(18-10-14) Children being poisoned by Big Pharma's anti-addiction drugs

by PF Louis

(NaturalNews) There's a harmful drug that adults are bringing into homes that
is adversely affecting young children. But it's not pot or cannabis oil. It's a
prescribed pharmaceutical that's not as ubiquitous as over-the-counter (OTC)
acetaminophen (Tylenol), which also sends kids to emergency rooms.

It's called buprenorphine (byoo-pre-NOR-feen), which was originally approved
as a painkiller up to 50 times more powerful than morphine, according to the
Washington, DC-based Fox 5 news site. Then, buprenorphine was mixed with
naloxone, used as an antidote for opioid drug overdoses, including heroine and
OxyContin.

The combination of these two drugs was designed to ween junkies and
prescription painkiller users from addiction through withdrawal to clean again
with less cravings and suffering and little or no "high" sensation. At first,
it was injected at a doctor's office, but patients were soon given the
wherewithal to inject themselves.

The purported easy withdrawal effect is caused by mixing an agonist drug,
buprenorphine, that targets and activates specific receptor cells, with an
antagonist drug, naloxone, that inhibits or blocks those same or similar
receptors from being activated by agonist chemicals.

But before long, sublingual tablets were packaged under the brand name
Suboxone. Now others are producing approved generic versions with the
stipulation that each tablet is individually wrapped to prevent young children
from popping those pills out of curiosity.

The reason for this stipulation comes from the rising episodes of children
under six being rushed to hospital ERs after becoming toxically overwhelmed by
the drug.

Surprising numbers from a recent study
A study was undertaken to determine what prescription medicines not normally
prescribed for preschool kids were sending kids to emergency rooms. The study
was published in the journal Pediatrics on September 15, 2014. The researchers
analyzed data that was collected from 2007 to 2011.

The overall reach of this study, "Emergency Hospitalizations for Unsupervised
Prescription Medication Ingestions by Young Children," did not target any
specific prescription medication. They just wanted to determine which ones were
being ingested and what problems they were creating for children six and under.

The numbers of ER issues from prescribed buprenorphine or pharmaceutical
"medicines" containing buprenorphine surprised them. Over the time period
between 2007 and 2011, the annual average was around 800. Their report did not
include deaths, but according to the Fox 5 report, deaths have been reported.

The rate of adverse reactions among children was over four times higher than
the previously known prescription drug that caused kids' ER visits, a commonly
prescribed blood pressure medicine. It comes down to 200 child ER visits per
100,000 prescriptions of buprenorphine or compounds containing it.

One of the researchers, Dr. Daniel Budnitz, MD, MPH, is also the director of
medication safety at the CDC. He mentioned that loose tablets in a bottle may
result in kids opening the bottles and spilling them, subjecting them to
overdoses, which shouldn't take much.

Even as a painkiller, the UK medical system doesn't permit prescribing
buprenorphine to anyone under 16. Dr. Budnitz hopes the new required method of
packaging, wrapping each tablet individually, will sufficiently inhibit
accidental pharmaceutical poisoning in children who aren't prescribed the drugs
and lower the ER count substantially.

Oh the hypocrisy!
While this drug and those OTC acetaminophen drugs send thousands to the ER
annually with some winding up dead, the feds need to make sure that there's no
pot in most Americans' homes. Bashing down doors at 6:00 AM, shooting family
pets and terrorizing handcuffed parents and kids will show them what law and
order's all about.

Never mind that cannabis in any form has therapeutic effects that are more
effective than just about anything that Big Pharma can produce to be prescribed
by their licensed MD drug pushers. Those drugs cause over a 100,000 deaths
annually.

None, zip, nada can be directly attributed to medicinal or recreational
cannabis use over several decades.

Sources:

http://www.myfoxdc.com

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org

http://www.naabt.org

http://www.drugs.com

https://www.medicines.org.uk

http://www.naturalnews.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

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