OT: How the voice of Hockeytown lost his son to drugs and insurance fraud
http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/23053946/how-detroit-red-wings-…
Great Outside the Lines article on the passing of Ken Daniels's son Jamie and the industry of insurance fraud that helped kill him.
End the Drug War.
They won't because it's far too profitable
there is a lot of prison space to fill. Being a good corporate citizen, he recognizes the need to increase yield -- shareholders are counting on it.
The only one profiting off the drug war are the cartels.
In reading the article it seems like there are a lot of other people besides the cartels making money - and lots of it - off the backs of those people who need it the most, the patients. Or the patients' insurance companies rather.
...except that the article demonstrates that this is clearly not the case (and you would be foolish to think that it was the case quite honestly), and indeed, one of the greatest tragedies of the "war on drugs", again as the article demonstrates, is that people suffer at the hands of those ostensibly there to help them.
Hopefully you stay in Utah
Yes... it seems to me that "people are dying from these drugs so we should legalize them" is a really fucking bizarre conclusion. The problem in this instance is not that the drugs are illegal. It's that they are legal and they're obtainable through legal channels that are being abused by unscrupulous bad actors who use this kind of situation to take money from insurance companies.
Colorado and reality say "hi".
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/health/medical-cannabis-law-opioid-presc…
States with medical marijuana do see fewer opiate prescriptions. So there's some link.
Edit, seems I was late and maybe some comments were deleted?
I was a second semester senior when he was going through simply horrendous chemotherapy treatments at Children's Hospital in DTW. I spent a lot of time with him after the first two treatments rubbing his back while he puked his guts out.
I read that MJ really helped with the nausea and smoked a fair amount at the time. My dad took him to my aunt's place about thirty minutes away from our house after the third treatment as my grandfather had died. After going to the funeral home I grabbed him and stuck him in the back seat of my '72 Cutlass, started driving, and lit a joint. Within five minutes he was off his back and telling me to jam some Van Halen -- loud. He was fine by the time we got back home.
Went to see his oncologist with my mom a week later and told her what happened. She said she had heard of such effects but could not legally recommend it. My mom dragged me out of class the day of his next treatment and whispered "buy two" over the phone in the grade dean's office.
He never got sick after a treatment from that point forward.
It was night and day -- if you know someone going through chemo and you're not giving them pot you're doing them a real disservice.
Your logic is very broken.
Few people want to ban guns outright and most people who oppose drug prohibtion recognize the need for some regulation.
I'm reading Ken Daniels' "If These Walls Could Talk" book right now. He's a class act, worked his way up from the bottom of the radio industry in Toronto.
Next up on my reading list is Keith Gave's "Russian Five".
was a force on D. Loved watching him and horrible shame what happened.
Not Konstantinov's accident.... Kozlov's. He was the driver in a really bad wreck back in Russia when he was still a teenager - his car was hit by a bus, which killed his passenger and severely injured him - and the Wings were able to use the situation to help leverage his move to the NHL.
Anyone who does not see this or agree needs to show me one concrete example of a company doing something that they know will result in lower stock value via decreased sales of its product.
Everyone should read this.
"The unfettered shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia."
you'll never - or at least probably will never - see a direct link between a corporate officer and the crisis like an email saying "Yeah we're ok with people dying to keep sales up" but it's implied. Corporations report to shareholders and are perpetually pushed to get better returns year to year. So when these guys get a product that works and sells, they're going to push, push, push that product to maximize their profits. They'll issue statements about how the opiod crisis is very sad and they want people to use their products responsibily and maybe call this 800 number for help, but they'll also be pushing hard to get as much of it out there as they can and then say it's just people's fault for abusing it
is as low a human activity as is murder.
FIFY: Actively ensuring that someone's sickness continues is murder.
"There's too much profit in pretending that we're stopping it."
Heard this statistic in church this morning: 11.7 million opioid prescriptions written in Michigan in 2016. That is 115 for every 100 people.
Starting to conclude that Michigan State excels at producing substance abusers and sexual predators. I will be in fear if my children decide to attend.
I laid it all out for my kids a few weeks ago - my oldest will be a HS freshman next year and is killing it so far she should have solid options. After what I told them I'd be surprised if Staee was one of their first choices. It was as much out of concern for my kids going to a school that they feel safe as it was for my dislike of Staee.
on this very subject. Costa Mesa, Malibu and Lake Arrowhead are big draws for these homes that preportedly do a service. Strike another for Obamacare by making the insurance companies pay for treatment. Insurers are slowing payments and slowly strangling the Lake Arrowhead homes. In fact, I know an operator of these homes. His last career was in construction.
it may not surprise you than Los Angeles County hasw 58,000 homeless alone.