Sean Hannity started his radio show Monday with a huge “congratulations to our friend and colleague Sara Carter” who is the latest in the Fox News family to join the Trump administration. President Trump appointed the award winning journalist “who has been on the frontlines of this international fight” as the new Drug Czar. Hannity noted how Carter has traveled to Afghanistan alone on multiple trips for the Hannity television and radio programs.
Carter is part of an “elite investigative team of reporters” and I could not be happier for her and for the country, said Hannity, who added she is as dedicated to this country as others fighting our borders such as Border Czar Tom human and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. “We have got to stop this fentanyl and opioid crisis in our country” said Hannity, a mission which Carter has dedicated herself to.
I hope that the Trump administration’s dedication to stopping the illegal drugs crossing our borders will succeed in greatly reducing opioid overdoses.
I also hope that the administration will see that the policy of interference in the doctor-patient relationship for treating chronic pain is not helping reduce overdoses.
In the last decade or more, unreasonable caps on the amount of legitimate pain medication allowable, and interference with good, legitimate doctors’ attempts to treat real pain, have caused doctors to stop prescribing opioids altogether, except for a few pain management doctors/clinics. Patients in real pain have taken their own lives, unable to stand the pain, after being refused treatment.
Statistics that show that patients with legitimate pain med prescriptions are overdosing in large numbers are wrong, due to the way the overdoses are recorded.