Loading video...

Video Failed to Load

Go Home

.Dr. Marty Makary on the opioid-like compound 7-hydroxymitragynine, found in some vape products: "That is functioning as an opioid. We've got horrible stories of addiction... We are now, in the Trump Administration, recommending the DEA schedule it as a Class 1 controlled substance."

86,468 views • 1 year ago •via X (Twitter)

0 Comments

No comments available

Comments from the original post will appear here

Related Videos

My bill that will radically change California’s strategy on the treatment of opioid addiction by transforming California from a state with the most restrictive methadone laws in the country, into a state leading in methadone accessibility passed off the floor of the Assembly unanimously. The bill will ensure that people with opioid addiction are able to access this lifesaving treatment by removing outdated laws that were first crafted during the Vietnam war. Methadone is a highly effective medication that eases the debilitating symptoms of opioid withdrawal for people who have quit drugs like heroin and fentanyl. Unfortunately the state’s many bureaucratic barriers to methadone treatment have left medical professionals hobbled in their fight against the spreading fentanyl crisis. We’ve reached a point where the treatment for opioid addiction is much harder to get than the deadly drugs themselves. Dealers are much better at getting fentanyl and heroin into people’s hands than we are at getting them addiction medication. We have to reverse that entirely if we want to save people’s lives. Currently the state’s stringent regulations far surpass federal guidelines, and require patients to jump through numerous hurdles to access methadone including requiring patients to line up in front of specialized methadone clinics every morning to receive treatment. Drug dealers, aware that people with addiction gather together every morning, often prey on these vulnerable former users as they wait in line. In other countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, methadone is widely available in primary care settings. So anybody walking into their primary care doctor’s office is able to enroll into methadone treatment. When someone is on methadone, they are able to stabilize their lives, they are able to get jobs, they are able to reconnect their families, and that chaotic addiction cycle goes away.

Matt Haney

13,572 views • 2 years ago