Most people addicted to opioids started with legally prescribed meds. Those meds may not have been prescribed to them, but that's the problem with the fucking s

Most people addicted to opioids started with legally prescribed meds. Those meds may not have been prescribed to them, but that's the problem with the fucking stupidly large numbers of opioids being prescribed in the US: there are very many meds lying around to be diverted to recreational use. So far almost every point you've made in this thread can be directly sourced to Purdue propaganda. Doesn't that worry you? There was "The Letter that Started it all": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40136881 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40136881 That caused the VA to say "pain meds aren't addictive if used to treat pain": https://www.va.gov/PAINMANAGEMENT/docs/Pain_As_the_5th_Vital_Sign_Toolkit.pdf https://www.va.gov/PAINMANAGEMENT/docs/Pain_As_the_5th_Vital... Here's the paper that rebuts this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924634/ (and note this is more than 10 years old) Here's Purdue Pharma saying, as you are here, that pain meds aren't that addictive and don't we need to use opioids to treat pain (they are addictive, and they don't work for many types of pain): https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/conferences/globalhealthsymposium/docs/Third_Amended_Complaint_14_cv_04361.pdf https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/conference...