"The growing opioid epidemic, responsible for the rising rates of HCV infections, reflects the immense social crisis in the United States in which millions of workers are facing unemployment, stagnant or falling wages, and a dramatic growth in social inequality."
“Mexican drug cartels
are the “other” terrorist threat to
America. Militant Islamists have the
goal of destroying
the United States. Mexican
drug cartels are now
accomplishing
that mission – from within, every day, in virtually
every community
across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
WHILE THESE FILTHY POLITICIANS CAN'T
STOP TALKING ABOUT AMNESTY AND NO
E-VERIFY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED, WE
WILL NOT HEAR THEM TALKING ABOUT
MEXICAN HEROIN POURING OVER OUR OPEN
AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS!
"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules."
James Walsh
US hepatitis C infections triple amid opioid epidemic
By Brad Dixon
15 May 2017
According to reports released on Thursday by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the rate of new hepatitis C
infections nearly tripled between 2010 and 2015. The rate
increases were concentrated heavily among injectable drug
users, highlighting the relationship between the growth in new
hepatitis C infections and the ongoing opioid epidemic in the
United States.
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) attacks the liver, and can ultimately
result in cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. The CDC estimates that 3.5
million individuals are infected with the disease in the United States, making
it the most common blood-borne virus in the nation.
In 2014, 19,659 deaths were associated with HCV, an all-time high
and more than the combined deaths of the 60 other infectious diseases tracked
by the CDC, including HIV, pneumococcal disease and tuberculosis.
The two reports were published in the CDC’s latest issue of Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
According to the first report, the number of newly reported HCV
cases grew from 850 in 2010 to 2,436 in 2015, an increase of 294 percent. These
figures, however, are undoubtedly lower than the actual rate of new infections
because it can take years before individuals with HCV display symptoms, leaving
most cases undiagnosed. The CDC estimates that the true figure for new
infections in 2015 to be closer to 33,900.
The generation of baby boomers, those
between the ages of 52 and 72, is the group
most likely to be infected with HCV. The largest increase in rates of new infections, however, has taken place among younger people between the ages of 20 and 29, most likely due to injectable drug use. This points to the relationship between the ongoing opioid epidemic and the rise in HCV cases.
between the ages of 52 and 72, is the group
most likely to be infected with HCV. The largest increase in rates of new infections, however, has taken place among younger people between the ages of 20 and 29, most likely due to injectable drug use. This points to the relationship between the ongoing opioid epidemic and the rise in HCV cases.
“These new infections are most frequently among young people who
transition from taking prescription pills to injecting heroin, which has become
cheaper and more easily available in some cases,” John Ward, director of the
division of viral hepatitis at the CDC and an author of the first report, told
CNN. “In turn many—most in some communities—people who inject drugs become
infected with hepatitis C.”
The greatest increases in HCV infections correspond to the regions
that have been hardest hit by the opioid epidemic: Appalachia, and rural areas
of the Midwest and New England. Seven states had at least twice the national
average of new HCV infections: Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Mexico, Tennessee and West Virginia. Ten other states had lower rates, but were
still above the national average: Alabama, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.
A second report released by the CDC found that HCV infection rates
among women giving birth nearly doubled between 2009 and 2014. The growing
rates again matched closely to those areas of the country most impacted by the
opioid epidemic.
“If I overlaid a map of the United States and looked at rates of
newborn opioid withdrawal after birth, it would be very similar,” Stephen
Patrick, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pediatrics and
health policy at Vanderbilt, told CBS News. “We suspect this is highly linked
to the opioid epidemic.”
The report found that HCV infection rates among women giving birth
rose from 1.8 to 3.4 instances per 1,000 live births. The rates were the
highest in West Virginia (22.6 instances per 1,000 live births) and Tennessee
(10.1). The disease is transmitted from mother to infant in around 6 percent of
births, although this figure could be higher, according to Patrick.
“My worry is that some infants will convert to having hepatitis C
without anyone knowing, or treating the infant,” Patrick said.
The development of direct-acting antiviral drugs, first approved
in 2011, marked a significant advance in the treatment of HCV. Despite the
immense progress on this front, only a limited segment of the population
infected by HCV has benefited. This is a direct result of the high prices
charged by pharmaceutical companies for these drugs.
For example, a 12-week course of Merck’s Zepatier costs $54,000,
while AbbVie’s Viekira is priced at $83,000. However, the most widely used
drugs are Gilead’s Sovaldi, priced at $84,000, or $1,000 a pill, and Harvoni,
priced at $94,500.
A US senate report released
in December 2015, which summarized the findings of an 18-month investigation
based on thousands of pages of internal company documents, called attention to
substantial evidence that Gilead priced its HCV drugs at the highest price it
thought the market could bear in order to maximize its revenue.
“There was no concrete evidence in emails, meeting minutes or
presentations that basic financial matters such as R&D costs or the
multibillion-dollar acquisition of Pharmasset, the drug’s first developer,
factored into how Gilead set the price. Gilead knew these prices would put
treatment out of the reach of millions and cause extraordinary problems for
Medicare and Medicaid, but still the company went ahead,” said Senator Ron
Wyden on the release of the report.
The high costs of these drugs, which essentially offer a cure for
the disease, has led government and private health insurers to ration access to
the drugs, especially among the most at-risk populations such as prison inmates
where the HCV infection rate is nearly nine times as high as in the population
as a whole.
In Louisiana for example—where health secretary Rebekah Gee is
attempting to get generic versions of the drugs on the market before the
patents of the branded versions expire by invoking a 1910 federal law—there are
73,000 people infected with HCV, but Medicaid can only cover 300 patients per
year. One in 63 babies in the state are now born to mothers infected with the
disease.
The growing opioid epidemic, responsible for the rising rates of
HCV infections, reflects the immense social crisis in the United States in
which millions of workers are facing unemployment, stagnant or falling wages,
and a dramatic growth in social inequality.
The epidemic has been exacerbated by the actions of unscrupulous
pharmaceutical companies—such as Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, and Insys Therapeutics, maker of the fentanyl
product Subsys—which have flooded communities throughout the country with
highly addictive opioids since the late 1990s.
Once addicted to these prescription painkillers, many drug users
switch to the often cheaper and more readily accessible alternative of heroin,
often sharing needles and helping to spread HCV and other blood-borne diseases.
Drug manufacturers played down the addictive nature of their
drugs, heavily marketed them to doctors (sometimes outright bribing doctors),
and turned a blind eye to clinics and pharmacies that were clearly nothing but
pill mills, allowing the drugs to pour into the black market. Drug distributors—such as McKesson, Cardinal
Health, and AmerisourceBergen—who purchase drugs from manufacturers and then
distribute them to pharmacies, have likewise ignored such abuses because they
led to additional drug sales.
….. the American Middle-Class at death’s door and knocking
….
Have you notice Democrat Party politicians always keep
their fat mouths closed tight on the topic of the Mexican drug cartels
operating across America???
THE DEATH OF AMERICA: MEXICO SERVES
UP THE HEROIN.
The death toll translates into an
average of one fatal overdose every 12 hours in the state of West Virginia.
THE DEATH of WHITE AMERICA
“Whites had the highest rate of
overdose deaths of any ethnicity, more than double the combined death rate for
blacks and Latinos.”
MEXICO SERVES UP THE HEROIN IN AMERICA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED
BORDERS
IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA “The Race” Mexican occupation.
(CAUTION: GRAPHIC!)
THE MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS NOW OPERATE IN ALL AMERICAN CITIES AND HAUL BACK OVER OUR OPEN
BORDERS FROM $40 TO $60 BILLION FROM HEROIN SALES.
IMAGES OF
AMERICA UNDER NARCOMEX OCCUPATION
CAUTION!
GRAPHIC IMAGES of America coming under Mex
Occupation
The NARCOMEX drug cartels now
operate in all major American cities and haul back to NARCOMEX between $40 top
$60 BILLION from sales of HEROIN!
IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX
OCCUPATION:
Your neighborhood will be next to fall to LA RAZA!
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing indictment
of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest country,
whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy. They are
just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive
inequality and mass poverty.
THE OBAMA SOLUTION TO END
WHITE CHRISTIAN AMERICA:
DRUG ADDICTION!!!
MEXICO: AMERICA’S DRUG
DEALER!
The same period has seen
a massive growth of social inequality, with income and wealth concentrated at
the very top of American society to an extent not seen since the 1920s.http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/08/obama-clintonomics-their-crony.html
“This study follows
reports released over the past several months documenting rising mortality
rates among US workers due to drug addiction and suicide, high rates of infant
mortality, an overall leveling off of life expectancy, and a growing gap
between the life expectancy of the bottom rung of income earners compared to
those at the top.”
THE MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS HAVE GREATLY BENEFITED FROM BARACK OBAMA’S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND
SECURITY.
THE CLINTON “JOBS” PLAN ENDORSED BY NARCOMEX – IT’S CALLED
AMNESTY!
Clinton, in the guise of a “jobs” and “infrastructure” program,
promoted yet another scheme to hand out tax cuts and other incentives for
companies to hire workers at poverty-level wages, with the trade unions brought
in to keep the workers in line in return for a cut in the spoils.
AMERICA'S ROAD TO REVOLUTION
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THE AMERICAN THINKER.com
Plenty of money for ILLEGALS……AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS
HOMELESS ELDERLY in AMERICA UNDER
MEX OCCUPATION
A Nation dies young, poor, addicted
and homeless…. It’s the American dream as the rich get super rich!
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the number
of elderly persons who are homeless in the US will have doubled by 2050.
America’s Super-rich Live 15 Years Longer!
………….. America’s Bludgeoned Middle-Class Dies Young, Addicted and Poor!
WHICH SIDE OF THE EQUATION ARE YOU DIGGING YOUR CHILDRENS’ GRAVES?
“Millions
of middle class families have been driven to bankruptcy by illnessand
medical bills.”
“This dramatic contrast in
life expectancy between the rich and poor is directly correlated to the growth
of obscene wealth at the top among a tiny elite and entrenched poverty among
growing numbers of people at the bottom.”….. BUT AMERICA STILL FINDS BILLIONS
TO HAND TO MEXICAN INVADERS, WHICH INCLUDES “FREE” HEALTHCARE.
In the first part of
the Lancet series, “Inequality and the health-care system in
the USA,” the British medical journal’s researchers found that these
income-based disparities in US life expectancy are worsened by the for-profit
US health care system itself, which relies on private insurers, pharmaceutical
companies and health care chains. It is also the most expensive health system
in the world.
HOW
TO DESTROY AMERICA:
THE
OBAMA DOCTRINE OF UNLEASHING MEXICAN CRIMINALS ACROSS AMERICA FROM BORDER to
OPEN BORDER
MURDER,
RAPE, LOOT and vote Democrat for more!
AMERICA
THE ADDICTED: 1 in 7 are addicted
CAUTION:
GRAPHIC IMAGES!
MEXICO’S
BIGGEST EXPORTS TO U.S.: Heroin, Criminals, Anchor baby breeders for 18 years
of gringo-paid welfare.
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