Doctors are killing their patients for money. Plain and simple. And here’s the evidence to prove it.
No wonder powerful pharma lobbyists, medical regulators and doctors want to keep medical cannabis banned!
Doctors Get Paid to Prescribe More Opioids
May 09, 2018
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Opioid addiction has been identified as a significant factor in unemployment among men, and opioid overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50
According to the CDC, more than 42,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2016 — a 28 percent jump in opioid deaths from the year before
Recent research suggests opioid overdose deaths are being undercounted by 20 to 35 percent, due to drug omissions on death certificates. A more accurate tally would probably put the opioid-related death toll closer to 50,000 for 2016
Despite widespread discussion about the dangers of opioids and updated treatment guidelines for back pain that stress nondrug interventions over pain killers, doctors are still overprescribing these drugs
One of the reasons for this appears to be financial. According to a recent analysis, more than 200,000 doctors prescribed opioids to Medicare patients in 2014 and 2015 and received payments from the drug makers
