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Wound i walked straight. I can see. The shots space history tells us to expect the 6066th street like hes. Simply should tornadoes in. 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. 2 will be sued by the state for 2nd degree murder for over prescribing opioids heres the accused dr rican equals. A Family Doctor for over 22 years shes now suspected of being a prescription med or. 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 in Oklahoma City i practice cripple defense ive got a Police Officer and ive been a prosecutor and ive been a judge ive been here all my life born and raised in oklahoma. But why the hardship of 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. Box knows these roads inside out and whos on 1st name terms with the local people all his career hes descended this community but today they can lions have changed before i was having people from where the Poverty Level people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children that become addicted to the opiates every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high and. All of what affected 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 nick. Thats about. This Oklahoma City lawyer has never seen a case like this and you think tim wants to press charges. They come in 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 not that she would prescribe you know best way about my 2nd. One in 20122012. He was a fireman she works an 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 just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer. And more drugs than the regular drug dealers off the street would prescribe but shes doing it in the name of medicine. According to her doctor nicholas which 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 trying to 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 come a city. Place officer to your School Teacher to your you know its a its not a its not a disease that is specific it can hit anybody. How come opioids invaded and their pain has become a market and the idea of not suffering even likely is a gift in drug stores that look like fast food anyone can shop for pain killers physical or psychological a pain killer exists for almost any reason. Imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. 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 prescribe opioids that they could doing more harm than good and weve seen that in a lot a lot of cases what would they originally prescribe for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things tree or body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays its used for a lot of Different Things these pills a cool hydrocodone. Content are found to know all the 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 scription 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 on to opium so. To date you did something for your pain talk to your doctor. To be able to not feel pain has become a tacit agreement between doctor and patient that it was price these drugs a ticking bombs who is 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 then i said. Good thing the midwest city doctor dr. 3000000 just exempted we. Just. Raisings many times here in scotland he. Was very happy shouted rest question on t. V. Oh. Yeah i dont know where it was said was this is healthy daughter i mean did she harm i didnt know any term that i met a man out of my america should certainly have met a man she took my daughter. A met. You. Mean these are innate he has spent her entire life in this house this is where their daughter chelsea was born 21 years ago here also that she passed away as a painkiller overdose in 2013 their story is one of an analgesic burdened family hiding in the secrets and shame of addiction. Shes headed for a back surgery dr nicholls was lizas 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 could 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 you 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. 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. Knight i asked her about the quantity of medicine she was under 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. Maybe the love of money maybe because i know that when she chose to be a doctor i would bet on it that she chose to want to help people. Now look forward to talking to you all. That technology should work for people. Must obey the orders given by human beings except where such a conflict with the 1st law. Should be very careful about social intelligence and the point is to create. Conflict areas with Artificial Intelligence resummon in the deep. Must protect its own existence has existed. A new gold rush is underway and gonna thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich is a good. Day oh by those that work children are torn between gold. My family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Away. What is true what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a mate in the shallow. 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 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 country in the world klein we are a country of fast food quick fixes now now i now feel bad heres a pill her heres a pill tell disfunction heres a pill all of those things are right there at a doctors pay but we pay is good painter minds us that were alive was addicted to. He went to the center as a patient since then hes become the head of the facility in order to save others like himself everyone here has to learn to live without pain killers this private ranches 30 places a year it receives 40 requests a day at 21 years old kyle is in rehab for the 1st time. Sub brother you know you im good paul cool man i feel and. I gotcha. You a stately. Pull to this are you ready all right ran. Or did your mom and here in the mill good will get everything started. Right after you guys. Please. 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 now ok and this is the 1st treatment on right all right are you feeling very emotional i actually. 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 his prison if youre lucky 3rd one is. Indeed barry. I dont know how else to say it but im right and i cant do that said neumar as. Our own so much that i would rather not see. Them who are or at this moment i dont know i. Really will be on the view who are those. Who. Are all through to get here. Kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids. How it feels toward my body a lot of. My thought process its slow. For just about a lot of pain or in the down a lot of satam oceans and me its just i cant keep my emotions in one place and you know on top of. Her i just dont feel good. For our friends and for all of us for us and. After that. We in my 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 forget it and i 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. Change. And mentally in my head ive gotten close to suicide and. You know these pills are creating monsters and 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 produce pharma. 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. In order to prove that he and his team have been investigating for more than a year. As my name is regina whitten im an attorney here in Oklahoma City and my mind is model burrage i am my lawyer in oklahoma. Carol 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 weve this person has 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 storm cool hearing will take place in a few days. Today reggie which will explain his motivations to a group of students that this struggle is a personal one. Partner reiji has been involved in the opioid addiction the opioid crosses ever since the death 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 incoming freshmen 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 everybody saying 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 speakers and 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. Brown 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 Championship Football Team never got in any kind of trouble and the drug that brought him down was 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 and 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 to 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 that big pharma sells. Theyre essentially heroin pills most people dont know that but these opioids are essentially the same this heroin thats the key telling patients that theyre not addictive thats the killer literally we thank you guys for being a good audience and im hoping some of the information i shared with you today. Might help you in a good way. Never manage to quit. Is someone responsible for his misery. Pharmaceutical. Just before. Last time we chased. Each one of them carrying 20 kilos d of drugs. First offense. Is the main thing im a little boy they have this is the this is for me. I like it when. I dont know dont. Make or. I will bring. Around one. Join me every thursday on the alex so im unsure when ill be speaking to us in the world of politics. Im show business ill see you then. Father rallies are held across about us as protest against the president and a 2nd mob meeting to hunt. All correspondent was that. 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