Off topic: Opiate Deaths increased 5.4 X in US in just three years

The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Years New York Times

Clips from NYT

• "Drug overdoses are expected to remain the leading cause of death for Americans under 50,"

• ". . deaths involving synthetic opioids, mostly fentanyls, have risen to more than 20,000 from 3,000 in just three years."

See also VitaminDWiki

• Mistreated – book by Dr. Robert Pearl - May 2017
  • "Opiate use is now the most common cause of death from injury in the US. "

• Overview Pain and Vitamin D

• 7 improvements in lives of veterans with chronic pain with 50,000 IU vitamin D weekly – June 2012

CBD helps opiate withdrawl and might be an alternative pain reliever

• Googledcbd opiates pain - 345,000 hits as of Sept 2017

• How Cannabis Could Turn the Opioid Epidemic Around

• Opioid Withdrawal and Cannabidiol (CBD)

• How does CBD interact with opiate pain meds?

See also web

• Wall Street Journal Jan 2023 - 6 X additional increase in US drug overdose 2000 to 2021

• 1 Out of 12 Doctors Collecting Bonuses for Pushing Opioids Mercola Aug 2017

  • " 375,000 non-research opioid-related payments to more than 68,000 physicians, totaling more than $46 million"
• Opioids Aren’t the Only Pain Drugs to Fear NYT Sept 2017
  • "A 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that 3.8 million Americans use opioids for nonmedical reasons every month"
  • "With 100 million Americans living with chronic pain , according to a 2011 report by the Institute of Medicine, there is a vast market available for people “legitimately” prescribed an opioid to become hooked on ever-larger doses of these drugs"
  • Major problems with long-term use of Tylenol and NSAIDS (especially if poor kidney, liver, or heart)
• VR Promises a Surprising Tech Alternative to Painkillers in Deadly Opioid Crisis Sept 2017
  • Interaction during VR games provides a lot of pain distraction
  • One person was able to stop his opeiate use for pain of broken back by the use of VR

• Opioid-pushing Sackler family pays to get off the hook and gets to keep billions July 2021

  • Family had to $4.5 Billion for killing 500,000 Americans, got to keep $6 billlion

Vitamin D titles containing: Opioid OR Opiate OR Morphine (13 as of Jan 2023)

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