Dr. Adamsâ motto as Surgeon General is âbetter health through better partnerships.ââŚCocky Doody!!!!
How many of you know who the present Surgeon General is of the United States? I had NO idea. He, Dr. Jerome Adams, took office September 5, 2017 as the 20th Surgeon GeneralâŚjust about the time when the âOpiod Crisisâ coincidentally began, huh??? In his biography, he states;
âHis mission as the âNationâs Doctor,â is to advance the health of the American people.â âDr. Adams also released Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon Generalâs Spotlight on Opioids, and a digital postcard calling for a cultural shift in the way Americans think about, talk about, and respond to the opioid crisis. His Surgeon Generalâs postcard recommends actions that can prevent and treat opioid misuse, and promote recovery.â[1]
Recovery, recoveryâŚrecovery? He can promote all he wants, but some health issues you just ARE NOT ABLE to RECOVER from. That has to be the most idiotic goal. And Iâm talking not about recovery from the drugs, but recovery from what caused you to seek out help from drugs!
Lifeâs wonderful isnât itâŚno, it really is. That is if you have a reasonable amount of âquality of life.â Some have more than others either due to genetics, chosen lifestyle or just plain luck. But NOT
all people have the luxury of excellent quality of life due to the same elements. OR, they are good people who care about themselves are proud of what they have learned and put it to good use doing, well, whatever type of job they chose. Some, unfortunately donât have that
luxury; they take the job thatâs open.
Have you ever thought of what jobs requireâŚI mean, think of the assembly line worker doing the same thing day in and day out. Yeh, they get paid for doing the job, but as they age (and all of us do) they start to notice physical results of the day in and day out drudgery. Well, you sayâŚâthey picked the job, tough.â But then you look at some jobs that seem so mundane and easy like an office job, but STILL the mental stress of deadlines, typing 100âs of pages a day, answering the phone, filtering out the nuances or listening to rude people and their complaintsâŚit gets oldâŚjust like youâŚit gets old and you feel the physical affects. And Iâm talking about the people who LIKE their jobâŚthink of the ones who HATE their jobs!!!
âRetirementââŚthat always makes me laugh. Following is the âNew Oxford American Dictionaryâs definition of the word:
retirement | rÉËtÄŤ(É)rmÉnt | noun 1 the action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work: a man nearing retirement | the libraryhas seen a large number of retirements this year.
⢠the period of one's life after leaving one's job and ceasing to work: he spent much of his retirement traveling in Europe.
⢠the action or fact of ceasing to play a sport competitively.[2]
I laugh because most people work TOWARD retirement so they can relax, travel, play sportsâŚchill. If you have cared about your work or have had good work ethics and gone the extra mile at times, if youâve stayed late to see a project through, if you work a double shift because your relief is sick, youâre most likely are not too interested in jogging, tennis or downhill skiingâŚyouâre tiredâŚYOU ARE TIRED. You want to sit in that recliner and watch old âGunsmokeâ episodes, and you feel the results of your laborâŚbending, twisting, pulling, lifting, sitting and sitting, standing and standing. That leg you broke when you were a kid is now acting up, youâve got stomach issues because of the stress that, yes, YOU put yourself under to please management or get ahead in the company. I mean youâre an employee who works in the United StatesâŚthe best and most powerful country in the world, so you CARE about your job, but here you sit in pain. You are hurting. Sure your loved ones care, your close friends careâŚbut thatâs about IT!
You know, I think of the previous generation. They were and are tough cookies. There, of course, was WWI and WWII, a lot of work and a lot of pain. They have been able to get relief for years from many of their Primary Physicians without having to pee in a cup or be cynically scrutinized. Theyâre heros for Godâs sake, but we still have herosâŚyou donât have to step on a land mine to be a hero! Additionally, you have to always consider that alcohol in the 40âs through the 50âs was, well, NORMAL. Just as smoking was âitââŚthe thing to do. In fact, I get a kick out of the old films showing CEOâs and below with liquor in their offices and many, many more workers in those days sought the ole bottle for relief.
Well, now you have thousands and thousands of âBaby Boomers.â And a lot of the âboomerâ workers are females and females working non-traditional jobs. They work on the highways (I say that with tongue and cheek because Iâve very seldom seen a male or female actually WORKING on our highways, but then again, they have to do all that standing).
What Iâm getting to, is that there are âboomersâ out there who are hurting. They still want to contribute to societyâŚthey DO want to play golf, tennis, swim, they do want to join a worthwhile âcauseâ or âcommitteeâ or âassociation.â And even though they are in pain, with the help of the correct amount of pain killers. Thatâs something YOU feel and know when youâve asked for too high a dose! And your doctor knows from your feedback what to give you and how much to give youâŚyou want EXCELLENT advice. And these people CAN FUNCTION NORMALLY, they CAN LEARN new things, they CAN BE VITAL and they CAN HAVE QUALITY OF LIFE. Believe it or not, when taking pain medication YOU CAN TELL WHEN YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO DO SOMETHING AND HAVE THE SENSE TO STOP.
So, you here from others, âwell, you picked you vocation,â or âyou decided to go hiking when you know you are not strong enough,â or, âyou brought this on yourself.â Well, if itâs hereditary, you certainly didnât ASK for this pain and if you are a United States CitizenâŚthis (work) is expected of you. You are expected to pay taxes, to pay for your house, to pay for your car, to pay for your (?) healthcare and you are expected to contribute to the privilege of FREEDOM. And, now our government (the stooges who never show up in Congress) because theyâre out chipping and putting and popping pills and drinking have left a large part of our populationâŚin PAIN and USELESS.
They you ask, well, how many of our presidents most likely took some kind of pain medication? Well, just off the top of my, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK,âŚeven âgood ole Abeâ may have had to take somethingâŚalcohol, opium, laudanum AND/OR morphine and still ran the country!?
Our Government is punishing the WRONG group of people. The part of the population who are stealing and abusing drugs for no physical pain are the problem. And, I hate to admit this, but if you are in your late teens, 20âs even 30âsâŚyou KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING WRONG and if YOU overdose and dieâŚI frankly donât care. These people have the same physical make-up that WE the âboomerâsâ have, that our parents had and grandparents had. YOU, the government are punishing the WRONG peopleâŚcanât you get that through your stubborn headsâŚPLEASE?
References
[1] U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
[2] New Oxford American Dictionary
âHis mission as the âNationâs Doctor,â is to advance the health of the American people.â âDr. Adams also released Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon Generalâs Spotlight on Opioids, and a digital postcard calling for a cultural shift in the way Americans think about, talk about, and respond to the opioid crisis. His Surgeon Generalâs postcard recommends actions that can prevent and treat opioid misuse, and promote recovery.â[1]
Recovery, recoveryâŚrecovery? He can promote all he wants, but some health issues you just ARE NOT ABLE to RECOVER from. That has to be the most idiotic goal. And Iâm talking not about recovery from the drugs, but recovery from what caused you to seek out help from drugs!
Lifeâs wonderful isnât itâŚno, it really is. That is if you have a reasonable amount of âquality of life.â Some have more than others either due to genetics, chosen lifestyle or just plain luck. But NOT
all people have the luxury of excellent quality of life due to the same elements. OR, they are good people who care about themselves are proud of what they have learned and put it to good use doing, well, whatever type of job they chose. Some, unfortunately donât have that
luxury; they take the job thatâs open.
Have you ever thought of what jobs requireâŚI mean, think of the assembly line worker doing the same thing day in and day out. Yeh, they get paid for doing the job, but as they age (and all of us do) they start to notice physical results of the day in and day out drudgery. Well, you sayâŚâthey picked the job, tough.â But then you look at some jobs that seem so mundane and easy like an office job, but STILL the mental stress of deadlines, typing 100âs of pages a day, answering the phone, filtering out the nuances or listening to rude people and their complaintsâŚit gets oldâŚjust like youâŚit gets old and you feel the physical affects. And Iâm talking about the people who LIKE their jobâŚthink of the ones who HATE their jobs!!!
âRetirementââŚthat always makes me laugh. Following is the âNew Oxford American Dictionaryâs definition of the word:
retirement | rÉËtÄŤ(É)rmÉnt | noun 1 the action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work: a man nearing retirement | the libraryhas seen a large number of retirements this year.
⢠the period of one's life after leaving one's job and ceasing to work: he spent much of his retirement traveling in Europe.
⢠the action or fact of ceasing to play a sport competitively.[2]
I laugh because most people work TOWARD retirement so they can relax, travel, play sportsâŚchill. If you have cared about your work or have had good work ethics and gone the extra mile at times, if youâve stayed late to see a project through, if you work a double shift because your relief is sick, youâre most likely are not too interested in jogging, tennis or downhill skiingâŚyouâre tiredâŚYOU ARE TIRED. You want to sit in that recliner and watch old âGunsmokeâ episodes, and you feel the results of your laborâŚbending, twisting, pulling, lifting, sitting and sitting, standing and standing. That leg you broke when you were a kid is now acting up, youâve got stomach issues because of the stress that, yes, YOU put yourself under to please management or get ahead in the company. I mean youâre an employee who works in the United StatesâŚthe best and most powerful country in the world, so you CARE about your job, but here you sit in pain. You are hurting. Sure your loved ones care, your close friends careâŚbut thatâs about IT!
You know, I think of the previous generation. They were and are tough cookies. There, of course, was WWI and WWII, a lot of work and a lot of pain. They have been able to get relief for years from many of their Primary Physicians without having to pee in a cup or be cynically scrutinized. Theyâre heros for Godâs sake, but we still have herosâŚyou donât have to step on a land mine to be a hero! Additionally, you have to always consider that alcohol in the 40âs through the 50âs was, well, NORMAL. Just as smoking was âitââŚthe thing to do. In fact, I get a kick out of the old films showing CEOâs and below with liquor in their offices and many, many more workers in those days sought the ole bottle for relief.
Well, now you have thousands and thousands of âBaby Boomers.â And a lot of the âboomerâ workers are females and females working non-traditional jobs. They work on the highways (I say that with tongue and cheek because Iâve very seldom seen a male or female actually WORKING on our highways, but then again, they have to do all that standing).
What Iâm getting to, is that there are âboomersâ out there who are hurting. They still want to contribute to societyâŚthey DO want to play golf, tennis, swim, they do want to join a worthwhile âcauseâ or âcommitteeâ or âassociation.â And even though they are in pain, with the help of the correct amount of pain killers. Thatâs something YOU feel and know when youâve asked for too high a dose! And your doctor knows from your feedback what to give you and how much to give youâŚyou want EXCELLENT advice. And these people CAN FUNCTION NORMALLY, they CAN LEARN new things, they CAN BE VITAL and they CAN HAVE QUALITY OF LIFE. Believe it or not, when taking pain medication YOU CAN TELL WHEN YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO DO SOMETHING AND HAVE THE SENSE TO STOP.
So, you here from others, âwell, you picked you vocation,â or âyou decided to go hiking when you know you are not strong enough,â or, âyou brought this on yourself.â Well, if itâs hereditary, you certainly didnât ASK for this pain and if you are a United States CitizenâŚthis (work) is expected of you. You are expected to pay taxes, to pay for your house, to pay for your car, to pay for your (?) healthcare and you are expected to contribute to the privilege of FREEDOM. And, now our government (the stooges who never show up in Congress) because theyâre out chipping and putting and popping pills and drinking have left a large part of our populationâŚin PAIN and USELESS.
They you ask, well, how many of our presidents most likely took some kind of pain medication? Well, just off the top of my, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK,âŚeven âgood ole Abeâ may have had to take somethingâŚalcohol, opium, laudanum AND/OR morphine and still ran the country!?
Our Government is punishing the WRONG group of people. The part of the population who are stealing and abusing drugs for no physical pain are the problem. And, I hate to admit this, but if you are in your late teens, 20âs even 30âsâŚyou KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING WRONG and if YOU overdose and dieâŚI frankly donât care. These people have the same physical make-up that WE the âboomerâsâ have, that our parents had and grandparents had. YOU, the government are punishing the WRONG peopleâŚcanât you get that through your stubborn headsâŚPLEASE?
References
[1] U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
[2] New Oxford American Dictionary
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