I would like ya’ll to know that I absolutely hate stats.

But on day 1, professor threw me a life line.
he said you know what, there is a part of this that you are going to have difficulty with but then there is a part that you are going to be good at.

So I decided to focus on the things that I was good at.

And one of the things that I was good at is camping out in the stats lab.

I would spend hours in that place.

I would get emails at night that said “terminate visit”.

I was like, but I checked out…

While I was in there going through all my frustrations I would share some of my frustrations with my buddies.

and I would just send them memes…

When he was in chapter 7 talking about the mean of the sample means is equal to the population mean mu

That little face right there was the face that I have when thinking about that and it drives me nuts.

And then we all know that. I’m dying crying in there man.

And then when you are wondering where your lab grade is at.

I turned in my lab 4 weeks ago.

Cleo, cleo what’s my grade yo!

And then this is us today and this is me tomorrow. Chillin in my hammock.

A little tongue and cheek but probably a good intro into what we are going to talk about. A serious thing that’s happening now in this country in particular but places all around the world.

We are going to talk about Opioids - the epidemic that keeps on giving.

The opioid problem isn’t a problem just because Trump had something to say about it. It's something that started clearly years and years

In fact when this country was first formed I’m sure there was an opiate waiting around for people to start popping it.

But as time has passed on now it has become more refined and access to it is much different.

(video) this is your brain on drugs plays.

Ok, last time, This is drugs, this is your brain on drugs, any questions?

This is a video that was playing when i was in high school.

This is your brain on drugs.

I remember this, partnership for a drug free america, and Ronald Reagan and all those people were all “stay off of drugs” and this video right here, kinda helped me understand do not do it. Cause it makes sense to me.

I like my brain so I never used drugs. And I would like to say that it had something to do with that video. I wish more people (would have taken notice)

Have you all seen that video before?

You watched it, relentlessly, it was in our homes.

Within the class of Opioids the national institute of drug abuse classifies them, they put them in a class.

Illegal drugs such as heroine and all those different other ones that you already know about fentanyl is also a synthetic opioid.

But then there is also legally prescribed opioids OxyContin, Hydrocodone, Codeine, Vicodin, Morphine and such and such that is used generally when you
go to a hospital. It starts out as a prescription.

So, how it works.

You get a pinch it sends a signal up to your spinal cord up to your brain and once it gets inside your brain it comes back and says “oh theres pain”, and you feel it, right.

But what happens is, opioid blocks that pain signal from reaching the next step in the process so, they block it and now you have a rush of [I said dopamine; however, I meant to use the general term neurotransmitter] that’s passing through your body and then the only thing you feel is the results of the dopamine and not the pain so it has the adverse effect of making you feel excited you get he euphoria, you feel all “high”.

You don’t feel the pain, but the opioid itself does not cure anything it only prevents you from hurting.

In the 80’s and 90’s this was the picture of what crack looked like, the cocaine, the war on drugs. little crack babies they are born everywhere.

But then today its different.

Here you have a war, we are gonna go after, fill up jails.
and here we have an epidemic where,

So here we have two different pictures,

when I was coming up, we had the drug war,
but now we have an epidemic.

with the war, we are going to fill up prisons.

but with the epidemic we are going to fill up mental hospitals.

I don’t know if you guys watched it, but Trump gave a speech about the epidemic.  and people were mad it him saying “why dont you say its a war” well anyways,

it's an epidemic

64,000 people died from “overdoses” in 2016.

that was his claim.

I searched through the CDC to get information about death records.

So within this time period 2010-2014 The death from the top 10 drugs was on the rise.

The top drug, heroin, 33,009 people died from heroin overdoses. and then you see all these others.

The runner up is oxycodone which is initially a prescription drug from your medical doctor.

To me, that implies a competition.

Then the next one you have, cocaine, methadone, alprazolam, morphine, hyrdocodone, methamphetamine, fentanyl, diazepam

A pew research center survey conducted in August (2017) found that 46% of U.S. adults say they have a family member or close friend who is addicted to
drugs or has been in the past.

When I started to put my information together, I kind of panicked because it looked like when i got these numbers it indicated the bias we talked about in chapter 1, then when i found a surveY it was kind of like my rescue because someone else did the survey and now I have something I can build my foundation on.

In a absolutely beautiful poll conducted by Maury Osbourne of 281 adults, 53% said they personally knew someone addicted to prescription pain pills or opioids.

But really the thing that surprised me were the number of people who gave me personal stories about what happened to them.

So the older hat (pew research percent that knew someone addicted to drugs) 43%
The newer hat (maury osbourne research percent that knew someone addicted to drugs) 53%
My percentage was higher, therefore, I had to reject the Pew Research with mine, which indicates that the percentage is higher.  Thus, the rejection indicates that there is significant evidence to suggest that drug deaths by opioid use is on the rise.

So, my assertion, death from prescription opioids is on the rise.

Here (the red coordinates) the Trump assertion of 64,000
I used my line of regression to say that these lines are steadily going up and even though his number is outside of what I indicated I dont have this data (2016) and I dont have
the data prior to 2010. Because someone changed it. Someone realized that we shouldn’t just group all the drugs into one category. Now, medical examiners have to say what drugs they found in someones body.

You can have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, some people have 6 drugs in their bodies when they overdose.

Tragic!

So, clearly on the rise.

This is what the traditional drug war is that you are thinking about. You see people in the poppy fields, they are out their building drugs and all that kind of stuff.

But this is really what’s happening. The board room people are projecting this picture on you so that you are not paying attention that they are making money while at the same time legally overdosing you with drugs.

The Opioid epidemic is closer than you think.

On Tuesday when I got home, this was in the mailbox. AB-Tech tackles opioid epidemic. It tells the story about a lady telling a story about her son who died from an overdose of opioids. Right here in our neighborhood.

You can’t go back and put these folks in the law system to sue them. “your product sucks, we are going to sue you!”

No!

But what people are doing now is They know who these folks are so they are going after them in the court systems.

Palm Beach is just one of many that are doing it. There are people in Ohio, there are cities that are in Nebraska that are actually launching campaigns against drug companies and saying, “STOP SELLING THIS STUFF TO PEOPLE”

Drug epidemic is absolutely on the rise.

It is an epidemic and chances are it’s happening right now to many of you in your own personal lives. The people that are mostly affected by this, sadly,

This is an entire community problem.

However, the people that are participating most are not the people that are necessarily on the left side that you see, the crack baby people that you are all concerned about.

The people that are most affected in this are middle aged caucasian white males who are unemployed or in a job they don’t like. So they are the ones who are struggling the most in this.

If you know some of those buddies and wanna reach out if you have script drugs that you are done with AB Tech has a program where you can take your prescription drugs take the label off of them and turn them in.

Thank you so much.

Opioids
the epidemic that keeps on giving
by Maury Osbourne

top 10 Drugs by Death Overdoses
2010-2014
heroin
oxycodone
cocaine
methadone
alprazolam
morphine
hydrocodone
methamphetamine
fentanyl
diazepam

Deaths from Illegal drugs
81,718

Death from legal Prescription Opioids
107,019

LIKE CIGARETTES
THESE DRUGS WILL KILL YOU AND YOUR BANK ACCOUNT SLOWLY

if you need help there are many resources in your community that are available to you.

your life and your families lives may depend on it.

People with deeper pockets than you, know that you will become addicted. They do not care that you die as a result of "your own personal choice" to use their product.

STOP IT!

CELEBRITIES WHO DIED FROM OPIOID OVERDOSES

PRINCE 57
fentanyl

MICHAEL JACKSON 50
acute propofol and benzodiazepine

WHITNEY HOUSTON 48
cocaine, heart disease, drowning

HEATH LEDGER 28
oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, doxylamine

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN 46
heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, benzodiazepines

AMY WINEHOUSE 27
alcohol poisoning

ANNA NICOLE SMITH 39
methadone, choral hydrate and 3 different drugs used to treat depression and anxiety

CHRIS FARLEY 33
cocaine, morphine

RIVER PHOENIX 23
cocaine, heroin

JOHN BELUSHI 33
cocaine, heroin

JANIS JOPLIN 27
heroin

JIMI HENDRIX 27
barbiturate intoxication

CORY MONTEITH 31
cocaine, ethanol, amphetamine

ELVIS PRESLEY 42
14 drugs - codeine, methaqualone, morphine, meperidine, ethchlorvynol, diazepam, and barbiturates

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https://mauryosbourne.com/opioids-the-epidemic-that-keeps-on-giving/

The study looked at more than 400 patients going to the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, for acute extremity pain from bone fractures, dislocated shoulders, sprained ankles, and other injuries or conditions.

The patients were then randomly divided into four groups, with each group getting a different combination of drugs to treat their pain. The non-opioid group got 400 mg of ibuprofen and 1,000 mg of acetaminophen, which are often sold over the counter as Advil and Tylenol, respectively. The opioid groups got 5 mg of oxycodone and 325 mg of acetaminophen, 5 mg of hydrocodone and 300 mg of acetaminophen, or 30 mg of codeine and 300 mg of acetaminophen.

On a scale of zero to 10, the patients in the study reported, on average, an initial pain score of 8.7, with no significant differences between the groups. One and two hours later, they reported their pain scores after getting their assigned medication.

Across all groups, patients’ pain scores fell over the two hours: by 4.3 in the ibuprofen and acetaminophen group, 4.4 in the oxycodone and acetaminophen group, 3.5 in the hydrocodone and acetaminophen group, and 3.9 in the codeine and acetaminophen group. The reductions were statistically equivalent across all four groups.

“Some (not all) physicians reflexively think fractures require opioids, but this study lends evidence that opioids are not always necessary even in the presence of fractures,” Chang told me, cautioning that there are likely exceptions for worse and more complicated injuries.

The study was a randomized clinical trial, which is considered the gold standard for medical research. When I asked Stanford drug policy expert Keith Humphreys, who was not involved in the research, what he thought of it, he said that it was a “[g]ood study in a good journal.”