Undercutting whats good for supermarket its not good for the global economy. Street. To. Street. Mr childers. 66th street like hes. Recently. Oklahoma in the heart of america one of the most deeply afflicted states in the opioids addiction crisis oklahoma might change the course of history. For the 1st time in the United States a doctor will be sued by the state for 2nd degree murder for over prescribing opioids hears the accused that to reconnect calls. A Family Doctor for over 22 years shes now suspected of being a prescription murderer. The judge has to ascertain if there is enough material to go to trial. The plaintiffs in the room have lost a child a brother a friend from an opioid overdose. Dr nichols was their doctor she was the one prescribing the trucks. Let him serve unbox im an attorney at Oklahoma City i practice crippled events ive got a Police Officer at and ive been a prosecutor and ive been a judge ive been here all my life born and raised in oklahoma. Provide the hard to the Oil Production were right on the edge of were cowboys are the and so weve got a lot of people in here that are hard working people and its a pretty peaceful city as far as that goes. In box knows these roads inside out and is on. 1st name terms with the local people all his career hes descended this community but today the clients have changed before i was having people from more the Poverty Level people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children that become addicted to the opiates now its every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high in. All of what effected by the opiate use. He represents several families from this town everyone has lost a relative deceased of a cardiac arrest following a painkiller overdose drugs prescribed by dr nichols. But for not figuring. This Oklahoma City lawyer has never seen a case like this a new victim wants to press charges. You can see you can see you. Have a seat and that marshall has been raising her 2 children alone since her husband died of a painkiller overdose my math shows thats 99. 00 per day that she would prescribe. And he passed away about my 2nd. One in 20122012. He was a fireman she works in education counselor a regular family all it took was back surgery to turn everything over in a few months her husband became addicted to the painkillers prescribed by dr nichols of course once you have that surgery its never quite the same and then they get some other treatment anyhow and you know its a matter issues with just on the judge just injuries it from being to having such a physical job and i think it just snowballed you know he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she did those after dose after dose after dose and really became. His drug dealer. More drugs than regular drug dealers off the street would prescribe shes doing it in the name of medicine. According to her doctor nichols would swiftly see patients without any physical exam a few dollars for a prescription her husband would have been prescribed 100. 00 pills a day 3000. 00 a month the doctor should have been the response well course and theyre trained and thats what their job is is to make sure theyre treating you in a healthy manner and theyre doing whats best for you and not whats going to bring harm to you. It happens to just your next door neighbor to your uncle miltie firefighters here comma city Police Officer to your School Teacher to your you know its a its not a its not a disease that is specific it could hit anybody. How come opioids invaded america pain has become a market and the idea of not suffering even likely is a good thing in drug stores that look like fast food anyone can shop for pain killers physical or psychological a painkiller exists for almost any reason. Imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis page. Imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. Imagine with less pain and amongst the pain killers on prescriptions are the opioids usually prescribed for back aches or headaches 2000000 americans are addicted to these pills for a reason that most ignore their opium based. Im jason b. Minute and i am the chair of psychiatry at Oklahoma State universitys center for Health Sciences our oath is essentially 1st do no harm and i think that thats one of the biggest problems is that doctors dont realize that by per. Scribing opioids that they could doing more harm than good and weve seen that in a lot of a lot of cases what were they originally prescribed for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things street your body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays its used for a lot of Different Things these pills a cool. Content are found to know other drugs that are legally sold on the market share the same component a powerful narcotic heroin and sometimes they are a 1000 times more concentrated. The opioid compound comes from a plant called the opium poppy and these plants are really grown mostly in asia and then theyre imported by Drug Companies into the United States but what we do with the pills is we take the good parts of the flour that you would smoke and we concentrate them in a little pill. And so the pills are much more potent than smoking ever was but in the United States we outlawed the smoking of opium in the early 1900 if you get a 3 day per script theres a 13 percent chance that youll be taking those opioids a year later so whether its a few prescriptions or a few pills its a very small amount that it takes to get addicted. To the left a lethal dosage of heroin to the right its a quick lived to opium samples. To date you know something for your pain talk to your doctor. To be able to not feel pain has become a tacit agreement between doctor and patient this is what price. These drugs a ticking bombs whos aware of that fact did dr nichols know. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today against a midwest city dr Ragan Nichols is already accused are prescribing a massive amount of opioids to 5 patients who later died when i heard that there was 4 other deaths that. Good leaving the midwest city ducky dr im homeless tonight 3000000 jobs davis im just reading and listening to the jury just raising as many times and stuff and he. Was very happy she got a rest question on t. V. Oh very happy that that went on there or it was said was this is healthy daughter i mean did she harm i didnt know any internet i met a man why america should surrender men and manage to. A met. You. Mean these are navy have spent their entire life in this house this is where their daughter chelsea was born 21 years ago here also that she passed away at the painkiller overdose in 2013 their story is one of an analgesic Burden Family hiding in the secret and shame of addiction. Shes headed for back surgeries dr nichols was nice this doctor for 7 years she was the 1st to fall into the opioids trap when i 1st started seeing her i thought she was going to be ok and she was giving me Pain Medicine to help my back but as the years go by course your body gets used to that medicine so that it doesnt work you know you used to take one pain you know and now you have to say 2 or 3 pain pills because the pain is so bad. So it just increase and its just a vicious cycle because you know youve got to have the medicine but you know you dont want to have to take that much medicine but you cant i could work and do my job if i didnt have medicine. Lisa had her own addiction what she didnt know is that her daughter was doing the same thing for 3 years chelsea had diabetes which causes muscular pains it was her time to consult with dr nichols. Night i asked her about the quantity of medicine she was given her and her response to me was chelsea was an adult that she could talk to me about chelseas medical but she could talk to me about chelseas diabetes but she wouldnt talk to me about. The medication that she was i did trust her maybe money feeder to do it maybe just that the love of money maybe gets worse because i know that when she chose to be a doctor i had on it and she chose to want to help people. Aha no team no crowd. No shots. To actually use a belt. You know whether its true or no 1st. Point show your thirst for action. Tough and i need them on the phone in the highest amount of sway or both assume. Bandicoot so smooth to get on the plaza this way got to dog and so hard not to think im going to dissipate this moment the look like they power and i dont think this telethon if. This is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way to. The floor of the sea without his will to support it a whole movie about a box with a hold on the. You know targeting china is off the ground game. Momentum some say china must paper that well others claim is an existential Security Threat to the washington world still others say washington can see we live in the world. And we met dr nichols almost a year ago i think she has a very good heart she wants to help people maybe a little awkward but shes got a really sweet heart my names tommy adler im in a criminal defense attorney here in Oklahoma City we represent dr Ragan Nichols or i really like her very much. Doctors lose patients all the time. To accuse a doctor of overacting and reckless disregard for her patients when we believe that she was genuinely attempting to care for them. Is a big step for the government that say. That exposes doctors to a lot of risk newsgroup troubled people these patients were abusing the things that they had access to. It wasnt the amounts that dr nichols prescribed these people that killed them it was the amounts that they decided to take. Her line of defense is set to shift away the shadow of responsibilities dr nichols was an irreproachable professional who was duped by drug addicts and she never had any awareness that her patients were facing any danger whatsoever nowadays in Oklahoma City addiction can be seen at every corner. I think america got here because we are the most medicated. We are a country of fast food quick fixes now now and now you feel bad heres a pill her heres a pill. Function heres a pill all those things are right there at a doctors. Good painter mines if that were alive. He went to the center as a patient since then hes become the head of the facility in order to save. Everyone here has to learn to live without pain killers this private ranch 30 places a year it receives 40 requests a day at 21 years old kyle is in rehab for the 1st time to. Sub brother. Im good well cool man are you feeling. All right ran. In here and then well good will get everything started. Right after you guys. Are. Has been to college and hes the father of a little boy. But 4 years ago he became addicted to opioids and then heroin. Writes opiates heroin and oxycontin anything else you know. And this is the 1st treatment on right all right are you feeling very emotional. The motion of everybody shes waiting for her boy to come back. Its going to take kalb out 30 days for you to really begin to see a change. So as life and death man theres only 3 ways out of this which is get sober which is what i pray for you on the 2nd one is is prison if youre lucky 31 is the bury. I dont know how else to say it but on them right and i cant do the similar as. Our own so much rather not see how. Them who are for at this moment i dont know. Really would be out of you who are who. Are all good here. Kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids. How it feels toward my mum my body is a lot. My thought process its slow. For just about a lot of pain or in the. South emotions and me its just i cant keep my emotions in one place and you know on top of. Her i just are of the little bit. For our friends and for all of us for us and. After that. William our friends kind of stuck together in. Were doing these pills and it was just blocking out so much pain or so stressed out and. Fighting back tears every day i think thats how i wanted something it was just blocking out that pain. And the feel good it and for good it. Actually helped me out with a lot of things depend on it. I was that was my girl you know that was my love and then. Just this last year like too many tell me about things of loss for family and that wasnt enough that wasnt enough to write or change. Mentally in my head i have gotten close to suicide. In all these pills are created monsters. I dont think that they should be legal. Just like tobacco addiction the dangers of opioids have been hidden it is taken 20 years for the government to take action for financial reasons. In my office while the lawsuit against her do for my. Knowledge and so full on and janssen pharmaceuticals. In putting this lawsuit together. We believe these companies are culpable for the tragic heartbreaking number of oklahomans who have become addicted or who have died as a result of the opioid up in. Demick in our state. Hes the Oklahoma Attorney general and the 1st one in his country to go to battle. My counter is publicly accusing pharmaceutical companies of having caused this epidemic and. He wanted to prove that he and his team have been investigating for more than a year. Yes my name is regina whitten im an attorney here in Oklahoma City and my time is model burrage i am my lawyer in oklahoma. General hunter hired my law firm Whitman Burrage to represent the state of oklahoma and try to recoup all of the costs that the state has incurred because of the Opioid Epidemic we need this person is a. Case. And. I think were going to be able to prove that 80 percent of all the crime in the state of oklahoma is directly caused by this Opioid Epidemic in our prisons are over feel because of that loss of productivity of taxpaying citizens costs the state money but im anxious to get this 1st this 1st battle started. What they did to this country. Is from. Their estimates bring the cost of the epidemic to 7000000000. 00 in oklahoma. This is story cool hearing will take place in a few days. Today reggie which will explain his motivations to a group of students for this struggle is a personal one. Partner reiji has been involved in the opioid addiction the opioid crossus ever since the death of his son brian and i had a nice that also related to drugs and so when the attorney general talked about representing the state. In this case. I think he knew that we both had family members and because of the epidemic. Were going to talk to the Incoming Freshman athletes at the university of oklahoma im going to tell on. A story about my son brandon. That the power of addiction and how dangerous it is and maybe. Save somebodys life. I think i got a chance to shake almost everybodys hand when you came in i was trying to figure out what sport you are its hard to guess every sport from your you know your size but thank you guys for coming. So let me introduce you to my co speaker tonight this is brandon. And ran is not here today and ill tell you why later this is me when i was at o. U. And i had this young son and also when i had more hair. Ran i was a cute little kid brand his plan was to go to college and play football which he did. He ended up playing on a National ChampionshipFootball Team never got in any kind of trouble in the drug that brought him down as an opioid and it did not come from the streets it came from a pharmacy i just told him stop using those pills and i found out its not that easy i found out its like telling a diabetic to use more willpower and stop needing insulin you cant do that thats crazy. I never told him about addiction i never warned him. And so now i i have survivor guilt now but im living with it so i started a foundation called fighting addiction through education because i think education is the key to this problem when i tell this story at schools it gets so quiet you could hear a pin drop and theyre not really interested in me theyre interested in brandon they i show pictures of him he was one of them hes just ordinary kid and if an ordinary kid like brandon can end up getting hooked they could and that is the truth these pills the big pharma sells. Theyre essentially heroin pills most people dont know that these opioids are essentially the same as here thats the key telling patients that theyre not addictive thats the killer literally thank you guys for being a good audience and im hoping some of the information ive shared with you today. Might help you in a good way. Richie sun never managed to clinch. Is someone responsible for his misery. Pharmaceutical. 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