> With a prescription, you also have a steady supply and no need to commit crimes to keep up your supply. It's almost like addicts are self-medicating and we s

> With a prescription, you also have a steady supply and no need to commit crimes to keep up your supply. It's almost like addicts are self-medicating and we should give them a legal, prescribed supply of medication. > Look at when the opoid crisis became a crisis -- it was when cheap, easy opioids stopped being available. What? In high school (20 years ago, Central PA) I knew zero people who used opiates. A few years later I knew people who made trips to Philadelphia. Now they're available everywhere. Perhaps the flow of pill scripts slowed, but fentanyl filled that gap.