Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Opioid Shaming

Episode Date: May 7, 2016

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So the questions are still surrounding and hovering, just kind of lingering in the air over the death of Prince. Isn't an overdose? Was it an overdose? Was he filled with percissette in his system? The medical examiner has come out and said, Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, we have not issued anything. What you're hearing is all, oh, bull crap.

Okay, we haven't issued anything. We probably at least another week away, any information. They're still after the Dr. Cornfield from California, who is a opioid addiction specialist. He had sent his son to Minnesota right with a new drug, a red-eye flight to Minnesota that night, the night before his death. And they were going to go to a doctor together. And they were going to explain to the doctor in Minnesota that he would need this and he

had the prescription to be able to write and give to him. Now, you know, they're trying to give it as a hard time. He can't write a prescription in Minnesota. He didn't. Anyway, they're still after the doc trying to figure did he overprescribed. These doctors overprescribe. And everybody's coming out. out with their painkiller addiction stories and how horrible it is and what a what a wonderful

world it would be if we all weren't addicted to opioids is there an epidemic i don't know maybe um is it as horrible as every as i say everyone as the you know it's the new hated drugs right all the opioids. Everybody wants to, you know, you can't, you can't get a prescription without feeling like a drug addict. And it drives me insane. Look, I know that it's a wonder, I mean, the drug itself, any of the opioids work great, right? That's why they, that's why people get addicted to them. However, I've said for a long time, that there's a difference between, there's a difference between addiction and physical dependence. Nobody, when they're badmouthing all the people taking opioids to help them get through the day.

other productive day, by the way, makes that distinction. It's all, Oh, you need opioids, then you're a drug addict, and we need to make you jump through 8,000 hoops and spend all this money because you're a drug addict. No. No.

Yeah, am I addicted? Yes, I have physical dependence. And, yeah, so do a lot of people. But the point. is, is that the medicine works. So I think it's time to, I mean, we need to start making that distinction for people. And they were trying to make that distinction. We'll see what's up with Prince.

He may have gone off the deep end. There's no question. A man in his position certainly could afford to go off the deep end and had the connections to do that. No doubt about it. But, and obviously, you know, all the people that went in off the deep end were started with the addiction because they needed it, right? They had something done, was anywhere in an accident, you know, had some kind of surgery where

they needed it and then it just got out of hand. I got it. The out of hand stuff could happen easy. But to just take it away because there are people who get out of hand with it is insane. So we'll see what the prince is, what the prince deal is. I mean, for years, it was, you know, in his 50s. But for 30 years, you know, he danced in high heels, toured around the country dancing in high heels.

Yeah, I can imagine that there was a little bit of pain going on in his life. So I'm fascinated to find out exactly, you know, what was in his system. And now the judge is saying that they get the DNA test coming. Because you never know who's going to try to claim some of his fortune. So we want to have a DNA test. well, you know, who's going to claim most of his fortune is, I don't know, the government. Why would a guy like Prince, even, let's say as young as he was, you know, in his 50s? You know, obviously, even in your 50s, you may start thinking about, you know, I'm on the downside of life.

But you figure you're going to live for quite a while. Why would a guy like Prince with such an amazing fortune, an amazing collection of merchandise and songs and entertainment that is going to go on for years where he couldn't stop the money from coming in? Why does a guy like that not have a will? That's a mistake. That's a mistake. So I hope maybe he actually had one and we just didn't know about it. You'd think, I mean, they would have, hopefully the attorneys would have come forward by now. But not having a will screws him hard with the government.

I mean, between the feds and the state, they are going to take a lot of the Prince money, which I think is a crime in itself, no question. But it just shouldn't be that way, right? I mean, the guy who worked so hard to amass this life and this money. And then, oh, yeah, that's great. But it's the government's now. Never mind that you paid all this money to us before while you were earning it. We're just going to take it again.

That's a beautiful thing. I love government. I love government. But the next time that you start getting into hearing the people start ramping on and on and on about addiction, The phenomenon of addiction. Remember to take a look at it from addiction and physical dependence. You know, it's... I'm trying to draw off some kind of shadow line.

I don't know that you can and the fight's going to go on forever over it. But I think you can kind of understand where I'm coming from. You know, it goes back to what we talked about with Alex Epstein when he was talking about having somebody come from 300 years ago to today and seeing what a wonderful, marvelous thing life is today with power and air conditioning and heat and buildings and light and medicine. Medicine. I mean, in the early 1900s, everybody was, you know, drinking coats. cocaine and drinking, you know, bear heroin and creating these monsters. So we've come a long way.

And yet life is pretty darn good. And because life is pretty darn good, we've got to do something to pull the rug out from underneath you. Okay? And that's exactly what we're going to do. If you think life is getting good, we're going to pull the rug right out from underneath you. Here we go.

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