What happened to the opioid crisis?

[zanana1]

I rarely hear about it these days. I know that sufferers of opioid addiction still exist. Why is it being swept under the rug?

[lark]

1. He put Kellyanne in charge and she fired the whole committee & hasn't hired anyone else,

that I've heard. It was just another head fake to the base while ensuring big pharma that nothing at all, not even the tiniest bit of extra oversight or rule changes would happen. Big $$ will always always always be enhanced while drumpf is in charge, except when he's destroying them via tariffs because Putin told him to.

[DetlefK]

2. Because they are too many scandals going on simultaneously.

If you count only domestic, we have the collusion-thing, the Butina-thing, the Kavanaugh-thing, the Nunes-thing, the kids-in-cages thing, the tariff-thing, the Republicans-fighting-each-other-to-the-point-they could-shut-down-their-own-government thing...

[hlthe2b]

3. Because there is a competing Opioid crisis involving hospitals not being able to fully supply for sx

Given the consolidation of pharmaceutical companies to ensure the !% remain wealthy as all get out, there are limited manufacturers. So, a problem with one, reverberates throughout the system.

One might think, given the horrors of the opioid ADDICTION crisis, this flip side crisis would seem the lesser but when facing surgery, most would want the anesthesiologist to have access to the injectable drugs necessary, most effective, and safe for the patient. Whether it is morphine, dilaudid, fentanyl or others, it seems there are "rotating" shortages across the board.

While NPR did a piece on the latter this week, it is the only place I've seen mentioning it.

Like everything else, Trump sucks the air out of EVERYTHING, including news coverage and certainly the collective attention span.

As to the addiction crisis, given Trump's professed admiration for Duterte (and his murderous response to drug problems in the PHilipines), did you really think Trump was serious about PREVENTION and TREATMENT programs, rather than sadistic punitive policies? Only so far as he needed to placate his base.

[Wounded Bear]

4. The crisis is doing fine, as are the Pharma companies supplying the drugs...

[smirkymonkey]

5. Don't worry. Jared's on it.

[Sunlei]

6. have you noticed the TV ads? if you have insurance-thousands of new treatment clinics

are happy to 'treat' and prescribe medicines to 'help'. /s, /s