fwiw, I do think the labeling issue is a fair point. I just doubt it would have much impact. as for the rest, it reads much like the rest of the sensationalism

fwiw, I do think the labeling issue is a fair point. I just doubt it would have much impact. as for the rest, it reads much like the rest of the sensationalism typically heard when the general public funds out about a new drug of abuse for the first time. if you wanted to write a piece like this, I doubt it would be hard to find a handful of people who became severely addicted to alcohol from the first sip. and I suspect you will want to split hairs with me on what exactly "casual vs addicted" means, but the figures I can easily find suggest that opioids have a similar addiction risk versus alcohol. it's hard to find a good denominator for casual opioid users, but this [0] study puts the rate of addiction among PM patients around 10%. meanwhile, about 10% of Americans over 12 years old develop alcoholism [1]. not quite an apples to apples comparison, but the raw "addictiveness" is likely within the same ballpark. [0] https://journals.lww.com/pain/Abstract/2015/04000/Rates_of_opioid_misuse,_abuse,_and_addiction_in.3.aspx https://journals.lww.com/pain/Abstract/2015/04000/Rates_of_o... [1] https://drugabusestatistics.org/alcohol-abuse-statistics/ https://drugabusestatistics.org/alcohol-abuse-statistics/