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Jeff Sessions Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee

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Posted on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 12:01:01 PM EST
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Jeff Sessions is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Live video link) He promises to ramp up the war on drugs, especially the war on pain meds, prescribers and manufacturers, and war on immigrants. He praises Trump's border wall. He says there can't be full amnesty for the DREAMERs.

He read out a speech on why he won't answer questions about conversations with Trump -- he says it's up to Trump to claim the executive privilege, and he's considering it but hasn't made a decision so Sessions says he can't it for him.

There are several old people on this committee who look miserable. Maybe they aren't thrilled about Sessions wanting to make it harder for them to get pain meds.

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    Jeff Sessions Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee | 13 comments (13 topical)

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    It looked like AL Franken was about (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 12:11:08 PM EST
    To make Sessions cry

    He's stuttering like my fibbing grandson

    Jeff Sessions now says (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 12:14:46 PM EST
    He had an encounter with the Russian Ambassador ;)

    my opinion (none / 0) (#3)
    by linea on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 07:25:34 PM EST
    i disagree with the, in my opinion puritanical, anti-pain-medication crusade. it is cruel to the elderly and people suffering from chronic pain.

    i disagree with the DEAs attempts to to choke distribution to pharmacies, with restricting the number of legal prescriptions a pharmacy can fill, and with a limit on the number of prescriptions a doctor can write when pain medication is needed for valid medical reasons.

    this is my opinion and having a different opinion isn't trolling.

    p.s. i support seattle's `safe drug-injection sites' (a nurse-supervised space with clean syringes and other supplies) as an important public health initiative.

    my opinion (none / 0) (#4)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 07:44:32 PM EST
    this coment is in the wrong thread,  so instead of replying here why dont you go back to the thread where this was being discussed and give us your enlightened reasoning as to Annes comment.

    that being why a town of pharmacy in a town of 300 needs 9 million hydros.

    do you even know what hydrocodone is

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    The country has been flooded - flooded - (none / 0) (#5)
    by Anne on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 08:06:34 PM EST
    with opiates to a degree that well exceeds any conceivable genuine need for medication, unless you want to take the position that every man, woman and child in the country should have a nice orange plastic bottle filled to the top with opiates.

    The Marino law enabled the proliferation of, as the DEA whistleblower stated, "drug dealers in lab coats," pill mills sprouting up in strip malls and interstate off-ramps, and contributed to the deaths of several hundred thousand people in a relatively short period of time.

    I have heard from people with chronic pain that it is harder to obtain medication, and I don't wish for anyone who genuinely needs it to be denied it, but the Marino law enabled drug companies and doctors and pharmacies to enrich themselves at the great expense of people whose lives and families were destroyed by that greed.

    I was willing, for longer than others, to give you the benefit of the doubt as to whether you were or weren't just trolling the crap out of people, but I no longer have any doubt that that's exactly what you are up to.  

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    the number one cause of death (none / 0) (#6)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 08:11:43 PM EST
    for those under 50 is overdose.  we have known this for a while.  i believe the opioid epidemic is also related to this which is new.

    CDC: Suicide Rates Increase in US Rural Areas

    OCTOBER 18, 2017

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    one other thing (none / 0) (#7)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 08:16:19 PM EST
    about the difficulty of getting pain meds.  this is a disgrace. even more so in light of this discussion.   and i know its true.  

    the odd thing is, well, let me put it this way, it usually takes me several days to get pot.  right now, this minute, i could make one phone call and have as many hydros as i could afford as soon as i drive to get them.

    so...

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    So.... (none / 0) (#13)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Oct 19, 2017 at 11:25:49 AM EST
    Maybe the black market is the idea?

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    it's my opinion!! (none / 0) (#8)
    by linea on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 08:38:51 PM EST
    I was willing, for longer than others, to give you the benefit of the doubt as to whether you were or weren't just trolling the crap out of people, but I no longer have any doubt that that's exactly what you are up to.

    having a different opinion isn't trolling!! i disagree with this `war on opiods' and feel it is hysterical and cruel.

    distributors are required to report suspicious orders from pharmacies. rather than doing their job and investigating suspicious orders, the DEA wants to choke distribution to pharmacies. it's a lazy stupid way to control pain medication.

    What opioid hysteria leaves out: most overdoses involve a mix of drugs

    The vast majority of opioid-related overdose death is accidental - and entirely preventable. Drug mixing and tolerance changes are the primary predictors of overdose. Graduates of 28-day abstinence-based rehabs are over 30 times more likely to die of a heroin overdose than untreated addicts using on the streets. These programs should be held legally responsible if they choose not to distribute overdose antidote naloxone, and they should be required to run regular trainings on tolerance, drug mixing and safe-use practices.
    ...
    By fixating on fearing opioids, we are missing the more culpable factors that lead some people to keep using drugs despite negative consequences. Opioid use on its own is not dangerous, and it's time we stop demonizing it. Instead, we must implement a national overdose education strategy targeting the immediate factors of opioid-related overdose: drug mixing and tolerance changes.


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    im at a bit of a loss (none / 0) (#9)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 09:15:15 PM EST
    as to why it makes the slightest difference if someone dies as a result of "mixing" drugs or one drug only.

    is it you imagine they are less dead?

    what is even the point of that point?

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    because (none / 0) (#10)
    by linea on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 09:48:56 PM EST
    public health policies should focus on education of dangerous poly-drug mixing, making safe injection sites available, and preventing death after drug detoxification treatment (often court ordered) through education on tolerance changes and methadone maintenance. here is another article:

    death after treatment for heroin dependence

    that's `the point of that point.'

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    Ah (none / 0) (#11)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 10:19:48 PM EST
    As I thought.  Nothing whatever to do with the actual subject being discussed.

    Thanks for confirming.

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    re: "the actual subject being discussed" (none / 0) (#12)
    by linea on Wed Oct 18, 2017 at 10:47:48 PM EST
    i am discussing the `war on opiods' that increasingly stigmatizes chronic pain sufferers and deprives people of needed medication... public health policies should focus on education of dangerous poly-drug mixing, making safe injection sites available, and preventing death after drug detoxification treatment (often court ordered) through education on tolerance changes and methadone maintenance.

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