This podcast is from the creative team at WORLD Radio. MARY REICHARD, CO-HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. JR: Welcome to Legal Docket, I’m Jenny Rough. Kavanaugh do solemnly swear, do solemnly swear, do solemnly swear, that I will administer justice, without respect to persons, that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I’m about to enter, so help me God… THEME: I Clarence Thomas.I Sonya Sotomayor.I Stephen Breyer, I Amy Coney Barrett…do solemnly swear, I Brett M. This past term, two of those cases ended up at the Supreme Court. In recent years, the government has brought criminal charges against doctors for over-prescribing opioids and contributing to the crisis. Most from counterfeit opioids chewed or smoked or injected for a quick high. Department of Health and Human Services, 75 percent of drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved opioids. The problem with opioids are when you continue upping the dose or when a person starts using them for euphoric effect…Ĭhasing after that euphoria has led to an opioid crisis not only in this country but around the world. Opioids are wonderful if used in this application. He says daily pain management is very complicated.ĮASLEY: So you’re trying to calm the pain down so your body can heal. Now he takes a low dose opioid two times a day. In the years since, he’s had four additional surgeries on his back and neck. So with the assistance of another doctor … he decided to get off opioids completely. I was on Oxycontin, on the highest dose you could get, prescription, and then I took hydrocodone, all under a doctor’s prescriptions.
His pain management doctor kept upping the dose of his medication … as was common at the time.ĮASLEY: I was on massive doses of opioids to the point that I was no longer allowed to drive. I would never do it, but I understand why now someone would jump off a highway and kill themself to deal with pain…I had a piece of bone and lamin fragment that were jamming against a nerve root in my back. For him, it was degenerative disc disease … and he’s lived with it for more than 20 years.ĮASLEY: I’m laying on the couch in this contorted position trying to decompress the area. So why the intense interest in the spinal column? Well, he lives with chronic back pain … 50 million Americans live with some sort of chronic pain. E,” where he fields theological questions about life, death, and faith. Raised four kids, and now has young grandkids.
He’s been married to his wife for over 40 years. His name is Michael Easley, and he’s the pastor of Stonebridge Bible Church. In that car tire, instead of air, it’s filled with a gelatinous material…ĭr. Think of a disc as a car tire on its side. But as it goes down your back, there are hundreds of thousands of nerve fibers that come out of your spinal cord to make your body work.ĮASLEY: The spinal column is conducting all this information for your life, respiration, your blood pressure, your organ function, your brain stem function…ĮASLEY: Your vertebrae are bones. MICHAEL EASLEY: So, from the base of your skull down to your tailbone, your spinal cord runs.ĮASLEY: It’s a column.
He keeps long work hours and says he’s a tad O-C-D … especially when he’s keenly interested in a research project. E lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
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