Overdose deaths are only a fraction of the casualties of this particular war on people. We should also count all the people who are in prison on charges of self

Overdose deaths are only a fraction of the casualties of this particular war on people. We should also count all the people who are in prison on charges of self-medicating, and all the people who die in prison while being punished for hurting no one but themselves. I didn't know anything about Methadone until I'd taken a few people to the various methadone clinics. I thought they were just medical drop-offs... and thought it odd that their trip home was just a few minutes later. Eventually I learned these people were going for their daily dose of methadone. One fellow said he'd gotten addicted to painkillers following a car accident, and that he'd never imagined himself needing to visit a methadone clinic every day. Towards the end of my taxi driving experience, I had a woman going from WalMart to a half-way house. She'd spent 5 years in prison for sharing a single opiate pill with a friend (circa 2010). She said something about the cop who wrote her up for prosecution chuckling as he filled out the form. Over her five years in prison several of her fellow inmates died from neglect. She'd gained a lot of weight on prison food, which isn't very nutritious. Apparently the State of Arizona is negligent-homiciding prisoners in the name of helping them correct their behavior, which doesn't make much sense to me. I'm sure all the other states' jails and prisons have similar conditions.