Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

700 years ago, this family's castle would have been ransacked, and their decapitated heads would be displayed on poles.

So Sackler has 3,3thousand people who approve them and love them enough to dislike this segment 😂😂😂😂 sorry you are not enough and actually quite pathetic

Fine. But because of this, those of us who need opioids because nothing else works are harmed. We are treated like criminals and threatened with severe pain. And you would think with all of this, doctors would know how to titrage people off of their opioids but no, they know nothing and don’t want to get involved even when they’ve been prescribing unnecessary opioids for long periods of time. Many docs just cut people off because they are worried about their licenses all of a sudden. So people suffer dangerous withdrawal. Still, for those of us who need them, well, I curse Nancy Reagan every day.

IT´s the website down? I got a big warning when accessing it and then it was empty

Wait. Richard Sackler? His name is Dick Sackler?

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Anyone else go to the website and see a warning that the website was possibly not safe

Do you know the number of people who took oxycontin and became dependent or addicted?....... All of them.

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I still can't believe this guy was in community

Ya see kids, drug dealing is okay....if you're white.

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This does not surprise me any big corporations in America do not give one flying rats a** about people. the only thing they care about is their addiction to money. When human beings put money over other human beings. we have definitely lost our way and given enough time , the addiction to money ( which is far far worse than all other addictions combined) will be the end of us humans

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Bryan Cranston is such a genius actor...

Shouldn't it be illegal to destroy evidence?

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Why does he spoil every "Sackler"?

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Rich people get away with everything

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I am one of those people in Kentucky. I always said Oxycontin was akin to satan, but turns out it was only his tool. The true devil - the real evil - is in the heart of Richard Sackler. I know I'm blessed. I lost so many people I loved and who loved me on the whim of a billionaire. Fuck Purdue and fuck the Sackler family. There isn't enough justice in the world for the blood on their hands. Sober from Oxycontin, heroin, and all opiates since 4/26/2012. Praise be to God. 🙏

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GOD I love this soo much. Too much really

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Richard Sackler looks like Mathew Broderick’s evil twin

@Richard Sackler, Let me teach you how to make money in a humane way and you can bring me a bottle of Rosé

TIL about the slimy Sacklers

love you Bryan Cranston.

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The DEA is terrorizing doctors and chronic pain patients. People who live with incurable injuries /illnesses that cause debitating pain and disability are dieing daily because prescription pain medications are being denied and even stopped in people who've been able to function while taking them. Less than 1% of people who take prescription pain medication become addicted. Addiction is caused by a gene that is not triggered in everyone. Look into Don't Punish Pain Rally on Facebook. There are plenty of articles and patients that tell the truth about prescription pain medication. The epidemic is an illicit fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and meth issue. You are only one accident away from needing pain medications yourself. The inhumane treatment that rare/chronic illness patients is receiving has gotten out of hand. It's now in hospitals for people who have surgeries. People are being given Ibuprofen for painful surgeries. The prescribing of prescription meds has decreased by 60% yet overdoses have increased. This is because people are desperate and going to the streets and getting tainted pressed pills cut with illicit fentanyl. Dependence and addiction are totally different situations. Pain medication is the only medication being limited even though THE FDA has no upper limit to opioid pain meds. You can die from kidney and liver failure from OTC acetaminophen and Ibuprofen. Every day people are killing themselves because their bodies can't take the pain any longer. Please do an update with correct information that is relevant now. Pill mills have long been gone.

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John is a National Treasure ... For a transplanted "BRIT" in the former colonies... His slant on American Culture is 100% accurate!

Terrorists jobs are being stolen by pharmaceutical companies

this dude on cocaine is awesome :D

There were a lot of unscrupulous people and businesses that caused the opioid crisis that’s a given but the opioid crisis isn’t going to go away until America addresses the mental health crisis.

A downside to this is now pain patients are suffering and dying because they cannot get adequate care. For example, I had massive surgery (first rib removal, scalenectomy, neurolysis, subclavian vein bypass, subclavian artery bypass), then had a bleed and needed further emergency surgery to repair and evacuate a liter of blood from my neck, then because of course an infection. Pain control? 1 week of pain meds. I can’t take NSAIDs (kidney failure)- which also limits tricyclic antidepressants, and meds like gabapentin. 1 week after ripping out a bone, muscles, nerve scraping, and vascular bypasses.

He is so talent.

Hats off to John Oliver, for such savage use of his pulpit. Another casualty of this manufactured crisis, is the folks for whom opiod analgesics provide legitimate, therapeutic pain relief. They're now, often unable to obtain prescription renewals. We know where that path leads desperate people. Keep up the good work Mr. Oliver!

No laughing lady ;(

i'm not allowed to hear the governor of minesota's history of giovanni boccaccio's fairfield alabama

the fentanyl is now being mixed with benzene to give a stronger high, resulting in people od'ing. just last week alone, at my work, we had over 2 dozen opioid overdoses because people are becoming more resistant to regular drugs. And the solution is when od's happen is to pump Naxolone in their airways to counter act with the fentanyl so it doesn't trigger the body to go into a coma and die. And you would think during a pandemic people would have less access to drugs, yeah no

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legalize it all and fuck off

Recovering addict here. In the early 2000’s I was doctor shopping and they handed out opiates like Halloween candy. I often took between 30-45 Vicodin a day.... Then to coke, then to crack, then to heroin. Need help? Find it. Wanna end up dead, in jail or the madhouse?? Keep going. Not getting preachy. I would have told me to f$&k off 11 years ago. Education, crackdown on big pharmaceutical, mental health awareness.... This problem is covering the dark shattered underbelly of the American dream. Be good to one another 💙

A Point that gets lost (I know i'm late) Purdue released oxycodone, oxycodone led to a generation of more addicts than ever before, board members and legislators demanded a solution. Their solution? Oxycontin, which the thinking was instead of instant release (like oxycodone) its EXTENDED release and therefore has less potential to be abused. That would've worked except they made the chemical makeup "snortable" and people realized oxycontin worked practically the same and even better than oxycodone when snorted. Now they've supposedly changed the makeup again to make it "not snortable" but they've failed miserably as addicts can still IV it. Although by the time your IV oxycontin your to far gone and have to go to H just to sustain yourself from withdrawals. Just like Rockefeller they come up with the problem and solution. Now they're changing opiate laws entirely and basically leaving suburban moms, and dads to go through withdrawals and have cut their prescriptions, FORCING THEM to go to the streets to find H and at the point its totally done. It's a dark reality. The damage is done, Purdue was successful in totally demolishing a generation of innocence. Its going to take us a couple of generations to recover if we even can, to make sure our children's children aren't addicts.

The "Last Week Tonight" team (Contributing artists included) are F#*king BRILLIANT!

The issue I have is that people that abuse them and get addicted make it so much harder people like me that have issues with ulcers due to NSAID use and hemangioma on my liver from ibuprofen and need some kind of beneficial pain relief to get it. And for me, I think, the reason I’m not addicted is because I smoke marijuana and don’t feel any withdrawals and because I don’t ever take more than I’m prescribed

White boy Rick did 30 years for selling drugs at 17 years old , but no jail time for big pharmaceutical companies killing more people than all wars and aids combined.

In light of the purity percentage in MN and the whole George Floyd saga....I hope that this issue gets some more justice along with George Floyd in court now....The highest purity percentage in the United States is 96% in this state I was told by a DEA Agent. :( Crazy that that can exist in 2021

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I won't watch the video of course. But I bet this "hero of anti-corporation resistance" doesn't mention China's role in the opioid epidemic, am I right? He knows where the real money is, just like the producers of opioids.

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I would love for you to do a video on how the opioid epidemic is affecting chronic pain patients and veterans. How the suicide rate among these groups is at an alarming rate!

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John Oliver you cheeky bastard we LOVE YOU!!!

😂😂😂 Dick Kind!!!😂😂😂😂😂

Bryan Cranston😍💯🙏

Michael Fucking Keatin!!!!!!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯

# harass Richard Sackler

Yet alcohol kill tens of thousands more Americans every year than all illegal and legal opiates. Who are the real junkies here?

Bryan Cranston give me shivers there. Who would have thought Malcolm's dad would get so dark

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What did you expect from a guy named Dick Sack?

John did that coke bit a little too well 😂

Cocaine is still used as a local anesthetic for facial and dental surgeries. But the joke is funny for peoples who think thinly on the surface.

Same tie.....Same tie....... SAME TIE!! LMMFAO

Hilarious!!!

And THIS is why John Oliver wins every award!!! He calls out every nasty billionaire whom is doing nothing but harm to anyone... that's why he's brilliant!!

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This man actually might vanish one day. Isn't that fucked up

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Dick Sackler...😂😂😂

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I really wish that he would do a follow up on this segment about the poppy production in Afghanistan and how it started in the 80s after American backed the mujahedin in a price war against Russia. There was no poppy in Afghanistan before American got there and now we’ve been guarding it for 2 decades. These guys are almost as culpable for useless, endless wars as the industrial military complex.

Best investigative journalism in the U.S is provided by an Englishman

-Government fucks up and lets millions of people become addicted to opiates -Government realized said fuck up, takes away opiates -The millions of addicts don't magically stop using, because they're addicted -Addicts turn to the streets for relief from withdrawal, enter fentanyl -Addiction spirals out of control- I just told that story while taking my methadone after breakfast, how ironic

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