Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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And I can show you that step by step through the opioid crisis, since you said that's one of the things that brought, it's what brought me into this too.
You know, yeah, I was a medical device rep at the time and I was looking at building a pharmacy to provide non-abusive, non-addictive pain creams to get away from opioids. Because this opioid crisis was wrecking America. And during all of that, my brother died of opioid abuse. He had gotten addicted in high school and none of us knew how bad it was.
And he was one of, you know, millions and millions of victims that fell prey to what big pharma pumped into the marketplace.
He was injured, started out with an ACL. What a lot of people don't understand is before Oxy, they had hydrocodone. Before hydrocodone, they had Valium. And so the Sackler family was running out of their patent on hydrocodone. And they had a patent on the delivery mechanism, the cotton system, which is a time release. And so their pitch was, we can just plug in a different opioid.
And we can grandfather in a lot of what we already went through with hydrocodone. We're just going to trade out the opioid and reapply for the patent. But the problem is that the opioid they chose was Oxy. And Oxy is eight to 10 times more addictive than hydrocodone. And they knew it. And they knew it. And they put it into the marketplace.
And, you know, if you're a kid in high school and you blow your ACL, guess what? Your doctor is going to put you on this highly addictive compound coming out the other end of surgery. And it wreaked havoc. It's wreaking havoc to this day. To this day, the equivalent to a 747 jet worth of Americans die every day of opioid related abuse. It's still happening.
This happened, no, this was, man, was it 10 years ago? So more recently. And that spurred my idea of like, we've got to bring alternatives.
Oh, yeah. Off and on. And we didn't know. None of us knew that he had gotten addicted. This whole time? All these years? And addicts are good at hiding it. You'll never... Like, that's what's terrifying. And it wasn't that he OD'd. It was that when they cut off the ability and accessibility to opioids, everybody turned to black market.
And the problem with black market is a lot of that stuff's coming from China. There's a whole other play there that we could get into. But China's intentionally shipping... fentanyl into Mexico to get it into the United States to disrupt the youth of America. Like our government knows this. So most of the fentanyl coming in from Mexico is indirectly coming from China.
And it's an effort to create a crisis for the youth of America. And it worked. You know, these individuals are now still seeking opioids that they can't get from the traditional medical system anymore. And they've turned to black market. And the problem with black market is there's no checks and balances. And if you are off by literally a pin size head of fentanyl, it kills you.
I can tell you what the solution's not. It's not letting the Sacklers sell. They literally are selling the solution.
I don't know if you know that. Like, yeah, their new treatment is the leading market leader right now in America. So the Sacklers are printing money off of treating the crisis they created. And the problem with that treatment is it's also addictive. You're just trading an addiction. You're trading an opioid addiction for a less addictive alternative. What's the new thing?
I don't even remember the name of it, but I'll tell you this. What's crazy is Ibogaine and these treatments that they're doing in Mexico and that Stanford University is doing has such a higher success rate. And again, it's one weekend and you're done. And that's why the Department of Defense, the US government, all of these governing bodies are looking at it.
And there's a big movement with the FDA. And hopefully, you know, we'll see what happens with RFK and the Maha movement, but a leadership change at the FDA could open up the world to life-changing, life-saving treatment modalities that are non-addictive, non-abusive. And that's what I was trying to do when I started my first healthcare startup, MediSmart. We would go out and educate.
This is where insurance and pharma and all of it, Alex, is so mind-bending. So I would go out and educate clinicians and I would say, first off, try not to write opioids. They're addictive, they're abusive, they wreck the endocrine system. If you're doing an orthopedic procedure, I understand that patient's gonna come out in pain.
We have a non-addictive, non-abusive pain cream that insurance will cover. You can use this pain cream and never put this person on an opioid. If you want to put them on an opioid, we have checks and balances. I didn't create these checks and balances. It was actually the head of opioid abuse for the Obama administration, Dr. Bill Massey.
And I rolled these protocols out to clinics throughout the state of Texas. And the reason I'm telling you all this is when I say corporate capture, We would say, first off, don't prescribe an opioid. If you have to, and insurance will not cover a pain cream, you should toxicology screen this patient. This will tell you, does this patient abuse drugs?
Is there any other sort of abusive behavior in this patient's medical history? Is this patient potentially diverting or selling the medicine? All of that can be identified if we toxicology screen. It's a basic urine sample or blood sample. Secondly, we could pharmacogenetic test. The wild part about a pharmacogenetic test is it's a simple cheek swab.
Through that cheek swab, Alex, I could tell you, are you a slow, fast, or moderate metabolizer of an opioid? Are you at risk of becoming addicted to the opioid? If you're a slow or moderate metabolizer, I can adjust your dosage to prevent an overdose.
It will also tell me if you're diverting the medicine because if you're calling me saying it's not working, 20% of people are outliers and opioids don't work at all. Like for Hawaiian and Polynesian descent, opioids are ineffective. But yet we pumped opioids into those communities. They still had the risk of getting addicted. They just didn't get any pain relief.
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