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Let's stop using analogies since they can be atrocious. Your analogy ("Oh it's just like alcohol") is even more so. Alcohol poisoning deaths are a rounding er

• rgbgraph 3y ago
  The analogy is apt, because those opioid deaths are a direct result of someone taking advantage of others' emotions to set wide-sweeping policy, with no regard for anyone else -- causing drastic harm to people. This is no different from the example above. Pharmaceutical companies push opioids on doctors -> doctors push opioids onto people -> someone gets uppity and decides something should be done now -> opioid access is quickly curtailed -> people now need to get their fix because pharmaceutical companies have upregulated their opioid receptors, causing life to be living hell -> people go acquire opioids through the black market -> it's laced with fent and then people die Alcohol poisoning was common in the bootleg era, when some people got uppity and decided something must be done now about alcohol -- and people do as people do, went to go get their fix from shady suppliers with tainted product; then they were seriously injured or killed.