It's already a nationwide structure fire. The current approach of prosecution of doctors, or throwing up miles of red tape between a doctor and a patient has n

It's already a nationwide structure fire. The current approach of prosecution of doctors, or throwing up miles of red tape between a doctor and a patient has no affect on abusers. Instead, it directly affects people like my grandparents, who rely on quite a bit of opiates for their quality of life. It's almost like DRM for video games. The DRM has no affect on pirates (abusers), instead it only really affects legit customers (my grandparents) You can burn fields of poppies. Prosecute every doctor with a prescription pad, seize and raid to your hearts content and nothing will change. If prescription opiate pills vanished wholesale tomorrow, people would simply switch to heroin, which is more widely available and cheaper than any pill on the black market. The more they tighten the grip, the more things will slip through the cracks. The people who stand to be crushed in the metaphorical palm are people like my grandparents, not the abusers. Until some key changes are made, for example, less red tape between a doctor, an addict seeking treatment, and suboxone therapy, things aren't going to improve. Methadone clinics need to be welcomed into cities and towns with open arms nationwide. A harm reduction attitude has to prevail over persecution and prohibition. Maintenance therapy has problems of its own, making the inevitable withdrawl last months instead of a week or two. Simply due to the longer half-life. Sometimes, folks switch back to heroin to get off of methadone because of this.