community but today the clients have changed before i was asking people for more the poverty level people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children that become 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 what 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. talks about. this oklahoma city lawyer has never seen a case like this and you victim wants to press charges. you can 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 $99.00 per day that she would prescribe . and he passed away my 2nd. one in 20122012. he was a fireman she works in 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 got 2 nickels 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 go so 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 doctor nicholas 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 course and they're trained and 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 miltie firefighters here come a city police officer to your school teacher to your you know it's a 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 is

a good thing 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 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 were they originally prescribed for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things to your body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays it's used for a lot of different things these pills a cool hydrocodone. content are found to know all the 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 there are 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 a quick lived 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 are 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 you know i'm homeless tonight 3000000 jobs dave was 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 very happy that it went on there for him said this this is from 3 doctors very hard i didn't know any internet i met a man why america should search for

a man and manage to. 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 hear also that she passed away as a 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 nice this 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 pain you know and now you have to stay 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 as. much 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 turn to consult with dr nichols. and i asked her about the quantity of medicine she was under and her response to me was chelsea was an adult that she could 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 that she was i did trust her maybe money feeder too or. maybe just the love of money maybe give it to her because i know

that when she chose to be a doctor i would bet on it and she chose to want to help people. my i i.

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capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things like voter suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymander. undemocratic practices. in that world. dr nicholls 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. tommy. and a criminal defense attorney here in oklahoma city we represent dr ragan nichols are 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's a. 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 shift away 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 klein we are a country of if it's a fast food quick fix is now now i now feel bad here's a pill her here's a pill tell this function here's a pill all of those things are right there at the doctor's head but wayne is a good painter minds that were alive jake was addicted to. 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. the 1st time to. sub brother.

you i'm good will cool man i feel and. i gotcha. you a stately. pull to this are you ready all right ran. boy did your mom and here in the good will get everything started. right after you guys. 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 and now ok and this is the 1st treatment on right all right are you feeling very emotional i actually. the motion of everybody she's waiting

for her boy to come back. it's going to take kalb out 30 days for you to really begin to see a change. so 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 is prison if you're lucky 3rd one is. de berry. i don't know how else to say it but i'm right and i can't do that said humor as. our own so much that i would rather not see. them who are or at this moment i don't know i. really would be out. who are those. who. are all through to you here. kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids.

how it feels toward my body a lot of. my thought process it's slow. and just about a lot of anger and then there are a lot of sad i'm oceans and the surest i have a kick in milo shins and one place in the top of. her i just are of though good. for our friends and for all of us for us and. after that. we in our friends kind of stuck together in. were doing these pills and it was just

blocking out so much pain or so stressed out. fighting back tears every day i think that's how i wanted things that was just blocking out that pain. and it made me feel good if they would forget it they 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 too many too many bad things of loss for family and that wasn't enough that wasn't enough to write room or change in mentality in my head by not gotten close to suicide. these pills are. a. little. just like tobacco addiction the

dangers of opioids have been had and it has taken 20 years for the government to take action for financial reasons. in my office while the lawsuit against purdue pharma. so long 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 epidemic in our state. he's the

oklahoma attorney general and the 1st one in this country to go to battle. my counter is publicly accusing pharmaceutical companies of having caused this epidemic. in order to prove that he and his team have been investigating for more than a year. attorney here in oklahoma city . in my mind is model murray i am my lawyer in oklahoma. carol hunter hired my law firm whitman verged 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. and.

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 and our prisons are overfilled 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. it's pretty amazing. their estimates bring the cost of the epidemic to $7000000000.00 in oklahoma. this is storm cool hearing will take place in a few days. today reggie which will explain his motivations to a group of students that this struggle is a personal one. partner reiji has been involved

in the opioid addiction the opioid crosses ever since the death his brain 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 and because of the epidemic. we're going to talk to incoming freshman athletes at the university of oklahoma i'm going to tell on. a story about my son brandon and 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 saying 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 tonight this is brandon. and rand 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. brown was a cute little kid brand his plan was to go to college and play football which he did. he ended up playing on a national championship football team never got in any kind of trouble in the drug that brought him down. 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 at 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 here one 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. richie son never managed to quit. there is someone responsible for his misery. pharmaceutical.

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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 rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 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.

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