OPIOID CRISIS MEDICAL TREATMENT FAILURE – THE EVENING NEWS EXPOSES A RIP IN THE MATRIX, BUT DARES NOT SAY WHAT IT REVEALS
A major media outlet catches on – opioid overdose deaths are down entirely and only due to desperate, targeted, effective naloxone campaigns while high-risk use worsens
by Clark Miller
Published July 4, 2025
The short news segment is well worth devoting the 3-minute run time to. It follows on a piece by Reuters reporters Maurice Tamman and Shannon Stapleton, published in USA Today’s December 21, 2024 edition, that piece considered here. The CBS segment adds elements of grounded realness and some pointed, belated questions that aim to face the grim situation in Columbus Ohio, where Narcan (naloxone) reversals to interrupt fatal opioid overdoses have become a way of life, saving lives while the high-risk opioid use behaviors persist and by direct observations of front-line service providers, are increasing.
Let’s repeat that: even as increasingly effective naloxone campaigns are moderating incidence of fatal overdose, the high-risk opioid use desperately necessitating those intensive, nearly nation-wide campaigns is increasing.
It’s the situation not just in Columbus Ohio, but everywhere, evidenced in diverse states, cities and locales across the U.S. consistently, wherever data is available for analysis. Including these locations:
But not in locations that are the exceptions that prove that lethal rule, like Nevada, where lack of effective naloxone distribution and use, along with reckless dispensing of the common street currency for fentanyl (also known as buprenorphine, the “proven” medical cure for opioid use) combine to keep opioid OD deaths mounting. And locations like Iowa and South Dakota, for the same reasons.
The lethal rule is also proven by the exception San Francisco, where an intensive, successful naloxone campaign finally dropped opioid fatal ODs, lagging other locales, followed by opioid deaths now rising again predictably with intensive, publicly-funded dispensing under the direction of medical addiction treatment experts of that common street currency for fentanyl, “bupe, subs”, also in demand for “bridging” or “chipping” to enable fentanyl’s (or heroin’s) episodic use.
That consistency of predictable, naturally replicated results points to the incontrovertible facts that must be escaped and mystified, that no media report dares to say – that all recent drops in opioid overdose deaths are attributable to naloxone campaigns entirely; that high-risk opioid use (and other drug use with associated high risk of opioid overdose) is increasing; that high-risk use (as measured by nonfatal opioid overdose and injection-related infectious disease) is a valid measure of (lack of) effectiveness of American expert gold standard treatments; and that, unavoidably, those treatments are lethal failures.
We might remind ourselves that moderation of high-risk use is the means, and the only means, by which expert gold standard treatments (medication assisted treatment, rehab, and traditional “addiction treatment”) can have beneficial effects.
As in Columbus, Ohio, the facts are right in front of us, everywhere we look, the desperate emergency Narcan reversals necessary precisely because high-risk opioid and other drug use continue to mount, that is, precisely because American expert “treatments” are lethal failures, have been for decades.
That fact remains established yet concealed at the cost of unrelenting illness and deaths, the film of lies obscuring it intact in the Matrix, its exposure protected against by cowardice, self-preserving power, and reckless disregard.
