Red Hot Chili Peppers's bassist Flea conveyed a message to the medical community that he was an accomplice to the US opioid crisis. In a new time article, the 55-year-old man described his own struggles with drug addiction, rehabilitation, and later painkillers prescribed by doctors.
Flea believes that people can easily get a prescription from Oxycontin. (Source: Christopher Polk / Getty Images Entertainment / GettyImages) Flea writes that he started taking drugs at the age of 11, when he was a barbarian who called himself "the Hollywood street urchin." He went on to say that he "started squatting, shooting, popping, smoking, wrestling, dragon chasing my teens and 20s." At the age of 30, she lost her medication with a young daughter and three close friends. t He is very clear.
But he admits, "Once you open the door to drug abuse, it will always exist, entice you to come in and make your mind correct."
In his words, "temptation is a "Oh, more importantly," "It’s hard to be tempted when the people you provide to you have a peculiar job and a certificate, and often the bad advice is not to trust them."
This is A few years ago, after a skiing accident and subsequent surgery, the flea doctor opened the painkiller Oxycontin. The active ingredient of this drug, oxycodone, is often called "the cousin of heroin." After taking a pill a day for a month (although the label on the bottle can take up to four pills per day), the recovery addict wrote that he was "outrageous." He added the hat. "It not only calmed my body pain, but also suppressed all my emotions."
Fortunately, for fleas, he was able to stop using the drug. But he knows that "completely sane people will become addicted to these drugs and eventually die." (Oxycodone is also associated with the death of musicians Prince and Tom Petty.) Fleas call on government and medical circles for opioids in the United States The crisis takes action.
This is within a few weeks after the release of the manufacturer of Oxycontin, according to the "Washington Post"According to critics, “it will cut sales forces and stop promoting the drug to doctors.” This is a problematic marketing strategy that promotes addictive painkillers and leads to the country’s opioid crisis.
When Oxycontin was launched in 1996, pharmaceutical company Purdue P. Hama claimed the product was "anti-abuse," Mike Mariani wrote in the 2015 Pacific Standard. In response to the 2007 lawsuit, Purdue University and its senior executives “pleaded guilty to allegations that doctors and patients misled the addictive property.”
But none of this slowed the progress of the US opioid crisis. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that nearly 80% of Americans use heroin to start using prescription opioids. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1999 to 2016, more than 200,000 people in the United States died of overdose associated with prescription opioids.
"Obviously some painkillers should be prescribed, but the medical profession should be more picky," Flea wrote in his article. "It is also clear that if someone is addicted, part of any prescription for opioids should include follow-up, monitoring and clear solutions as well as the path to recovery." Amen.
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