straight. i can see. mr chips. expect. things to street like he's. recently. oklahoma in the heart of america one of the most deeply afflicted states in the opioids addiction crisis oklahoma might change the course of history. for the 1st time in the united states a doctor will be sued by the state for 2nd degree murder for over prescribing opioids here's the accused that to reagan equals. a family doctor for over

22 years she is now suspected of being a prescription murderer. the judge has to ascertain if there is enough material to go to trial. the plaintiffs in the room have all lost a child a brother a friend from an opioid overdose. dr nichols was their doctor she was the one prescribing the drugs. let him serve unbox i'm an attorney in oklahoma city i practice crippled events i've got a police officer that and i've been a prosecutor and i've been a judge i've been here all my life i'm born and raised in oklahoma. provided the hardship of the oil production. we're right on the edge of we're

cowboys are the and so we've got a lot of people in here that are hard working people and it's a pretty peaceful city as far as that goes. in box knows these roads inside out and he's on 1st name terms with the local people all his career he's descended this community but to date the clients have changed before i was having people from more the poverty level people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children of the addicted to the opiates now it's every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high in. all of were affected by the opiate use. he represents several families from this town everyone has lost a relative deceased of a cardiac arrest following a painkiller overdose drugs prescribed by dr nichols.

not for profit turning. this oklahoma city lawyer has never seen a case like this and you victim wants to press charges. to come in and see you can see you. have a seat and that marshall has been raising her 2 children alone since her husband died of a painkiller overdose my math shows that's not a 9 per day that she would have prescribed and he passed away and got my 2nd. one in 20122012. he was a fireman she works an education counselor a regular family all it took was back surgery to turn everything over in a few months her husband became addicted to the painkillers prescribed by dr nichols of course once you have that surgery it's never quite the same and then they get some other treatment anyhow and you know it's a matter issues with just on the judge just injuries it from being to. having such

a physical job and i think it just snowballed you know he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she did dose after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer. more drugs than the regular drug dealers of the street would prescribe but she's doing it in the name of medicine. according to her dr nichols would swiftly see patients without any physical exam a few dollars for a prescription her husband would have been prescribed $100.00 pills a day $3000.00 a month the doctor should have been the response well person they're trained in that's what their job is is to make sure they're treating you in a healthy manner and they're doing what's best for you and not what's going to bring harm to you. it happens to just your next door neighbor to your uncle missy firefighters here call a city police officer to your school teacher 2 year you know it's not a it's not

a disease that is specific it can hit anybody. how come opioids invaded america pain has become a market and the idea of not suffering even likely as you get in drug stores that look like fast food anyone can shop for pain killers physical or psychological a pain killer exists for almost any reason. imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine with less pain and is amongst the pain killers on prescriptions are the opioids usually prescribed for back aches or headaches 2000000 americans are addicted to these pills for a reason that most ignore their opium based. m j somebody minute. and i am the chair of psychiatry at oklahoma state university's

center for health sciences our oath is essentially 1st do no harm and i think that that's one of the biggest problems is that doctors don't realize that by prescribe opioids that they could doing more harm than good and we've seen that in a lot a lot of cases what they originally prescribed for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things streeter body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays it's used for a lot of different things these pills. are found to no other drugs that are legally sold on the market share the same component a powerful narcotic heroin and sometimes they are a 1000 times more concentrated. the opioid compound comes from a plant called the opium poppy and these plants are really grown mostly in asia and

then they're imported by drug companies into the united states but what we do with the pills is we take the good parts of the flour that you would smoke and we concentrate them in a little pill. and so the pills are a much more potent than smoking ever was but in the united states we outlawed the smoking of opium in the early 1900 if you get a 3 day per script there's a 13 percent chance that you'll be taking those opioids a year later so whether it's a few prescriptions or a few pills it's a very small amount that it takes to get addicted. to the left a lethal dosage of heroin to the right it's equivalent to opium samples. to date you know something for your pain talk to your doctor. to be able to

not feel pain has become a tacit agreement between doctor and patient this is what price. these drugs a ticking bombs who's aware of that fact did dr nichols know. a wrongful death lawsuit was filed today against a midwest city dr ragan nichols is already accused are prescribing a massive amount of opioids to 5 patients who later died when i heard that there was 4 other deaths then i said oh good evening oh midwest city doggie doctor i'm all us tonight 3000000 jobs davis i'm just reading and listening to the doctor raising as many times you can stuff and he.

was very happy she got a rest question on t.v. oh. yeah i don't know 4 it was said was this is from 3 doctors i mean did she harm i didn't know anytime that i met a man why america should surrender our men and marriage to my daughter. a met. you mean these are navy have spent their entire life in this house this is where their daughter chelsea was born 21 years ago here also that she passed away at the painkiller overdose in 2013 their story is one of an analgesic burden family hiding in the secret and shame with addiction. she's headed for back surgeries dr nichols was lisa's doctor for 7 years she was the 1st to fall into the opioids trap when i 1st started seeing her i thought she was going to be ok and she was giving

me pain medicine to help my back but as the years go by course your body gets used to that medicine so that it doesn't work you know you used to take one page bill and now you're having to say 2 or 3 pain pills because the pain is so bad. so it just increase and it's just a vicious cycle because you know you've got to have the medicine but you know you don't want to have to take that much medicine but you can't i could work and do my job if i didn't have matters. such as lisa had her own addiction what she didn't know is that her daughter was doing the same thing for 3 years chelsea had diabetes which causes muscular pains it was her time to consult with dr nichols. night i asked her about the quantity of medicine she was given her and her response to me was chelsea was an adult that she couldn't talk to me about chelsea's medical but she could talk to me about chelsea's diabetes but she

wouldn't talk to me about. the medication. i did trust her maybe money. or. maybe the love of money maybe because i know that when she chose to be a doctor i wish they had all of it as she chose to want to help. syria

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and we met dr nichols almost a year ago i think she has a very good heart she wants to help people maybe a little awkward but she's got a really sweet heart my name is tommy adler i'm in a criminal defense attorney here in oklahoma city we represent dr ragan nichols or i really like her very much. doctors lose patients all the time. to accuse a doctor of. acting in reckless disregard for her patients when we believe that she was genuinely attempting to care for them. is a big step for the government that say. that exposes doctors to a lot of risk newsgroup troubled people these patients were abusing the things that they had access to. it wasn't the amounts that dr nichols prescribed these people that killed them it was the amounts that they decided to take.

her line of defense is set to ship. to weigh the shadow of responsibilities dr nichols was an irreproachable professional who was duped by drug addicts and she never had any awareness that her patients were facing any danger whatsoever nowadays in oklahoma city addiction can be seen at every corner. i think america got here because we are the most medicated country in the world. we are a country of fast food quick fixes now now i now feel bad here's a pill her here's a pill. dysfunction here's a pill all of those things are right there at

a doctor's. good painter mines if that were alive. he went to the center as a patient since then he's become the head of the facility in order to save others like himself everyone here has to learn to live without pain killers this private ranches 30 places a year it receives 40 requests a day at 21 years old kyle is in rehab for the 1st time. sub or other. i'm good well cool man are you feeling. alright ran. in here and then we'll good will get everything started. right after you guys. are all. has been to college and he's the father of a little boy. but 4 years ago he became addicted to opioids and then heroin.

writes opiates heroin and oxycontin anything else now. and this is the 1st treatment on right all right are you feeling very emotional. the motion of everybody she's waiting for her boy to come back. it's going to take 30 days for you to really begin to see a change. this is life and death man there's only 3 ways out of this which is get sober which is what i pray for you on the 2nd one is this prison if you're lucky 31 is near berry. i don't know how else to say it but on them right and i can't do this in the room or

as. our own so much rather not see how. them who are more at this moment i don't know. really will be on the view who are who. are all good here. kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids. how it feels to warm like mum my body is a lot. my thought process it's slow. i just got a lot of anger and the. sad emotions in me is just i can't keep my emotions in one place and you know on top of. her i just arrived to look

at. one of our friends and it's all of us ferns and. after that. we in my friends kind of stuck together in. were doing these pills and it was just blocking out so much pain or so stressed out and. fighting back tears every day i think that's hard i'm thinking it was just blocking out that pain. and the feel good it made me forget it. actually helped me out with a lot of things depend on it. i was that was my girl you know that was my love and then. just this last year like to me tell me about things i've lost

my family and that wasn't enough that wasn't enough to write or change. mentally in my head i've gotten close to suicide and. you know these pills are creating monsters and i don't think that they should be legal. just like tobacco addiction the dangers of opioids have been hidden it is taken 20 years for the government to take action for financial reasons. in my office while the lawsuit against produce pharma. knowledge and

so full on and janssen pharmaceuticals. in putting this lawsuit together. we believe these companies are culpable for the tragic heartbreaking number of oklahomans who have become addicted or who have died as a result of the opioid up in. amec in our state. he's the oklahoma attorney general and the 1st one in his country to go to battle. my counter is publicly accusing pharmaceutical companies of having caused this epidemic. he wanted to prove that he and his team have been investigating for more than a year. yes my name is regina whitten i'm an attorney here in oklahoma city and my time is model burrage i am my lawyer in oklahoma.

carol hunter hired my law firm whitman burrage to represent the state of oklahoma and try to recoup all of the costs that the state has incurred because of the opioid epidemic we need this person is a. case. i think we're going to be able to prove that 80 percent of all the crime in the state of oklahoma is directly caused by this opioid epidemic in our prisons are over feel because of that loss of productivity of taxpaying citizens costs the state money but i'm anxious to get this 1st this 1st battle started. what they did to this country. this from. their

estimates bring the cost of the epidemic to $7000000000.00 in oklahoma. this is story cool hearing will take place in a few days. today reggie which will explain his motivations to a group of students for this struggle is a personal one. partner a gene has been involved in the opioid addiction the opioid crossus ever since the death of his son brian and i had a nice that also related to drugs and so when the attorney general talked about representing the state in this case. i think he knew that we both had family members that because of the epidemic. we're going to talk to incoming freshmen athletes at the university of oklahoma

i'm going to tell on. a story about my son brandon. that the power of addiction and how dangerous it is and maybe. save somebody's life. i think i got a chance to shake almost everybody's hand when you came in i was trying to figure out what sport you are it's hard to guess every sport from your you know your size but thank you guys for coming. so let me introduce you to my co speaker. this is brandon. and moran is not here today and i'll tell you why later this is me when i was at o. u. and i had this young son and also when i had more hair. was a cute little kid brand his plan was to go to college and play football which he

did. and he ended up playing on the national championship football team never got in any kind of trouble in the drug that brought him down as an opioid and it did not come from the streets it came from a pharmacy i just told him stop using those pills and i found out it's not that easy i found out it's like telling a diabetic to use more willpower and stop needing insulin you can't do that and that's crazy. i never told him about addiction i never warned him. and so now i i have survivor guilt now but i'm living with it so i started a foundation called fighting addiction through education because i think education is the key to this problem when i tell this story is schools it gets so quiet you

could hear a pin drop and they're not really interested in me they're interested in brandon they i show pictures of him he was one of them he's just ordinary kid and if an ordinary kid like brandon can end up getting hooked they could and that is the truth these pills that big pharma sells. they're essentially heroin pills most people don't know that but these opioids are essentially the same this heroin that's the key telling patients that they're not addictive that's the killer literally please thank you guys for being a good audience and i'm hoping some of the information i've shared with you today might help you in a good way. never

managed to quit. in someone responsible for his misery. pharmaceutical. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area at rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so of added 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says

no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. i 1st heard about we you know. from the helicopter for troops in iraq. i think that down actually people in the know i'm going to with military who have never forgiven or. forgotten traitor the truth of the book and every little thing you believe you saw he was really starting to have. independent journalists and that is you don't. see

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a live person. i don't see him dying. and i. know what he's saying. it's. a brutal standoff grips portland after donald trump deploys federal troops to the city while the president's welcomes the anti racism on red snow sweeping america. what cities are doing is absolute insanity many of the same politicians who want to slash resources for law enforcement have also declared that their cities are saying sure.