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.

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

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!!

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

I was just at the doctor after having broken my femur 2 weeks ago and they didn’t want to give me any pain meds at all. People with legitimate pain are being punished. 2 things can be true at the same time - there can be people who are addicted as well as people who need pain meds. Why do we have to go through these extreme pendulum swings every few years?

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.

GREED is the worse addiction of all...

This is punishing the dealer and letting the supplier walk.

Opiates are an important tool, not to be prescribed frivolously. It’s crazy how the addiction happens. You start using opiates to get relief from pain, then the opiates cause more pain, and turmoil than you were originally in. I’m about two years clean off it all now, praise the Lord.

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.

I live in West Virginia, which was literally ground zero in this mess. It is still going on but only with different street drugs now.

Getting sober takes more than 90 days. Those 90 day programs aren't long enough by any means. Most times it leads right back to the same behaviors because they don't delve deep enough to get to the root of the problem. There isn't enough time in 90 days to peel through the layers of the many problems that are covering the true issue of the addiction. Getting to the heart of the problem takes time, effort and hard work to get to the root cause of the addiction. I know this through personal experience with addiction and recovery.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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