Opioid Crisis Destructive to Reservation Populations
Posted by HCN on Monday, July 9, 2018
The opioid crisis is a very serious matter.
Destructive narcotics are not just a problem that seeps into high schools in areas known for the affluent and law abiding, suddenly less economically stable neighborhoods have narcotics dealers selling substances on the corners at night, or patients that needed medicines purchased a prescription and went down a road that did not turn out right.
The proportions of drug overdoses has gotten so bad, that although the United States has medical technology and hospital care for those that can access them, that could increase life expectancy almost to the point of ludicrousy, the numbers of drug overdoses has impacted recent life expectancy statistics to the extent that they are being lowered.
Let it not be mistaken, recent efforts on the part of local, district, city, state, all the way up to the Presidency, to reduce violent gang activity whereat is the impact on trafficking of narcotics, are respected and appreciated.
Keeping an open mind, and the ability to be accepting from broad ranges of possibilities, the opioid epidemic is not the sole result of one or two gangs of teenagers, arguable as well is, nor is the root of the epidemic one or two pharmaceutical companies, or the same about names on the bottles of some medical pills.
Opioid destruction has made its way to reservations. Problems of narcotics on reservations has popularly been viewed as preexistent to today's peculiarities in some instances, the winds of the opioid crisis strengthen and blow through, and so be it the fate.
Several months ago, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee was approached for an amount of about $6 billion for opioid treatment, plus the viable tracking and accountability of opioids into communities deemed negligent.
Negligent opioid distribution basically translates into thousands of pills flourishing into a community without a higher authority that could act as a responsible guide as to who, what, when, where an appropriate distribution is, consistently.
Six billion in opioid treatment for populations on reservations, needless to say, practicalities present themselves; how much of that figure can realistically be expected, and how soon? Generally speaking, on the subject of dollar amounts requested or not yet requested. This is not even discussing the process of approval. Health care levels and treatment, such as to address mundane illnesses, is at what level in certain places?, and the fundamental living conditions of the houses thousands live in, are in what condition?
Destructive narcotics are not just a problem that seeps into high schools in areas known for the affluent and law abiding, suddenly less economically stable neighborhoods have narcotics dealers selling substances on the corners at night, or patients that needed medicines purchased a prescription and went down a road that did not turn out right.
The proportions of drug overdoses has gotten so bad, that although the United States has medical technology and hospital care for those that can access them, that could increase life expectancy almost to the point of ludicrousy, the numbers of drug overdoses has impacted recent life expectancy statistics to the extent that they are being lowered.
Let it not be mistaken, recent efforts on the part of local, district, city, state, all the way up to the Presidency, to reduce violent gang activity whereat is the impact on trafficking of narcotics, are respected and appreciated.
Keeping an open mind, and the ability to be accepting from broad ranges of possibilities, the opioid epidemic is not the sole result of one or two gangs of teenagers, arguable as well is, nor is the root of the epidemic one or two pharmaceutical companies, or the same about names on the bottles of some medical pills.
Opioid destruction has made its way to reservations. Problems of narcotics on reservations has popularly been viewed as preexistent to today's peculiarities in some instances, the winds of the opioid crisis strengthen and blow through, and so be it the fate.
Several months ago, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee was approached for an amount of about $6 billion for opioid treatment, plus the viable tracking and accountability of opioids into communities deemed negligent.
Negligent opioid distribution basically translates into thousands of pills flourishing into a community without a higher authority that could act as a responsible guide as to who, what, when, where an appropriate distribution is, consistently.
Six billion in opioid treatment for populations on reservations, needless to say, practicalities present themselves; how much of that figure can realistically be expected, and how soon? Generally speaking, on the subject of dollar amounts requested or not yet requested. This is not even discussing the process of approval. Health care levels and treatment, such as to address mundane illnesses, is at what level in certain places?, and the fundamental living conditions of the houses thousands live in, are in what condition?
