Opioids Quotes:

We lose thousands of our fellow Americans every year to opioid abuse.

- Donald Trump

source: "In West Virginia, Men In Recovery Look To Trump For A 'Helping Hand'" by Sarah McCammon, health.wusf.usf.edu. February 8, 2017.

topic: Years, Abuse, Opioids

I have always been very interested in the issue of drugs, because as much as illegal drugs are prosecuted, if you think of it as a health issue, the real killer are prescription drugs, like over prescribing of opioids.

- Pedro Reyes

topic: Real, Thinking, Issues, Opioids, Prescribing

We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Epidemics, America, Drug, Opioids, Cartels

Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.

- Maia Szalavitz

topic: Pain, War, Doctors, Opioids, Databases

There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interferes with saving overdose victims in two ways: first, because witnesses to overdose fear prosecution, they often don't call for help until it's too late. Second, because the drug war supports the belief that making naloxone available over-the-counter or with opioid prescriptions would encourage drug use, the antidote is available only through harm reduction programs like needle exchanges or in some state programs aimed at drug users.

- Maia Szalavitz

topic: War, Drug Use, Two, Opioids, Overdose

For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing.

- Newt Gingrich

source: "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

topic: Recovery, Medicine, Brain, Opioids, Modern Medicine

Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

- Lierre Keith

source: Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.152, PM Press

topic: Sugar, Enough, Grain, Opioids

Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.

- Patrick J. Kennedy

source: "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

topic: Doctors, Two, People, Methadone, Large Scale