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> OK, and how's the "war on drugs" going thus far? The case with fentanyl is not like heroin, well established factories make it in China. It is within the Chi
by codingslave 7y ago
> OK, and how's the "war on drugs" going thus far?
The case with fentanyl is not like heroin, well established factories make it in China. It is within the Chinese governments power to stop the flow, this is a foreign policy issue. The fact that its not at all in the news is disturbing.
> Really? You want to put people into jail for trying to treat depression?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Secondly, this isnt "trying to treat depression", its a profit driven industry. SSRIs commonly do not outperform their placebo. Most of the recent adolescent mass shooters were on SSRIs!
> throwing doctors in jail who over prescribe these drugs would do wonders for people.
If Boeing engineers design an unsafe plane to squeeze out more profits and then line their pockets, which results in airplane crashes, they should go to jail. The same is true for healthcare.
Claiming that prescription opiods are not fueling the heroin and fentanyl crisis is a radical opinion. There was a massive lawsuit against the big pharma companies making money off these drugs. I'm not going to google research, its plain and simple.
Criminal doctors have been prescribing these drugs and making money off them. This has caused mass deaths and suicides.
Look at the chart of opion consumption on this page:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/nov/29/usdrug-overdose-epidemic-opioids-crisis-getting-worse https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/nov/...
The number of opiod prescriptions year by year looks like the price of bitcoin. I dont need some study to try and convince me otherwise.