Heading to West Virginia today to talk about the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in America and what we can do to help. The facts:
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120 Americans die every day from drug overdoses - most involving legal prescription drugs. That's more than from car crashes.
Sales of powerful painkillers have skyrocketed. In 2012, enough prescriptions were written to give every American adult a bottle of pills.
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4 in 5 heroin users started out by misusing prescription opioids. Heroin-related deaths nearly quadrupled between 2002 and 2013.
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With no other disease do we expect people to wait until they're a danger to themselves or others to self-diagnose and seek treatment.
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@POTUS Please don't make it harder for people with chronic pain (such as fibromyalgia, MS, endometriosis, etc.) to access to these drugs. -
@ProfBanks@POTUS@mamajo76 this would be equivalent to not allowing a diabetic access to their insulin. Chronic pain is HELL.
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@POTUS maybe we should find out why people are so sick?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I just think this could have been worded better. Unless
@POTUS is going to give everyone a bottle of pills.https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/656890709555843072 … -
@smartwatermelon@POTUS you need to take a course in reading comprehension then you might understand what the POTUS was trying to say! - 1 more reply
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@POTUS i wish doctors would actually treat issues instead of masking them. one day… -
@jbalinski@POTUS a combination of counseling, rehabilitation, and accountability would be far more affective, wouldn't you think? - 1 more reply
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@POTUS just don't forget that there are people in real chronic pain who needs these prescriptions, so don't make them impossible to get!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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