Illinois Battles Prescription Pain-Pill Epidemic
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Illinois-Battles-Pain-Pill-Epidemic-293107921.html
“We need to make sure that we’re addressing these prescription painkillers and preventing people from getting addicted to them in the first place to keep them from moving to heroin,” said Debbie Hersman, president of the National Safety Council.
Felicia Micelli of suburban Medinah said her son, Louie, became addicted to pain pills following a sports injury. She said Louie’s opioid addiction led to heroin usage. But after rehabbing and staying clean for several months, Louie relapsed and died from an overdose in 2012.
Not to sound cold/heartless… but.. this Mother is blaming her son’s exposure to pain meds as the gateway to Heroin addiction and his premature death. Perhaps if her son had not played sports .. he would have not been injured and would not have a need to have been exposed to pain meds…
The one interviewed said that the “pain meds” …”filled a VOID.. that he didn’t even knew existed ..but it filled that ” That would – as best as can be described – an addictive personality – a mental health condition… that VOID was undiagnosed, untreated mental health issue.
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I could change the state and a few of the names in that story and it would read like dozens of others I have seen. It’s the same old story, child becomes addicted to drugs and overdoses, parents create an epidemic, and now the DEA is forcing doctors in that state to use the PDMP, or else.
This story was so sloppy with information, making assumptions throughout without any evidence to support them, that I’m not even going to post it on my site. These are the kinds of articles that are hand-written by the DEA, the NIDA, or the “awareness” group the parents belong to.
If anyone is interested, my (long) response to the same exact story (with different names and places) can be found here:
https://painkills2.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/matt-and-jane/