Holy fucked up healthcare reform Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deckard]

This would only affect mental patients and miscreants. No need to worry mongoose.

Oh hold on....

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

TOLD YA!!!!: http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2010/...drug-overdose/



Between 1999 and 2006 the number of people hospitalized for poisoning from prescription drugs including opioids (such as OxyContin and Vicodin) and tranquilizers and sedatives (depressants such as Valium, Xanax and Ambien) has increased by 65%—representing nearly twice the increase in hospitalizations due to overdose with other substances during the same time period , according to new research published in the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Analyzing data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), which accounts for some 8 million annual hospitalizations, researchers from West Virginia University and the University of Rochester determined that, during the period studied, intentional overdose on prescription opioids and depressants increased by 130%, while unintentional poisonings rose by 37%.During the seven-year study period, unintentional overdose with other substances increased by 21%, while intentional overdose with other substances grew by 53%.


Compared to patients admitted to the hospital for overdose with other drugs, researchers found that those hospitalized for opioid or sedative/tranquilizer-related poisoning were more likely to be women under age 34, were less likely to live in an urban area, and were more likely to have Medicare as their primary form of insurance. When they examined intentional versus unintentional overdose, the study authors found that men were admitted more frequently for accidental overdose, while women were more often hospitalized for intentional overdose. Those findings were consistent not only for opioid and depressant poisonings, but for all types of substance overdose.

The parallels between hospital admissions for drug overdose and growing numbers of death caused by overdose suggest that initial hospitalizations could provide an opportunity for intervention, the study authors suggest. In order to most effectively counter this growing trend of prescription drug abuse and overdose-related hospitalizations and death, the authors conclude, future research needs to examine "the contextual factors associated with these cases, and the association between hospitalization for prescription drug poisoning and subsequent fatal overdoses."



Y'all don't want to know the stories I have on this, trust me.

aaaaannnddd, cut & fade out with MM's The Dope Show . . .

One point this article did not include, & which I believe should have been stated, is the height of prone to lead to addiction factor of legal medications. The numbers are really all over the place when one reads reports on these studies. I've seen the numbers read anywhere from 5-15% more addictive than illegal substances i.e. cocaine/heroin/and there was another one but I can't remember what it was. But it wasn't cigarettes.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Deckard

This would only affect mental patients and miscreants. No need to worry mongoose.

Oh hold on....

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by the mongoose

The Obama Health care bill under Class II (Paragraph 1, Section B) specifically includes in it's lists of things that must be in registered in the NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY: ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable."

doesn't that mean these types of devices must be included in the registry of approved medical devices? looks like a mandate to include these devices in a registry, not a mandate to put them in people.

if i'm wrong find me a direct quote. not some nutball youtube video.