:The following article was written by Douglas Leigh Hughes.  He tried to get it published in the media, and got nowhere.  Why?  Because it doesn’t conform to the government propaganda. In fact, it exposes the government propaganda.  So he asked to get it out to the public through Doctorsofcourage.  So it is imperative that people share, share, share.  Send this out on FB, twitter, email, and every medium you can.  Help get the word out that the fake opioid epidemic is government-created, and government driven, supported by the media.

The Opioid Crisis is Intentional

If you look at the Drug Epidemic as a means to an end, it comes into focus.   However, losing democracy’s bedrock tenant of Personal Privacy is the tradeoff.  The vast amount of personal data social media platforms gather, built their vast wealth.  Imagine the fortunes to be made if all Personal Medical Information were added to this revenue juggernaut?   Bonanza, you think?   As Alcohol Prohibition was a boon to Law Enforcement and Bootleggers, prohibition of Prescribed Opioids is a windfall to DEA, drug cartels, political raconteurs, social rescue programs, IT piranha and health insurance behemoths alike.

Each year since 2012, Prescribed Opioids have fallen, yet there are new record overdose deaths—its annual counterpoint.

In West Virginia Huntington and Cabell Counties’ Federal Opioid Distributor’s Trial this year, Dr. Rahul Gupta testified, “New guidelines and education to stop overprescribing led to the reduction of pills shipped around 2012”.   “Overprescribing” here is the primer, because facts point to assumption.

“It was around 2012 when the number of drug overdoses started to skyrocket”, said Jan Rader, Huntington Fire Chief.  2012 was the inflection point where static systemic abuse became a national overdose .

This presumption of overprescribing as an “intentional act” is the Rubicon to forge.  The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention [CDC], and the Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] both have funding formulas susceptible to political intrigues. Neither the CDC nor DEA have inherent domain on Prescribed Opioids as does the Food & Drug Administration [FDA].  Yet the DEA & CDC took the lead in promoting the Opioid Epidemic myth.   The Pill Mill myth was exclusive to the DEA’s wheelhouse.

An article in “The Shadow”, March 25, 2021, entitled: “Scrutiny of CDC Overdose Death Data Yields Explosive Results”, by D. S. Nelson, sums the CDC complicity most succinctly.  Foremost among the countless data delusions is illicit fentanyl overdose deaths listed errantly as Prescribed Opioid deaths from 2005-7 to 2018.  With only 8.5% of overdose deaths actually having an autopsy nationally, Fentanyl, Alcohol, Poly-Drug and many others were dumped into Prescribed Opioid deaths carte blanche.

In 2018, Congress placed a legislative mandate on the CDC to correct these coding mistakes which misled the public since 2005-07, to believe most overdose deaths were caused by Prescribed Opioids. The CDC changed the Fentanyl mistake for the year 2018, but has yet to change the years of mistakes nor new misrepresentations of cause of death in drug overdoses.  This belabors the CDC’s independence from Congressional oversight!  (See D.S.Nelson)

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is a case in point. A May 21, 2021, Joe Manchin press release entitled, “Manchin Reintroduces Nine Bills to Address Growing Drug Epidemic” is disingenuous.  He takes another bite at the Big Enchilada: relinquished personal privacy!  He claims to “address different aspects of the drug epidemic”, but ignores prevention, education, rehabilitation, and illicit drugs, as well as the facts themselves!   He moves to further restrict a single “drug”:  “legally prescribed opioids”, when proof abounds they have not been a factor in his “Drug Epidemic Myth” for over a decade, if they ever directly were!

The nine Bills are as follows (with * added emphasis):

1. The “Life Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment (LifeBOAT) Act”, is to tax each Prescribed Opioid pill.
2. The “Clean Start Act”: is to seal criminal records of those in drug recovery treatment.   * In so doing, in the future no one can study what specific drugs they had been convicted of using.  *We can assume  Prescribed Opioids, as default, like the CDC.
3. The “DEA Enforcement and Authority Act”: gives more ability for the DEA to crack down on “Suspicious Prescription Opioid Orders” made by Pharmacies. *In the Opioid Distributor’s Trial June 5, James Rafalski, a retired diversion investigator in the DEA, detailed a theory that “up to 99.8% of opioid orders should have been blocked from being shipped.”    *Can you say, total Prescribed Opioid prohibition?

The FDA, unlike the CDC & DEA, is supposed to be totally funded by Congress to make it immune to factions wanting exclusivity. * FDA autonomy must be substantially weakened.  It will take Four Bills to accomplish it:

4.  The “FDA Review of Efficacy of EERWW Double-Blinds (FREED) of Opioids Act”: to approve only new Prescription Opioid medications that “scientific experts” approve as “safe and effective”.   * These Scientific Experts will be at Manchin’s good humor as appointees.

5.  The “FDA Accountability for Public Safety Act”:  Established an advisory committee of his experts to approve (in this case, DENY) new Prescription Opioidseven in opposition of FDA recommendations.   * The same appointed Experts from The FREED Act above.

6. The “Protecting Americans from Dangerous Opioids Act”: requires the FDAto remove one Prescription Opioid medication approval for each new Prescription Opioid medication it approves.

7. The “Changing the Culture of the FDA Act”: changes the FDA mission statement to include responsibility for the Drug Epidemic”, *but since “illicit street drugs” are not under FDA preview, it is to address (control) Prescription OpioidMedications for the “Drug Epidemic Myth”.  *With this Bill, the FDA will lose objectivism, as well as gain political puppetry. * From taking the FDA off the Gold Standard, to what appears a Medicaid control:

8. The “Improving Medicaid Programs’ Response to Overdose Victims and Enhancing (IMPROVE) Addiction Care Act”: requires state Medicaid programs to use “Drug Utilization Review Programs” and “boost safeguards”.

       * “Drug Utilization Programs’, are in fact total personal surveillance on everyone in society being discussed.  Also known as the “All-Payers Claims Database”, to give every citizen a “Narxcare Score” on their probability of needing Prescribed Opioids generated from this predictive algorithm. *Algorithms always amplify the bias of its programmers. When bias is strategic as here, even more so.

9. The “Non-Opioid Directive (NOD) Act”: which “allows patient’s requests to NOT be treated with prescription opioids”.  *The “Drug Utilization Program” from the “IMPROVE” Act above, is the total personal surveillance of everyone, jointly created by government agencies and private health insurance companies.

Under this NOD Act, insurance companies will force beneficiaries to lose coverage if they accept prescription opioid treatment, which is disallowed by their individual Narxcare Score, thereby forcing anyone so designated to ask NOT to be prescribed opioids.  Patients have always had the right to deny any medications including Prescribed Opioids, but not under duress of losing their health insurance coverage if they followed their physician’s clinical determination of their need for said opioid therapy.

The public fed lies for two decades to garner unconditional consent to create total personal surveillance under the guise of an Opioid Epidemic Myth, the All-Payers Claims Database (already implemented in half the States, but not WV), Narxcare Score, and inevitable loss of personal privacy, the bedrock of democracy! The literal nonillions of dollars from such total societal surveillance will make the perpetrators wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.  Little care democracy is to be sacrificed!

Once more referring to the Opioid Distributor’s Trial, Craig McCann, PhD, economics testified, “the Government data showed around 2010, the number (of opioid pills) dropped about in half.”

Dr. Rahul Gupta said, “West Virginia has seen a 52% decrease in opioid prescriptions written between 2014 and 2019.”

Assuming the 2010 50% reduction was the same as the 2012 reduction referred to earlier, and another 52% reduction BETWEEN 2014 to 2019, would amount to roughly a 75% total reduction in prescribed opioids until 2019, with two years more reductions.  It explains why West Virginia became the epicenter of this Faustian travesty!

“There are an estimated 18-million high impact, or intractable pain sufferers in America” according to Dr. Stephen E. Nadeau and Dr. Jeffery K Wu.  They depend on prescribed opioids to survive.   Prescribed opioids are a maintenance drug for intractable pain sufferers, like insulin is to diabetics.”

How many more deaths from untreated intractable pain are yet to surface from the reductions Senator Manchin proposes, before these torturous deaths of veterans, elderly and the disabled will be exposed and stopped? Dr. Christopher Gilligan, chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at Boston Brigham and Women’s Hospital testified in the distributor’s trial,

“Access to pain medication is a human right under International Law.”

Lastly, facts kept from the public about the inflection date, 2012:  Beginning in 2012, through 2013, 1.39-million Veterans on long-term opioid therapy were cut off Prescribed Opioids in less than twenty days.  This was the beginning of a veteran’s suicide epidemic, which to this day, claims a veteran every hour of the day, every day of the year!   Is this what Senator Manchin has in mind with nine bills all tailored for the same prohibition of prescribed opioids?

It was widely “reported a record 81,230 drug overdose deaths occurred the 12-month ending May 2020”.  That only included April of the pandemic.  Overdose deaths were increasing BEFORE the pandemic and continued to increase during the pandemic, NOT because of the pandemic as we are being told today!

It is notable that homicides decreased 54% from 1991 to 2012, when “half of Prescribed Opioids were taken from society”.  The homicide lowering trend reversed in 2012, to increase 13% from 2014 to 2019, according to the Washington Post, July 11, 2021 Column, “Violent Crime is up, there’s no one cause”.  I beg to differ, taking pain control from the working masses, has caused disgruntled friends and family of all, leading to this rise in homicides nationally.

This is the same diabolical Prescribed Opioid Prohibition, which has failed so catastrophically for over a decade.  Since the inflection date, 2012, drug overdose deaths have in fact been inversely proportional to prescribed opioids.

However, given the nine proposed Bills exclusively promoting more Prescribed Opioid restriction, and nothing more, we recommend bestowing the title of The Father of the Opioid Epidemic upon the Honorable Senator Joe Manchin!   One should always strive to give credit where credit is due!  In this instance, Senator Manchin has more than put in the work in these nine Bills to earn such an accolade!  Or perhaps he needs to be tarred and feathered!

Continuation of this machination of torturing the disabled to death can only serve special interests.  It’s damn sure not in the best interests of the public at large to sacrifice democracy!   Prohibition of critical medications can never be more!  The Opioid Epidemic Myth never became reality until prescribed opioids were drastically cut in 2012.

How much longer will the Fourth Estate proper (press and news media), remain silent on this overt crime against humanity collusion?