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It looks like they would prefer we die, no surprises there...
DEA takes aggressive stance toward pharmacies trying to dispense addiction medicine
A West Virginia pharmacist wanted to help those hit by the opioid crisis. But a few years after he began providing medications to treat addiction, drug enforcement raided his pharmacy.www.npr.org
"When Martin Njoku saw opioid addiction devastate his West Virginia community, he felt compelled to help. This was the place he'd called home for three decades, where he'd raised his two girls and turned his dream of owning a pharmacy into reality.
In 2016, after flooding displaced people in nearby counties, Njoku began dispensing buprenorphine to them and to local customers at his Oak Hill Hometown Pharmacy in Fayette County.
Buprenorphine, a controlled substance sold under the brand names Subutex and Suboxone, is a medication to treat opioid use disorder. Research shows it halves the risk of overdose and doubles people's chances of entering long-term recovery.
"I thought I was doing what was righteous for people who have illness," Njoku said.
But a few years later, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Njoku's pharmacy and accused the facility of contributing to the opioid epidemic rather than curbing it. The agency revoked the pharmacy's registration to dispense controlled substances, claiming it posed an "imminent danger to public health and safety."
Although two judges separately ruled in Njoku's favor, the DEA's actions effectively shuttered his i
This reminds me of the evangelicals and being against teenagers being taught how to use condoms or being able to purchase them with the explanation of, "kids shouldn't have sex so I won't condone safe sex education or the purchase of condoms or birth control by minors!"...since when has telling people that they're not allowed to do something been an effective way of dealing with the problem or stifling the unwanted outcome? Teen pregnancy, abortion rates, std's etc. rose exponentially in the states and towns that decided ignoring the alternatives and discussions while demonizing the teenagers themselves was the proper way to deal with the issue while the number of teenage pregnancy, abortion, std's, orphans, and families requiring government assistance dropped significantly in the states and towns that implemented safe sex education and accessibility to prophylactic and birth control to minors strategically. It's the same with drugs. Access to safer alternatives, treatments, education, and help significantly reduce the "symptoms" of a sick nation or peoples that these anti-drug people say they want to get rid of. It's almost as if they identify the individual as the sickness or disease or problem rather than the sickness or disease or problem itself as the issue. When will our leader's realize that you can't just salve a problem by demonizing people with a problem? It's almost as if it's exactly how they want it. They can't create real solutions for problems so instead they create targets to label and eradicate as the problem... "As they pat themselves on the back" its like saying the best way to treat a broken foot is to remove the foot completely...."bingo bango problem solved"It looks like they would prefer we die, no surprises there...
DEA takes aggressive stance toward pharmacies trying to dispense addiction medicine
A West Virginia pharmacist wanted to help those hit by the opioid crisis. But a few years after he began providing medications to treat addiction, drug enforcement raided his pharmacy.
"When Martin Njoku saw opioid addiction devastate his West Virginia community, he felt compelled to help. This was the place he'd called home for three decades, where he'd raised his two girls and turned his dream of owning a pharmacy into reality.
In 2016, after flooding displaced people in nearby counties, Njoku began dispensing buprenorphine to them and to local customers at his Oak Hill Hometown Pharmacy in Fayette County.
Buprenorphine, a controlled substance sold under the brand names Subutex and Suboxone, is a medication to treat opioid use disorder. Research shows it halves the risk of overdose and doubles people's chances of entering long-term recovery.
"I thought I was doing what was righteous for people who have illness," Njoku said.
But a few years later, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Njoku's pharmacy and accused the facility of contributing to the opioid epidemic rather than curbing it. The agency revoked the pharmacy's registration to dispense controlled substances, claiming it posed an "imminent danger to public health and safety."
Although two judges separately ruled in Njoku's favor, the DEA's actions effectively shuttered his business."
so stupid.
