went for it but thats thats a very small minority boko haram is department of justice is also trying to stop those who are responsible like one of the richest families in the country the one that funds and controls the purse and hire. Article i wanted to show you that appeared in forbes about the Sackler Family and back in 2015 they had 14 bay and one of the richest families in the United States and theyve sold more than 35000000000. Dollars worth of oxen since it was really just. Heard you farmer was boarded 1952 by the secular brothers. Until then did name was now known to the general public nowadays billionaires and very much appreciated by. Made itself known as the patrons of museums such as the new for the guggenheim but without anyone making the connection between their fortune and their Company Michael barrett intends to make this truth known. Do you think they knew what they were doing sure they knew what they were doing. Theres that they were there would and they pleaded guilty to crimes and for all didnt lead with and knowingly crossing the north of the oxycontin thats resulted in the one thing for sure that they were my. I mean billions of dollars and they didnt hear. In 2007 the company pleaded guilty to the federal accusations of misleading marketing and false advertising condemned they paid over 635000000. 00 in penalties and continue to sell opioids. The sack clothes would never have been able to market this product without authorization the f. D. A. Has to control and regulate every single drug put on the market it authorized the use of oxycontin as a painkiller without a problem. Some of the same f. D. A. Officials involved in regulating the drug. Would wind up leaving f. D. A. And taking higher paying jobs for Purdue Pharma and other Drug Companies we call that the revolving door i think they should have figured out earlier than what was going on and to this day some of these same f. D. A. Officials are still at the f. D. A. And rather than saying we made a horrible mistake we have to change our policies they havent changed their policies they keep approving more opioids. Its a big day for oklahoma the attorney generals teams are facing the lowest of the 4 companies being seated a judge has to rule whether theres enough evidence to go to trial. Approved pharmaceutical after johnson and johnson we sued the ones that we. Did business and falsely marketed in oklahoma my goal was to let the trees come out i really hope this case goes to trial its an enormous amount of money and theyre going to fight for the this is what theyve indicated. To to try to show that they didnt cause us theyre probably going to blame this on doctors and theyre probably going to blame it on people like myself who got sick. Weve probably got at least 20 lawyers already know that they have a insta spend on the fancy billions to spend on lawyers and they have no limit on what theyll spin in these cases and ship lawyer they are here from the east coast and they try other lie as much as they can. It took years of investigation and hearings for the course of history to change but the time to reckoning is common for the 1st time for laboratories will be judged. As being responsible for the crisis. One day i think they would like us to stop. And go away but were not we cant wait to try out may of 2019 were going to tee up for trial and were looking forward to it we believe in our case i believe in our case with every fiber of my being and i look forward to trying this case if i were the 1st case in the nation set for trial and weve been getting calls from other states we will set the precedent off and we will make some history on that matter. Yes history. The lawyers of the full laboratories dutch to us despite our repeated demands for now none of them has accepted to meet with us. They were smiling how does that make you feel. Bad for my party didnt see him much or. Thats a better answer to that other. Phase them out. Never. And that was. All. I dont know what spin of all. Since you were boyish. Are scared to get him hooked on drugs you know. Thats my biggest worry are now approaching that i think. Its been 3 months since cali integrated the ranch told his dad he is coming to an end he now has to leave find a new routine where paying calloused dont exist. Now that im sober an awful lot better more confident. Like my body doesnt hurt. Healthy. After he left the ranch called moved in with his mother for a while. Hes now found a job and rents a flat where he can accommodate his son every day is a struggle. This is the final battle the one that gets to decide the fate of nickel. Her lawyer asked for just muscle of counts. The state of oklahoma once the lawsuit to go before a criminal court. I think she acted extraordinarily recklessly so what my goal is is to berks file a motion to allow the jury to hear all the other victims that died as a result from that which is off so the jury can get a picture of what she was doing here and there are many. Women died as it was that she should have been on that site that medication and each one especially diabetic. You think would be evidence has absolutely failed to show. This is. The law is very clear about what is a murder case and whats going on theres other cases involved. Frankly with. Egregious conduct in this. Meeting you just see that make those or you just dismiss its very confident. Youre waiting for the doctor. Should be brought in could we have an interview with her maybe later as soon as because dismissed it. All along the hearing dr nichols seems detached from the events surrounding her but they can look on her face she will never speak as if none of this were her concern. The judge has reached a ruling and. Dr nichols will be tried for murder. Its an exceptional decision on the part of the american Justice System the trial has to happen in a year or less from now on shes banned from practicing. Doctor nichols on her lawyer have decided to plead guilty. I think its a good thing shes going to have to get a course in how to answer for what she did wrong. Its going to have to answer in front of the jury and i know he added a manslaughter or better at least he didnt dismiss and she deserves she deserves you know to go before a jury trial see and see whats going to happen with their you know my daughter to serve that they used to prescribe all kinds of dangerous drugs that we now know are dangerous about at the time they were doing the best they could to treat their patients and now theyre blaming one of their own victims. For doing the best she could with the medical knowledge she. Love you. And miss you. I miss you hear me. I believe you hear me. With any chills he. Mr hard. But through this through this i can file i can smile and say shes helped somebody else. Thats what i see to. Take i forget her. I figured really do you she here every day i forget i do i have to give. Since that case happened dozens of american doctors have been sentenced in a court of law for over prescribing opioids. And 27 states. Suing the laboratories for financial losses that bird you former company is now looking for new clients for its opioid it has created subsidiaries in asia and south america. Everywhere opioid consumption is on the increase despite patients knowing the truth. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation unit see. Are you going the right way or are you being. Direct. What is true what is fake. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us on the death. Or a made in the shallowness. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area rush up. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. 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