Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by gooseus on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:44PM
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What I was referring to was the proportionality, obviously it IS being discussed (I linked a prominent policy maker discussing it), so really what I'm saying is that the amount of airtime/attention given to stories on the opioid crisis was far less than the combined number of stories attending to gun crimes or self-driving car successes/failures.
I remember seeing a Vanguard episode on the "pain management" industry in Florida called the Oxycontin Express [1] back in 2009 (won a Peabody). And yet it's only in the last year or so that I've actually heard about it being addressed more publicly.
If you're telling me that I'm wrong and that actually more people, dollars, and attention are going toward saving people from opioid overdose than automobile accidents and gun crime, then I would be happy to be wrong and would want to see numbers.
Otherwise it sounds like you're telling me to tune my news inputs so I hear stories in a proportion that would please me better?
Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:49PM
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"isn't being talked about or addressed proportional to other societal issues"
Talked about, from my perspective, it is. Addressed, no, it most certainly is not being addressed.
1. The opioid crisis is getting a lot of airtime in the media outlets that I read.
3. The opioid crisis is one of the biggest reasons why the Senate's Trumpcare bill is now dead, and was also a major topic of discussion in the weeks leading up to its unexpected loss this week. In short, its drastic cuts to Medicaid would have decimated opioid treatment in some of the states hit hardest, and Senator Capito of West Virginia, at least, would have voted against it because the $40-odd billion dollars that Mitch McConnell would've specifically allocated to opioid treatment would have been a 'drop in the bucket.' Here's some earlier discussion of this point: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/capito-says-opiod-treatment-...
So, all said, maybe find some new sources of news and discussion?
edit: here's a new wire article from the AP that just crossed my RSS reader: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democrats-trump-action-opi...