My comment may not be popular, and perhaps to some it will seem irrelevant, but in my heart I hear the cry for the injustice of this epidemic.
Firsthand I have seen the devastation; family members who by God’s grace did not die but the loss has still been as devastating. Recovery is a lifetime process. For many only surrender to God has helped them in this fight for sobriety.
But, the injustice still remains because millions are indoctrinated daily at the hands of unprincipled doctors that prescribe opiates as the drug of choice. What motivates them? Of course, the pharmaceutical companies! They have known from the trials that this line of drugs are highly addictive, and yet they do nothing to control the dispensing of this HIGHLY ADDICTIVE pain medicine.
When the patient runs through the script at the end of the month, then they resort to Heroin. Get the stereotype out of your head of who this is and what they looks like. They are Senators, your doctors, the principle at your child’s school. This is white collar, blue collar, rich, poor, your kids, maybe silently you. Please know with all certainty this will touch our lives, this will impact us at some level, this impacts us as a nation!
I will pray for Christie to be successful, but I pray to God on the basis of HIS justice that those that begun this insidious mess be held accountable. I pray for a reining in, starting at the lobbyist who really control our county, because he who holds the reins…controls the direction of the horse. I pray for God to heal the bodies ravaged, the hearts broken, the lives ruined. I pray that our government has the COURAGE to lay aside all their self interests and reset their goals and focus on the nation of the people, that’s you and me folks, not Gildead Sciences, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKiline and Bayer.

Father, there are so many hurting families affected by drug use. We pray that your wisdom will guide those in authority to help solve this destruction of our country.

I CAN SAY THIS MY STATE OF CONNECTICUT AND ALSO RHODE ISLAND ARE SO BAD WHEN IT COMES TO OPIOIDS AND HEROIN IS OUT OF CONTROL IN THE PAST YEAR OF 2016 IN CONNECTICUT ALMOST 2,000 DEATHS BECAUSE OF OPIOIDS & HEROIN ADDICTION AND OVERDOSES SAME AS RHODE ISLAND ALMOST 2,000 DEATHS BECAUSE OF OPIOID & HEROIN ADDICTION THERE TOO THERE NEEDS TO BE TOUGHER PENALTIES ON THESE DRUG DEALERS GIVE THEM MORE TIME IN PRISON AND TOUGHER LAWS ON DRUG USERS TOO AND STOP LETTING DOCTORS GET PEOPLE STARTED ON THESE OPIOIDS WHICH ALWAYS LEADS TO HEROIN AND THAN DEATH WHICH ABSOLUTELY CAN BE AVOIDED….