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Right this is the problem. We need to ban all opioid prescriptions. 80% of heroin addicts got addicted because of the opioid prescriptions obtained legally. Acc
by snarf21 10y ago
Right this is the problem. We need to ban all opioid prescriptions. 80% of heroin addicts got addicted because of the opioid prescriptions obtained legally. According to the documentary on HBO, drug companies made $5B on opioids in 2014 but the economic costs were $55B.
If people have chronic pain, we need to be more progressive and allow medical marijuana everywhere. (There are also quite a few studies that show that chronic pain is not helped with opioids anyway.) If people are in the hospital or end-of-life/hospice, then give them morphine or whatever they need but we need zero prescribable opioids.
- thesmallestcat 10y agoFor painkilling, MMJ may as well be aspirin when compared to powerful opiates. Over-prescription of powerful opiates is the issue. Banning all opiate prescriptions would be cruel, forcing people to the black market at best.
- bdavisx 10y agoYeah, banning opioids isn't the solution, unless you think people should needlessly suffer. I've had a hernia surgery and my wife had throat surgery, and I don't think that marijuana would have been the answer for the first several days after either surgery.
- DanBC 10y ago>> If people have chronic pain Chronic pain refers to long term pain. Your hernia surgery is short term pain. No-one credible is suggesting preventing using opioids for short term (such as post operative) pain (although it does seem that Drs in the US prescribe too much for this type of pain).
- bdavisx 10y agoSorry, I missed that part of it.