> In 2018 ~130 people died every day in the US overdosing on opioids Alcohol kills literally twice that number of people per day and is a factor in nearly half

> In 2018 ~130 people died every day in the US overdosing on opioids Alcohol kills literally twice that number of people per day and is a factor in nearly half of all violent crime and is a quarter of a trillion dollar market, and yet we seem to fine with that trade-off even though it has absolutely ZERO therapeutic application. > putting "crisis" in quotes like it's a manufactured epidemic The epidemic might not be manufactured, but given the numbers re: alcohol the outrage certainly seems to be. It's a moral panic, imo.