Lisa Roberts, RN, of the Scioto County Prescription Drug Action Team, while announcing a town hall event for Thursday, June 2, said the CBS Sunday Morning show will be in town and has offered to film the event for their segment on the Florida Pipeline to Appalachia.
Roberts said the meeting will be 6-8 p.m. at the Plumbers & Pipefitters gymnasium at 1236 Gallia St. in Portsmouth.
In addition to CBS Sunday Morning, special guest speakers will include State Reps. Dr. Terry Johnson and Danny Bubp, who will discuss the enactment and enforcement of House
Bill 93, the legislation
written by Johnson and Rep. David Burke.
Roberts said the purpose of the meeting is to educate, inform and update the public on the many actions taken to combat the problems being caused directly and indirectly by the epidemic of prescription pain medicine poisoning and its effect on addiction, abuse, and death and disease in southern Ohio.
Roberts said another purpose for the meeting is to focus the public on the future actions needed to eliminate prescription pain medicine abuse in the community; to discuss the short- and long-term consequences of the epidemic of prescription pain medicine addiction and poisonings in the community; and to discuss actions needed to prevent drug abuse in the community.
Roberts will be a speaker at the event. Other guest speakers are expected to include Scioto County Health Commissioner Dr. Aaron Adams; The Counseling Center Executive Director Ed Hughes; Portsmouth Police Chief Charles Horner; Jeff Rase, Guidance Counselor; Jo Anna Krohn of SOLACE; and Frank Thompson of Fix the Scioto County problem of Drug Abuse, Misuse & Overdose Facebook Site.
Mrs Roberts said:
"... the purpose of the meeting is to educate, inform and update the public..."
"... another purpose for the meeting is to focus the public on the future actions needed to eliminate prescription pain medicine abuse in the community;"
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Dear Mrs Roberts,
I hope you are reading this. You have a chance to put focus on the primary culprit that has enabled death and vast loss of wealth in communities all across our nation.
The top of the supply chain: PURDUE PHARMA L.P. Yes, Purdue is a multi-billion dollar Limited Partnership type business entity. Being an LP has certain "advantages" for the hidden international stakeholders in that druggernaut venture.
Know this, years ago there was a drug called Quaaludes. You don't see that drug in circulation anymore. Not even illegally made ones. Why? Because the few chemical companies that produces the base are better controlled or stopped producing the base. So, no matter the demand for Quaaludes, not even a technology-competent well-financed operation can produce Quaaludes.
Purdue Pharma imports Morphine Brick into the USA and then coverts it into their Heroin-Pills.
Under United Nations Treaty, each country is suppose to deliver an annual report detailing its production and consumption for all forms of Opiates.
Producing more public awareness of that UN Opium Treaty, and how Purdue Pharma skirts that issue, can result in creating a morphine brick bottleneck which will force Purdue to stop over-producing their death pills. (it will not produce the same results as cutting off the base chemical for making Quaaludes. However, it will be a major blow to Purdue Pharma's supply chain.
It appears our Federal Government is unwilling (knowingly or otherwise) to even utter the name Purdue Pharma; let alone take any corrective action on their own.
So, coercing national media outlets to expose large piles of dirty laundry can put pressure on our Federal Representatives to at least take some form of corrective action.
Else: "A little revolution can be a good thing; don't you think?"