News: Nine news story on prescription pain killers

[Jonro]

Video: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx?videoid=a55da5e3-4b19-44f4-a701-cbdd8000151a

Anyone else sick of seeing this Dr Gordian Fulder demonize every drug on the planet, he's the news networks little run-to guy when ever they need to domonize a rec drug and he sure does do a good job at it, and im sure he gets a nice fat pay check for doing it too.

About the story, yes make them harder to get from GPs so the legit users that need them wont get them and the people that want to get high will get high if they try hard enough, turning to heroin, ODing, poisoning, more crime and more deaths once more.

 

[Verybuffed]

Anyone else sick of seeing this Dr Gordian Fulder demonize every drug on the planet, he's the news networks little run-to guy when ever they need to domonize a rec drug and he sure does do a good job at it, and im sure he gets a nice fat pay check for doing it too.

I actually think he is pretty good. At least he is working in the front lines and is speaking from first hand experience.

The dodgy ones are the nutritonist guy they use all the time on ACA and the hypnotist/motivational speaker guy.

 

[DavisK4high247]

Sounds like here in the US where many doctors are afraid to give out proper pain medicine to people for fear of abuse or more likely pressure from the DEA . The DEA make such ridicoulus rules and doctors here have a condition we like to call "opiophbia" or a fear of opiates,but precribing them not using them thereselves,as many US doctors are opaite users and addicts,altho this is a small % of the total number of doctors.But recreational opiate users of pharmaceutical opiates sadly have made gettin gopiates for pain harder for those who actually need them ,but also like to take a "few" extra as well...

 

[BloodTranceFusion]

Anyone else sick of seeing this Dr Gordian Fulder demonize every drug on the planet, he's the news networks little run-to guy when ever they need to domonize a rec drug and he sure does do a good job at it, and im sure he gets a nice fat pay check for doing it too.

I love these puppets they slip the cheque and a script.

There's a dickhead specialist/analyst/witness/testifier/student/neighbour for every story they want to drum up a fuss about haha. Their phonebook must have them sorted for any topic - be it circumcision (dear, I hate that guy), mining taxes, Dodgey Guys or squatters throwing yoghurt cartons out of the window... that's the tele for you. Tabloid/entertainment for those with nothing better to do than sit in front of it!

 

[TripppAR]

Just watch ACA or Today Tonight for 1 fucking story and tell me that shit isnt the most pathetic, hate filled crap you have ever seen !

Tonight - Dodgy builders (Is YOUR tradie ripping YOU off?)
Tonight - Squatters (could you have one in YOUR unit ?)
Tonight - Bob Katter, is he the real deal, a good bloke.. proper Aussie! (or is he a dick head in a big hat that needs to have the mainstream medias full force of hate and lies thrown at him! )

Tonight...


etc etc

etc......


And they LOVE stories about drugs. Anything to do with drugs, airplane crashes and shark attacks. The fav's..

 

[Crankinit]

Just watch ACA or Today Tonight for 1 fucking story and tell me that shit isnt the most pathetic, hate filled crap you have ever seen !

Tonight - Dodgy builders (Is YOUR tradie ripping YOU off?)
Tonight - Squatters (could you have one in YOUR unit ?)
Tonight - Bob Katter, is he the real deal, a good bloke.. proper Aussie! (or is he a dick head in a big hat that needs to have the mainstream medias full force of hate and lies thrown at him! )

Tonight...


etc etc

etc......


And they LOVE stories about drugs. Anything to do with drugs, airplane crashes and shark attacks. The fav's..

Spot on, the aussie media is just a campaign of sensationalist fear-mongering.

 

[static_mind]

This is your typical ACA story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHso1e6NY90

Im suprised by how much pharms are being injected! I would never had though they out ranked heroin

 

[Verybuffed]

I love these puppets they slip the cheque and a script.

There's a dickhead specialist/analyst/witness/testifier/student/neighbour for every story they want to drum up a fuss about haha. Their phonebook must have them sorted for any topic - be it circumcision (dear, I hate that guy), mining taxes, Dodgey Guys or squatters throwing yoghurt cartons out of the window... that's the tele for you. Tabloid/entertainment for those with nothing better to do than sit in front of it!

This guy isn't a puppet. He is the head of the Emergency Department at Vincent's hospital.

 

[chugs]

Why can't they interview Dr Wodak? oh wait, that's because Dr Fulder maintains the narrative that the channel 9 news producer wishes to put forth.

Its not that Dr Fulder was expressing anything new. Most physician will of course explain the risks and problems around drug use, especially someone who would be utterly sick of it i.e. the head of emergency at St Vincents. Group dynamics, constant conditioning in the medical system ensures compliances through unspoken and spoken rules and punishments.

Meanwhile the producers just have a list of themes that they cycle through. Some of these stories are made months, years ahead of when they're shown, they're called "fillers", and are normally used on slow news days or when a major story isn't ready to be shown.

Drugs are a great story (edit: Drugs are a cheap and easy story that can be quickly produced). Bored researcher reading <insert youth internet site> discovers a anecdotal trend of kids using <insert drug>. Send a crew to major conservative hospital, grab very predictable interview with Dr, edit it up, write simple script "today experts are saying that prescription drug abuse is on the raise. Its worth noting the hypcrisy is utterly ripe. Most of the camera crews love popping their pills and such. The guys working TCN 'video tape' department (smoke and sniff their way through life) and the reporters ain't much better. The older producers are generally well up into drinking (especially since there is a free and open bar at channel 9).

oh where was, yeah here is the narrative;

"Parents and families (i.e. the channel researcher) have found recently websites on the internet encouraging and provide instructions on how to use these deadly substances"

hell the elections are over. no one is kicking the drug footy at the moment. Just a boring news day. People are sick of hearing about the elections and channel nine are under the gun. so when there ain't any news, what do you do but of course make some up.

 

[drug_mentor]

This is your typical ACA story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHso1e6NY90

Im suprised by how much pharms are being injected! I would never had though they out ranked heroin

I always thought that until recently, until reading a lot of stuff about drug trends in Australia. Painkillers have never been prevalent in any of the drug taking circles I have really been involved in, that said out of the majority of people I know I am the only regular opiate user.

I have always had access to heroin from knowledge of where to go purchase it, but very few dealers of other substances I have had over the years stocked heroin.

From reading on trends it seems prescription opiates are extremely common among injecting drug user's, yet most IDU's I have known expressed no interest in painkillers to me, granted they were IV stimulant users.

I think the use of prescription painkillers is probably more common in rural areas and in states and territories where heroin is scarce (NT, SA, etc.) both because of a lack of heroin, and a likely tendency for doctors in these regions to be more trusting due to a less visible drug problem and the general trusting small town mentality.

Among most of my drug using circles of friends there has been a huge increase in popularity in prescription drugs, but only as far as benzodiazepine's (mainly alprazolam, a little diazepam and temazepam and not much else) are concerned. I have noticed this trend mainly among moderate to long (few years) term of relatively heavy meth users that are seemingly only now suffering a lot of negative effects, or atleast only recently realising benzo's counteract a lot of these negative effects.

I incidentally live in a rural town, and I have heard from several sources there is a healthy prescription opioid culture here, being from out of town I don't really know anyone and have not witnessed it. In general it seems that the closer to the city you get the more common heroin is, which obviously impacts on the market demand for alternative injectable opioids.

 

[belarki]

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