AT: Without thinking much about it, someone who overdoses on prescription opioids of heroin can just keep going right back to Medicaid for more easy access to the drug that nearly killed them the first time. The state just keeps paying for it.
Which is why, according to a new study, Medicaid recipients are three times more likely to overdose on opioids than people on private insurance.
Sure, it’s easy to dismiss the opioid crisis as a phenomenon peculiar to people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. But obviously, there are causes and mechanisms here, which is why the numbers are coming in as they are. It’s not just the supposed character flaws of those taking these opioids that is at work, it’s the drug dealer that accommodates them on the other side, which in this case, the state. Dependency on the state seems to be fuelling dependency on drugs as much as anything. more
As we on the right predicted, obamacare was just a gateway drug to senior and handicapped euthanasia.
I’m seeing something new at work (hospice). Hospitals are dumping drug addicts on us. They come to us willingly expecting the good shit, and the doctors can attest to a life expectancy of 6 months or less.
I’m not joking.
The only opioid “crisis” is taht I can;’t ghet any.
Jill can get em for a hangnail, but the docters act like i’m a drugaddick.