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Sadly, my wife and I were it, well over a decade ago.My wife and I got laser eye correction at the same time. This was done at an out-of-town facility that did procedures for a wide area. The place had a deal with a local hotel; we checked in to the hotel, were shuttled over to the doctor, had the surgery, and got shuttled back to the hotel, where we were supposed to go to sleep immediately. Do NOT drive home before the next morning. The reason for the mandatory nap was that they made us comfortable with the thought of lasers and sharp blades to the eye by use of a really, really good happy pill administered about 15 minutes before the surgery. You stayed alert and relaxed (and did I mention happy?) for long enough for the surgery, then got really sleepy.It would be a Bad Thing to rub your eyes for a few days, and bright lights would be uncomfortable also. The solution for both was tinted ski goggles, secured with surgical tape while sleeping to prevent you from moving them. You can take the tape off while you are awake, but still wear the goggles in case you forget and try to rub your eyes.All went as expected, and we slept like logs starting just after noon. We both woke up sometime in the night, hungry but still really, really happy. We remembered there was a Wal-Mart just down the hill from the hotel; they would have munchies!Walk over. It’s dark, we’re wearing tinted ski goggles, but who cares! We laugh like crazy most of the way there. OH! Now we notice that we are still wearing flannel pajamas and bathrobes! We forgot to change! That’s funny!Enter the Mart. It’s almost empty! Must be later than we thought. On to munchies! Get several bags of Doritos, and see a display of sunglasses. Realize we can wear non-prescription sunglasses now! Slide the goggles up on our foreheads and try some! Wow, most of these look so bad it’s funny... especially when you are drugged out of your $#& mind, and also wearing ski goggles! More laughter. HA! Funny! Funny!Store clerk from about fifteen feet away, and holding a garden fork: “Um… can I help you with something?”“No, thanks! We’re just looking!” And that was hilarious!“Um. You do know we’re closed, don’t you?”“What? When? We just got here! And Wal Mart never closes!”“Yeah, this one does, at midnight. It’s three AM. We were closed when you walked in.”“Why didn’t someone say something!”“No one wanted to get close to you.”Wife: “Except you! You’re braver than everyone else!”“Yeah. But I’m fifteen feet away and holding a pitchfork. Would you mind leaving?”“Sure! But, we have to pay for these chips. Wait, my wallet is in my pants!” (And that’s funny!)“No, you can just keep the chips. Are you guys on drugs, or something? Why the goggles?”“Yep! We’re on drugs. Big time! The goggles are to keep our laser-eyes safe. Else they might … well we don’t know, exactly, but something BAD!”It went on like this while we were escorted out by Mr. Pitchfork, who stayed a comfortable distance away. He declined our offer to share our free chips.(For those who would be aghast at us eating chips before we paid for them: we were carrying unopened bags. We were drugged, not barbarians!)

My own experience (which was actually early in 2016) is much like what was described by User. The major difference on my end is that I went through CR England’s “Premier” CDL school. CR England actually has a pretty bad - okay, very bad - reputation around the OTR community, but it has a lot more to do with trainers not wanting to earn their trainer pay, or otherwise certain DM’s allowing some of their drivers with insufficient knowledge and experience to become trainers as well. Regardless of the company’s reputation, it ultimately is a case of YMMV, as far as each newcomer’s experience will be. Aside from the starting pay (which I expected anyway), my own experience really hasn’t been bad at all, overall.To start with, CR England and many other “mega carriers” who operate their own CDL schools will fund your unpaid training for you in return for employment with them for a minimum length of time. In my case, I already knew what I was getting into with CR England - numerous bad reviews and all - but I still had my own reasons for choosing to attend their school. For one, I wanted the training facility to be close enough to my home in Southern California that I could commute daily between my home and the school. I also didn’t want to worry about where to park my tractor when doing home time, so I picked a company that I knew did a lot of freight in my area and which has a terminal nearby that I could call my “home terminal”. In fact, I used to pass right by their Colton terminal on a regular basis, so I already knew exactly where “work” would become. I had a friend who is a CMV driver recommend Robertson’s, which is a concrete company seen all over SoCal. I took a look at them, but had a few main concerns:I was more interested in getting a Class A license rather than Class B.Robertson’s pays Class B drivers better than they pay Class A driversThey required a 2-yr employment contractThe training required to drive regular cement trucks is twice as long as their Class A (all double grain hopper type trailers) trainingWhile I understand why Robertson’s specifically pays Class B drivers more than Class A drivers, it also defies logic to me when a Class A driver can use his/her CDL to operate Class B equipment, but Class B drivers cannot operate Class A equipment. So, why should they get paid better? Also, a “Doubles/Triples” endorsement is required to pull 2+ trailers simultaneously, which is itself beyond what just any CDL-A driver is allowed to do. Ultimately though, I just didn’t want to get locked into a 2yr employment contract if it turned out I would have a problem with that particular employer.Plenty of other drivers will say nothing but bad things about CR England - many for legitimately good reasons of their own, and others only because of things they hear from former employees, but my contract with them was only 6 months. They normally require 9-month contracts, but they give veterans like myself 6-month deals. Also, they have a wide array of routes they focus on. Their Nationwide OTR fleets do routes to anywhere in the 48 CONUS states. One can also transfer into one of many Dedicated Regional fleets, Local fleets and/or Intermodal fleets. I’ve always been one to try to see the bigger picture in everything, and always have a long-term goal in mind. Between the minimal contract length, terminal and CDL school proximities to my home, my lack of interest in paying my own way through a school that won’t even guarantee employment, among others…I ended up deciding on the CR England route. With that out of the way, what was my actual experience with their CDL school and training program like? Read on…Their CDL school takes only 17 days to complete. It’s very fast-paced, and every day has a very specific area of focus. The first day or two involves “inprocessing” (just like any veteran has experience with), which includes filling out forms, seeing the doctor, dealing with admin types (or, as many of us who come from USAF aircraft maintenance backgrounds, “Nonners”), etc. The entire first week is spent exclusively in an academic/classroom setting. The closest you come to touching any of the trucks/trailers is the first day, when you are required to demonstrate to the doctor that you can duck walk under the trailer without difficulty, and that you can safely enter and exit the trailer’s interior. They’ll teach you the proper way to climb in and out of the trailer, but they do expect you to be capable of doing it safely on your own, once taught.The first couple of days are spent learning all of the questions/answers to the CLP (Commercial Learner’s Permit) tests. There are 3 tests which students must take, and at least in the case of CR England’s Fontana, CA school, they take all of the first week students to the DMV on Wednesday. So, all day Monday and Tuesday are spent focusing on the CLP tests and preparing everybody to pass them. The instructor there wasn’t about to waste time explaining the logic behind why each question had a certain correct answer, but then the training material they provide does cover at least some of that info anyway. The 3 tests are General Driving, Air Brakes, and - for Class A vehicles - the Combination Vehicles test. You must pass all three tests before the DMV will issue you a CLP. The CR England school in Fontana specifically sets aside Wednesdays for permit testing because the DMV requires permit holders to have their permit for 14+ days before they are eligible to test for their CDL. Now you should probably have an idea of why the class is 17 days long, and why a specific day is used for permit testing.The rest of Week 1 (includes Saturday) is spent going over a number of academic and safety topics. Safety is above and beyond the single most important aspect of driving a truck - or doing any other type of industrial work. Attention to details is extremely critical. Be prepared to take as many notes as you can, and don’t ask the instructor any questions that can otherwise be answered the following week by one of the yard instructors, or by whoever becomes your trainer once you actually have your license, get hired, and are in a position to start getting paid. Pick up every important detail possible. They really do take safety VERY seriously - and for very good reason. However, they also take speeding students through the pipeline seriously, so don’t plan on slowing that process down at all without getting a lot of attitude for it. Just keep your mouth shut as much as possible while still in the classroom, understand the importance of attention to details and making quick, accurate decisions, and accept the fact this is just part of the required process that will provide you with a means to an end. To be honest, given my own military background, I completely understand and agree with the Attention To Detail/Situational Awareness concerns as well as getting students acquainted with making quick decisions. What do you think is going to happen once you’re actually driving a truck down the road, where any number of things can go wrong - and you lack both the ability to accelerate, decelerate, or easily avoid sudden problems like you can often do in a POV? Staying alert to every detail possible, having escape routes planned out before you even need to use them, and being able to react very quickly in exactly the manner you should have already rehearsed in your head are of extreme importance. How do you avoid losing control on wet or slippery roads? How do you regain control if any combination of tires on the truck and/or trailer does slip/skid? How do you avoid overheating your brakes on downhill grades (which often also results in fires that can damage/destroy equipment and freight)? Ironically, the vast majority of trucking accidents that are actually caused by truckers themselves happen at low speeds. It’s usually caused by failure to abide by fundamental rules of trucking - some of which another Quoran already added:ALWAYS watch your tandems (trailer tires). If you’re turning at all, your trailer WILL off-track. Just because your tractor can clear an obstacle or another vehicle, it doesn’t mean your trailer(s) can too. Fundamental rule here is, if you lose sight of your tandems…STOP!!!! Back up if you must. If traffic behind you won’t allow you to back up…sit there as long as necessary to back up safely, then reposition yourself or make whatever other changes need to be made to do everything safely. Speaking of this, there is an on-ramp to I-10 right there in Colton which trucks often try to use when leaving the Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club DC located right behind CR England’s Colton terminal. Specifically, trucks traveling north on Rancho Ave will attempt to get onto the I-10E on-ramp - then get stuck on the barrier there because they failed to abide by this simple rule - as well as how to properly prepare for such a turn. It’s not illegal for trucks to make this turn, but the city of Colton strongly discourages the practice by posting yellow (non-mandatory, caution only) signs in a few different locations along the route between the DC and that on-ramp. Wreckers are dispatched to that location regularly because of truckers who fail to abide by this fundamental rule. It happens so often, that there is an entire section of “stuck truck” pictures posted to one of the Colton groups on Facebook. The album gets updated frequently too - almost always of trucks making the same mistake at that same intersection.Always GOAL when backing. GOAL is a trucking acronym for “Get Out And Look”. Pay close attention to all the trucks you see on the road. Ever see any with busted headlight lenses and/or missing/damaged bumpers, or mirrors? If so, chances are great they are the victim of careless truck stop maneuvering by another driver. Most of those are caused during backing, where the driver either wasn’t paying attention to important details, saw something wrong but tried to force things anyway, or was otherwise just too lazy to get out of their seat, get out and be absolutely certain that they wouldn’t hit anybody else. Imagine the time that gets wasted and the damage to your own driving record if you caused damage (and possibly also lost driving time and money to the other driver) just because of your careless or negligent actions. Don’t try to flee before anybody can catch you either. Many drivers (myself included) keep dash cams mounted and recording 24/7. Most locations where such incidents occur also have their own surveillance cameras installed. So trust me…even if you think nobody saw it…its best to assume that somebody or something actually did see and/or record it, and that it definitely will catch back up with you eventually.Once Week 1 is complete, the rest of the CDL school time is spent either in the training yard or on local roads and freeways themselves. It starts first with more fundamentals - reviewing how to do Pre-Trip Inspections (which are required daily, and must be documented on logs), a demonstration of how to couple and uncouple from a trailer, basic safety practices that are expected of you, among others. Once that is complete, they’ll go over basic backing skills. DMV’s seem to be changing their requirements now, or at least that seems to be the case with people I pick up now who were trained at other CR England CDL school locations, but the basic backing skills that must be demonstrated on all DMV-certified CDL tests areBacking in a straight line (keeping the trailer behind your tractor, and keeping it inside a specified area)Offset backing (like being setup for a straight line backing when you really want to back into an adjacent spot)Parallel parking (very similar to Offset Backing during actual maneuvers, but with a specific setup desired)When I went through the Fontana school, they also taught - and tested 50% of the class on - Alley Docking. I have yet to pick up another driver in recent months who was also trained at the Fontana school, so I don’t know if Alley Docking is still taught there. But I do know that people I pick up from our main terminal in Salt Lake City all say they didn’t receive any Alley Dock training at all. I think that’s a bad thing too, and it isn’t CR England’s fault at all. You have to keep in mind that while in CDL school, their focus is exclusively on teaching safety, logging, HOS rules, etc. and on preparing students to pass the DMV test. Learning all of the “real world” things you really need to learn for practical use is the responsibility of your trainer, after you’ve already passed the DMV test and are officially hired. Unfortunately, there is a gap between what DMVs want to see, and how things work in the real world. Sure, there are basic details you can watch for with each of the above backing procedures in most situations, but even then…I throw almost all of it out the window, outside of backing in a straight line. Alley docking is otherwise the most difficult to do, and certain aspects that make effective Alley Dock maneuvers also apply in most “real world” backing scenarios. You can’t do a straight line back if there isn’t enough “vertical” space between the front of the “hole” you want to back into and the nearest obstacle (usually the front of another tractor) that might be parked across the lane from your desired spot. If there isn’t enough room to straight back, there definitely isn’t enough room to offset back. Parallel parking actually can be useful in some cases, when either parking on a street or even in certain rest areas where the only truck parking available is along one curb or another. But honestly, a 45–45 setup (trailer is setup 45* from the desired hole, assuming the hole is perpendicular to the travel lane, and the tractor is setup 45* from the trailer) or similar method is far more often than not the best way to safely and easily get into most parking spots and dock doors. So, just plan on learning backing fundamentals ONLY while in CDL school, then hope and pray that whoever you get as a trainer actually has a really good idea of how to perform and teach backing in real world situations from there. In CDL school, it’s more about the techniques and tactics that are used themselves and not so much the maneuvers as a whole that are important to learn.Once they’ve taught everybody in the class all of the basic backing maneuvers and each student has also had a chance to try out each maneuver once (and only once), they’ll move on to other things, like getting you out on local roads - teaching you how to safely turn left and right at intersections of various sizes, making sure you are constantly doing regular traffic checks in every direction possible, reading, understanding and obeying every sign possible, basic upshifting and downshifting, etc. Eventually, you’ll end up on local freeways, where you’ll get taught even more things. If you have access to a school that is close enough to an area with steep grades nearby, you might even get a chance to do uphill and downhill grade training while still in the school. I don’t know anybody from CR England who received grade training during CDL school though, unless - like me - they went to the Fontana school specifically. The Fontana school, particularly, is close enough to the Cajon Pass that taking students up and down the pass is part of the regularly scheduled curriculum. Those who were trained in Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and elsewhere apparently don’t have such easy access to steep grades, however, so their first experiences ever with steep grades usually don’t come until after they’ve already passed their CDL test and are on their trainer’s truck.Once the CDL school process is complete, students take turns being evaluated by DMV-certified yard instructors. In other words, some of the company’s own yard instructors are also certified by the DMV to proctor the CDL tests. DMV offices themselves have limited staff and a very large number of drivers seeking CDLs (at least in SoCal), and there is no way possible for them to keep up with the demand industry-wide for more CDL drivers. So, most of the mega carriers apply for and receive exemptions which allow them to get some of their own instructors certified to administer the exams. The DMV does, however, audit at least one student from every group shortly after all students have already tested. This is a check-and-balance procedure to ensure that the company’s proctors are actually training - and fairly evaluating - students and not just pencil-whipping them. The other exception/exemption you might read about elsewhere on the Internet - and which many longer-time drivers mistakenly misinterpret - is the one involving students who pass their CDL exam, but whom reside outside the state which they did their CDL test in. I now train recent CDL school graduates myself, and as an example…one of the students I trained is from Illinois, but he did his CDL training and passed the DMV test in Salt Lake City. Another also did his test in SLC, but is a legal resident of Florida. In my own case, I tested in the same state that I reside in, so I was able to get my real CDL immediately. But for those who don’t live in the same state they test in, what they end up with is a CLP (which usually expires within a few months) and a packet of documents which they must take to a DMV in the state they actually live in. Since they don’t legally have a CDL yet in such cases, the exemption allows them to drive - for pay - with their one-on-one trainer and only a CLP in hand until they can get under a load that will take them into or through their home state so they can completely the CDL acquisition process. I can’t speak of what other companies do, but CR England does require its trainers to ride in the front seat with students at all times throughout training. The only exception is when the student is just driving the truck down a long Interstate, with little or nothing new to teach for that particular situation (assuming it’s already been taught). Otherwise, the trainer is expected to be up front and watching anytime the trainee is on an on-ramp, off-ramp, driving on any city streets, or in a parking lot.Unfortunately, some trainers care only about using their students as “cash cows”. Those are the trainers who care exclusively about how big their paychecks are and not at all about what their trainees actually learn. They often will even take on two trainees simultaneously, which the company does allow. There are some pros and cons to having two trainees in the truck though, but I’ll get to that issue shortly. It doesn’t take much for those trainers to be discovered by other drivers, DMs and others in the management chain alike. In my own case, I already had quite a solid skillset and previous experiences to make learning how to operate a combo truck easy. It definitely helped a lot more knowing I got exactly the kind of trainer I wanted to have though. The driver who trained me had nearly 20 years of CDL-A experience, and he taught me a lot of “tricks of the trade” as well as WHY things can, should, or must be done the way they’re done. He was very thorough, which truly set me up for success. But once I graduated off of his truck and ended up as a “second seater” on somebody else’s truck, it turned out the other driver - who had only 2–3 months more experience than me - didn’t have the first clue how to document and send out TripPaks - which we MUST send, at least at CR England, if we want to get paid. He also didn’t have any clue which macros needed to be done, or which macro numbers corresponded with which task on the onboard Qualcomm (QCOM) unit. Think of how stupid a trainer must look when his trainee eventually gets his own truck, then proves that he/she knows much less than somebody who just recently finished being trained by somebody else - whom actually did a thorough job. Think of how stupid a trainer looks as well when I see another driver from the same company dealing with a “dropped trailer” immediately after picking up a load from the same facility I was picking up from simultaneously. Or when I stop what I’m doing to assist that driver, advise her to “drop your air bags” because her co-driver (who trained with her simultaneously on the same truck with the same trainer) had already lowered the landing gear sufficiently to allow the trailer to safely support itself, then hear “How do I do that?” from said driver. It is my opinion that every trainee should graduate off their trainer’s truck already knowing every single function/control that can be operated within the unit, and when or how the use of each is necessary or ideal. When I see obvious evidence of poor training like that, I don’t hesitate to point out the problem to one of the Training Coordinators (TC’s). My employer already has a bad enough reputation among the trucking community. Neither I nor the company needs trainers like that perpetuating those concerns, and I sure don’t want other drivers to assume I’m no different as a trainer myself because of “bad eggs” like them.Going back to the two trainees on a truck system, or as the company calls the Take Two program. Sleeping arrangements are difficult at best, since it’s illegal to be in the upper bunk while the truck is moving. You also aren’t supposed to ever sleep in the jump seat either, since it’s the same type of seat as the driver’s seat. If you get used to falling asleep in one, the chances of you falling asleep in the other - while driving - are greater. As a positive for trainees though, it often becomes a competition to see who can develop their skills more quickly and get to their minimum driving hours requirement sooner, which can be a good thing. On the other hand, differences in personal hygiene habits and mannerisms can also frustrate everybody involved to the point where trainees will even get in fist fights with each other as a result. On the trainer’s end, having two trainees in the truck means far less driving for themself. The only driving they generally do (unless they’re being selfish) is during the hours of night at which company policy forbids trainees from driving. It’s ultimately the trainer’s discretion whether to take one or two trainees at a time, so if you end up on a two-trainee truck - or even with a trainer who won’t train you properly and/or allow you to drive enough, you can always contact your TC and request a different trainer. I actually want the people I train to get all of the knowledge and experience I can pass along to them, and I also encourage them to take over as soon as they’re legally allowed to AND they feel like they’re rested adequately to handle another full shift. Trainees get paid by the hour - and only for time they spend either driving the truck themselves, or time spent doing On Duty (not driving) tasks, like Pre-Trip and Post-Trip inspections, fueling, scaling, doing training and/or training module CBTs, etc.). The starting pay is bad enough regardless of where you go, and the last thing I want to do is play a role in you getting only a $300-$400 paycheck when you could otherwise be getting $600+. There are plenty of other trainers who also take great pride in their work, but many others either just don’t care, or they will often have severe trust issues where any mistake at all which trainees make gets them extra paranoid and unwilling to allow the trainee to do much.Ultimately, the process works well, if everybody is doing their jobs properly. YMMV, regardless of where you attend CDL school, which company you drive for, or which trainer(s) you might deal with. A great example of this is Swift Transportation. Truckers always joke about how anybody they see involved in any type of mishap was “Swift trained”. That all comes from the fact such a large number of actual mishaps somehow or another involve Swift trucks/trailers. What they don’t tell you, however, is that Swift has literally twice as many power units as the next largest mega carrier (25K+ vs JB Hunt’s 13K or so). What they also can’t tell you is that based on the FMCSA’s SAFER website data, Swift’s accident rate (total of all Fatal, Injury and/or Tow required incidents) is actually about “average” and very much inline with the ratings of other mega carriers. More trucks = more trainers = more trainers who do a very good job of training + more “cash cow” type trainers. Learn as much as you possibly can, pay attention to every detail possible, be very considerate of all other drivers, always think safety, learn how to properly handle commonly encountered situations, and it won’t matter so much which CDL school you attend, or which company runs it. You might get an awesome trainer or you might get a completely worthless one, regardless of where you go.

There are a large number of lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical companies which manufacturer opioid s / opiates . A few have rightfully been dismissed for lack of standing . Judge dismisses lawsuit implicating drug manufacturers in opioid epidemicNew Britain Herald - Judge dismisses cities' suit against drug companiesThe judges are correct . The plaintiffs do not have standing to sue . Opioid / opiate medications are legal products . They are approved to be used as indicated and prescribed by the FDA . The pharmaceutical companies did not and do not hold addicts down , force the addict to crush pillow and inject or use them nasally. They do not advertise the use of schedule 2 medication . It is not allowed . No one from doctors, pharmacists ,inparticular intractable pain patients who have become the target of Andrew Kolodny and other anti opioid zealots and fanatics such as PROP the once respected CDC, and now states looking to fill empty tax coffers .These are what is known as speculative litigation . The plaintiffs are hoping for a large judgement or settlement. Which the pharmaceutical industry is rightfully fighting .After the tobacco litigation which saw hundreds of millions in find a supposedly set aside for smoking cessation and preventing people especially young people from starting .Most states used the find a asset of their general fund . This is going to make any litigation extremely difficult.There are many problems with blaming everyone and everything but addicts for choosing to abuse medication or more often illegal heroin now adulterated with various unknown fentanyl analogues . These are made in China and are all but impossible to stop from entering any country . If you watch a seaport it becomes obvious why . Just watching the waiting to cross from Mexico into a less busy state such as New Mexico should make it obvious .The the vast very difficult to patrol coastline of the U.S . has been a long time favorite of drug smugglers. In fact the coastal areas from the rest lakes to both the entire eastern and western coastline with the gulf of Mexico . Where whare much of the alcohol was smuggled in during the failure known as the Prohibition. Nixon created the DEA and passed the controlled substances act , which should have been and should be ruled unconstitutional. The government has o place in the doctor patient relationship . If we can say the government should be limited in what it can do when a woman wishes about a pregnancy using abortion as a means of birth control . Telling people do suffer from intractable pain that fire not remit or reduces person to bring debilitated often living in endless torment is much more than invading our privacy and what we choose to do with our bodies often the advice of a highly educated and skilled physician.We hear zealots such as Andrew Kolodny ranting on about Perdue settling for a pittance . The plaintiffs knew they did not have a string casec. I believe it was Kentucky and West Virginia.While Perdue engaged in illegal marketing . They did not market to Addicts . Addicts discovered brush nd and snorting Oxy Contin when their heroin was temporarily hard to find . Usually a supply shortage, rarely does the government catch enough drugs to reduce supply to have much of a effect on the market .If there is a demand for a product legal or illegal there will be someone willing to fill that demand . Currently the supplier of drugs are criminals who will do whatever they want to fill the demand . Narcotrafficos , are sociopathic, Psychopathic like organizations which have terrorized Mexico and Central America along with Countries such as Colombia , Peru and Bolivia. They must be more than ecstatic about the chaos crisis in Venezuela .Lots of desperate people , prime land to grow poppies, and coca . Plenty of people with skills to help produce the drugs , launder money and develop new and ingenious ways to smuggle the drugs into the U.S. .China would e more than happy to help .They had been allowing chemists to make fentanyl analogues which can easily bring in millions and drain the resources of the U.S. . We waste billions in tax revenue to stop people from harming themselves and enriching violent criminal organizations and possibly Islamic extremists and terrorists who will use the drug money to inflict terror in us out of hated and recruits willing to die thinking they will get ,70 virgin to have endless sex with . Another discussion in itself .He we arrest and incarcerate mid and low level dealers who steadily replaced . With litt!e hope for a career , dead end low wage service industry jobs among the place of skilled kabkrv..A refusal to use law enforcement to investigate and arrest those those hire undocumented immigrants as a source of low wage labor which will not file law suit or go to OSHA, Will work long hours with out overtime. Do not get sick time or vacation time . How does a high school graduate begin to compete with that for a job that either begins their adult life as a employee or provide enough to survive in . Figure out how to change this and create new good paying employment opportunities . Along with reversing some other self inflicted wounds that will not heal .We have tried to arrest and incarcerate our way out of this crisis which we created by criminalizing drug . The dealers might go prison .There are ten more willing to take their place . Dealing drugs is far more lucrative than working at Wal-Mart Mart a fast food restaurant or other low paying long hours little advancement job .Before OXY Contin was on the market Janssen had been successful with Duragesicic Fentanyl patches which have been changed to !she abuse even more difficult . Though a addict will find a way to abuse any thing. The patches were not !marketed as non addictive or creating tolerance and depend by which are not addiction no!after how much a anti opioid fanatics wishes this so .Two brand name extended release version of Morphine have also been on the market at the same time as Oxy Contin . Kadian and Avinsa one is no longer available as it did not sell as well as the generic often called MS Contin or Morphine ER . Addicts did not seem out either drug often.If they use prescription morphome it is out of desperation . Ironically it is heroin mebolizing into morphine which provides a the high after the initial intense high of it or nasal heroin . Which is simply diacetalmorphine.These medications were not marketed to be used with out a breakthrough medication and have been allowing tens millions to have a semblance of a life and engage in activities Those with out intractable pain cannot imagine .The opioid hysteria affects every one . The cost of litigation will push all pharmaceutical products priced up often out of reach for many . The companies which manufacture opioid a also manufacture medication such as insulin , anti psychotic medication, medication for high blood pressure, anti biotics, anti seizure medication , birth control, bloodthinners, medication for heart disease, medication for HIV , cancer , you name it they make it .There are few companies which make opioids as their only product . That drug happens to be the opioid of choice for anti opioid and pain patients Andrew Kolodny it's called Buprenophine often commonly called Suboxone when combined with Naloxone . Which untill recent!y was made by Apriss whichhad fought to keep its monopoly in the drug .Which only gives addicts a false sense of safety .Naloxone is sold at incredible profit to municipalities .They then use it to receive addicts sometimes the same junkies will be revived two or more times in one day . Why are taxpayers responsible ? Though there is intense lobbying to force it to be sold to intractable pain patients and those of us who take opioid medication so we do not live in torment everyday No yoga ,CBT , acupuncture , The best fanatical pushed Kratom . Which is,highly toxic to the liver and can cause serious problems .It is not well understood and has not been studied as a medication . Mostly due to its high liver toxicity .Thousand the fact when prescription drugs are abused they are not used as directed . Doctors will tell you not to crush the extended release medication or eat Fentanyl patches. That's just asking for trouble. Most Doctors are not paid or in anyway compensated for prescribing any .education .This a serious federal felony and a felony in all fifty states Puerto Rico , Guam and other territories.The fact many addicts who are resuscitated have been given Naloxone many times . They make up about .0001 percent of the 330million in the US. If opioid a were really as bad as anti opioid zealots and fans claim nearly every one would be a junkie .The cruel , draconian , barbaric bill of rights shredding CD C and various laws and regulations and administrative punishment called euphemistically enforcement s or civil actions .Which were by written by members of PROP and their favorite parmacu pharmaceutical companies Indivor and Apriss . CDC opioid prescribing guidlines. Which appear to custom fit the Buprenophine pushers at PROP ,a fanatical anti Opiod organization which is made up of addiction treatment industry doctors who created the newly minted disorders Opioid Use Disorder, OUDs a nonsense disorder that a unethical or greedy addiction treatment doctor or psychologist can label any one who use a opioid with. The new!y created Substance use disorder SUDs Both are garbage diagnosis intended to effect the outcome of the opioid litigation as well as full up beds In drug rehab Which until 2010 When Kolodny a addiction psychiatrist who worked for later to be CD C director Tom Frieden. The primary used detainees awaiting trial In The NYC jail system who were not in a position to refuse . Along with severely mentally ill in NYC Psychiatric facilities.A very unethical way to treat the most vulnerable .Giving jails and psychiatrist $ 10,000 to push , Suboxone and SubutexThis and the fact over 20 million pain patients use opioid medication with out becoming a depraved addict is going to be a very high hurdle for any anti opioid plaintiff . The fact these same states used the tobacco strengthening as a slush fund to keep taxes low instead of preventing and tobacco ceasitation program will be brought up .The fact municiphad been missing revenue , alities did not bill addicts as they do motorists who need a EMT is also going to be a very effective defense .That's active as is,not requiring those who get help to pay off the cost of belong them often we just wake them up . They are notifying just nodding as addicts call it . I have a colleage who works in a moderate sized city maybe 800,000 or so . She sees this all the time I get overdoses about once or twice a month with the occasional transfer when a small hospital lacks space for the addict . I also am known to make sure they go from ER to jail . Which does wonders they bc me not to send them to lockup. Knowing hey cannot get thier drugs in a cell 22/7 with camera cover them making it hard to ha e a guard pass drugs . One tried . He is now a guest of the maximum security prison in Canon City and Florence.In like some places .My practice will bill the addicted then bring them to court when they inevitably refuse to pay the ,$100,00 to 1 million or on occasion even more . They then violate the courts order and we seize their assets I've yet to recover much . I do not expect it .However I am not a charity . I have a life , friends girlfriends (spinning places is essential in the current heterosexual dymanic s and doing market . I might earn a very good income. It took years of hard work . I am highly respected and want to do the best I possibly can for my patients . tHey deserve compassion ,dignity and respectful treatment . If it means I sign off on a addict being fit for incarceration instead o f coddling them with consequence free or responsibility avoids nd pain patient blaming Suboxone pushing rehab so be it . They had a better chance cleaning up unlock up while they await trial or a plea . As I work hard an d will try as best I can to measure a patient gets the right specialist . A medication or medications approved by insurance and take time to listen to them . To talk and maybe learn something that helps them and hosted I expect to be paid for my experience and expertise and time .So would everyone who works hard and does not expect something simply for showing up .I do not blame any one but addicts and their enablers such as Andrew Kolodny and his PROP or Jane Balentyne who is also a member of PROP .She has serious conflicts of interest .She was a consultant to Cohen Milstein, the law firm suing opioid manufacturers .Except Indivor which makes Suboxone . It can easily become highly addictive and is slaughtered by prison inmates , athletes who are subjected to drug tests .As Buprenophine is noground by inexpensive drug tests.Unlike less dangerous and milder hydrocodone which the Andrew Kolodny endOsCoPY lobbiedBias and Conflict of Interest in Opioid Guidelines Study“ Ballantyne is the President of PROP, the organization founded by Kolodny. At least four other board members of PROP, including Kolodny himself, served on various CDC panels that advised the agency during the drafting of the guidelines, a matter that the agency refused to disclose for several months. “Dysfunction, Lobbying, and Conflict of Interest in the Debate Over Opioids – InsideSources“Jane Ballantyne, President of PROP. Ballantyne has served as a paid consultant to the law firm Cohen Milstein, which was profiled by the New York Times late last year for its coaxing of state attorneys general to sign contingency agreements allowing the firm to file suit against potential targets it has identified by scouring the news media and public records. In what the Times suggests is a quid pro quo arrangement, the attorneys general receive substantial campaign contributions either right before or after they sign the contingency agreements. “This will become a serious problem in any legit court . She created what are arbitrary guidlines which but carry the force of law based on zero evidence . It is not possible to at minimum ethical test this idea. It would be little different than what the Nazis did to victims of their sick twisted so called experiments in Auschwitz Dachau, Majdank , Scachenhausen , Maunchuasen, and other concentration camps. The opioid hysteria is becoming strikingly similar to how the holocaust started .Blame a group who cannot fight back pain patients who often are living in SSDI or have limited income which is spent on their medical care. While addicts grt taxpayer funded rehab, section 8 housing.Junkies get moved ahead of disabled veterans and disabled people who worked hard often at jobs such as logging, farming , commercial fishing , construction, trash collecting and other dangerous jobs which keep the country running and you comfortable.Why are pharmaceutical companies which make medications which save lives and make your life beyyer. We love about 30 years longer-term just 100 years ago thanks to modern medicine and the medications made by pharmaceutical companies .Sure They make a profit That's capitalism and competition at work. It's not perfect but it sure is better than what China or the Former USSR call or called health care.Want to see your medications price skyrocket , ask your Attorney General to file more frivolous lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies.Which make far more drugs then opioid Which with a few exceptions are inexpensive genetics (we pay for the cost controls in Europe and a number of other nations which is I e reason a generic li!e Morphine which is,I've 200 years old ccodt about $ 60 USD for a 60 count 15 or 30 mg I R tab!yes . Hydromorphone a 80 year old medication is about the same for a 90 count 4mg tablet s . A who!e Newcastle . A!do a way to get pain relive should insurance deny extended release opioid medication as it can cost more even as a generic ..There is little profit in genetics compared to a new in patent drug Which is why Indivor Monosol product hopped Buprenophine with Naloxone.Alleged product-hopping, sham petition to delay generic sufficeThis article goes into more detail why these lawsuits are not sure byes and might even cost states billions . Which is possible if they are four d to be frivouous, perpetrating a fraud on the four for pecuniary gain and or a malicious prosecution .The planting is prosecuting the suit .Doing some research into law and how courts work . Hint they are nothing like the notoriously inaccurate and propaganda pieces Law and Order shows or any court drama on television.The opioid suits are also based on the premise every company did what Perdue did in its marketing scheme which was improper.I don't know any doctors who changed and wrote lots of RXs for Oct Contin based on a sales reps say so .A!so it is a felony in every state as well as federally prescribe medication in exchange for any fungible or tangible good funding or serviceThe idea doctors are paid to prescribe us based on PROP ,PROPagandaMost likely as The spurs continue and more more information is available to the courts and the pharmaceutical industry Which i will find all it needs to defend themselves from the fabricated data and belifes they do show held addicts down and injected them with heroin adulterated with a fentanyl analogue which might be unknown to chemists .It's very easy if you have the right precursor to alter any drug and create a similar product which might or might not work . We have no idea what is in the heroin addicts choose to abuse themselves with. The cheap tests a coroner uses will not even detect fentanyl .It requires a sophisticated GC ME panel !Only 7,000 o overdoses are due to a opioid /opiate alone . That's less thsn. 000001% of the 330million in the US . Only 15,000 or so due from using opioid s opiates/opioids combined with another drug . It is when they use a number of drugs that they fatally overdose .The Opioid Epidemic in 6 Charts Designed To Deceive YouA Overdose does not equal death . Often the addiction be discharged within 12- 24 hours u Dr their own power . Those that do not have taken a numbering drugs often with cocaine , alcohol, and a combination medication such as Hydrocodone with acetaminophen. Which can cause serious liver damage .As Acetaminophen is the number one drug seen in overdoses intentional and unintentional. Often by taking multiple OCT medication with acetaminophen fto. Cold and flu relief ,( a waste of money )then just acetaminophen and cat night acetaminophen and diphenhydramine (Benadryl)to sleep. Benadryl is used asanesthetic .This abuse can lead to many complications when used as a anxiolytic.A psychiatrist who had become caught up in a PROP members anti Benzodiazepine fanatisim is facing life in prison for using diphenhydramine in the place of a new such as Seroquel .This person also used Seroquel , Thorazine and typical and atypical antipsychotic medication for anxiety and depression. This can n deadly .Addiction is a behavior that is learnt . Sit is not a disease .It is not being weak Will d . It is a human response to inesvsb!e stress and other very difficult life situations.The best predictors for addiction are ; poverty,unemployment ,underemployment, single mothers raising a child , lack of opportunity which goes hand in hand with the latter . A pill is not going to create addicts . Social media economic factors are what primed a area and it's population for addiction .Not a pill patch or lozenges which twice pain and make a pain patient able to function with out debilitating push painAddicts behavior which is chosen causes overdoses and addiction .The dismissed by addicts and addiction treatment industry ,Rat Park experiments which have been reported only to be buried by the addiction treatment industry .Which claimed incorrectly that it would stigmatized addicts and if course cut off profits .The opioid hysteria and now litigation is history r repeating itself . We tried to prohibit alcohol in 1918 with h the repealed 18,amendment .We got organized crime and a more powerful and intrusive gobetm my and it's ever growing my list of an boxes using administrative law to restrict your freedoms that are inherent to all humans in theIr citizen ,resident even undocumented immigrants have rightsI his litigation is a blatant disregard for our rights by opportunistic politicians and zealots who have a financial stake in forcing rehab and Buprenophine in the form of Suboxone on more peop or .It is exempt from the cruel inhumane and Kolodny /PROP, anti opioid fanatics CDCguidlines which are causing a humanitarian crisis . Lawsuits will fail as the hey lack merit and hopefully Kolodn y ,Val maybe and the rest of PROP ,Spend the rest of the heir apparent existence in a hard core federal prison.You can read more here The breaking down of the misleading and outright fabricated anti opioid data is very interesting and tellingly the anti opioid zealots might end up in a giveN Up 12x7 cell for the first to push Buprenophine incisions causing dividend incredible sufferCNN: Opioid Overdoses Kill More humans suffering painful conditions. Nice roundTRIP ,CD C and assorted fanaticsSen. Ron Wyden Smears Opioid Task Force. Why?Wyden gets donations from the law firms dying pharmaceutical companies. Along with the unregulated supplement industry . The people go push so called natural remedies . Though in both Viagra and Cislis were found in their “all natural Erectile dysfunction treatments “ along withAmphetamines in weight loss supplements . Something to think abputA Little State Debunks A Big Lie: The DEA's Opioid Scam.A Little State Debunks A Big Lie: The DEA's Opioid Scam.