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the jurogan experience we get to the same place in healthcare how the hell do we fix this i mean i ca i can tell you what's wrong okay but how the hell do we fix it and we fix it with exactly the solution that you've proposed that the constituencies that are affected need to move into positions of power in society so we've got the constituencies are the doctors who are not getting good information they think they are but they're not and the doctors got to understand that this is a very serious problem and that they're trusted to be learned intermediaries to apply medical science in the service of the patients and they can't do it under these circumstances and we've got businesses non-health care related businesses that are paying a fortune for their health care and losing their competitiveness and they should be in on this and most of all we've got consumers who want the best health but in order for each of those constituencies to become competent political activists they've got to understand what's going on and right now they don't they don't and this uh this term that of uh diseases of despair is very accurate right like if you look at like west virginia and you look at these places where you have these pill like tremendous pill problems this is this is what's going on there's these people that really don't have anything to look forward to and this is what alleviates some of their horrible feeling is to just get drugged up and the drug companies were very willing to make a buck doing it yeah have you ever seen the um the documentary the oxycontin express no it was on vanguard um and it was uh essentially they showed that florida had created this situation where they would have these pain management centers that were essentially just pill mills the pain management center was connected to a pharmacy that only had pills they only served opiates so you would go to this pain management center you go to the doctor and you say doctor my back is killing me the doctor said what you need is some oxycontin son
and they would write you a prescription you would literally go right next door and they would have the pills for you and they also did not have a digital database so you could go to jamie and get a prescription from jamie and then leave him and then go to another doctor mike right down the street and get a prescription from him and you could do it all day long and people were doing this and then they were selling these pills on the oxycontin express it drove it straight up into kentucky and ohio and you know wherever the highway took it and they they were seeing how there was a direct chain of events where these people were going to these pill mills stockpiling all these pills and then they were selling them into these other states and making a lot of money right so you see the synergy between the folks whose lives aren't working out the way they wanted to and they're miserable and maybe they're miserable because of back pain or maybe they're miserable because life doesn't have the meaning they hoped it did and you have the drug company which is telling doctors that they've got a new product that's less addictive it's so much less addictive that you can treat non-cancer pain and not get into trouble with it then it lasts 12 hours but they know it doesn't last 12 hours and when it wears off before 12 hours they tell the doctors to increase the dose because that means they're not taking enough not that their drug doesn't last 12 hours right and and that it can't be abused and people are crushing it and putting in a straw and shooting it up and so forth so you've got the drug company that's an actor and you've got the social circumstances where people are hurting whether it's medical hurting or spiritual hurting or whatever you want to call it and it's just a recipe for disaster and without the appropriate oversight of the drugs we're not the faucet the spigots turned on and that's in this country has been one of the most egregious offenses by the pharmaceutical drug companies is distorting the data on the addictive properties of opiates absolutely
absolutely it's a scary thing when you think you find out how many people there was a statistic that was just revealed uh just released rather that from people 18 to 49 uh fentanyl was the number one cause of death a hundred thousand people died in this country from fentanyl that are ages 18 to 49 extremely potent opiate yeah and most of it recreational right most of it is like from cut all of it yeah it's hard i don't know if it's 100 i think it's 100 000 deaths total and fentanyl is a major proportion of those hundred thousand deaths oh that's not what i thought i think i thought i saw that it was they were literally attributing a hundred thousand deaths they were saying it's the number one cause of death between people age 18 to 49 which is insane that we're not hearing about this because it's such a large number of people like this should be something that's on the news every day it should be something that terrifies folks yeah actually that's the way you said it say it again it's the way he said it oh so what is the actual number the way the headline reads is uh so the drug overdose death top a hundred thousand annually for the first time driven by fentanyl also it's all kinds of drug overdoses but drug overdoses are the number one cause of death between people 18 to 49. but but joe here's the problem drug overdoses are the number one cause of death but that accounts for only a quarter of the excess deaths in that age group what are the other three the other three quarters are the cardiovascular disease diabetes cancer and that's the problem is that we do such a poor job in the united states of preventing preventable disease were last amongst developed countries in preventing preventable disease