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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 22

    The Myth of What’s Driving the Opioid Crisis http://politi.co/2EKVDCk  via @politicomag

    5:29 PM - 22 Feb 2018
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      1. John Tonra‏ @WedgeAloha Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        Love you Prof. Pinker. This article goes from one data point to another, one study to another, with no consistency. It is classic obfuscation.

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      1. Bill Cannon‏ @bgunner Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @blakehounshell @POLITICOMag

        She also goes to great pains to point out that most people who get an opioid prescription do not become addicts. Completely analogous to the NRA argument that most people who buy guns don’t massacre children at schools. I sense drug manufacturer funding behind this article.

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      1. Bill Cannon‏ @bgunner Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @blakehounshell @POLITICOMag

        This article is the equivalent of an NRA article on why guns don’t kill. The author’s main point is that people who OD don’t do it on legally obtained drugs. Of course they don’t. By the time they OD they are past the ailment that allowed prescriptions and must obtain illegally.

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      2. Doc Nebuloso‏ @drnebuloso Feb 28
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        I don’t know, I cut my finger pretty bad about a year back. First thing the Dr did was Rx me Narcos (160 day supply)

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      3. Gabe Askew‏ @GabeAskew Feb 28
        Replying to @drnebuloso @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        I'm confused. Most of the data in the article seems to indicate over prescription of pain killers as the problem.

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      1. Richard Kraince‏ @rkraince Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        The author is "a practicing psychiatrist at a methadone clinic and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute." No wonder the stats are so misleading

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      1. Felipe Nogueira‏ @felipejacknog Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        @drcarlhart has writing and saying this for years!

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      1. WhySilva‏ @Yuri77107723 Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        Article is contradicting itself by the end. It also fails to mention difference between addiction and clinical dependence, no actual commentary from real prescribing pain management specialist. And huge data sets can be interpreted many ways.

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      1. Tom Rhoads‏ @tomrhoads Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        This is an excellent article that follows the best research results and makes sense of what they mean. It seems to have upset some who have opinions that are impervious to evidence but we need facts to work on solving this.

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      1. jan damm‏ @JanDamm Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        Not sure this is the mythbuster promised in the title. By article's own stats, opioid prescription was major factor driving epidemic in the 00's, but street drugs are taking over now that there has been a crackdown on over-prescription.

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      1. Robert Nugent‏ @RandR10 Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        So what the article is saying is that government meddling in the doctor/patient relationship is actually making things worse for everyone. Why am I not surprised?

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      1. David Ford‏ @daveford Feb 25
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        The author leaves out the most germane detail: that most people start out with prescription pain killers and then "graduate" to harder stuff.

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      1. Alison Walker‏ @TheAllyWalker Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @JasonSilva @POLITICOMag

        Western Medicine itself getting a dose of #easternwisdom & vice versa, yea to that!! I double down on the shining polarized lens, often. How do we #turtleup?! #feelmore? #witnessmore? #presenceITall #explore #open #6d #emotionallyUS #weBE5d @NASA Re: #DarkMatter & Trump, sorry:(pic.twitter.com/A6xcVCS8bz

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      1. Catherine Williams‏ @BerksMaternity Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        Well my children showed me this - no link to evidence but animation says the evidence is that there is a social affect component?https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ao8L-0nSYzg …

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      1. pandapan‏ @jappajingjoe Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        That's okay I have a pet that I get all the love I need from & to those who want to alter me who I have grown to be you can forget it. My bare arms got me here 34 yrs later not you & your constant attempts to hate a survivor! "A New Day Is On The Horizon" phrase by Oprah Winfrey

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      1. pandapan‏ @jappajingjoe Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        But my voice is not heard my tweets are blocked by twitter and so are my poles. I never hurt anyone & I am an Outcast, after surviving this and going to college for 8 ys. It took me 30 yrs to quit the addictive smoking habit and I am clean as a whistle to be outcasted by society

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      1. pandapan‏ @jappajingjoe Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        These drugs I listed produce victims who have been raped, killed, street gang take women who are raped and target them to be injected to use them as they please until they OD just to keep pushing the dope.They have been raped are now a target 4 elimination their child left there.

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      2. pandapan‏ @jappajingjoe Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        We finally got out of and no-one seems to care bcz they have been in a horrifying enviroment like that. I never stuck a needle in my arm, but would be mentally impaired by this situation the rest of my life. Heroin, Tobacco, Weed are our Nations Addictive Problems, now add Fetynl

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      3. pandapan‏ @jappajingjoe Feb 23
        Replying to @jappajingjoe @sapinker @POLITICOMag

        "Bcz they have NOT been in an environment like that" a re-quote

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