Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

And meanwhile they ban weed as a 'gateway drug', but you can get pills everywhere.

That women in the crowd must've been on a lot of opioids!

"Heroin is cheaper than painkillers". That's frightening.

As a black, female chronic pain sufferer. I was treated like a drug seeker while trying to find someone who would actually treat me for my pain. Luckily I have a pain specialist now.

Who the fuck is the lady in the crowd that screams every time he makes a drug joke?

I appreciate that John Oliver brings these things to light, but you really shouldn't watch them all back to back. It's depressing.

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

"I had 9 teeth pulled out of my head for prescriptions." Jesus christ.

The thing about John Oliver as compared to other late night shows is he actually brings to light real issues. Everyone else has been on the trump hate Hillary hate wagon but he focuses on serious issues that others don't talk about.

I found my single mother dead on the couch when I was twelve. My only sister died of an overdose when I was seventeen, which was nine years after her first overdose; as an eight-year-old child I had to call 911 while she turned blue on the kitchen floor, because I couldn't get mom to get out of her bed to help. Both of them had prescriptions from a doctor up until their deaths. Suffice it to say, opioid addiction doesn't just affect the individuals taking the drugs. Just want to thank John Oliver and the folks at Last Week Tonight for raising awareness.

I love how you have no experience with addiction or recovery but you still cover it with perfection. Thank you John. As someone who has struggled with IV heroin addiction, i sincerely thank you for the way in which you cover addiction.

Unfortunately, I have a chronic condition called Central Nerve Pain and I need opiates to survive the day. These meds are both the best thing that's ever happened to me and my worst nightmare. I've lost control before, but thankfully, I got control back after HORRIBLE withdrawal symptoms. I'm glad John spoke of this issue with such nuance because it's an incredibly tough subject to discuss.

Comments section: 1% - people discussing various aspects and consequences of opioids consumption 99% - laughing lady

So Im from germany, but these commercials cannot possibly be real right? Do they talk about drugs like they talk about kids toys in the ads?

I started on Norco because of breaking my collar bone at 16. I was up to 30 a day, then moved to heroin by my 30s. I've lost many friends. I'm grateful to be in recovery every day. I also hand out narcan in my town and other clean use supplies.

9:25 Making "scientific" claims without actual scientific evidence or review should be illegal like defamation, because not only does it harm people it tricked, it destroys the only thing that brought humanity out of blind-faith dark ages: credibility of science.

When ur typing a last minute essay but...

John: People are addicted to opiods That one audience member: AHHHHHHH HAHHHHAAHHHHH

I had a friend who got hooked to oxycontin. Luckily he survived his first overdose and was given medical help instead of prison time. He's now clean and living with his girlfriend

I messed up my back as a kid. As an adult my multiple slipped disks became too much to deal with on my own. My primary care doctor sent me to pain management. I started on hydrocodone and oxycodone. When I was still in pain the Dr then gave me fentinyl patches, then methadone. I eventually woke up in the ICU after a medically induced coma. I'm now off all of them thanks to selling off all my valuable possessions to purchase a medical marijuana card. Thanks to it I get the same effects as I would with an IV of morphine. Yes it does still hurt, but I can ignore the pain, I no longer care so much that it hurts. Downside is now I can't find a job. No one wants to hire a 'stoner'