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From what I understand - people who got addicted to legal opiates now can't access them and fentanyl is somewhat accessible and gives same effect with lower dos
by gambiting 3y ago
From what I understand - people who got addicted to legal opiates now can't access them and fentanyl is somewhat accessible and gives same effect with lower dose. So it's not necessarily your stereotypical junkies that are using it, it's normal people who were given opiates to deal with pain and now got addicted.
- beezlewax 3y agoSo all those oxy prescriptions weren't a good idea then?
- vuln 3y agoI don’t think you’ll find anyone to argue that they were.
- phtrivier 3y agoUnfortunately, my understanding is that some companies found a _lot_ of people to argue exactly that - if anything, to create plenty of value for the shareholder.
- vuln 3y agoAnd who are the shareholders at the end of the day? The same people taking the pills. Edit: I’m talking about the elderly and their 401ks / pensions and retirement all invested in these types of companies.
- simonsarris 3y agoYou'll find some right in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 Lots of people think non-trivial pain warrants opiods. The problem becomes who decides what counts as non-trivial pain. There was a shift in early 2000's towards "believe the patient", which caused an explosion in prescriptions pretty quickly. After all "if 5% of people after xyz surgery demand them, maybe the other 95% are silently suffering", etc. (just describing what is, not what ought to be)
- matwood 3y agoNot at all. In fact, we're having a huge public reckoning right now.