Residents across Georgia could soon have the opportunity to explore safer alternatives to opioids for pain management. Meetings this week at the State Capitol aim to address the ongoing opioid crisis and discuss new strategies for treatment.
What’s Happening: The meetings, hosted by the House Study Committee on Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Management, will bring together health care experts, lawmakers, and the public. Discussions will focus on identifying effective non-opioid pain management solutions that could reduce reliance on prescription opioids.
When and Where: The sessions are open to the public and will be held on the schedule below.
• Wednesday, Dec. 11: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Thursday, December 12: 10 a.m. to noon
Both events take place in Room 606 of the Coverdell Legislative Office Building, 18 Capitol Square S.W., Atlanta.
Why It Matters: The opioid epidemic has deeply impacted Georgia families, with addiction and overdose deaths remaining a critical public health challenge. These meetings offer a chance for residents to stay informed, share perspectives, and learn about efforts to introduce safer, evidence-based pain management options.
What’s Next: The committee’s findings could lead to new laws promoting non-opioid treatments, expanding access to care, and reducing dependency on opioids.
Opioids are perfectly safe, so why change?
The overdose crisis is blamed on opioids when the real culprit is the war on drugs. Calling it an “opioid crisis” is just drug war propaganda. Trump’s 34% reduction in legal opioids only increased the rate of death, because legal opioids were never the problem. Forcing people to get their drugs from cartels IS.
The drug war caused all of these problems, “non-opioid options” are worthless snake oil which cause magnitudes more harm that the opioids they desperately want to replace.
Meanwhile, chronic pain patients are suffering torture.
Prohibition creates every problem it purports to solve.