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Would you rather have drug abusers buying street drugs or prescription drugs I think summarizes the challenge concisely.

• jeffreyrogers 6y ago
  I would rather doctors not conspire to get people addicted to drugs in the first place. I'm not against prescription drug addicts having safe access to drugs, but we shouldn't act like prescribers are blameless either.
  • proverbialbunny 6y ago
    >but we shouldn't act like prescribers are blameless either. I don't think anyone here is saying that. What's interesting is no matter what doctors do, 11% of the global population is addicted to drugs. I don't think prescribers can influence that. Psychologists can, but most drug addicts suffer from avoidant personality disorder, which is regarded as the single most difficult psychological disorder to work with.
    • jeffreyrogers 6y ago
      That's interesting about avoidant personality disorder. I wasn't aware of that, but it does fit a lot of the addicts I know.