The answer is blowing in the wind!! Or is it?
The question below asked by Ed in "It doesn't get more senseless"
"Has this sort of thing increased in recent years, or is it just that we're more aware of it because of instantaneous national and global news dispersion?"
The answer is YES on both accounts. The first part, begs an answer "Why?" the second is too obvious, as any long slowed down lines of traffic at any roadway accident will tell you. The gorier, the slower the crawling traffic as the gawkers get their emotional senses filled with delight.
Yes, I said, "delight" and having been a paramedic, at many such accidents I can feel my stomach churn, at the fake and senseless oohs and ahs trying to shove the gawkers out of the way to get to the victims, or even getting to the site, as they block the roadway, necks stretched trying to get a look.
Mankind has loved blood and gore, since the first tribe members beat one of their members to death with a thigh bone, or watched as one got mauled to death by a animal out hunting. There may have been some reason or even justification in those past yet, uncivilized minds, but there is none today or is there?
Now with todays communication, cell phone videos, and pictures, the gratification is "instantaneous," and we don't even have to slow down in traffic, or stand around while putting the various parts of a victim in a body bag. All those sheets and blankets you see at such sites, are not to cover the victim, but to block the views of the delighted gawkers. So our 'fix' is "global news dispersion," while less satisfying perhaps than actually being at the scene, there is more than enough to delight.
Take a look at the picture again, only this time really look, and what do you see, and not see. Do you see the orange cones placed around the scene; So ask yourself, where is the blanket covering the victim of a senseless killing by those that put those cones there?
The only one with a legal right to photograph a crime scene is the Medical Examiner, or the assigned photographer from that department, and releasing such photos or videos, is a matter for the law to determine, should some relevance be required. One thing the picture does for those still civilized enough to look then have to turn away, is it brings the "Why?" into focus, even though it numbs the senses. In this case it does add relevance to the words, of a senseless crime. The orange cones, and the missing blanket, also tell a story for others.
I don't presume to know the full answer, but I can give you some clues to the why; "Has this sort of thing increased in recent years?" Here from one report alone, out of hundreds I could list:
From 1992 to 2002, prescriptions written for controlled drugs increased more than 150 percent, almost 12 times the rate of increase in population and almost three times the rate of increase in prescriptions written for all other drugs.
From 1992 to 2003, the number of people abusing controlled prescription drugs increased seven times faster than the increase in the U.S. population.
From 1992 to 2003, abuse of controlled prescription drugs grew at a rate twice that of marijuana abuse; five times that of cocaine abuse; 60 times that of heroin abuse.
From 1992 to 2000, The number of new opioid abusers grew by 225 percent; new tranquilizer abusers, by 150 percent; new sedative abusers, by more than 125 percent; new stimulant abusers, by more than 170 percent.
The increase in new abusers 12 to 17 years old was far greater than among adults (four times greater for opioids; three times for tranquilizers and sedatives; two and one-half times for stimulants).
From 1992 to 2002, new abuse of prescription opioids among 12 to 17 year olds was up an astounding 542 percent, more than four times the rate of increase among adults.
In 2003, 2.3 million 12 to 17 year olds (nearly one in 10) abused at least one controlled prescription drug; for 83 percent of them, the drug was opioids.
In 2003, among 12 to 17 year olds, girls were likelier than boys to abuse controlled prescription drugs (10.1 percent of girls vs. 8.6 percent of boys).
Between 1991 and 2003, rates of lifetime steroid abuse among high school students increased 126 percent, with abuse among girls up by nearly 350 percent, compared to 66 percent among boys.
Teens who abuse controlled prescription drugs are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times likelier to use marijuana, 12 times likelier to use heroin, 15 times likelier to use Ecstasy and 21 times likelier to use cocaine, compared to teens who do not abuse such drugs.
Highlights of CASA Surveys of Physicians and Pharmacists on Diversion and Abuse of Controlled Prescription Drugs Full Report
Physician Survey Highlights
43.3 percent of physicians do not ask about prescription drug abuse when taking a patient’s health history.
33 percent do not regularly call or obtain records from the patient's previous (or other treating) physician before prescribing controlled drugs on a long-term basis.
47.1 percent say that patients commonly try to pressure them into prescribing a controlled drug.
74.1 percent have refrained from prescribing controlled drugs during the past 12 months because of concern that a patient might become addicted to them.
59.1 percent believe that patients account for the bulk of the diversion problem.
Physicians perceive the three main mechanisms of diversion to be doctor shopping (when patients obtain controlled drugs from multiple doctors) (96.4 percent), patient deception or manipulation of doctors (87.8 percent), and forged or altered prescriptions (69.4 percent).
Only 19.1 percent received any medical school training in identifying prescription drug diversion; only 39.6 percent received any training in medical school in identifying prescription drug abuse and addiction.
Pharmacist Survey Highlights
28.4 percent do not regularly validate the prescribing physician’s DEA number when dispensing controlled drugs; one in 10 (10.5 percent) rarely or never do so.
61 percent do not regularly ask if the patient is taking any other controlled drugs when dispensing a controlled medication; 25.8 percent rarely or never do so.
When a patient presents a prescription for a controlled drug, 26.5 percent “somewhat or very often” think it is for purposes of diversion or abuse; 78.4 percent become “somewhat or very” concerned about diversion or abuse when a patient asks for a controlled drug by its brand name.
83.1 percent have refused to dispense a controlled drug in the past year because of suspicions of diversion or abuse; 51.8 percent believe that patients account for the bulk of the diversion problem.
28.9 percent have experienced a theft or robbery of controlled drugs at their pharmacy within the last five years; 20.9 percent do not stock certain controlled drugs in order to prevent diversion.
Only about half received any training in identifying prescription drug diversion (48.1 percent) or abuse or addiction (49.6 percent) since pharmacy school.
If your mind can't quite get around that one above, try these:
1. Yale-Lilly Experiment: Adolescents Rx Toxic Drug for Presumed Mental Illness They Do Not Have
2. "Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?"
3. Full Report Note this study by an old colleague of mine
On December 13, 2006 the FDA’s Psychopharmaceutical Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) is meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland to discuss antidepressant-induced suicidal behavior in adults. In 2004 the FDA held similar hearings on children and concluded that antidepressants do in fact cause suicide in humans under age eighteen. A warning has been placed in all antidepressant labels or package inserts.
Now the agency has given advanced notice of its new findings—antidepressants, all of them according to the FDA, cause increased suicidality in young adults. Suicide occurs more than twice as much on antidepressants than on sugar pills in individuals under age 25.
First the agency admits that antidepressants cause suicidality in children. Now the agency admits the drugs cause the same disasters in young adults. Meanwhile, an independent review of all antidepressant trials submitted to the FDA has shown that the drugs are no better than placebo.[i] America’s drug watchdog needs to come clean. It’s been approving depressants as antidepressants.
Conclusion: Ask yourself over these last 20-30 years or so, since this country has become a pill-popping nation, what have those parents in that period of time spawned.
Are you even aware their are only three actual 'diseases of the brain' the rest listed in the DMV-IV are disorders without a shred of scientific data to back up the claims of even one of them.
Are you aware that the majority of Psychiatrist's or Psychologist's have zero medical training or degrees, but want the government to allow them to dispense drugs, without the aid or advice of a actual Medical Doctor.
Don't ask why...the answer is simple, and so I'll leave you with this question;
How am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment, and of Gods,I alone and afraid n a world, I never made?
The answer is...Why didn't you?
Plato said, "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"Has this sort of thing increased in recent years, or is it just that we're more aware of it because of instantaneous national and global news dispersion?"
The answer is YES on both accounts. The first part, begs an answer "Why?" the second is too obvious, as any long slowed down lines of traffic at any roadway accident will tell you. The gorier, the slower the crawling traffic as the gawkers get their emotional senses filled with delight.
Yes, I said, "delight" and having been a paramedic, at many such accidents I can feel my stomach churn, at the fake and senseless oohs and ahs trying to shove the gawkers out of the way to get to the victims, or even getting to the site, as they block the roadway, necks stretched trying to get a look.
Mankind has loved blood and gore, since the first tribe members beat one of their members to death with a thigh bone, or watched as one got mauled to death by a animal out hunting. There may have been some reason or even justification in those past yet, uncivilized minds, but there is none today or is there?
Now with todays communication, cell phone videos, and pictures, the gratification is "instantaneous," and we don't even have to slow down in traffic, or stand around while putting the various parts of a victim in a body bag. All those sheets and blankets you see at such sites, are not to cover the victim, but to block the views of the delighted gawkers. So our 'fix' is "global news dispersion," while less satisfying perhaps than actually being at the scene, there is more than enough to delight.
Take a look at the picture again, only this time really look, and what do you see, and not see. Do you see the orange cones placed around the scene; So ask yourself, where is the blanket covering the victim of a senseless killing by those that put those cones there?
The only one with a legal right to photograph a crime scene is the Medical Examiner, or the assigned photographer from that department, and releasing such photos or videos, is a matter for the law to determine, should some relevance be required. One thing the picture does for those still civilized enough to look then have to turn away, is it brings the "Why?" into focus, even though it numbs the senses. In this case it does add relevance to the words, of a senseless crime. The orange cones, and the missing blanket, also tell a story for others.
I don't presume to know the full answer, but I can give you some clues to the why; "Has this sort of thing increased in recent years?" Here from one report alone, out of hundreds I could list:
From 1992 to 2002, prescriptions written for controlled drugs increased more than 150 percent, almost 12 times the rate of increase in population and almost three times the rate of increase in prescriptions written for all other drugs.
From 1992 to 2003, the number of people abusing controlled prescription drugs increased seven times faster than the increase in the U.S. population.
From 1992 to 2003, abuse of controlled prescription drugs grew at a rate twice that of marijuana abuse; five times that of cocaine abuse; 60 times that of heroin abuse.
From 1992 to 2000, The number of new opioid abusers grew by 225 percent; new tranquilizer abusers, by 150 percent; new sedative abusers, by more than 125 percent; new stimulant abusers, by more than 170 percent.
The increase in new abusers 12 to 17 years old was far greater than among adults (four times greater for opioids; three times for tranquilizers and sedatives; two and one-half times for stimulants).
From 1992 to 2002, new abuse of prescription opioids among 12 to 17 year olds was up an astounding 542 percent, more than four times the rate of increase among adults.
In 2003, 2.3 million 12 to 17 year olds (nearly one in 10) abused at least one controlled prescription drug; for 83 percent of them, the drug was opioids.
In 2003, among 12 to 17 year olds, girls were likelier than boys to abuse controlled prescription drugs (10.1 percent of girls vs. 8.6 percent of boys).
Between 1991 and 2003, rates of lifetime steroid abuse among high school students increased 126 percent, with abuse among girls up by nearly 350 percent, compared to 66 percent among boys.
Teens who abuse controlled prescription drugs are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times likelier to use marijuana, 12 times likelier to use heroin, 15 times likelier to use Ecstasy and 21 times likelier to use cocaine, compared to teens who do not abuse such drugs.
Highlights of CASA Surveys of Physicians and Pharmacists on Diversion and Abuse of Controlled Prescription Drugs Full Report
Physician Survey Highlights
43.3 percent of physicians do not ask about prescription drug abuse when taking a patient’s health history.
33 percent do not regularly call or obtain records from the patient's previous (or other treating) physician before prescribing controlled drugs on a long-term basis.
47.1 percent say that patients commonly try to pressure them into prescribing a controlled drug.
74.1 percent have refrained from prescribing controlled drugs during the past 12 months because of concern that a patient might become addicted to them.
59.1 percent believe that patients account for the bulk of the diversion problem.
Physicians perceive the three main mechanisms of diversion to be doctor shopping (when patients obtain controlled drugs from multiple doctors) (96.4 percent), patient deception or manipulation of doctors (87.8 percent), and forged or altered prescriptions (69.4 percent).
Only 19.1 percent received any medical school training in identifying prescription drug diversion; only 39.6 percent received any training in medical school in identifying prescription drug abuse and addiction.
Pharmacist Survey Highlights
28.4 percent do not regularly validate the prescribing physician’s DEA number when dispensing controlled drugs; one in 10 (10.5 percent) rarely or never do so.
61 percent do not regularly ask if the patient is taking any other controlled drugs when dispensing a controlled medication; 25.8 percent rarely or never do so.
When a patient presents a prescription for a controlled drug, 26.5 percent “somewhat or very often” think it is for purposes of diversion or abuse; 78.4 percent become “somewhat or very” concerned about diversion or abuse when a patient asks for a controlled drug by its brand name.
83.1 percent have refused to dispense a controlled drug in the past year because of suspicions of diversion or abuse; 51.8 percent believe that patients account for the bulk of the diversion problem.
28.9 percent have experienced a theft or robbery of controlled drugs at their pharmacy within the last five years; 20.9 percent do not stock certain controlled drugs in order to prevent diversion.
Only about half received any training in identifying prescription drug diversion (48.1 percent) or abuse or addiction (49.6 percent) since pharmacy school.
If your mind can't quite get around that one above, try these:
1. Yale-Lilly Experiment: Adolescents Rx Toxic Drug for Presumed Mental Illness They Do Not Have
2. "Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?"
3. Full Report Note this study by an old colleague of mine
On December 13, 2006 the FDA’s Psychopharmaceutical Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) is meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland to discuss antidepressant-induced suicidal behavior in adults. In 2004 the FDA held similar hearings on children and concluded that antidepressants do in fact cause suicide in humans under age eighteen. A warning has been placed in all antidepressant labels or package inserts.
Now the agency has given advanced notice of its new findings—antidepressants, all of them according to the FDA, cause increased suicidality in young adults. Suicide occurs more than twice as much on antidepressants than on sugar pills in individuals under age 25.
First the agency admits that antidepressants cause suicidality in children. Now the agency admits the drugs cause the same disasters in young adults. Meanwhile, an independent review of all antidepressant trials submitted to the FDA has shown that the drugs are no better than placebo.[i] America’s drug watchdog needs to come clean. It’s been approving depressants as antidepressants.
Conclusion: Ask yourself over these last 20-30 years or so, since this country has become a pill-popping nation, what have those parents in that period of time spawned.
Are you even aware their are only three actual 'diseases of the brain' the rest listed in the DMV-IV are disorders without a shred of scientific data to back up the claims of even one of them.
Are you aware that the majority of Psychiatrist's or Psychologist's have zero medical training or degrees, but want the government to allow them to dispense drugs, without the aid or advice of a actual Medical Doctor.
Don't ask why...the answer is simple, and so I'll leave you with this question;
How am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment, and of Gods,I alone and afraid n a world, I never made?
The answer is...Why didn't you?
Plato said, "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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