How are we determining misuse? I have chronic pain from a collapsing spine from degenerative disease and 2 forms of Leukemia, amongst others. I was a pro-athlete and also maintained a high security clearance career. Now I’m mainly bedridden and suffering in non-stop agony. I followed a good diet and didn’t even use caffeine or aspirin prior to this. To be treated like a drug addict because I require relief is frustrating at least. Where is our representation? I’m not alone.
She and others like her think we have a spiritual problem and need to see our spiritual advisors to learn how to live with our pain. She's a real **s. No compassion. She hates pain patients.
Wrong it was discovered and used as a pain killer all the way back in the 1970s in France. It’s only during that time did they realize it helped heroin addicts.
@@davidkruse4030your correct its indicated for pain ie butrans patch.Suboxone is indicated for addiction not just heroin all opioids cos of long half life.
@@davidkruse4030 It failed as a pain medicine, and causes complications and life-threatening problems for pain patients who may need to be sedated or pain managed in an urgent care situation. It absolutely saves the lives of people with SUD, it should never be prescribed for complex pain.
What about including in your research the data regarding the increased hopelessness of society on a whole? The political, military, and corporate oppression and dominance has taken its toll on society. What are people working so hard for? This sense of hopelessness tied in with physical pain has created a toxic environment. The burden of responsibility belongs where it was created. Too often the poorest pay for the mistakes of those in power. Too often civilizations collapse because those with all the wealth and power remain blind to actual solutions out of fear of becoming poor, yet have no problems making others poor to maintain their wealth and power.
The problem is assuming everyone wants to be drugged! Perspectives must change, the mindset has to change! I worked too hard to end up bedridden and I can guarantee this isn’t by choice and I’m doing everything possible to get out, but this ignorance in the field has to stop! Take responsibility for creating the disconnected students just seeking an income who took the kickbacks and bribes from big corporations! Politicians and corporations that pour cancerous toxins into the air and water making the population sick need to be held accountable. Accountability and responsibility must switch from the poorest to those actually responsible!
The high prescription areas, have you considered how many physical labor intensive jobs there are involved in these statistics? Are you looking into the factors for those areas other than the obvious? What about high outdoor activities, sports, and things of that nature that cause the use of pain meds? How are you collecting your data and substantiating it?
Excellent point as here my list as followed how and why and didn't even feel the pain strong enough as meds or not being a defensive soccer player made me have a higher then normal pain tolerance w that said I played soccer and Rollerblade freestyle/ street, numerous car accident all as same time being in food & Bev for 18yrs including college. This means sometimes not enough tools to help w heavy lifting products past 50# usual requirement on job application at a smaller body shape for the job. The lifting job should have required more hands or more tools such as a cart for better lifting from the single requirement.
Pathetic, yes. She intends all pain patients be abandoned or forced onto Suboxone, a complete unknown for people with multiple comorbidities and high risk medical conditions who could have a quality of life and function with prescribed opioids. People are dying because of her.@@laurencedoherty8241
It’s because it’s pure bs and government propaganda, she’s a fraud and lied under oath for the government to earn the paycheck that made her extremely wealthy. Ted Talk organizers took the proper step and flagged her presentation as misinformation, this has never been about prescription meds, the government’s own stats show it’s always been an illicit fentanyl poisoning crisis and she knows it but made herself wealthy by lying about it. Bet you didn’t know that the CDC and Anna Lembke knew that the stats they used to manufacture this crisis were fake, they conflated illicit deaths with a much much smaller percentage of prescription deaths and labeled all deaths as prescription. Did Anna tell you about that little lie? No, because she’s a fraud and I not only feel sorry for her son but her patients.
Lembke is providing a massive amount of misinformation, and makes millions doing so. You can't believe a word she says, her data is flawed and intentionally misleading.
My friend recently died from either fentanyl or methamphetamine and now I'm trying to do as much research as I can see if I can ever help reduce the number of people who are victims to these terrible drugs...
I am sorry you lost your friend. There is a problem w/ILLICIT fentanyl, and other drugs. It is because China/Mexico are sending illicit drugs thru the border. This "crisis" was NEVER in a doctor's office. Lembke has it ALL wrong and is trying to profit off her book sales. She absolutely has NO CLUE. They don't use bombs anymore for war here. They attack from within. The enemy speaks plain English.
I am so sorry about your friend, one lost person to drugs is one too many. But please understand, the overdose deaths attributed to prescription opioids is not now and never was caused by prescribers or patients. People struggle with SUD (Substance Use Disorder), and decreasing access to prescription opioids just drives not only people who use drugs recreationally or problematically to the streets, but now, desperate disabled pain patients are being driven to increasingly toxic illicit substances and certain death. If you want to help, fight for harm reduction and legal access to safe medical supply. As long as drugs are being bought and sold in back alleys, we're going to lose more vulnerable people who have the right to compassionate medical care and controlled substances, not cartel product poisoned with pretty much everything including non-pharmaceutical fentanyl. And carry Naloxone. Learn how to use it, give it out to people who are at risk of experimenting with drugs (students, kids on the street), and you'll save the life of someone you won't even know, but a person someone else knows, loves, and will miss forever.
The mindset of those going into the medical field must change. Too often students choose medicine because they want a big income. They don’t want the work that comes with it, they just go in for the paycheck. That complete disregard and disconnect is what has created this! Why is it those with the least to gain are always to blame? Until we take a long hard look at what is actually motivating us as humans, we will continually repeat these miserable moments of humanity in crisis!
They aren’t, this is an illicit fentanyl poisoning crisis and has never had anything to do with prescription pain meds, even during the few years when OxyContin was prescribed more frequently almost 20 years ago. She is selling you something and it’s not the truth, I suggest you do your own research, she made herself a wealthy woman and lied under oath as a plaintiff witness in order to make it harder for pain patients to get medications. If she’s talking about the “opioid epidemic,” she is lying. TedX organizers took the radical step to flag her presentation and warn watchers that it’s bs. Someone in her childhood hurt her and she’s taking it out on the world.
They’re not. It’s the DEA not doing their job and allowing illicit fentanyl from coming into our country. Meanwhile they are going to cut production even more!!. It’s really sad that they can’t get the fact they are the problem going after doctors and locking them in prison for prescribing all the while suicides have skyrocketed and illicit fentanyl is killing hundreds of thousands of people who go to the streets to get pain relief. They’re so stupid.
They aren't now and never did. Anna Lembke has made millions off her "medico-legal" testimony, and isn't doing this out of genuine concern for disabled pain patients. She's a member of PROP, has never treated a pain patient, and is operating strictly for profit.
Not at all brilliant. Extreme. I am a patient with terrible spinal problems. This woman is causing me & patients like me harm. A young advocate finally killed herself after no doctor helped her with the pain. It's reductive, simplistic, & a very skewed view of this issue. Quite frankly, she has no idea what she is talking about regarding pain or pain control.
Did you notice that her overdose data chart stops at 2010? That's because people are dying of illicit substances in record numbers, not pain patients taking prescription opioids as prescribed. In fact, not one single person taking opioids as prescribed has died. The deaths are all illicit polysubstance overdose deaths. Something Lembke neglects to mention...
Just because YOU say it doesn't mean it's true. Ask Sheryl Crow, she sings and/or wrote a song about it called "I wouldn't want to be like you"! Not the one by Alan Parsons Project. I believe she was speaking to/of Lance Armstrong?! I wouldn't want to be like you! Go away and stay away!
Guess What! Don't do drugs and you won't have an addiction. I'm sick and tired of hearing all of these "Poor Me" stories about people's addictions. You addicts chose to take drugs, no one forced you. How about taking responsibility for your own actions and stop blaming others or family life etc. for your drug addictions. But we live in a "Poor Me" world now full of weak people who can't handle life. It's crazy how prevalent drugs are in our society, and if you don't do drugs you're looked upon as strange or a weirdo. Our society isn't being destroyed by drugs, such as Fentanyl, it's being destroyed by the weak-minded people who take these drugs. By the way, drug addiction and alcohol addiction are not diseases, they are chosen ways of life, real diseases are Cancer, Polio, COVID, and no one has ever chosen to have them. Again, if you didn't do drugs, you wouldn't have a drug addiction. Also, don't tell me I don't know what it's like, I grew up around drugs and alcohol and chose too never do either, but I had plenty of friends who did, and many of them are dead now because of their addictions. I have absolutely Zero Sympathy for any Drug addicts or anyone who is addicted to Alcohol. You chose that life, now deal with it and stop crying the Poor Me tears.
How are we determining misuse? I have chronic pain from a collapsing spine from degenerative disease and 2 forms of Leukemia, amongst others. I was a pro-athlete and also maintained a high security clearance career. Now I’m mainly bedridden and suffering in non-stop agony. I followed a good diet and didn’t even use caffeine or aspirin prior to this. To be treated like a drug addict because I require relief is frustrating at least. Where is our representation? I’m not alone.
Not here with Lembke, that's for sure. She's a liar for hire.
She and others like her think we have a spiritual problem and need to see our spiritual advisors to learn how to live with our pain. She's a real **s. No compassion. She hates pain patients.
You are not alone!!!!
Most commenters seem to be missing the point
Suboxone has never been indicated for pain, it’s an addiction medication and as you just said these patients aren’t addicted, they are dependent....
Thank you!
Wrong it was discovered and used as a pain killer all the way back in the 1970s in France. It’s only during that time did they realize it helped heroin addicts.
@@davidkruse4030your correct its indicated for pain ie butrans patch.Suboxone is indicated for addiction not just heroin all opioids cos of long half life.
@@davidkruse4030and it may help some kind of pain, but it did not even touch mine
@@davidkruse4030 It failed as a pain medicine, and causes complications and life-threatening problems for pain patients who may need to be sedated or pain managed in an urgent care situation. It absolutely saves the lives of people with SUD, it should never be prescribed for complex pain.
What about including in your research the data regarding the increased hopelessness of society on a whole? The political, military, and corporate oppression and dominance has taken its toll on society. What are people working so hard for? This sense of hopelessness tied in with physical pain has created a toxic environment.
The burden of responsibility belongs where it was created. Too often the poorest pay for the mistakes of those in power. Too often civilizations collapse because those with all the wealth and power remain blind to actual solutions out of fear of becoming poor, yet have no problems making others poor to maintain their wealth and power.
The problem is assuming everyone wants to be drugged! Perspectives must change, the mindset has to change! I worked too hard to end up bedridden and I can guarantee this isn’t by choice and I’m doing everything possible to get out, but this ignorance in the field has to stop! Take responsibility for creating the disconnected students just seeking an income who took the kickbacks and bribes from big corporations! Politicians and corporations that pour cancerous toxins into the air and water making the population sick need to be held accountable. Accountability and responsibility must switch from the poorest to those actually responsible!
The high prescription areas, have you considered how many physical labor intensive jobs there are involved in these statistics? Are you looking into the factors for those areas other than the obvious? What about high outdoor activities, sports, and things of that nature that cause the use of pain meds? How are you collecting your data and substantiating it?
Excellent point as here my list as followed how and why and didn't even feel the pain strong enough as meds or not being a defensive soccer player made me have a higher then normal pain tolerance w that said I played soccer and Rollerblade freestyle/ street, numerous car accident all as same time being in food & Bev for 18yrs including college. This means sometimes not enough tools to help w heavy lifting products past 50# usual requirement on job application at a smaller body shape for the job. The lifting job should have required more hands or more tools such as a cart for better lifting from the single requirement.
She has know Empathy .She is making a name on the back of pain patients with multiple,painful conditions
She seems very empathetic
Pathetic, yes. She intends all pain patients be abandoned or forced onto Suboxone, a complete unknown for people with multiple comorbidities and high risk medical conditions who could have a quality of life and function with prescribed opioids. People are dying because of her.@@laurencedoherty8241
Invaluable content. Thanks!! It’s a pity that it has so little views.
It’s because it’s pure bs and government propaganda, she’s a fraud and lied under oath for the government to earn the paycheck that made her extremely wealthy. Ted Talk organizers took the proper step and flagged her presentation as misinformation, this has never been about prescription meds, the government’s own stats show it’s always been an illicit fentanyl poisoning crisis and she knows it but made herself wealthy by lying about it. Bet you didn’t know that the CDC and Anna Lembke knew that the stats they used to manufacture this crisis were fake, they conflated illicit deaths with a much much smaller percentage of prescription deaths and labeled all deaths as prescription. Did Anna tell you about that little lie? No, because she’s a fraud and I not only feel sorry for her son but her patients.
It’s so sad how much she lies. She and Kolodny make lots and lots of money with these lies.
Lembke is providing a massive amount of misinformation, and makes millions doing so. You can't believe a word she says, her data is flawed and intentionally misleading.
This woman is evil.
My friend recently died from either fentanyl or methamphetamine and now I'm trying to do as much research as I can see if I can ever help reduce the number of people who are victims to these terrible drugs...
I am sorry you lost your friend. There is a problem w/ILLICIT fentanyl, and other drugs. It is because China/Mexico are sending illicit drugs thru the border. This "crisis" was NEVER in a doctor's office. Lembke has it ALL wrong and is trying to profit off her book sales. She absolutely has NO CLUE. They don't use bombs anymore for war here. They attack from within. The enemy speaks plain English.
One way would be to stop denying people rx opioids and sending them to the streets. Safe supply saves lives.
@@christineneuen413yep, say it again
I am so sorry about your friend, one lost person to drugs is one too many. But please understand, the overdose deaths attributed to prescription opioids is not now and never was caused by prescribers or patients. People struggle with SUD (Substance Use Disorder), and decreasing access to prescription opioids just drives not only people who use drugs recreationally or problematically to the streets, but now, desperate disabled pain patients are being driven to increasingly toxic illicit substances and certain death.
If you want to help, fight for harm reduction and legal access to safe medical supply. As long as drugs are being bought and sold in back alleys, we're going to lose more vulnerable people who have the right to compassionate medical care and controlled substances, not cartel product poisoned with pretty much everything including non-pharmaceutical fentanyl.
And carry Naloxone. Learn how to use it, give it out to people who are at risk of experimenting with drugs (students, kids on the street), and you'll save the life of someone you won't even know, but a person someone else knows, loves, and will miss forever.
Happy to give you 4/4 stars.
Dopesick director must have watched this!!
The mindset of those going into the medical field must change. Too often students choose medicine because they want a big income. They don’t want the work that comes with it, they just go in for the paycheck. That complete disregard and disconnect is what has created this! Why is it those with the least to gain are always to blame? Until we take a long hard look at what is actually motivating us as humans, we will continually repeat these miserable moments of humanity in crisis!
Disgusting!!
Buprenorphine and SUBOXONE: yet another "less addictive" opioid... sound familiar?
Loved this talk! I never realized that doctors were driving the current epidemic
They aren’t, this is an illicit fentanyl poisoning crisis and has never had anything to do with prescription pain meds, even during the few years when OxyContin was prescribed more frequently almost 20 years ago. She is selling you something and it’s not the truth, I suggest you do your own research, she made herself a wealthy woman and lied under oath as a plaintiff witness in order to make it harder for pain patients to get medications. If she’s talking about the “opioid epidemic,” she is lying. TedX organizers took the radical step to flag her presentation and warn watchers that it’s bs. Someone in her childhood hurt her and she’s taking it out on the world.
They’re not. It’s the DEA not doing their job and allowing illicit fentanyl from coming into our country. Meanwhile they are going to cut production even more!!. It’s really sad that they can’t get the fact they are the problem going after doctors and locking them in prison for prescribing all the while suicides have skyrocketed and illicit fentanyl is killing hundreds of thousands of people who go to the streets to get pain relief. They’re so stupid.
They aren't now and never did. Anna Lembke has made millions off her "medico-legal" testimony, and isn't doing this out of genuine concern for disabled pain patients. She's a member of PROP, has never treated a pain patient, and is operating strictly for profit.
Brilliant.
Not at all brilliant. Extreme. I am a patient with terrible spinal problems. This woman is causing me & patients like me harm. A young advocate finally killed herself after no doctor helped her with the pain. It's reductive, simplistic, & a very skewed view of this issue. Quite frankly, she has no idea what she is talking about regarding pain or pain control.
Think I'll give her minus 1,000
Brilliant research
Did you notice that her overdose data chart stops at 2010? That's because people are dying of illicit substances in record numbers, not pain patients taking prescription opioids as prescribed. In fact, not one single person taking opioids as prescribed has died. The deaths are all illicit polysubstance overdose deaths. Something Lembke neglects to mention...
Just because YOU say it doesn't mean it's true. Ask Sheryl Crow, she sings and/or wrote a song about it called "I wouldn't want to be like you"! Not the one by Alan Parsons Project. I believe she was speaking to/of Lance Armstrong?!
I wouldn't want to be like you! Go away and stay away!
Guess What! Don't do drugs and you won't have an addiction. I'm sick and tired of hearing all of these "Poor Me" stories about people's addictions. You addicts chose to take drugs, no one forced you. How about taking responsibility for your own actions and stop blaming others or family life etc. for your drug addictions. But we live in a "Poor Me" world now full of weak people who can't handle life. It's crazy how prevalent drugs are in our society, and if you don't do drugs you're looked upon as strange or a weirdo. Our society isn't being destroyed by drugs, such as Fentanyl, it's being destroyed by the weak-minded people who take these drugs. By the way, drug addiction and alcohol addiction are not diseases, they are chosen ways of life, real diseases are Cancer, Polio, COVID, and no one has ever chosen to have them. Again, if you didn't do drugs, you wouldn't have a drug addiction. Also, don't tell me I don't know what it's like, I grew up around drugs and alcohol and chose too never do either, but I had plenty of friends who did, and many of them are dead now because of their addictions. I have absolutely Zero Sympathy for any Drug addicts or anyone who is addicted to Alcohol. You chose that life, now deal with it and stop crying the Poor Me tears.
We can't stop. That's what makes us addicts. What a mean-spirited, small-minded, sad person you appear to be.