Jeff Sessions Says People Should 'Tough It Out' and Take Aspirin Instead of Opioids

[OldBoy]

I don't wish ill on others, but if Sessions were to suffer from chronic pain, he'd no doubt change his tune:

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently shared his idea for solving the opioid crisis: aspirin, sleep and less marijuana.
Speaking at an event in Tampa on Tuesday to celebrate Ronald Regan’s birthday, Sessions said his goal for 2018 is to see a greater decline in the amount of opioids prescribed (he said last year there was a 7 percent decline).
“We think doctors are just prescribing too many. Sometimes you just need two Bufferin or something and go to bed,” Sessions said. “These pills become so addictive.”
Bufferin is an over-the-counter aspirin with antacid. Sessions said according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, a “huge percentage” of heroin addiction starts with opioid prescriptions.
“That may be an exaggerated number, they had it as high as 80 percent. We think a lot of this is starting with marijuana and other drugs too,” Sessions said. “But we’ll see what the facts show, but we need to reduce the prescription abuse and hopefully reduce the addiction that’s out there.”
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WATCH: Attorney General Jeff Sessions says his goal for 2018 is to see a further decline in prescriptions of opioids, and says, "we think a lot of this is starting with marijuana and other drugs." pic.twitter.com/paWSsEuNrl
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 7, 2018

On Wednesday, Sessions doubled down on his previous remarks during a speech to Tampa law enforcement.
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“I am operating on the assumption that this country prescribes too many opioids. People need to take some aspirin sometimes and tough it out a little bit,” Sessions said, then cited White House Chief of Staff John Kelly as someone who refused to take painkillers after a surgery on his hand. “You can get through these things.”
Sessions’ remarks were met with criticism from the chronic pain community, who explained that pain relief isn’t always as simple as “taking aspirin and going to bed.”

To: @USAGSessions
As I’m one of those chronic pain sufferers, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), allow me to address the obviously ignorant AG, who has NO IDEA WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT!
Chronic pain sufferers are some of the TOUGHEST PEOPLE that you will ever encounter…
— W B Devitt III (@WB_Devitt_III) February 8, 2018

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Little Jeff Sessions had obviously never been in chronic pain. Let him live a week with what I endure day in and day out. He’ll be singing a different tune. He should legalize marijuana for people in chronic pain so they can wean off of opiods.
— Randy Ferrell (@rpdandy) February 8, 2018

I may not play a doctor on TV, but I am a real one, and I think
Jeff Sessions is the worst man in America to be giving medical advice or creating health care policy. https://t.co/bWlptaYxr9
— M Basel (@mitchellbasel) February 8, 2018

Sessions’ comments are at odds with data on opioid use and addiction. The opioid crisis claimed approximately 63,000 lives in 2016, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. However, synthetic opioids like fentanyl caused about a third of these deaths — which have increased 88 percent per year since 2013. Heroin caused about a fourth, and prescription opioids caused 23 percent, down from 26 percent in 2009.
Studies show the majority of people prescribed opioids do not become addicted (only between 1 and 12 percent develop an addiction). And a 2017 study found that 51.9 percent of people entering treatment for opioid use disorder started with prescription opioids, which is down from 84.7 percent in 2005. Among those, research has found that 75 percent of all opioid misuse starts with medication not prescribed to them.
Research has also suggested that marijuana is correlated with lower opioid use. Studies have found that states with legal marijuana dispensaries have fewer opioid deaths and that chronic pain patients who use marijuana use less opioids.

[willie33]

If AG Jeff Sessions really developed chronic pain, he would get his PK just because of his status in the government. He would definitely be treated and I’m sure better than us.  

[happyvibe]

and I'm sure if someone raided his medicine cabinet they would find pk's in there. usually the ones that are most vocal have the most skeletons to hide.

[Blockhead59]

If AG Jeff Sessions really developed chronic pain, he would get his PK just because of his status in the government. He would definitely be treated and I’m sure better than us.  

I agree, Willie. I think that both political parties, and pretty much anyone in power, always seem to adopt a "let them eat cake" attitude. They show themselves for the aloof elitists that they are. They ride outside the system...above it. We must abide by the laws that they pass, while they seldom have to. I agree that Sessions will get all the pk that he can ever want. I think that's as wrong as can be, but it is simply reality.   RM

I agree, too, Willie and Rafterman. Notice how Sessions used White House Chief of Staff John Kelly as an example of someone who 'refused' to take painkillers after a surgery on his hand, leading me to assume Gen Kelly was offered/prescribed/handed in a nicely wrapped package a big dose of pk. And it was his choice to take or not take them. 

[reilli]

Jeff Sessions is a scourge to our society.

[G.Elias]

If he got a little cramp he'd be getting morfine mainlined 24/7 no doubt, these are liars, sociopathic and power greedy to the max,they dont mind anyone else suffering as long as it aint them.
I dont really know who these US politicians are,but they sound just like the ones over here,same kind of corrupt liars with no feelings for the little people suffering.

Basically they are the ones who have created more addicts and death from fent with their war on drugs, next they'll be telling us its all in a persons head that pain from a life threatning illness,sooner they are booted out the better,sooner the government starts to rethink the way people are treated by docs the better,prohibition never works,if it did why are so many dying?

[schmok]

Just another sad day in this sheeitshow of an administration...

[reilli]

And KellyAnne Conway says that is people would stop worrying about eating right thhey'd be less likely to do drugs. Seriously she said "Eat the ice cream. Eat the french fries."

[Tigertail58]

What really scares me is that the next time I need surgery my physician will hesitate to provide relief for my pain. I don't want anyone to be addicted to anything and certainly not to die of a drug overdose but we need to address this with common sense.

[Mad Max]

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