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Isn't the opioid crisis a crisis because it ruins lives?
by memen 4y ago
Isn't the opioid crisis a crisis because it ruins lives?
- voxic11 4y agoYes but who is going to believe that after hearing so many other drugs will ruin their lives then finding out they don't?
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoThe opioid crisis isn't related to the war on drugs. It was caused by doctors being misinformed about how prescription opioids worked by the drug manufacturers + widely disseminated (funded) research about pain treatment. This caused people to be prescribed opioids without a risk assessment for addiction or similar, and thereby lots of people got addicted after being prescribed for broken bones, surgeries, and general discomforts.
- skulk 4y agoWhen you hear about X overdoses in an area in a shockingly small amount of time, it's not people dying because they took too many oxycodone pills, it's because of street fentanyl. You can thank the war on drugs for that.
- Akronymus 4y agoI suspect it was meant as a: "They told me marijuana would ruin my life, but after smoking some, my life is fine, so surely they lied about the other drugs as well" TL;DR: Marihuana not as bad as stated, surely fentanyl is fine too.