hi YouTube welcome to live I think we’re about to go live on Facebook give us just a moment I’m here with Katie our family law paralegal okay it’s Friday so that’s nice it is it is Friday and here in a minute you’re going to find out some really fun stuff about this Friday particular and with our national day out that we do in our opening segment today yeah there’s some fun ones today I think today is my favorite of all the Facebook labs that we’ve done I really enjoyed today’s national day a
lot of pressure on me there I made not the whole topic it’s a little bit of the dark stuff but it’s true true but our national day is are a lot of them [Music] I Facebook and YouTube welcome to the disclosure of live with brandy Austin law I’m John I’m Katie and today we are going to discuss the opioid crisis in America and there are a few states and counties that have decided to come together and Sue certain pharmaceutical companies due to the cost of treating the opioid crisis and some playing the
pharmaceutical companies even knew that these drugs were addictive prior to putting them out in the market and so they lie and we do know that this is a touchy subject for some individuals so we completely understand if at this moment you would like to leave and exit from the show today but we’re going to start off with our opening segment so we’re going to talk about a couple of fun things and then go into local news all right so let’s start with Nationals say something nice day the purpose of
this holiday is to counteract bullying and lack of civility and common courtesy that is growing among people in today’s world hopefully the practice of saying something nice today will continue on to all tomorrow’s and be infectious and hopefully you’ll you’ll transfer it on to someone else thank you thank you I really work hard for this wait I need thank you so next up we like this one but unfortunately it doesn’t apply to us today national leave the office early day so of course it’s everybody’s
favorite no this is real did you think I was a joke we’re all out of here today but yes so obviously we all this one semester leave the office early day is an incentive to many who often work more than 40 hours a week comma state upon completion of all your necessary work and with the needed approval it is suggested that you leave work early to enjoy the rest of the day of fun activities of your choosing so if you get to do that today you can celebrate by hashtagging has time to leave the office early day and put them
on any of your social media is just a lot of fun yes show everyone else what you’re doing yeah we’re all going to be scrolling through social media like oh yeah and if you’re like us and you don’t get to leave early the least you can do is make the end of your day yours and go home enjoy your evening and enjoy your weekend so yeah so leave office early or don’t but at least enjoy your weekend next up we have national donut day so it was created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor and the women who served
the donuts to soldiers from World War one it again it’s a fundraiser for Chicago Salvation Army the goal of it was it started in 1938 so that’s pretty impressive that we still do this but it was to help the needy during the Great Depression each year on the first day in June people participate in national donut or donut day this day celebrates the donut and honors the Salvation Army laughy’s the women that serve Donuts to soldiers during World War one in 1917 the original Salvation Army donut was
first served by the ladies of the Salvation Army and it was Dearing one more month at the Salvation Army lassies went to frontlines of Europe they provided home-cooked meals and the doughnuts many different things yeah pretty cool okay so we’re gonna talk about some local dudes really quick all right so with summer hearing and full blast the city of Dallas has decided to take precautions and provide cooling stations to the city’s residents residents the program started yesterday on the 31st
and offers residents of the city city water and air conditioned facilities to escape the Texas heat facilities is designated with beat the heat centers include the Martin Luther King jr. community center that was soundless multi-purpose Center on or the river Sean Clark however that is pronounced that is what I said Park Recreation Center and the Salvation Army donated water to be distributed then at those centers it has also opened cooling stations at 13 of its centers in North Texas for anyone who needs a break from
the heat and I do believe that they said that people can just go and hang out at these recreation centers so if you don’t have air conditioning or you don’t have water interlocking water you can go to these centers hang out get water stay cool very important I think it’s gonna reach over a hundred tomorrow so very important to stay cool Texas just does not mess around does not mess around the heat here is anything so the next thing is lately there have been recently in Texas there was a school shooting and
the governor of Texas to confront himself to initiate a new program we already have something called I watch Texas is currently being used by the DPS to share information about potential threats with law enforcement it can be found on the agency’s website and through the DPS app next month reporting system will transition to its own separate smartphone app and provide a cell phone app for students in high school and the teachers principals anyone within a school system the opportunity to report from their phone
any suspicious activity things like that so what will happen is if you’re a student or your teacher and you find such activity or you hear threat or you think that somebody may do something dangerous you can report it on this app it will then like depending on your location dispersed to the proper agency those agencies will investigate and they deem that threat you know real and they will do what they need to do to take care of it but they’re trying to combat the situation in schools right now the best
way that they can so that is available look out for it research it and check it out so the news this one is for all the Dallas folks out there Dallas Animal Shelter is completely full Dallas Animal Services is waiting adoption fees in hopes of finding homes for hundreds of animals the shelter has received nearly three thousand animals in May putting them at full capacity and if you’re interested call them check them out go by the go by there visit website even if it’s not to adopt a pet even if it’s
just to volunteer or or donate blankets your time food water anything really go if you play guitar go singing the song anything those animals appreciate over a little bit whether you whether you know it or not thank you they like a lot of love know go visit them or a dolphin it’s free so let’s jump right into why we’re here the opioid crisis for the first time in history drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 40 and for the first time in nearly a quarter
century u.s. life expectancy has declined driven by diseases of despair like alcoholism and drug addiction and for the first time policymakers and providers are serious about trying to improve making real investment and turning all of us around trying to figure out what we can do to battle the situation it is it is it an epidemic as people are saying is that just a media thing is it is this real you know what the deal is and policymakers are not really starting to hit the ground running and trying to
figure out what we can do and what kind of threat this poses – I guess society and the individual yeah everyone ruling I’m the US have more than 64,000 drug overdose death overdose deaths in 2016 more people die from overdoses and those who died in oder vehicle accident and more died than those who were killed in a 20-year Vietnam War when you when you put those numbers on paper it really kind of go south it does it does and I think that’s where people are trying to figure out like it what is this is this
an epidemic is this a crisis what do we need to handle this or you know is this just right blown out of proportion so a lot of different agencies are coming together to figure that out but what exactly so as far as the drug itself concerned when you use as directed by your doctor opioid medications safely help control acute pain such as pain and experience after surgery maybe a minor accident opioids are a broad group of pain-relieving drugs that work by interacting with opioid receptors in yourselves up hoods can be made from the
poppy plant poppy seeds for example morphine which the anyone is an MS Contin that is synthesized in a laboratory for example fits and all that very popular more widely known drug it is a synthetic opioid and infants and olives what a lot of the celebrities have been prescribed yes Prince actin and many many others that’s unfortunately the cause of their caffeine but that is prescribed quite a bit to celebrity for a very very heavy and serious drug mm-hmm very very serious so when those opioid medications
travel through your blood and attach to your to receptors in your brain cells and the cells release signals that muffle your perception of pain and boost your feelings of pleasure so it’s a two birds with one stone and that leads to the potential for severe addiction so the opioids are prepared to heroin many but unlike heroin they are prescribed so you can get them at a doctor and there is a pharmaceutical company that provides them and when researching new topic there were allegations that certain pharmaceutical
companies we’re completely on they weren’t completely honest about how addictive these medications are and I don’t know if that’s true but there are a few more foods coming from states and I’m saying you know these pharmaceutical companies in 1986 they they said no there’s no addictive anything let’s go ahead and put them out on them in the market and they quickly found out that there was addictive qualities to them and so these states are now suing for the financial cost and burden that it
has put on them because they’re saying I’m some companies knew this right because they did their research prior to and then I think the blade the FDA right at the end of 1995 and then they rolled it out in the beginning of 1996 yeah it wasn’t even six months into it you know it was publicly becoming known that there were images yes and that there was a Michigan right off the bat but again that was what 12 13 years ago yeah it was it was pretty well yes but today 27 years so it’s been
a while it’s been going on for a while but let’s put this into numbers so the viewers can see where the country of thought in terms of problems was affecting us and this is this is the more put it to paper kind of scary part because right you know you know that there’s an issue there’s there’s been the war on drugs for 20-some odd years now and I think it was acting like 30 or 40 anyway so everyone knows that there is an issue with with drugs in our country but whenever you look at the
numbers here and which we’re about to explain it really kind of hits you home yeah it does it’s intense so as we stated before where we go any further if you would like to and this is a touchy subject you may but if you want to educate yourself please stay so during 2016 and there were more than 63 thousand six hundred overdose deaths in the United States including 42,000 that involved an opioid so that’s 66 percent of drug overdose deaths came from prescribed medication okay wait that’s an average of 115 opioid overdose
deaths each day on the International Narcotics Control Board reported that in 2015 Americans represented about ninety-nine point seven percent the world’s hydrocodone option which hydrocodone in an Okie way I don’t know that we stated that previously the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that the total economic burden of prescription opioid misuse alone which is the reason that these states are filing these students is seventy eight point five billion dollars a year including the cost of health care lost
productivity addiction treatment and criminal justice involvement because individuals work well and you’ve got to think of the train of events and the shock wave that comes from one person getting addicted to this right you know whether whatever path they take whether it’s they gain more access to more drugs or whether they switch to street drugs or they’re supplementing their prescription with something else I’m just trying to find what they need because they have that addiction but
then you think about the laxative effects the financial effects of it you know it just it’s a trickle of stuff I mean it just never never ends because they go to jail and that’s tax dollars you know and that’s more money that’s having to house more inmates and more programs and I mean it just it never ends right and every state is different especially when it comes to this issue because there’s this debate is this a health issue or is this a criminal justice issue and because of that you
have some states that are what has both illness so it’s hard to it’s hard to determine that’s why we should all just pull together and fix this year so it does there see a lot of states have different programs in place and so you’re seeing some of these states a okay what we’ve done rehab where we’ve done incarceration or whatever it might be it’s costing us money and then they found out that allegedly these pharmaceutical companies knew about this addictive element of these drugs and in
knowing that hey you cost us billions adult Billy fertilize I believe it was annually every year so 78 billion dollars every year so that’s where all of these lawsuits are crying fine so the numbers kind of in the in the initial stage roughly 21 to 29 percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain and misuse them between 8 and 12 percent develop a opioid use disorder an estimated four to six percent who misuse prescription opioids transition to heroin and then about 80 percent of people who use heroin first misused
prescription opioids and that’s a huge number opioid overdoses increased this one gets me 30 percent from July of 2016 to September of 2017 in 52 areas in 45 states the Midwestern region saw opioid overdoses increased 70 percent from July 2016 through September 2017 again that’s just outrageous overdose in large cities has increased by 54 percent in 16 states this is not something that is that is what’s the word contained within one part of the u.s. because there you know you can’t put a pin in it where it’s all
happening in one area I mean it’s just everywhere and that’s why in fact I think it’s labeled as a crisis because it’s nationwide it’s not any specific area it’s not you know it’s all stemming from one source but I mean it’s everywhere right and it’s leading to what we said earlier you can’t get a prescription why you can’t get the right way they’re gonna find other ways to get it whether it be through street drugs synthetic drugs or just I think I had read earlier did a
little bit of research I think I drank that one pill of oxy cotton can get up to like 30 to 40 dollars a pill and you can buy so much heroin for that much money more than what you would get out of one pill I mean and no not to say that that seems the logical choice you know but if you have a drug user well they’re gonna want more drugs for their money that’s that’s annoying so if you have if you if you’re lacking access to one then naturally just move on to the next which creates a whole
another problem and there are treatment centers so that’s something that I think we need to put out there to our treatment centers there’s methadone clinics and rehab facilities so those are options for those that are incarcerated and that’s a form of free back I think that depends by state or by county of their departments what they’re able to provide for those people and that differs greatly and and I think maybe not having that be not that it could not that maybe we can put this
together but I think by not having some uniform program and each county is kind of just or states just kind of struggling to figure out what you know what will work how can they help their residents with the limited resources that they have I think that’s where there’s a discord in finding a solution but okay so these rehab facilities there’s there’s different treatments that are coming out as well just before we came on here I looked up a few and I thought it would be really good thing to
do just to kind of provide people with this information so vaccines are currently under development to target opioids in the blood stream and present them from reaching the brain and inserting euphoric effects research researchers are exploring the potential of transcranial direct current stimulation a novel non-invasive brain stimulation technique for treating a few in use disorder so keep an eye on that one they’re also improving treatment delivery researchers are exploring how the health care system can reach more
people in need of treatment which is what we were just talking about how do you reach these people because if you were constantly battling and debating okay is this health issue is this incarceration issue with it you know what where are we going to put them in order to ask you that you have to classify it you have to classify the issue before you can make a solution so and and I think that’s a bit of where the problem is too because on one hand you have a bunch of people that say oh well you know addiction is it’s not
mental disease they can decide to stop you know they should be punished but you know throw them in jail and then you have the other half of people who have either have an addiction or known or have a loved one that or just believe that you know true addiction is mental disease and they’re like no they need help in a different type of way right and of course it trickles down to money so yeah who’s gonna pay for it yeah so there’s a few different arguments kind of rolling around out there so there
they’re doing research on that they’re trying to figure out how they can improve the healthcare system to help all those these people if it is a health issue if that’s what we’re calling it they’re also reaching justice-involved you’d so NID a funded research is aimed at identifying the most effective strategies for improving the delivery of evidence-based prevention and treatment services for youth through the Justice Juvenile Justice transyl translational research on interventions for
adolescents in the legal system so they’re also trying to target this any young age because a lot of adolescents are very youth this day and age is subjected to things that they should not be and it’s it’s a it’s a lot to try to control within our day and age with the use of the internet and how fast information gets places right so you have so much going on so much movements really fast piece the lawmakers are trying to step in and find a way to help we have the health care professionals that come about the system
there’s so many people who are really trying to step in and help so I not are trying to target youth as well see if maybe they can help youth understand what this addition is and what kind of troubles can come from you should always take medication as prescribed by your doctor even you you won’t get addicted I didn’t read I think CBS has put into place a plan where they are I think of the details but CBS have put in a plan to sort of kind of wean people off or or give alternatives have their pharmacist
offer alternatives to pain for pain therapies which brings us to our next one so there are substitutes we’re not really substitutes there’s a few medications that you can take including I’m going to try to say this word buprenorphine with auxins subutex methadone extended-release knelt rednecks on Patrol you’re really rolling through that but I can’t even found them out well some of them I know just because rather than before but but all of those are effective for the treatment of
opioid use disorders I do know that a wide range rehab facilities a big one as methadone and suboxone that they use but then again I think that there’s always the potential for people to misuse that as well well I know that methadone clinics when you go in in your guinea where you’re receiving treatment you get drug tested every time you go in and again if you sell the drug clips they have this thing they have what’s called take homes so if you pass your drug test then you get to take your medications home with you and
it’s kind of like okay over time you get to take it home on the weekends only for this you know and as you stay clean and as I say clean they begin to let you take them home but before that think they do they have fun of they and they have policies procedures in place to try that eliminate that comes yeah but just like with the synthetic you know morphing being a main component msf cotton it’s people have found how to extract the morphine from it and misuse the drug true story true story so know
what those those medications the World Health Organization deems them as essential medicines but they do the math essential and a study shows that once treatment is initiated those medications and the combination and an extended-release formulation are similarly effective in treating opioid use disorder so you know you have those options out there they’re out there and medications should be they do believe that medications should be combined with some sort of behavioral counseling for a whole patient approach notice the
medication assisted treatment yeah pretty pretty heavy stuff but necessary and it’s going to be interesting to watch these cases go and see what happens bringing forth some sort of awareness is this gonna help our policymakers gonna get more involved and I through doing all my research preparing for for today I did read that there were I think it was three of the CFO CEO or that three of the people for Purdue pharmacy that they had been charged back in 2007 or they they were charged with misdemeanors
and a lot of people viewed that as hey we kind of missed our chance to head this off yeah and now here it is so I ever I read the same article I believe it was New York Times if you’d like to look it up and they talked about how in 1986 they rolled out and then the Justice Department so didn’t investigate what was going on and it was for and he was for that they actually suggested that they be indicted and the administration at the time of setting and they spent like millions of dollars
in fines and civil fees and they were ordered to do community service but for such a big company with unlimited resources it was kind of a slap on the wrist and a lot of people weighed in on earth a lot of officials weighed in on a DA as well just you know hey that was kind of like our chance to head this off yeah it’s a national crisis so yeah so it’ll be interesting to see follow these cases you can google them and look them up anywhere sure they’ll pop up on your newsfeed at some point just because this
is yeah you’re watching this it goes but if it is such a big deal right now in our nation and people are trying to figure it out I don’t really think anyone is for sure where to go from here so I think he’s lawsuits will kind of help push that into the right direction hopefully hopefully it’s very serious issue and to anyone out there infected by a loved one or someone who has a addiction or a drug use disorder whatever it may be we hope that they find help that they need yes happy
Friday so that’s our show for today we’re so glad you joined us we apologize it’s a little heavier today and next week we’ll be back with another topic for disclose alive and enjoy your weekend don’t get too crazy and don’t drink and drive and all of the things your mom would tell me not to do yeah everything that your mother would tell you not to do don’t do them and if you got something work early today we are so jealous of you go have a donut in and and then go go pick up a
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in this heat and we’ll see you next Friday okay bye well you put I’m Brady Austin and Heather and I was like wait I’m not hungry I’m gonna spread
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