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>It would be extraordinarily expensive I mean we spent $300 million a day for 20 years on Afghanistan, it can't be that expensive. >the Sacklers just walked w

>It would be extraordinarily expensive I mean we spent $300 million a day for 20 years on Afghanistan, it can't be that expensive. >the Sacklers just walked with no criminal liability In fact, the media firestorm and the political response made heroin overdoses much worse because they "clamped down" on pills that at least had a dosage on it. Addicts then turned to heroin, which now has fentanyl in it.

wespiser_2018 5y ago
That's right! in 2011 they switched the formulation of OxyContin. The opiate crisis didn't start then, but it got a whole lot worse! The Sackler decision had a pretty big effect on me. It's hard not to grow up when I did, lose people you know to the opiate crisis, and not feel a deep sense of unfairness and wrong when the people responsible for so much suffering stay out of jail with a million dollars. As much as you can blame them for that one act, it's the iron law of drug prohibition at play: Meth becomes Crystal, and opiates become more concentrated. Easier to smuggle, better profit margins, it really only goes one direction: the drugs get more potent every year prohibition is in effect.
spoonjim 5y ago
Still many more annual overdoses of prescription pills than illegal drugs.
- Clubber 5y ago
  >Still many more annual overdoses of prescription pills than illegal drugs. Not since around 2016, which is around when the panic with pills started and we started cracking down. It did put a small dent in pills but fentanyl is off the charts. We probably would have been better off, at least in terms of deaths, if we had just ignored the "opioid epidemic." https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/over...
  - spoonjim 5y ago
    Thanks for the correction.

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>It would be extraordinarily expensive I mean we spent $300 million a day for 20 years on Afghanistan, it can't be that expensive. >the Sacklers just walked w

by Clubber 5y ago

wespiser_2018 5y ago
That's right! in 2011 they switched the formulation of OxyContin. The opiate crisis didn't start then, but it got a whole lot worse! The Sackler decision had a pretty big effect on me. It's hard not to grow up when I did, lose people you know to the opiate crisis, and not feel a deep sense of unfairness and wrong when the people responsible for so much suffering stay out of jail with a million dollars. As much as you can blame them for that one act, it's the iron law of drug prohibition at play: Meth becomes Crystal, and opiates become more concentrated. Easier to smuggle, better profit margins, it really only goes one direction: the drugs get more potent every year prohibition is in effect.
spoonjim 5y ago
Still many more annual overdoses of prescription pills than illegal drugs.
- Clubber 5y ago
  >Still many more annual overdoses of prescription pills than illegal drugs. Not since around 2016, which is around when the panic with pills started and we started cracking down. It did put a small dent in pills but fentanyl is off the charts. We probably would have been better off, at least in terms of deaths, if we had just ignored the "opioid epidemic." https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/over...
  - spoonjim 5y ago
    Thanks for the correction.