Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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  • @Kleavers
    @Kleavers Před 7 lety +1908

    And meanwhile they ban weed as a 'gateway drug', but you can get pills everywhere.

    • @Dexios_Divine
      @Dexios_Divine Před 7 lety +48

      Kleavers it's a bullshit excuse. Companies don't want it because it's cheaper than a lot of alternatives like hemp or oil for treatment

    • @Casey-dy2oo
      @Casey-dy2oo Před 7 lety +2

      we should be glad. though weed should be legalized, the better drugs are the ones you can get legally. that shit gets you way higher than weed does. obviously with worse side effects but tis the price

    • @hrishitelcontar
      @hrishitelcontar Před 7 lety +40

      that's cos they need an excuse to throw black people in jail, and make them provide slave labour

    • @easyinho
      @easyinho Před 7 lety +14

      and people can grew it by themselves....

    • @Casey-dy2oo
      @Casey-dy2oo Před 7 lety +14

      +Hrishi Telcontar black people and white people use marijuana at the same rate. the law isn't targeting blacks. the law is just there and by default, cops target blacks over whites for any crime.

  • @fallacyinc2215
    @fallacyinc2215 Před 7 lety +2101

    I found my single mother dead on the couch when I was twelve. My only sister died of an overdose when I was seventeen, which was nine years after her first overdose; as an eight-year-old child I had to call 911 while she turned blue on the kitchen floor, because I couldn't get mom to get out of her bed to help. Both of them had prescriptions from a doctor up until their deaths. Suffice it to say, opioid addiction doesn't just affect the individuals taking the drugs.
    Just want to thank John Oliver and the folks at Last Week Tonight for raising awareness.

  • @glitchwalker5422
    @glitchwalker5422 Před 4 lety +1560

    "Heroin is cheaper than painkillers". That's frightening.

    • @FunBoysGaming
      @FunBoysGaming Před 3 lety +21

      I mean, it is.

    • @todaysdesperadohatesavocad7109
      @todaysdesperadohatesavocad7109 Před 3 lety +70

      That is actually the exact reason I became an addict. I mostly smoked weed and started drinking at 21, but a "point" or even a half gram of heroin was technically cheaper and longer lasting than either of those. So, financially, it made more sense to take up dope. Obviously that was stupid and it got exponentially more expensive, but initially it's what got me interested.

    • @karanguyen7569
      @karanguyen7569 Před 3 lety +21

      Comments section:
      1% - people discussing various aspects and consequences of opioids consumption
      99% - laughing lady

    • @TheBoxingCannabyte
      @TheBoxingCannabyte Před 3 lety +2

      Far cheaper. I coukd trade my bottle of pain meds 2 weeks worth for 5 weeks worth of fentanyl and heroin and 1 bottle of liquid methadone which i got thrown off of with no warning even though i never abused drugs. Then while in severe withdrawal from tapering so fast someone taught me how to some some black they had and i smoked it up until 5 months ago when i found someone thst had methadone then a subutext hook which i prefer to suboxone. The naloxone as small amount as it is in suboxone.hurts my stomach snd subutext helps with pain and eliminstes cravings but if i could have one 70mg methadone bottle per day for life i know i would be genuinely more.happy.and stable person who can enjoy doing everything love. Methadone fot SOME people can be a miracle drug but subutext works best for the majority as long as they dint have severe pain even then it helps a bit

    • @Glassandcandy
      @Glassandcandy Před 3 lety +9

      I mean that’s why people use it. If you were addicted and you had the choice, why would you pick something more expensive, less effective, with worse side effects (track marks) AND is likely cut with bullshit that could kill you if done incorrectly (fentanyl)? Opioids are the gateway to heroin, and you cross that line only when you no longer have a way to afford prescription opioids.

  • @dat808chick
    @dat808chick Před 4 lety +1191

    As a black, female chronic pain sufferer. I was treated like a drug seeker while trying to find someone who would actually treat me for my pain. Luckily I have a pain specialist now.

    • @Isawwhatyoudid
      @Isawwhatyoudid Před 3 lety +77

      Thank you for saying something about those of us with chronic pain that need some form of these types of medication and can use them responsibly. Like so much in America this isn't an either-or discussion but one that requires nuance.

    • @dalpz205
      @dalpz205 Před 3 lety +31

      Yes. So many people are suffering needlessly. Last November Fentanyl was reclassified on the same level of PCP, LSD etc. Deemed no use for medical purposes. Imagine the ppl with chronic pain, in a pandemic right before Christmas now have to immediately come off one the strongest pain relievers on the market. I was one. Luckily I knew this was coming because I used to work in the industry so I was able to prepare with a slow taper. But I can't imagine the people who's 2020 year ended even worse.

    • @MeriLizzie
      @MeriLizzie Před 3 lety +10

      This was the comment I was looking for. Thank you! 🐈💜😸
      I have a rare genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS). I’m born with very little cartilage & what I’m born with my body can’t repair. Also, the very disorder that causes my pain makes me resistant to anesthetics & pain medication. I have multiple dislocations a day. One dr told me I should be used to the pain of joint locations by now. I never know what joint will dislocate. As I sit here my fingers are screaming just from the daily things one has to do with ones hands. I have no cartilage left in my knuckles plus bone spurs on most knuckles from the bones rubbing on each other. I also have severe osteoarthritis in most of my joints. Without pain medication I would not be able to care for myself. I’m 45. My family barely helps take care of me now, without pain meds I would have probably killed myself by now just from the pain.
      The local pain clinic took _all_ their patients off opioids & put them all on some sort of behavioral therapy. The rate of suicides in their patients skyrocketed. They hired a therapist & started asking everyone at every appointment if they felt suicidal. Thankfully my internist controls my pain meds & understands that something like hydrocodone won’t work, at all, & I’ll need to take it more frequently due to my natural resistance. I still do everything I can to avoid the ER.

    • @MiniM69
      @MiniM69 Před 2 lety +14

      My cousin has that and two autoimmune diseases. Marijuana saved her life! Please look into it!

    • @dat808chick
      @dat808chick Před 2 lety +10

      @@MiniM69 I use medical Marijuana daily

  • @EliHolland
    @EliHolland Před 7 lety +1751

    That women in the crowd must've been on a lot of opioids!

  • @ThePiquedPigeon
    @ThePiquedPigeon Před 5 lety +2193

    Comments section:
    1% - people discussing various aspects and consequences of opioids consumption
    99% - laughing lady

    • @mrrodriguez2947
      @mrrodriguez2947 Před 4 lety +4

      👍👍 yup

    • @renee_banks
      @renee_banks Před 4 lety +11

      I think she maybe hired to laugh because I’ve heard her laugh in the background of The Daily Show

    • @sarahfrom9683
      @sarahfrom9683 Před 4 lety +12

      April Thatcher are you sure it’s the same woman?

    • @SaraH-jn5db
      @SaraH-jn5db Před 4 lety +4

      To be fair we could barely hear John

    • @neilbaldwin1492
      @neilbaldwin1492 Před 4 lety +2

      @@mrrodriguez2947 did you mean uh huh?

  • @ratthasatkhomsan8644
    @ratthasatkhomsan8644 Před měsícem +168

    Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

    • @MaruErnekr
      @MaruErnekr Před měsícem

      Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode enough to start working on my mental health

    • @MartinsDesign-cs9iq
      @MartinsDesign-cs9iq Před měsícem

      Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Germany. Really need

    • @GlobalVisa-pf9pt
      @GlobalVisa-pf9pt Před měsícem

      He's Shane.myco

    • @cemalcanguzel3683
      @cemalcanguzel3683 Před měsícem

      The shroom experience stands as my most remarkable journey, an awe-inspiring encounter that left an indelible mark of amazement.

    • @AjayiSola0
      @AjayiSola0 Před měsícem

      He’s on insta?

  • @naota3k
    @naota3k Před 4 lety +572

    "I had 9 teeth pulled out of my head for prescriptions." Jesus christ.

    • @Jartran72
      @Jartran72 Před 3 lety +11

      @Alex Pokrandt It is literally a quote from the video you knobhead

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 Před 2 lety

      one at a time

  • @megalobsterface3552
    @megalobsterface3552 Před 7 lety +1271

    Who the fuck is the lady in the crowd that screams every time he makes a drug joke?

    • @megalobsterface3552
      @megalobsterface3552 Před 7 lety +166

      Nevermind, she started doing it at every joke

    • @theblackfish506
      @theblackfish506 Před 7 lety +53

      She sounds like a baby dying.

    • @pablobauch3403
      @pablobauch3403 Před 7 lety +12

      Megal obsterFace it's really annoying. If you pay atention you can also hear her in other episodes.

    • @suzyaero
      @suzyaero Před 7 lety +53

      Megal obsterFace Janice from Accounting.

    • @elliotterodriguez
      @elliotterodriguez Před 7 lety +1

      Megal obsterFace God damn it XD why did you do this to me i can't stop noticing

  • @whereisspacebar2991
    @whereisspacebar2991 Před 7 lety +1460

    I appreciate that John Oliver brings these things to light, but you really shouldn't watch them all back to back. It's depressing.

    • @danieldegeratu6658
      @danieldegeratu6658 Před 7 lety +112

      I like to laugh while i cry.

    • @sadsackofflour2697
      @sadsackofflour2697 Před 7 lety +28

      Hahaaa,
      humor is a hell of a defense mechanism xD
      ...
      *sob*

    • @hitmanwolf
      @hitmanwolf Před 7 lety +41

      Watching all these videos make America look like a unstable Nation waiting to die.
      but that is Reality.

    • @AlecThePirateKing
      @AlecThePirateKing Před 7 lety +17

      It's all about seeing it context and maintaining perspective. Every day I remind myself there are so many things right with the world and this country. Those things just don't need fixing so naturally we're not going to spend time talking about them.

    • @shakesbeer5171
      @shakesbeer5171 Před 7 lety +4

      your last sentence just fucked up the last bit of hope I had for this country who had done so much good to the world. Once.

  • @jevinday
    @jevinday Před 4 lety +196

    I love how you have no experience with addiction or recovery but you still cover it with perfection. Thank you John. As someone who has struggled with IV heroin addiction, i sincerely thank you for the way in which you cover addiction.

    • @katy61
      @katy61 Před 4 lety +7

      Are you clean now? From one addict to another, I sure hope so and I hope you're doing great!

    • @jevinday
      @jevinday Před 4 lety +15

      @@katy61 I sure am :) its been more than 2 years since I've had to do heroin. Thank god. I'm so grateful that you're clean too!!! Every day is a milestone

    • @katy61
      @katy61 Před 4 lety +3

      @@jevinday I am so proud of you!! That is no easy feat, my friend! My daughters father has been on it for years and he just cannot get it together. Needless to say, hes not in her life

    • @TheBoxingCannabyte
      @TheBoxingCannabyte Před rokem

      @@jevinday how you holding up?

    • @ir0n392
      @ir0n392 Před rokem

      @@TheBoxingCannabyte maybe not so well since they never responded, just hope im wrong.. unfortunately as an opioid addict my self, relapse is extremely high (i think 80-90%). Just hope they respond sometime saying they've kept it up, fingers crossed 👍

  • @katieoberst490
    @katieoberst490 Před 4 lety +58

    Unfortunately, I have a chronic condition called Central Nerve Pain and I need opiates to survive the day. These meds are both the best thing that's ever happened to me and my worst nightmare. I've lost control before, but thankfully, I got control back after HORRIBLE withdrawal symptoms. I'm glad John spoke of this issue with such nuance because it's an incredibly tough subject to discuss.

    • @ricksteves3426
      @ricksteves3426 Před 6 měsíci +2

      I have bad nerve pain after multiple spine surgeries and all they gave me was 30 5mg roxys...it takes me 5 minutes just to get into bed without medication and I'm screaming the whole time. Thank goodness for poppy sead tea. Unwashed poppy has helped me tremendously

    • @katieoberst490
      @katieoberst490 Před 6 měsíci

      @ricksteves3426 My Central Nerve Pain is the result of several spinal trauma in my childhood. The pain started chronically when I was nearly 17 in 2002, when pain doctors were handing out opiates like candy. I started out on 100mcg of Fentynal, and 21 years later, the most I need to get through the day is around 30mg of morphine, but that's due to more spine surgery, a small heart attack that made methadone dangerous for my heart, and a life expectancy notice of about two years. I'm sure I'll have to up the dose before the very end, but I'm happy to deal with a bit of pain and a low dose of morphine every day (those 30mg come in either 7.5mg every 4hrs or 15mg every 12hrs, usually a mix of both).

  • @edifon3926
    @edifon3926 Před 7 lety +1264

    The thing about John Oliver as compared to other late night shows is he actually brings to light real issues. Everyone else has been on the trump hate Hillary hate wagon but he focuses on serious issues that others don't talk about.

    • @emyemyemyyyy
      @emyemyemyyyy Před 7 lety +6

      Edifon oj I was just thinking the exact same

    • @JacenSolo97
      @JacenSolo97 Před 7 lety +19

      They're all hacks, otherwise they wouldn't have the platforms they do. 19 minutes 22 seconds, and not 1 mention of Afghanistan. The driving force behind this surge of heroin in our country and others. Not 1 mention.

    • @itsashaka9574
      @itsashaka9574 Před 7 lety +7

      Didn't mention Kratom, which is getting pushed back to being a schedule 3 drug because it has powerful, opoid like pain killing properties, but it's not an opoid, it's just a smokable plant, this pisses me off as it was responsible for lowering opoid deaths by offering a legal alternative without the possibility of overdoses.

    • @itsashaka9574
      @itsashaka9574 Před 7 lety +18

      He also doesn't really give Hillary as much trouble as she deserves, yes, she's better than trump, yes, I hope Trump doesn't win against her, but good lordie christmas when he addressed Stein last week the only one of her issues that he took her down on was the quantitative easing one, and the other was a linguistic used by scientists that she adopted. Since she's not in the field of researching autism or vaccine effects, "I'm not aware" is the scientifically appropriate response. And, next to a No-fly zone, which has been addressed as requiring a war with both Syria and Russia, and Clinton admitted would "Kill allot of Syrians", having a country album about environmental and social concern is just great, actually.
      It also goes to show that HBO is a substantial source of donations in Clinton's campaign, so while our options are terrible, really, we should have had Sanders as an option to trump Trump, as well as to ensure a less war-like, less self-enriching president coming up.

    • @derekcox543
      @derekcox543 Před 7 lety +13

      The only thing that pissed me off about this video is that he didn't mention Kratom. The DEA is trying to make it a schedule 1 drug it hits the opioid receptors in a different way than opiates. Withdraws are similar to getting a cold for most and only lasts a week usually, some do get pretty bad withdraws but it's nothing like heroin or most opiate withdraws. It helps with pain reduces anxiety keeps you focused for me it's a fucking miracle medicine you don't nod your not out of it your just you but a calm more focused you. Thousands have used kratom to get off of heroin and pain meds it has saved countless lifes. But does John mention it no and thats what pisses me off.

  • @feliciaroyers1646
    @feliciaroyers1646 Před 5 lety +3873

    John: People are addicted to opiods
    That one audience member: AHHHHHHH HAHHHHAAHHHHH

    • @Corn0nTheCobb
      @Corn0nTheCobb Před 4 lety +274

      She came for the jokes and she was committed to having a good time, damn it!

    • @madisonschmid2010
      @madisonschmid2010 Před 4 lety +29

      I second that laugh. It's easy. Just say NO to drugs! What exactly IS the problem? The answer is no!
      lmao

    • @vagabond2866
      @vagabond2866 Před 4 lety +86

      @@madisonschmid2010 Great advice for veterans surrounded by death and destruction or kids beaten and abused, screw your annihilated psyche! Just function like johnny easylife! What's the prob bruh?

    • @madisonschmid2010
      @madisonschmid2010 Před 4 lety +8

      @@vagabond2866 So basically, you're also a drug addict... Cool story bro!

    • @felixhoenikker8122
      @felixhoenikker8122 Před 4 lety +81

      @@madisonschmid2010 LMAO this was the embodiment of over simplification

  • @jennifermurray6245
    @jennifermurray6245 Před 3 lety +30

    I started on Norco because of breaking my collar bone at 16. I was up to 30 a day, then moved to heroin by my 30s. I've lost many friends. I'm grateful to be in recovery every day. I also hand out narcan in my town and other clean use supplies.

  • @alexfrank5331
    @alexfrank5331 Před 3 lety +77

    9:25 Making "scientific" claims without actual scientific evidence or review should be illegal like defamation, because not only does it harm people it tricked, it destroys the only thing that brought humanity out of blind-faith dark ages: credibility of science.

  • @mitchelllazarow5290
    @mitchelllazarow5290 Před 7 lety +1137

    When ur typing a last minute essay but...

    • @mason.madeit6369
      @mason.madeit6369 Před 7 lety +19

      Mitchell Lazarow ME TOO OH MY GOD

    • @jerrbear706
      @jerrbear706 Před 7 lety +28

      SAME I STILL DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THE THESIS

    • @mitchelllazarow5290
      @mitchelllazarow5290 Před 7 lety +29

      Jerr Bear Ok ok ok we can get through this together

    • @xtremememestv1717
      @xtremememestv1717 Před 7 lety

      +Jerr Bear George Washington gay

    • @254708cs
      @254708cs Před 7 lety +22

      Use John Oliver as a reward to yourself if you complete said essay. Tis what I did :p.

  • @rsps16
    @rsps16 Před 6 lety +3270

    18 days clean from heroin/fentanyl after 5 yrs of use.... it's been a really rough ride, but it's possible.
    EDIT [2020]: Woah, thanks for the support guys. I'm happy to say I'm doing well. I had a quick slip but got on Suboxone then came off that too! It means a lot for me to see this. Much love and respect to anyone else in the struggle.

    • @cherylmontgomery1111
      @cherylmontgomery1111 Před 6 lety +16

      Raj Sihota did you use suboxon i hope

    • @BassReeves45
      @BassReeves45 Před 6 lety +164

      Hey keep it up bro

    • @howey935
      @howey935 Před 6 lety +47

      Raj Sihota good luck with staying off.

    • @MrMilano99
      @MrMilano99 Před 6 lety +80

      Raj Sihota stay sober bro. In a month or two you’ll be great

    • @Cooz.
      @Cooz. Před 6 lety +13

      Cheryl Montgomery suboxons do not help.

  • @benjamincarlson6994
    @benjamincarlson6994 Před 3 lety +40

    I had a friend who got hooked to oxycontin. Luckily he survived his first overdose and was given medical help instead of prison time. He's now clean and living with his girlfriend

  • @carlperkins752
    @carlperkins752 Před 4 lety +548

    as long as it stayed in poor black neighborhoods.america turned a blind eye.but everytime white middle class gets addicted to a substance it,s a tragedy.Fact.

    • @davidgoldman3236
      @davidgoldman3236 Před 4 lety +52

      True. If it was blacks, it'd be blamed on blacks.

    • @Corn0nTheCobb
      @Corn0nTheCobb Před 4 lety +20

      Sad but true

    • @emmacat3202
      @emmacat3202 Před 4 lety +11

      And what's sad is that the opioid crisis hurt POC and white people.

    • @wendyreuse7190
      @wendyreuse7190 Před 4 lety +2

      Truth

    • @StuUngar
      @StuUngar Před 4 lety +7

      In the 90’s, we had the “crack something” that impacted urban ghettos almost exclusively.
      Crack Edemia? No that’s not it....
      Crack Epicenter? No, still not right.
      Crack Evian? Ok, someone help me out.

  • @xcidgaf
    @xcidgaf Před 5 lety +4957

    There's always one woman in the audience that's just having the bestest of times.

  • @magicarp6802
    @magicarp6802 Před 7 lety +1252

    So Im from germany, but these commercials cannot possibly be real right? Do they talk about drugs like they talk about kids toys in the ads?

    • @mayorwest6911
      @mayorwest6911 Před 7 lety +10

      Lucas Stark they usually aren't commercials, they are videos that they show kids in health class.

    • @Annatheamazing2
      @Annatheamazing2 Před 7 lety +184

      they are real, drug commercials are unfortunately very common

    • @wrenpyle7098
      @wrenpyle7098 Před 7 lety +3

      Lucas Stark yep.

    • @magicarp6802
      @magicarp6802 Před 7 lety +2

      haha also that derail, you know whos been having some :D

    • @arvedui89
      @arvedui89 Před 7 lety +50

      Uh huh

  • @erikbrock5444
    @erikbrock5444 Před 4 lety +41

    I decided to put the "start low go slow" advice to the test, and I have to say, thanks bro. Worked like a charm.

    • @stepha2642
      @stepha2642 Před 4 lety +14

      Did you take her to friendlies for a rootbeer float after?

  • @Artinthedark83
    @Artinthedark83 Před 3 lety +51

    I messed up my back as a kid. As an adult my multiple slipped disks became too much to deal with on my own. My primary care doctor sent me to pain management.
    I started on hydrocodone and oxycodone. When I was still in pain the Dr then gave me fentinyl patches, then methadone. I eventually woke up in the ICU after a medically induced coma.
    I'm now off all of them thanks to selling off all my valuable possessions to purchase a medical marijuana card. Thanks to it I get the same effects as I would with an IV of morphine. Yes it does still hurt, but I can ignore the pain, I no longer care so much that it hurts.
    Downside is now I can't find a job. No one wants to hire a 'stoner'

  • @clownfromclowntown
    @clownfromclowntown Před 5 lety +1210

    John: what time is it?
    Lady in the back aaaaaaAAAAAAAAA!!!!

  • @Julie-jl2kk
    @Julie-jl2kk Před 5 lety +973

    well, it is nice to know that john's audience's laughter and clapping is in fact real lol

    • @marshmelows
      @marshmelows Před 5 lety +109

      IKR? everyone looks like they're complaining about the lady's laugh but it just shows how true and genuine the show is

    • @savingark1528
      @savingark1528 Před 5 lety +22

      Migas Almeida still annoying though

    • @morklee31
      @morklee31 Před 4 lety +9

      The fuck you talkin bout, Last Week Tonight is a studio audience

    • @MasterOfViewership
      @MasterOfViewership Před 4 lety +8

      Yeah. The laughter is never the same laughter volume

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one Před 2 lety +5

      With a guest SEAGULL for this one!
      XD

  • @PowerNoob9000
    @PowerNoob9000 Před 4 lety +90

    7:46 The Seagull really enjoyed seeing that toy gorilla.

    • @sammatthew7614
      @sammatthew7614 Před 4 lety

      Thank you

    • @kialo2085
      @kialo2085 Před 3 lety

      I honestly didn't notice because I was listening to John Oliver 😅

    • @fandomcringebucket
      @fandomcringebucket Před 2 lety

      Thanks OP. Not for the comment, but I was looking for the part with the plushie.

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one Před 2 lety

      NATURE IS HEALING
      XD

  • @creistfallen
    @creistfallen Před 4 lety +76

    Was waiting for the "Take that business daddy!" After the cell phone full coverage joke...lol

  • @groovynipple7092
    @groovynipple7092 Před 5 lety +851

    As a nurse, I’m also pissed at the physicians who prescribe large amounts of opioids to sick people who truly need them for long periods of time and then cut them off cold turkey with no addiction treatment when they don’t need them any longer. This causes people like that grandmother to lose everything. The grandkids don’t understand why grandma isn’t sick any longer but she looks and acts sick for what can last months to years at a time. So they illegally obtain opioids to keep their quality of life and things spin out of control. It’s very sad. People, if you ever get on opioids for a long period of time due to cancer or something serious have a discussion with your doctor before hand and let him know that you know that it is his responsibility to help you with your physical addiction after the medication has been discontinued.

    • @a.n4031
      @a.n4031 Před 4 lety +19

      This is a sad part of the world and it makes me angry that this isn't more widely known

    • @alexandrezani
      @alexandrezani Před 4 lety +32

      Also, opioid addicts should be allowed to buy opioids at pharmacies at reasonable prices, (and be covered by insurance) not be forced into the black market where they end up in debt to dangerous people in order to obtain crap that was cut with rat poison.

    • @pouncepounce7417
      @pouncepounce7417 Před 4 lety +5

      The procedure i am familiar with is that recovering cancer patients are weened of in an clinical setting (lower and lower dosage applied over drip)

    • @pouncepounce7417
      @pouncepounce7417 Před 4 lety +2

      @Binky D'Eath I never bothered to look what they use, know only that it is an mixture of drugs that is given over very slow drip twice daily for about 2 hours each and success rate is very high (given you have people who return to intact social situations mostly the reason i guess)

    • @pouncepounce7417
      @pouncepounce7417 Před 4 lety +3

      ​@Binky D'Eath
      How you got the idea that i do not take pain serious and people who need opiates to survive serious is behond me, I said that in europe you treat people in an hospital for removal from opiates, AS SOON THEY DO NOT NEED THEM ANYMORE. That makes to me much more sense than just cutting them off.
      I had an inflamation of the incestines and it was decided that the side effects of opiates where to dangerous so i had to do without, anyone who had that once can tell you that yes, you want to die NOW.
      So yeah, i know "kinda" about pain.

  • @bodoballermann568
    @bodoballermann568 Před 7 lety +1159

    7:52
    John: "And yes his name is Ha..."
    Me: "RAMBE?!"
    John: "rold."
    Me: Ohh... :(

    • @rnk1131
      @rnk1131 Před 7 lety +14

      Bodo Ballermann dead meme

    • @WombatDave
      @WombatDave Před 7 lety +51

      Harambe isn't dead. He lives on within us all.

    • @amsheel9921
      @amsheel9921 Před 7 lety +3

      Bodo Ballermann Fuck Harambe. Glad he's dead.

    • @Onus6688
      @Onus6688 Před 7 lety +8

      Lol I'm pretty sure that was everyone's reaction lmao

    • @NDOhioan
      @NDOhioan Před 7 lety +14

      **Starts punching dead horse** What? I thought I saw it twitch.

  • @michaeljarvis6587
    @michaeljarvis6587 Před 4 lety +35

    I visited a hospital in America with back pain as a Brit. The doctor gave me OxyContin first as a fit and healthy 20 year old with back pain. This is the cause of the problem.

    • @tinacayford7549
      @tinacayford7549 Před 3 lety +2

      Holy crap, where in US were you and when?

    • @michaeljarvis6587
      @michaeljarvis6587 Před 3 lety +2

      @@tinacayford7549 Florida, August 2017

    • @fandomcringebucket
      @fandomcringebucket Před 2 lety

      @@michaeljarvis6587 Damn, you just needed to say you were in Florida- that says it all.

  • @304Kid
    @304Kid Před 4 lety +34

    I'm from Huntington, WV, I still live and work in the area and what I find interesting is that a lot of people act like this came out of nowhere, and that's not the case at all. There was a slow build-up to it in the 2000s, I remember in I think it was in 2004, I was in high school when it happened. We had something like 10 people OD from black tar heroin, so there has always been a drug issue. It's not a new thing. No, what made it worse was doctors would write prescriptions for opioids not knowing or not caring how strong the drugs really are.

  • @CA-qx1mv
    @CA-qx1mv Před 7 lety +1721

    During the entire thing, I was just imagining sitting next to that lady who keeps squealing laughing and hating my life.

    • @Mobbymick
      @Mobbymick Před 7 lety +51

      Aquila Latin i guess i would have just left... her laughter is horrible!

    • @madexrules
      @madexrules Před 7 lety +37

      Mobbymick Y'all are whiny babies, I didn't notice a damn thing

    • @muditay.1790
      @muditay.1790 Před 7 lety +100

      I kinda liked it. It was so real, those are the best kinds of laughs! People usually tone down their laugh because of this very reason. I didn't mind it at all.

    • @mr.macintosh8559
      @mr.macintosh8559 Před 7 lety +88

      I think John Oliver was even getting annoyed

    • @tycho_m
      @tycho_m Před 7 lety +56

      Yeah what the fuck. It's so incredibly forced and over the top, you just know this person is hungry for attention.

  • @jakejhons5138
    @jakejhons5138 Před 7 lety +221

    My wife is a social worker here in Canada. People have no idea how wide spread drug use is among "regular people".

    • @jeffreykentner5182
      @jeffreykentner5182 Před 7 lety +31

      Everyone uses drugs, it's just a question of which ones.

    • @theunruled
      @theunruled Před 7 lety +6

      Well... no. :)

    • @RavynSkye617
      @RavynSkye617 Před 7 lety +4

      I'm in Toronto and methadone is crazy easy to get in Canada so unless you want the high and not just to kill the pain and not get sick there really is no excuse.

    • @stormboundavi
      @stormboundavi Před 7 lety +1

      Goku learns to Kamehameha

    • @pandoramorgan8988
      @pandoramorgan8988 Před 7 lety +20

      Alex Jhons I am an addictions worker in Canada. It is mind- boggling to me how many professional functioning addicts we have in Canada. I work at the other end of that financial spectrum with homeless & indigent addicts. It isnt any different. Addiction is addiction. I have been to so many client funerals that I feel like an undertaker. I have counselled their grieving families. We need a solution. We need to remove the stigma so that everyone can seek help without fear of retribution. Kudos to your wife & her dedication . I applaud her.

  • @peterhoff3737
    @peterhoff3737 Před rokem +6

    Thank you John Oliver for being the first I've ever heard raise awareness of the reality that those of us terminally ill do exist and need these drugs. I'm the posterchild for treatment. I'm a bedridden quadriplegic with cancer. I was denied pain medication for 6-months by a so-called doctor that called me a criminal pill-seeker.

  • @jb888888888
    @jb888888888 Před 4 lety +33

    7:11 That's supposed to be a joke, but true story, when my mother (a hardcore liberal) was in a nursing home dying, the nurses turned on the TV for her and left it on Fox News. We never had cable at home, but she would not have wanted to watch that even if we did.

  • @vanderlark
    @vanderlark Před 5 lety +2643

    Ah yes. My John Oliver binge has brought me to the inevitable "seagull-episode".

    • @Widdekuu91
      @Widdekuu91 Před 4 lety +14

      Same here. Are you also Dutch bytheway?

    • @CanalPapaco
      @CanalPapaco Před 4 lety +3

      Did he mention this on another episode?

    • @Widdekuu91
      @Widdekuu91 Před 4 lety +129

      @@CanalPapaco
      No, it's a reference to the lady in the audience :) There's a lady, sometimes, that either sounds like a dying seagull or a peacock screaming.

    • @delevilme
      @delevilme Před 4 lety +20

      @@Widdekuu91 thank god i don't know the sounds of a dying seagull. LE: two seconds after I wrote this I've heard it

    • @1andonlyzara
      @1andonlyzara Před 4 lety +25

      ... But this isn’t the flood video

  • @jthunderstriker
    @jthunderstriker Před 7 lety +374

    Good god who screams like that through the whole show? Fuck.

    • @Roboticmumbleman
      @Roboticmumbleman Před 7 lety +21

      was looking through the comments to see if anyone else was annoyed by that

    • @Gameboob
      @Gameboob Před 7 lety +1

      uh huh

    • @prince87x
      @prince87x Před 7 lety +5

      i was just coming to post about that nonstop wailing...

    • @stumckoo6176
      @stumckoo6176 Před 7 lety +6

      Tomi Lahren, anybody?

    • @annehamann8860
      @annehamann8860 Před 7 lety +1

      Thunderstriker I

  • @eliasdavalos3593
    @eliasdavalos3593 Před 4 lety +17

    My cat knocked my Adderall off the counter and my dog chewed up the bottle and ate a few pills :(. That was a few years ago and thankfully he's still alright

  • @l-b284
    @l-b284 Před 5 měsíci +3

    13:27 reminds me of the movie Invention of Lying, when the commercial on the bus says, "Pepsi, when they don't have Coke." LOL

  • @lordtrees4050
    @lordtrees4050 Před 7 lety +498

    Damn what a coincidence.. Today I have one year sober from opioids. This video made this day even more special for me :)
    Shout out to John Oliver and the Last Week Tonight team for helping raise awareness on this very important topic/issue.

    • @golf_fan5286
      @golf_fan5286 Před 7 lety +15

      Lord Trees how's that irony? F- see me after class

    • @RadioMist
      @RadioMist Před 7 lety +13

      Great job, man! Keep up the good work :)

    • @reinforcer9000
      @reinforcer9000 Před 7 lety +21

      one year, congrats. but a lot of addicts will relapse because they'll want to reward themselves for being sober for so long. if you just tell yourself that you've made it this far, might as well keep going and not waste all those years of determination, you won't lose. keep going man, we're rooting for you.

    • @annoyngorangerocks
      @annoyngorangerocks Před 7 lety +6

      Lord Trees keep the good work up :D

    • @lordtrees4050
      @lordtrees4050 Před 7 lety +4

      Rainbowdiamondz I probably should have said coincidental, but I was referring to situational irony. Just edited it lol

  • @sennataylor592
    @sennataylor592 Před 5 lety +3033

    I feel bad for the poor audience members who came all this way to see John's show and wound up stuck next to a seagull.
    Edit: I can't believe I have to explain this. I'm NOT dissing John or his show, I've been a fan for years. Watch the episode first with your volume turned up.

  • @bboops23
    @bboops23 Před 4 lety +15

    I was once given Vicodin for pain after major surgery. It did literally nothing for me. The doctor prescribed such a low dose that it was ineffective for my weight. The pharmacy actually called her to make sure because it was a dose normally classed for a 110 lb woman. I was a 210 lb woman at the time.

    • @davidkruse4030
      @davidkruse4030 Před 8 měsíci

      that story is bs. they dont dose for weight.

  • @AliceNsWonderland
    @AliceNsWonderland Před 4 lety +30

    As someone who's had 22 spine surgeries, 2 hip replacements and currently have 7 slipped discs, I find this so frustrating. Part of me wants to say 'let natural selection take over' but my compassion takes that back & says help them w/o f*ing me over in the process

    • @MiniM69
      @MiniM69 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes, have some compassion. We could easily not have any for you. You could very well get addicted too. A lot of chronic pain patients have.

  • @reyskywaka3202
    @reyskywaka3202 Před 7 lety +2469

    Somebody's dying in the audience....

    • @rockyroqs699
      @rockyroqs699 Před 7 lety +101

      rey skywaka hahaha she keeps coming back to life and dying again in different shows. I heard her in Trevor's show and Seth Meyers', now this as well.

    • @Kite037
      @Kite037 Před 7 lety +163

      better get her an Oxycontin prescription

    • @geoffblankenmeyer7081
      @geoffblankenmeyer7081 Před 7 lety +2

      If you are too stupid to realize that these are concurrent and not consecutive videos, then yes Virginia you are stupid.

    • @aoeronin9574
      @aoeronin9574 Před 7 lety +18

      or getting pregnant

    • @jeyvancarlosgonzalez4591
      @jeyvancarlosgonzalez4591 Před 7 lety

      Kitel

  • @arewethereyet5675
    @arewethereyet5675 Před 5 lety +392

    I grew up in San fran.. I have 4 friends who survived heroid addiction and now work at rehab and counseling centers.. and we have buried 12 friends from back then that died from heroin, alcohol, abuse. I watched it all only using marijuana and I'm proud to say I still use marijuana and I'm surviving cancer very comfortably.

    • @OMGFuziion
      @OMGFuziion Před 4 lety +18

      @Kaptain Kid wait what are you on about? If you consider something prescribed for pain everywhere and has just now been relegalized in the US "using" then you're honestly just an ignorant fuck. Weed has helped my mom get off opiates and heroin but she's still suffering from permanent damage. Weed is a god damn miracle and the reason she's still around.

    • @isabellamorris7902
      @isabellamorris7902 Před 4 lety +6

      @@OMGFuziion I certainly hope that person at least gets just as angry about the use of alcohol and nicotine.

    • @johncrabtree5048
      @johncrabtree5048 Před 4 lety +21

      You live in a Progressive and compassionate state. We are not all so fortunate. Many states punish cannabis users still, leaving not many alternates.

    • @sciencenate
      @sciencenate Před 3 lety

      Kaptain Kid name checks out

    • @Widdekuu91
      @Widdekuu91 Před 2 lety

      I'm Dutch and we have drug-legalisation (officially it's 'reluctant acceptance' and not legalisation) for certain ones.
      I believe those are Hashish, weed, (some people want xtc legalized, since it makes people cuddly and happy and it's already widespread being used, so it'dgo against illegal/wrong produce) mushrooms, and anything calming, which would probably also be opiods then.
      I know two people that are addicted (in a common way, not a drug-seeker way, they live at home, they're just miserable because of the growing cocktail) that were prescribed too many pills and have a great fear of stopping the process gradually.
      I don't know people personally that are on opiods or addicted that live on the street or..youknow, go to great lengths to get them.
      I googled how our situation is, and it says this; (I´ve translated two seperate websites here.)
      "In the beginning (in the Netherlands) opiods were prescribed to people that were on the brink of death and in a lot of pain. Despite the fact that it is forbidden in the Netherlands to advertise heavy medication (prescribed ones, anything other than vitamins and the 250 gram Aleve Feminax type stuff)we had a bit of an opiodscrisis ourselves, it has already subsided a bit, but there's still reason to worry, because there are still people addicted to the opiods aftet the treatment has already finished.
      They're talking about combining weed and opiods and thereby keeping the amount of opiods low, or combining it with paracetamol.
      And about giving enough painkillers for 1 week after a hip-operation and not assuming the patient needs a month's worth of opiods.
      Since 2019 the opioid-prescriptions by doctors, has been declining again with 6%.
      But 5 to 10% of the thousands of people getting it prescribed, will become addicted and that's why it's still such a worry.
      Marcel Bouvy (pharmacutical university blahblahblah) "We were on time to prevent American situations from happening, but it is still a serious problem in the Netherlands. The tip of the iceberg will end up in addiction-clinics, but besides that we still have a large group of people who have been using these substances for years and are having difficulties getting rid of it."

  • @LuisMartinez-rw2lj
    @LuisMartinez-rw2lj Před 3 lety +136

    “Pain build characters” what are you? Screenwriters?

  • @JGHMusic
    @JGHMusic Před rokem +6

    John oliver tells a joke
    Lady in audience: ambulance impersonation

  • @pandoramorgan8988
    @pandoramorgan8988 Před 7 lety +519

    I work with addiction clients every day. It rips my heart out. I wake up in the morning to emails of 15 year olds o.d.ing over night. Its a horrific problem & not a laughing matter. Fentynol is a whole new nightmare. Its destroying lives & families. Addictions are killing our youth. Lets make a positive change. A sober world would eliminate my job & I am ok with that. I would rather be unemployed than have to explain to another family that their child is gone & why. Until that day I will continue to fight the battle.

    • @xxxafterglow
      @xxxafterglow Před 7 lety +19

      Fent, oxy, and other opioids ARE legally available and widely prescribed. That's why we are in this mess.

    • @Sgtspork
      @Sgtspork Před 7 lety +38

      don't forget that there's also tons of long term chronic pain sufferers who actually need and benefit highly from the proper usage of these drugs who get a fair bit of quality of life from them and do not abuse them recreationally. the benefits far outweighs the potential harm for them. so do not be so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater while trying to correct these terrible issues surrounding these medications.. one blanket solution does not work for or is needed for all.

    • @pandoramorgan8988
      @pandoramorgan8988 Před 7 lety +14

      Sgtspork I do agree that there are definite benefits and quality of life to many people. I apologize for omitting that side of prescription medications. Sadly, I deal with the darker side of them & tend to dwell there. I did not mean to discredit their benefits when used properly. Thank you for correcting me.

    • @pandoramorgan8988
      @pandoramorgan8988 Před 7 lety +2

      ada a Although this is good in theory, the reality is that there will still be black market drugs. This is why fentynol is available via prescription but also created in bathtubs. Greed supercedes. Regardless, a solution is absolutely necessary. Over the course of my 22 year career I have seen literally thousands of overdoses that haunt me. I have had to counsel families whose grief is overwhelming. I just pray a solution.

    • @dianelangley6478
      @dianelangley6478 Před 7 lety

      pandora morgan

  • @donmiller2908
    @donmiller2908 Před 5 lety +417

    John Oliver - "The solution won't be quick, it won't be easy, it won't be cheap"
    And it won't be done

    • @scooters47
      @scooters47 Před 5 lety +30

      Not while ever the drug company's are making billions of dollars.

    • @ChristophTungersleben
      @ChristophTungersleben Před 4 lety

      metadon a substitut to heroin without the kick, using opioids only palliativ, some more placebos, setting the true cost the society have. medicins are the front dealer and responsible for the therapy controlled by insurance based on case, statistic, behaviour, praxis, plausibilety and second meaning.

    • @DS-tv2fi
      @DS-tv2fi Před 4 lety +1

      Don Miller I want to like this, but that seems almost pessimistic.

    • @josephwilliams3342
      @josephwilliams3342 Před 4 lety

      @@DS-tv2fi bitch ass nigga

    • @donmiller2908
      @donmiller2908 Před 3 lety

      @Jay Jay - This solution works for me. For me, it's all about the shoe being on the other foot. What would they do for me? That's what sets the bar.

  • @user-tn4ik2pi3r
    @user-tn4ik2pi3r Před 4 lety +63

    i've worked as a rn in a hospital for 10 years now and they amount of pain killers we were told to give for things like literally a stubbed toe is ridiculous-meds 10x as strong as morphine. We were even told how important it was in school to "adequately control pain" and tested on it-aka educational brain washing. it's a serious problem

    • @riordanparata4339
      @riordanparata4339 Před 2 lety +1

      I currently had surgery on my toe because I stubbed it and nothing worked until he gave me oxycodone so shut the fuck up. You are supposed to give the patients are prescribed.

    • @user-tn4ik2pi3r
      @user-tn4ik2pi3r Před 2 lety +3

      Riordan Parata not true actually. I’m legally responsible for anything I give, even if a doctor orders it. You’re knowledge of the medical field seems archaic. You’re so quick to jump to hostility over a simple post that I think you missed my point, and it makes me wonder if you might not have developed an addiction yourself you’re not willing to acknowledge yet (hence your quick jump to brash aggression). Over prescribed pain meds are a serious issue in our country, and as a nurse I was there to witness it. Also, I have to wonder why you’re tolerance was so high. Most people without any opioid tolerance are knocked out from a low dose norco O_o

    • @krisaaron5771
      @krisaaron5771 Před rokem +4

      I've been denied appropriate pain relief from a painful neurological disorder and my life exists between the couch and bed. I'm forced to live in agony because there's a fortune to be made in denying pain relief to those of us with broken bodies. Not every pain patient is an addict -- the worst addiction I've seen is powerful people who are addicted to profit!
      Give us our opioids, give us our lives back, and stop trying to protect us from ourselves. America went through one disastrous attempt at Prohibition a century ago. Why are we trying it again, with even worse results?

    • @user-tn4ik2pi3r
      @user-tn4ik2pi3r Před rokem

      @@krisaaron5771 there’s no profit to be made from denying pain medication. You’re being denied because the government is cracking down on doctors prescribing pain medication and they can’t legally justify prescribing them to you.
      The pain meds won’t take your pain away-just temporarily mask it. You will get a tolerance for it quickly and dependence. Then you will still have your pain and poison withdrawal on top of that-which will just make everything worse.
      Opioids are dangerous. We bred a nation addicted to them. We are trying to correct that problem now. Sorry about your neurological problem, but opioids wouldn’t even be the ideal medication to deal with a neurological pain.

  • @astrowolvez
    @astrowolvez Před 4 lety +17

    This needs to be updated. Because as of right now predue is filling for bankruptcy so they won't have to pay any fines.

  • @bradbeining3341
    @bradbeining3341 Před 7 lety +128

    I was given large amount of pain killers for almost a decade. I began have issues with them and couldn't stop.the crazy thing was when I went to my doctor and told them I was addicted and needed help I was kicked out of the practice for violating patient agreement for pain killers.

    • @daddyd7064
      @daddyd7064 Před 7 lety +34

      Brad Beining I'm sorry this country is so upside down and that had to happen to you. Hope you were able to find help and get clean man.

    • @TenderloinsToughest
      @TenderloinsToughest Před 7 lety +17

      That's because you had a shitty doctor. I went through the same thing and they helped me get off of them with acupuncture and other homeopathic stuff. The Doctor/Practice can make a world of difference.

    • @bradbeining3341
      @bradbeining3341 Před 7 lety +20

      Daddy D 3 years now.thanks

    • @TenderloinsToughest
      @TenderloinsToughest Před 7 lety +11

      Brad Beining Congrats. I celebrate 4 myself today on the dot.

    • @johnharbinger4637
      @johnharbinger4637 Před 7 lety +2

      Ya there is a huge range of how these affect people. Some people have a lot harder time and then there are lucky people like me who don't get affected by addiction. Though its not that lucky if you consider my body adjusts so quick after just couple weeks the drugs barely affect me at all so I have do just deal with any pain that lasts longer than that. It also means I have take higher doses of certain things which is more dangerous. Oxycontin By 3rd week I had to up to 3 pils to be affective so i said fuck it and threw out the bottle and just delt with the pain of a broken jaw. In surgeries doctors have to use higher amounts of knockout gas and i would still end up waking up and they would have to increase it to put me back out. Didnt even get high from Marijuana when I was in college, Dont like the feeling of being drunk at all so dont drink especially after 1 year of going to bars I got tolorent to the point where I could drink half a bottle of taquilla before I even started to feel it, Too damn expensive so thats probably biggest reason stopped drinking haha soon as i felt the hurt in the bank, just trying to pick up some bar slut wasnt worth it hahaha

  • @ale_wlv
    @ale_wlv Před 6 lety +777

    Wow, the woman laughing is totally freaking out

  • @Sunnycrackers528
    @Sunnycrackers528 Před 4 lety +69

    At my university, students have been trained on nalaxoen and a bunch of us carry kits with us everywhere. Kits we got from the university itself

  • @adelepattonxxx
    @adelepattonxxx Před rokem +3

    I'm an addict, in recovery - heroin was my favourite though. I didn't start from prescribed drugs, but i got there too, people who no idea just how bad codine can be in an addictive context.
    Thank you for John oliver 🙏 for your great journalism!

  • @tichyja
    @tichyja Před 7 lety +689

    10:12 somebody in the audience killed pterodactyl... ...twice

    • @tichyja
      @tichyja Před 7 lety +66

      *is continuously killing pterodactyls through the whole show...

    • @Alfonzoo
      @Alfonzoo Před 7 lety +2

      Jachym Tichy yea wtf is that?☺

    • @johnnyflamevlogz8203
      @johnnyflamevlogz8203 Před 7 lety +3

      Alfonz you know, a flying dinosaur

    • @codexix8582
      @codexix8582 Před 7 lety +29

      pterodactyl at 19:12 let out a great plea of help

    • @tichyja
      @tichyja Před 7 lety +2

      Johnny I believe he ment the sound, not pterodactyl.

  • @lbscree
    @lbscree Před 7 lety +190

    I had opioid medicine after my tonsils were removed. However, I only had one dose before my mother took the entire bottle because she was worried I would become addicted. It was only as an adult I realized she took the pills herself. #fuckedup #mommyissues

    • @vguyver2
      @vguyver2 Před 7 lety +34

      that's rough friend.

    • @cooldrop02
      @cooldrop02 Před 7 lety +37

      She still did you a solid. I found out my mother kicked cracked when she found out that she was pregnant with my youngest brother at tender age of 25. Really opened my eyes a bit more that day.

    • @Exantius9
      @Exantius9 Před 7 lety +7

      Opioids aren't THAT addicting, you can definitely take them short term under doctor's order. All cancer patients, for example, get morphine during their treatments but not all become addicted

    • @ladyvimto5546
      @ladyvimto5546 Před 2 lety

      @@Exantius9 are you pharma employee? You lie like a rug! They alter your brain chemistry and it takes years for the frontal lobe to recover.

    • @sagecolvard9644
      @sagecolvard9644 Před 2 lety +1

      I got prescribed a bottle of Hydrocodone for a sprained ankle when I was 12. My mom never got the prescription filled, and I'm glad she didn't.

  • @billy6044
    @billy6044 Před 4 lety +104

    oprah-phobia an irrational fear of orprah does not exist., a fear of oprah is totally rational

    • @thatntr4146
      @thatntr4146 Před 3 lety +8

      I CAN'T PAY TAXES ON THIS CAR OPRAH PLEASE STOP YOU DID NOT THINK THIS THROUGH

  • @Bakumatsu1
    @Bakumatsu1 Před 3 lety +26

    Purdue was sued for 8 BILLION and lost, and they're bankrupt now.
    At least one good thing happened in 2020

    • @thetruewisegamer
      @thetruewisegamer Před rokem

      Sorry to burst but reseal your bubble that was actually trying to get out of 8 billion, but luckily the judge prevented it.

  • @YRGHY2010
    @YRGHY2010 Před 7 lety +1405

    I stayed up until 2:30 am to watch this because I can't afford HBO....

  • @odeiraoloap
    @odeiraoloap Před 7 lety +134

    18:54 The censors must have slept and missed that one. It's a gift to us all. 😂😂😂

    • @ExistentialBordem
      @ExistentialBordem Před 7 lety +10

      This is CZcams not national TV.

    • @clashmanthethird
      @clashmanthethird Před 7 lety +39

      its HBO not national tv

    • @amandas2639
      @amandas2639 Před 7 lety +6

      Right, but the LWT CZcams channel always edits out the f-word for some reason.

    • @SeralthSparro
      @SeralthSparro Před 7 lety +2

      They dont have to its just considered normal by the older demographic. So a lot of company's still censor words so they can reach the widest market. You will find a lot more things left uncensored as time goes on as the elderly die off. On the flip side being overly PC will see a rise as the younger generation has a huge thing for being PC.

    • @IferMasterofFire
      @IferMasterofFire Před 7 lety +29

      Being politically correct has everything to do with not marginalizing people (I'd say minorities, but unfortunately even women are regularly targeted). It does not however have anything to do with the anti-cussing puritanism the US suffers from.

  • @luanabransX
    @luanabransX Před 4 lety +9

    I went to treatment for opiate addiction 3 months before this video. I'm still sober, 3 yrs + 7 months later.
    Edit: I was given every opiate known and ended up on heroin.

  • @m.nickybrockman1469
    @m.nickybrockman1469 Před 4 lety +22

    it all punishes the people who truly need this medications!!!

    • @yorkiemom6144
      @yorkiemom6144 Před 4 lety +3

      That's what worries me with these opioids stories. I had a terrible car accident in 1991. Nerve damage in my right side from my neck to my hip. Back then they gave you so many drugs. I was on Vicodin ES, two muscle relaxers, Valium an anti-inflammatory. After a couple of months of not knowing where the hell I was half the time, I told my doctor I wanted to do physical therapy and get off of this medication.
      That was almost thirty years ago. I am now prescribed 3 10mg Norco per day. That's it. I do my stretching exercises daily and keep my weight down. I reduced my pain medication from 320 Vicodin ES pills a month to 90 Norco. Worked 2 jobs all that time, raised my son alone, took care of my home. But even though I have a 30-year record of NOT abusing my medication, my new doctor in my new state refuses to issue me any. I am being treated like an addict, which infuriates me. They have to stop lumping hydrocodone in with heroin and fentenyl. They are vastly different.
      I, on my own, got off most of my meds by requesting and doing physical therapy. I reduced my pain meds..on my own...by 65%. 30 year history with same doctor. In my opinion, I am the poster child for responsible drug use. But when I try to find a doctor who will continue a treatment that has been highly successful for 30 years, which is the only thing allowing me to remain self sufficient and working ...the doctor tells me to apply for disability. Wtaf?
      The doctors need to keep a watchful eye on their patients and prescribe in their best interests. The government needs to let the doctors decide what is best for their patients.

  • @isaacbromgard7981
    @isaacbromgard7981 Před 7 lety +113

    What really sucks is that this trend of greedy, selfish behavior leading to public endangerment and a massive cleanup effort is not just present in opioid companies, but in almost every major company in America. I'm all for capitalism and free markets, but the amount of greed present when such systems go unregulated for so long is astonishing, and it destroys the concept of ethics when things like this happen. It's really depresses me, because when you realize how bad of a place we're in, you also realize how utterly screwed we are. Like I said before, massive cleanup effort, and no one wants to do it....

    • @jbmp1390
      @jbmp1390 Před 7 lety +17

      +Isaac Bromgard Believe me they are trying to "clean up". But all it's doing is hurting those of us with legitimate chronic pain even worse than we already have been. Now they treat all of us as though we are addicts looking for a fix. Punish the bad drug companies and their unethical employees. Punish the addicts masquerading as patients who break the law and make us all look bad. But DO NOT punish or judge those of us with serious chronic pain issues that just want to be in less pain and use our medications properly and responsibly, which MOST OF US DO. If everyone understand how badly these attitudes and this ignorance is hurting SO MANY people that just need legitimate help with their pain, all I can say is that they should be ashamed for making us go through even more pain than we already have. Disgusting in every single way and WRONG!!!

    • @tony4245
      @tony4245 Před 7 lety +1

      jbmp1390: I'd be more than happy to follow your advice, believe me. But it's REAL hard to tell someone who's a legitimate chronic pain patient from someone who's trying to scam you. I myself got lucky with a workers comp doc who put me on buprenorphine patches - ten years and they still work fine... literally gave me my life back.

    • @sgtpepper211
      @sgtpepper211 Před 7 lety +1

      Well said.

    • @agirlwithdreams15
      @agirlwithdreams15 Před 7 lety +12

      sorry bud, this is capitalism

    • @rohankurian5641
      @rohankurian5641 Před rokem

      🤔👊😪😪😪✌

  • @alexvignolo142
    @alexvignolo142 Před 7 lety +228

    They dont give a shit about you and your health. The next time you go to the doctor approach the conversation with a healthy amount of skepticism. Could save you from shit like this.

    • @Ryan88881
      @Ryan88881 Před 7 lety +4

      This is the main reason people get into life ruining medication like SSRIs and anti depressants. They literally ruin your brain but people just take them because a doctor said they should smh.

    • @rominac1389
      @rominac1389 Před 7 lety +16

      Ryan Marshall I think I'll never go tired of saying this: sometimes antidepressants are needed. But they are not meant for being the only treatment course or having to take them for decades.

    • @Sarahnewks
      @Sarahnewks Před 7 lety +2

      Alex Vignolo cynical much?

    • @jimichan7649
      @jimichan7649 Před 7 lety +4

      SSRI's have never been proven to be safe or effective.

    • @jimichan7649
      @jimichan7649 Před 7 lety +2

      Dr.Smarty Pants Some doctors might care, but they all have to worry about the bottom line. Insurance billing policies force doctors into some shady practices.
      I've had 2 different doctors enter some seriously bad things into my medical record, including kidney failure and hepatitis, for which I had absolutely no symptoms nor any test results to justify them and not disclose this to me, simply to file another CPT or ICD10 code and collect more money from insurance.

  • @roshidayasmin9326
    @roshidayasmin9326 Před 4 lety +7

    2:48 i thought an AT&T joke was coming up😂

  • @rochester212
    @rochester212 Před 4 lety +140

    America 2016: "Make America great again".
    America 2019: "Dog becomes heroin addict and loses everything".

  • @jfkusa123
    @jfkusa123 Před 7 lety +2192

    Do an episode on antibiotic resistant bacteria.

    • @DeezNutzJokez
      @DeezNutzJokez Před 7 lety +11

      jfkusa123 super virus'. Thats gonna kill us all.

    • @jeffreylebowski6897
      @jeffreylebowski6897 Před 7 lety +38

      Almost killed my dog. Scary fucking shit. He's fine now though. :)

    • @utschemezmuer
      @utschemezmuer Před 7 lety +28

      simon Eeks what do viruses have to do with antibiotic resistance?

    • @monkofdarktimes
      @monkofdarktimes Před 7 lety

      do it its for the best good

    • @milkyway-ec2jt
      @milkyway-ec2jt Před 7 lety +30

      Viruses and bacteria are two different things. Antibiotics are used to fight bacteria and antivirus is used to fight viruses. I would stay and explain, but just google it.

  • @andydoufreisn2973
    @andydoufreisn2973 Před 7 lety +295

    Damn John Oliver is so sharp with his words...does anyone even come close?

    • @BlueAngelsLie
      @BlueAngelsLie Před 7 lety +7

      Yes

    • @ernestgibson7588
      @ernestgibson7588 Před 7 lety +2

      Good one, dude.

    • @PhoenixProdLLC
      @PhoenixProdLLC Před 7 lety +6

      Allen Beneli he's just another English man coming into the USA to try to tell us how to live and In embarrassed so many Americans don't see that. It's like a bad divorce between us and them: we moved on and they can't let go, keep ringing the phone, and generally pestering us. The embittered Ex nagging and trying to get us back. Get some self respect folks and push back against these smug, passive-aggressive assholes.

    • @MannyBrum
      @MannyBrum Před 7 lety +43

      You don't see the irony in your statement? We're the ones telling every other country how to live. Only we do it by sending in the military, not comedians.

    • @PhoenixProdLLC
      @PhoenixProdLLC Před 7 lety

      Michael Fisher How the fuck can *you* be so stupid not to know the difference between defending a doctor being able to practice the standard of care vs being arrested by the DEA and thrown in jail, (reminiscent of the panic in the 1800's and do your realize you're probably out of your depth with me yet?), and defending an object called an Opoid? Why can't YOU make the distinction in this, dingbat?

  • @lisamarie5937
    @lisamarie5937 Před 3 lety +9

    I was given ibuprofen when I had my tubes tied and I was SO MUCH PAIN. I finally talked my doctor into giving me opioids but she wouldn't give me more than 2 days worth. I wanted to cry every time I moved for a week.
    Had I known they were going to be stingy with the pain meds I wouldn't have had the surgery.

  • @NemoK
    @NemoK Před 2 lety +3

    I'm watching that new show Dopesick and it's so good. It's a drama series about the opioid crisis.

  • @SueMead
    @SueMead Před 7 lety +517

    If we looked more closely at the Portugese model and took the best from that, the drug problem as it currently is, could be dealt with quite easily. Let's get off the _tough love_ bollocks and accept that people need love and understanding, not judgement, and more separation from people. Stop criminalising drug use and treat it as a medical issue. We don't lock up people for choosing alcohol, so why the double standard with other drugs?

    • @Rubindy
      @Rubindy Před 7 lety +31

      In my view extremely important to most western countries: accept that people need love and understanding, not judgement, and more separation from people

    • @ryangreen3382
      @ryangreen3382 Před 7 lety +18

      Or we could do like the Philippines and just murder anyone that sells drugs because fuck it drugs are bad mmmkay

    • @Rubindy
      @Rubindy Před 7 lety +2

      ryan green
      what i hear about the phillipines and thailand is that people there seem to be very happy even though they dont own much money. My comment is more about social behaviour than drugs that you are relating too

    • @SydneyCarton2085
      @SydneyCarton2085 Před 7 lety +29

      There is an unspoken, cultural agreement that needing to be loved, or some form of social intimacy, is something shameful or should just be ignored.

    • @MintMovies
      @MintMovies Před 7 lety +28

      It's the private prison industry that pushes for tough punishments on anything they can get away with. When there is a big injustice in the United states, it almost ALWAYS goes back to one thing: profit.

  • @norge0209
    @norge0209 Před 7 lety +271

    Three times in the emergency room, I've had to argue to NOT be given opioid pain medicine.

    • @shakeweighter4939
      @shakeweighter4939 Před 7 lety +42

      Jill Hurley Consider yourself lucky.. I've been to the ER with severe pain, three different times in three different places, only to be told "We can't treat pain here.. Go home and maybe try some ice or heat or something.. Maybe some ibuprofein.." Left the hospital in tears all three times..

    • @norge0209
      @norge0209 Před 7 lety +34

      Shakeweighter I've heard that from another person. I don't understand why, even though I was in severe pain, I had to argue to get a non-narcotic, while others elsewhere can't get it when they need it. I am sorry you had to deal with that pain and frustration.

    • @pandapanda8354
      @pandapanda8354 Před 7 lety +5

      Jill Hurley same! Dr seems to offer narcotics rather quickly IMO. I keep a laminated note in my handbag that says "No Narcotics" bc my body really cannot tolerate them well. The fact my sign is laminated seems to make Drs pay attention quickly. works for me!

    • @amandaagnew6787
      @amandaagnew6787 Před 7 lety +8

      its crazy. when I had a c-section, they only gave me Tylenol and Advil for pain. when I went to emergency due to a miscarriage, the doctor gave me morphine for pain. I didn't take it. it seemed excessive to me

    • @cha0sman
      @cha0sman Před 7 lety +7

      You mean opiate pain medicine. Opiod medicine is *any* medication that acts on the opiod receptors...

  • @Thenoobestgirl
    @Thenoobestgirl Před 4 lety +18

    11:02 *EXCUSE ME! IT'S WATERFALLS, NOT DIARRHEA!!!!!!!!*
    - Jillian Mai Thi Epperly (the Jilly Juice woman)

  • @autodiddy
    @autodiddy Před 4 lety +11

    "End of life pain care is a narrow business" COVID-19... "hold my beer"

  • @5HREDD3R
    @5HREDD3R Před 7 lety +2389

    AAAAAHHHHH..HAAAAA HAAAAA!

  • @pierrespoutnik
    @pierrespoutnik Před 7 lety +921

    There's a tropical bird cawing in the distance...

    • @ginaplopper-norton8839
      @ginaplopper-norton8839 Před 6 lety +69

      Spoutnik her laugh is killing me

    • @green_universe
      @green_universe Před 6 lety +14

      Is that a layover sound effect or real people laughing, i wonder. i often hear repetitive familiar laughs tones.

    • @gavsky23
      @gavsky23 Před 6 lety +28

      It's allowed: she's an endangered species. Thankfully.

    • @taylorrhouser
      @taylorrhouser Před 6 lety +32

      Green Universe I’ve seen pictures of his studio, it’s definitely a live audience. You can go to his yelp page and see reviews from people in the audience lol

    • @babababad
      @babababad Před 6 lety +1

      the rare Atlantic Claque

  • @R4veZer0
    @R4veZer0 Před 2 lety +4

    Watching Dopesick, waiting for next episode so came back here just to realize that this is that one episode where the lady is REALLY enjoying herself 🤣

  • @CashMoolah00
    @CashMoolah00 Před 10 měsíci +4

    This segment is pretty much season 1 of painkiller on Netflix.

  • @MrCrockaG
    @MrCrockaG Před 7 lety +1041

    Holy fuck that laugh please stop

    • @fy25song
      @fy25song Před 7 lety +62

      MrCrockaG omg I thought I was the only one. That bitches laugh is soooooo annoying.

    • @giri1478
      @giri1478 Před 7 lety +34

      wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :P

    • @epicplayer6224
      @epicplayer6224 Před 7 lety

      MrCrockaG what laugh?

    • @epicplayer6224
      @epicplayer6224 Před 7 lety +7

      MrCrockaG just noticed.

    • @millsbian2962
      @millsbian2962 Před 7 lety +18

      I know right a stranger's public unbridled joy really flares my diealoneitis.

  • @B_Skizzle
    @B_Skizzle Před 7 lety +51

    My adopted brother's biological father died of a heroin overdose. I can't even begin to tell you how much that has fucked him up, and the rest of our family by extension.

    • @archdukeferdinandofthe3rdc9
      @archdukeferdinandofthe3rdc9 Před 7 lety +9

      fellsbadman

    • @celinak5062
      @celinak5062 Před 7 lety

      Mikey Mouser ya that's one A.C.E. usually you'd have 2 or 4 tho

    • @thinkfloyd2594
      @thinkfloyd2594 Před 7 lety

      "I can't even begin to tell you how much that has fucked him up" - uh, you just did.

    • @jerico641
      @jerico641 Před 7 lety

      Jeez, you're a really sensitive person, aren't you?

    • @mercysegen9453
      @mercysegen9453 Před 7 lety

      My brother started taking heroin after he used prescription drugs as a teenager. He ended up killing a man and is now in jail. I'm pretty sure when he gets out again in 2 years he will probably start taking heroin again and probably die of an overdose at some point.

  • @one8s7n
    @one8s7n Před 2 lety +2

    I was prescribed oxycodone at 16 back in 2001 for a couple years then it was dropped and I switched to heroin after buying them got to expensive and my tolerance built up. I'm now 3 years sober and grateful for every day I have now. I lost several friends to it and it's a horrible thing watching others suffer on it now knowing what they're going through

  • @blusl
    @blusl Před 3 lety +4

    I had a stroke 7 months ago I have been making me laff everyday it's hard when I have a double stroke ain't too much funny but I find u funny ty for making me lol ur good keep doing you I was greatly surprised by the fill on dance number loved it also funny and talented I just started watching two months ago I be checking for you everyday

  • @justrusty
    @justrusty Před 5 lety +280

    Actually, sometimes people ARE denied pain relief because the medical staff assumes they're addicted.

    • @unbroken1010
      @unbroken1010 Před 5 lety +17

      Yeah it's crazy I had to fight with my doctor to switch from Suboxone to Subutex because he thought I would have abusive even after coming with him with 10 plus years of clean urine from a methadone clinic and giving him three months of clean urine including swabs and I have to fight so hard to make that simple switch doctors are not helpful and wanting to get you necessarily better I'm a firm believer in herbs

    • @unbroken1010
      @unbroken1010 Před 5 lety +1

      @Epic says who?

    • @jessicam3543
      @jessicam3543 Před 5 lety +27

      Happens all the time. If you're a chronic pain patient and walk into an ER, even when you say outright "I don't need pain relief" you're treated like scum and often denied care. That's why so many don't bother anymore and are dying at home.

    • @jessicam3543
      @jessicam3543 Před 5 lety +1

      @@unbroken1010 The 485,000 deaths per year from tobacco?

    • @teresat2595
      @teresat2595 Před 4 lety

      Reverend Rusty That’s how it should be

  • @jamese7690
    @jamese7690 Před 7 lety +458

    Who let the seagull in the back door because it keeps yelling

    • @e.abrahamovich8981
      @e.abrahamovich8981 Před 6 lety +2

      I noticed the seagull, I feel sad for the seagull’s partner.

  • @lisdumatin8008
    @lisdumatin8008 Před 2 lety +3

    I had a codeine based pain killer for about a week a few years ago and sometimes when I get really stressed I still think about it, it scares me how long one week of prescribed drugs has stayed with me

  • @heyysimone
    @heyysimone Před 3 lety +4

    I was given a script by my doctor a few years ago for an anti-anxiety/depression medication that he said is quite addictive and can be sold - but because he trusted me (i am trustworthy, dont worry) so he wasnt worried about giving me a large script. I was too scared to really take it as a suppliment to the medication i was already on because i was scared i would get addicted to it.

  • @KapriciousT
    @KapriciousT Před 5 lety +160

    Imagine being next to that lady in the audience. Props to John Oliver for not breaking his concentration.

    • @BardBreaker
      @BardBreaker Před 2 lety +12

      I find it more real when he actually does break and do a double take to someone reacting to something he's said.

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli Před rokem +4

      @@BardBreaker I love that shit

    • @mammawlee
      @mammawlee Před rokem +4

      I'm pretty sure l would be like that woman. I get excited when listening to John.

    • @DebNKY
      @DebNKY Před 6 měsíci

      She's really enjoying herself!

  • @MsGrapeNehi
    @MsGrapeNehi Před 7 lety +2339

    Why is there a dying peacock in the audience!? Someone put the poor thing out of its misery!

    • @The757packerfan
      @The757packerfan Před 7 lety +139

      I feel like that lady is in every episode and she annoys the crap out of me.

    • @danielbras5123
      @danielbras5123 Před 7 lety +6

      What-If Machine futurama is bae

    • @MsGrapeNehi
      @MsGrapeNehi Před 7 lety +8

      Daniel Bras Shut up, baby, I know it! ;)

    • @ilhamputra8711
      @ilhamputra8711 Před 7 lety +73

      7:46
      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • @ClaudiaxCuba
      @ClaudiaxCuba Před 7 lety +27

      she needs her medication

  • @adriantween584
    @adriantween584 Před 3 lety +2

    A doctor I went to prescribed me with oxycontin for back pain and little other treatment. In just a few months I developed tolerance and it lost its effect. I realized I had to get physical therapy and off oxycontin to get better. I did it, but good riddance. This was around 2013...

  • @kelst75
    @kelst75 Před 4 lety +3

    When i was a surgical ward nurse, oxycontin and ms contin used to locked away in our DD(dangerous drug) cupboard and needed 2 nurses to check it out and escort to a patient, and do another double check at the bedside. Now they give them out like tictacs.

    • @katiekane5247
      @katiekane5247 Před 4 lety +1

      Baloney, they're still schedule II, still need signatures, still locked up.

  • @BKirkpatrick
    @BKirkpatrick Před 6 lety +250

    Watching this as a recovering heroin addict is something else

    • @NoMoreBsPlease
      @NoMoreBsPlease Před 6 lety +17

      B. Kirkpatrick Watching this as a former addict with an amputated arm and broken back is something else. The CDC guidelines FUCKED EVERY legitimate pain management patient. It's sending legitimate patients on to the street drugs, increasing overdoses. I never thought I'd be cheering for the Pharmaceutical Lobbyist, but after reading The President's Opioid Panel Review I sure am! I legitimately hope everyone that wrote it gets a horribly painful debilitating injury.

    • @Adam-yo3bt
      @Adam-yo3bt Před 6 lety +3

      B. Kirkpatrick god bless

    • @ras_krystafari3333
      @ras_krystafari3333 Před 6 lety +2

      Watching this as a stoner who gets high on only cannabis who would never poison my body with shitty opiates is somthing still extremley moving because i have so much empathy i prolly feel more for the average user than they can feel for themselves because i have sensitive body mind and soul which is why i would never do that shit in the first place. *dab*time, good luck getting clean/healthy...

    • @maxmarks3503
      @maxmarks3503 Před 6 lety +2

      Christobanistan are you an idiot?

    • @bubblefish4597
      @bubblefish4597 Před 6 lety +1

      There is an interesting trend in that the vast majority of the people arguing against Oliver call people assholes and write 'fuck' a lot. I'm not sure what this says about you people as a whole, but I think many comment writers would find your arguments much more convincing if you didn't insult them at every fucking turn. Me, I don't give a shit if you take this argument to heart, so I can and will insult you.

  • @LilyRose8959
    @LilyRose8959 Před 7 lety +24

    I had four teeth taken out last year, and my oral surgeon was extremely hesitant about giving me a Hydrocodon prescription. He also made it clear that I shouldn't take them unless I actually had to. Thankfully, he did such a great job I didn't need to take more than one. But I could tell how nervous he was about prescribing them for me. If you are given an opioid prescription, be very careful and only take them if you absolutely have to.

  • @audreylee5117
    @audreylee5117 Před 4 lety +5

    I just found out about your show this morning due to your recent coronavirus video in my recommended section. i absolutely love you! hilarious yet informative videos on a very broad variety of topics yet each video goes into the necessary details! I was wondering if you can make videos on animal abuse as that's something that really needs to be talked about.

  • @chrisrw8939
    @chrisrw8939 Před 2 lety

    Recovery from opioid addiction is possible, and you don’t have to do it alone! There are wonderful people waiting in the 12 step meetings ready to love, embrace, and guide you into this new better way to live. Hugs, love, and blessings to y’all. Namaste 🙏

  • @PIKMINROCK1
    @PIKMINROCK1 Před 7 lety +58

    My god, how did professionals think babies didn't feel pain. They cry at the instance of irritation for crying out loud

    • @Floareintherain
      @Floareintherain Před 7 lety +25

      PIKMINROCK1 they feel pain but actually don't form declarative memories until much older. Early pain responses are very hard to tell from early reflexes which also aren't pain. It's more complicated than it seems :)

    • @stevebulbowmd7142
      @stevebulbowmd7142 Před 7 lety

      That so-called "health secretary" is probably not even an M.D., or poorly trained(as are most U.S. physicians) or was bought out by a pharmaceutical lobbyist to make these irresponsible and negligent claims without REAL scientific data to back his statement.

    • @rekrn12345
      @rekrn12345 Před 7 lety +4

      They never thought that they dont feel pains it's more like they won't remember it so it doesn't matter. That theory has been disproved since then and it's standard to use anesthesia on infants now.

    • @animelover3083
      @animelover3083 Před 7 lety +1

      +rekrn12345 so is early trauma a real thing?

    • @Babeatrice
      @Babeatrice Před 7 lety +2

      PIKMINROCK1
      Because retarded American doctors want to push infant circumcision as a necessary surgery in the US...it's all about money.

  • @Timg95
    @Timg95 Před 7 lety +429

    Who let the Velociraptor into the audience?

  • @alno2554
    @alno2554 Před 11 měsíci +1

    What’s sad is that people who aren’t familiar with addiction or refuse to research the deeper nuances and complexities to it are so quick to blame people and believe it is solely on them. So many factors can play into addiction.

  • @danyul4u186
    @danyul4u186 Před 2 lety

    Watching this on bed rest post surgery and have been getting oxy. Felt the need to remind myself exactly what the pills are for and have already started to stop using them as the pain is going down. It’s terrifying how addicting something like these can get and those who are prone to addiction I pray for