murder for over prescribing opioids hears the accused not to reconnect calls. a family doctor for over 22 years she's now suspected of being a prescription med or. the judge has to ascertain if there is enough material to go to trial. the plaintiffs in the room have lost a child a brother a friend from an opioid overdose. dr nichols was their doctor she was the one prescribing the trucks. let him serve unbox i'm an attorney in oklahoma city i practice crippled events i've got a police officer and i've been a prosecutor and i've been a judge i've been here all my life born and raised in oklahoma.

provide the hard to 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. 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 today they can lions have changed before i was having people from more the poverty level people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children that become addicted to the opiates every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high and. 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.

this oklahoma city lawyer has never seen a case like this a new victim wants to press charges. good to 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 me and 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 got to nichols of course once you have that surgery it's never quite the same and then they did some other treatments and he had you know some other issues with just on

the judge just injuries from being 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 those 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 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 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 call a city police officer to your school teacher 2 year you know it's 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 painkiller exists for almost any reason. imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis page. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine with less pain and health 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. i'm

jason b. 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 street your body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays it's used for a lot of different things these pills a cool. content are found to know 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 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 on 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 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 that i sort of thing oh good evening the midwest city doggie doctor i'm homeless tonight 3000000 jobs davis i'm just reading and listening to the raising as many times you can stuff and he.

was very happy she got a rest question on t.v. oh. i don't know 4 it was said was this is healthy daughter i mean did she harm i didn't know any term that i met a man why america should certain men and marriage to. a met. you. mean these are innate he has spent her entire life in this house this is where their daughter chelsea was born 21 years ago here also that she passed away as a painkiller overdose in 2013 their story is one of an analgesic burdened family hiding in the secret and shame with addiction. she's headed for back surgeries dr nichols was liza'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 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 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. 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 doc to. night 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. maybe the love of money maybe because i know that when she chose to be a doctor i would bet on it because she chose to want to help people. look forward to talking. about technology should work for people. like human beings in. conflict with.

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fundamental value there is nothing there it's just it's a murmur ation like starlings in the sky they conjure day and then they disperse. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. tyson nation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by with. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or

a maybe in the shallows. in this presidential election cycle both democrats and republicans claim to be tough on china but does that actually need in fact what does the american public really know about the china day on this edition of the program the attempt. you separate it's real. 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's 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 overacting and 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 trouble 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 that is a fast food quick fix is now now i now feel bad here's a pill her here's a pill tell dysfunction. here's a pill all those things are right there at a doctor's. good painter 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. everyone here has to live with. this. place is a year. at 21 years. for the 1st time. sub or other. i'm good man are you feeling.

all right. here and we'll good we'll get everything started. right after you guys. are. really. into 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 ok and this is the 1st treatment on right is alright 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 as 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 near bury. i don't know how else to say it but on the right and i can't do this anymore as. our own so much that i would rather not see. them who are or at this moment i don't know. really will be out of the horrible. call to good care or. kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids.

how it feels horrible i love my body is a us a lot of. my thought process it's slow. i just about a lot of anger and then there are a lot of sad emotions and they is just i ok keep my lotions in one place. you know it's. her i just love the little bit. of our friends and it's all of us friends and. after that we in my friends kind of stuck together and were doing these pills and it was just blocking out so much pain we were so stressed out and. fighting back tears every

day i think that's hard i would think it was just blocking out that pain. and it made me feel good it they 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 the weight room changes and mentally in my head by now it's gotten close to suicide. these pills are. a. 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 fees.

in my office while the lawsuit against purdue pharma. knowledge and so 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 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. yes my name is regina whitman the attorney here in oklahoma city . in my mind this model burrage i am my lawyer and 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 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. is 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 crosses ever since the death 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 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. about 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 speakers and 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. ran i 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 a 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

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 and 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 these opioids are essentially the same as

here and 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. son never managed to quit. there is someone responsible for his misery. pharmaceutical. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that.

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moscow and berlin trade accusations over the alleged poisoning of opposition activists onyx in the mildly as russia's un envoy i ask who stands to benefit from the fall of. the zulus is a good look raise questions. both the speech. and also this hour 10 in new states agreed to take an unaccompanied children from a refugee camp in greece which has been destroyed by a fire most of them will be hosted by germany. and france reports almost 10000 coronavirus cases in a single day the highest figure so far as testing center struggle to cope with demand.