The Opioid Epidemic...
It should come as no surprise that, especially in America, there has been an opioid epidemic ongoing. According to The Economist:
During the past two decades opioids have become one of America's worst public-health problems. The magnitude of abuse—spanning prescription painkillers, heroin and synthetics such as fentanyl—is staggering. In 2016 11m Americans mis-used prescription opioids, and 2.1m adults reported that they were addicted. In the year to September 2018 opioid overdoses killed 48,000 people. That took the total death toll since 2000 to 400,000, greater than the number of American combat deaths in the second world war, the Korean war and the Vietnam war combined.
You may wonder, is America even doing anything about this? So far, as of April 24th, it seems President Trump attempted to address this problem. From the same article:
The White House reports that Mr Trump's administration has so far spent or allocated just $1bn of federal money to tackle the crisis.
Does money really help solve this problem though? It may help in the future, but a lot of damage has already been done. Unfortunately, the CDC is finally starting to acknowledge the AMA's worries of "'unintended consequences,' including 'the potential effects of strict dosage and duration limits on patient care.'" Furthermore, this article stated:
Writing in The New England Journal of Medicine, the guidelines' authors said their advice has been 'misimplemented.' But they took no responsibility for the unintended yet foreseeable results of their recommendations, and their warning may be too little, too late for the innocent victims of the government's cruelly misguided fight against opioid-related deaths, the vast majority of which involve illicit drugs rather than prescription analgesics.
'We all warned of this outcome when the 'guidelines' were issued,' says Mark Ibsen, an emergency medicine physician in Helena, Montana. 'The CDC guidelines have been as harmful as predicted, and the silence over three years has been criminal.'
You can read from the CDC's recent article here to see the "waves" in which this epidemic occurred. Here are some of the latest statistics according to their article:
A CDC study shows three major trends in the ongoing opioid crisis:
- Overdose deaths among men are nearly three times than among women.
- While whites continue to have the highest overall rates of fentanyl fatalities, death rates among the black and Hispanic communities are rising faster.
- The rate of 15- to 24-year-olds who died from fentanyl overdoses increased by about 94 percent each year between 2011 and 2016, and about 100 percent each year for 25- to 34-year-olds.
The epidemic is still killing more than 70,000 Americans a year. The CDC says that overdose deaths are higher than deaths from HIV, car crashes or gun violence at their peaks.
This is all "pharmakeia". Being a part of the Ecumenical Order of Christ, we know all too well how damaging pharmakeia truly is. At our Order, we have a strict no drug policy. Here is the teaching:
The word 'PHARMAKEIA' means 'sorcery', and the word 'pharmaceutical' is derived from. As you know, Lord RayEl left America, never to return, and declared his chastisement against it, and America's poisoning of the rest of the world. If you've been watching recently, you've seen that all of our enemies are 'medicated Americans', quite evil and delusional, intoxicated by Satan's sorcery. So now, when you read about Lord RayEl's chastisement of America in Revelation 18:23, you understand that the 'sorceries/pharmakeia' mentioned in the verse, is speaking of drugs. Revelation 18:23 'And the light of a lamp will not appear to you again, and the voice of a groom and the voice of a bride will not be heard in you again, because your merchants had been great ones of The Earth, for by your sorceries you deceived all the nations!'
Hemp Seed Oil is highly recommended for its health benefits, while smoking of any kind is not approved of. Quit Smoking! The fog of deception will soon clear from your temple and the Light of Christ will enter. A glass of red wine at dinner is very beneficial to your health, 6 glasses is not.
Mat_6:24 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
It's important to understand here that there is a huge plan to get people seduced into pharmakeia. People are easier to control when under an influence, and that is exactly what the government wants. We have been told that America is the modern day Babylon that was discussed in the book of Revelation. The truth will set you free, don't be fooled or stumble in the adversary's plan, but follow Christ, Lord RayEl and see the end time script unfold.
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Be well!
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