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> people's trust in mainstream medicine Mainstream medicine says it is incredibly addictive with an incredibly low lethal dose. People like to get high, a lot

• rory 5y ago
  > In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid pain relievers and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates. > Increased prescription of opioid medications led to widespread misuse of both prescription and non-prescription opioids before it became clear that these medications could indeed be highly addictive. I assumed this was well-known. https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html
  • shapefrog 5y ago
    > The Opium Wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century. I assumed this was well-known.