TRANQ, FENTANYL & More - How Big Pharma is destroying the American Society | ENDEVR Documentary

Mark, a 48 year old father of two, k****d himself less than a week after taking antidepressants. A prescribed cocktail of pills caused Aurélie to have uncontrollable fantasies about decapitating her parents and hurting everyone. We investigate the dangers of prescription pills.

Getting off fentanyl was not easy. It took me 4 months till I stopped breaking out in cold sweats and fevers. It was a relief when I felt okay again.

AMERICA ISN'T A "COUNTRY" IT'S A BUSINESS!!

"They give you the poison for free, than they charge you for the antidote." Bruce Lipton

The problem is "they" knew it was addictive when they made it, and then they took it away with no substitute for it! Shameful

How did a pharmacist not bat an eye at filling a script of 3000 pain pills?

All tragic stories. This is a bigger problem than “just” the painkillers. Treating symptoms and creating more problems (addiction, death) instead of tackling the causes: wrong diet, wrong lifestyle, wrong job, bad medical care.

The crisis with opioids is they took them away. My step brother was injured from abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of his parents. He had a bad back and couldnt get more pain meds from his dr when needed. He ended up killing himself. My husband is a disabled vet who has suffered tremendously from a botched surgery by the VA. Their pain management has been appalling. I have chronic pain from a spinal tap done at birth (against my mother's consent) and also fibromyalgia (after quitting their anti-depressants and anxiety meds). With help from a friend, I found that Percocets worked but when i tried to get a prescription for myself the dr refused. They ultimately reformulated the pills and they no longer work. I recommend staying away from all doctors. The system in place wants us all miserable or dead. Its absolutely criminal what is happening!

I'm not victim blaming at all. It is definitely the fault of the doctor to prescribe so many pills, but doesn't taking around 100 pills a day set of any alarms in your head? How can a doctor operate so long while prescribing that much to just ONE person?

GREED is the worse addiction of all...

The doctor prescribed the man 100 opiate pain pills every day? Come on...

We're trained as a society to believe that addiction is some sort of personal "moral failure" for the same reason were trained to believe the same thing about homelessness. It's all so we're less likely to question the system we've been forced to live within, that being thr system of Profitieren Über Alles.

I understand we are in a very troubled time with the opiod crisis, but I also understand unrelenting pain, and being unable to ease that pain due to misuse of painkillers by others. Until, you've actually had pain so deep and so cruel that you can't see going on anymore and are given something that couldn't possibly touch that pain becauuse someone else abused this medicine that could help, you can't really understand the other side of the coin. There are people who also legitimately need opiods at some point due to breath stealing pain but cant get them. There has to be an answer other than where it is headed.

Maybe things would look different if everything in America wasn't so goddamn punitive. Instead of going cold turkey without pain meds, maybe wean onto THC combined with therapy? Or something else? Addiction is seen as a moral failure in the US, and not what it really is - a medical condition.

The biggest misunderstanding the masses have about opiate & benzo addiction is the hellish & excruciating withdrawals the patient/addict has to endure. Withdrawals can actually kill you.

Drs are abandoning chronic pain patients and they are dying as a result. Its absolutely criminal! Shame on you!

As I’m watching this, the ads are White Claw. Let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about the physical, mental, emotional, familial destruction caused by alcohol addiction. Let’s talk about the access to alcohol. Not everyone abuses alcohol. Just like not everyone abuses opiods. I have had 14 reconstructive surgeries in 9 years. I have taken opioids off and on but never on a consist basis. While I have experienced physical dependency, I’ve never become full blown addicted. I think it has to do with the nature of my injury combined with the abundance of joy and support I have from my family. This is always such a confusing topic for me because I feel so much empathy for those that get addicted and I also feel so guilty anytime I have to take a pain medication. I tell myself I should be able to push through the pain. But given the nature of my injury, I can’t even breathe because of the pain somedays.

If you're here listening/watching this documentary and haven't seen it yet, you need to watch 'Dopesick' next. So good, so enlightening.

This is punishing the dealer and letting the supplier walk.

The problem comes in when the dea forced doctors to stop writing them threatening their jobs so the doctor takes a person off the pills with not enough tapering and then they are sick and forced to go find it on the streets it’s absolute bs. Real pain patients can’t even get help now