Fentanyl should have never been invented. It was a mistake, from the get go. People should be given black-tar heroin and/or straight morphine, instead of that shit.

Thank you! Fuck, it's so irritating that people pay attention to the ones misusing prescription medications and completely ignore the patients that legitimately need pain relief. They have no idea the hell that a constant pain level of 6 - 9 feels like. I'm in pain all the time due to chronic Lyme Disease, and this shit makes it so damn hard to get any relief. Fuck the politicians that push this shit.

They're doing the same thing with antibiotics and fear of superbugs! And Lyme can take 1-3 years to kill off due to many mechanisms that allow it to survive and evade treatment regimens along with the division rate of once every ~24 hours for the main pathogens involved, compared to the 10-20 minute division time for most other pathogens that you might be able to kill off with a week of antibiotics. They are literally causing an epidemic under the guise of attempting to avoid an epidemic.

Didn't realize which sub I was in at first, but I guess I can go into more detail than usual here. Lyme mimics a lot of chronic conditions including things like fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease, and various mental disorders ranging from things like schizophrenia and dementia to depression and anxiety. 30% of people diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis also have lyme (it can cause autoantibodies and consequently, autoimmune diseases.) Lyme disease spirochetes were found in 7 out of 10 dementia patients in a New Jersey hospital. These things all require long term prescription medications, and they're thought to be incurable, but when the lyme is treated, and when the autoimmune aspect is treated afterwards, these diseases go away.

The CDC has even had hugely outdated guidelines, basically ignoring all research that came after 1990, research that shows that lyme persists after what often amounts to hugely inadequate treatment. They routinely confront medical researchers and demand that they change their findings in order to fit their narrative, and the pattern shows up in medical research. I've looked through well over 150 studies on the subject, and the intervention shows up as a huge statistical scar across the data.

They mostly try to push the narrative that doxycycline kills these things. It doesn't, and I really want to stress that point. Doxycycline is NOT capable of killing lyme disease causing spirochetes on it's own. It initiates a defensive mechanism where they shift into what's called a cyst form. The spirochete generates a thick protective membrane around itself and can go into a deep metabolic sleep. It can still divide within the cyst as well, and when conditions are no longer deadly outside, or when the cyst is too packed full of spirochetes to maintain structural integrity, it breaks open. Up until February of this year, the lovely CDC recommended 30 days of doxycycline, and they called any persisting symptoms post-treatment lyme disease syndrome or PTLDS. That is absolute bullshit, and the sole purpose is to turn people into cash cows for drug companies. Credible estimates say that 2-20% of the people within the U.S. have Lyme Disease. In China, it's 6%. The research for these things has existed for over 20 years. Doctors are brainwashed at the same universities that brainwash people into drooling leftists imprinted with a severe problem of appealing to authority, and it makes them very susceptible to these government backed lies.

I recommend checking out my sub over at /v/lyme for more info.