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The US has an opiod epidemic because it was easy to get fentanyl legally.

• arcticbull 3y ago
  It was legal to get opioids like oxy legally, fentanyl was always pretty tightly controlled. I believe it was mostly used in surgeries alongside anesthesia.
  • corethree 3y ago
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/founder-and-former-chairman-board-insys-therapeutics-sentenced-66-months-prison https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/founder-and-former-chairm... Bro, there was a movie made about how wrong you are on this topic. It's called pain hustlers, it stars captain america and emily blunt. In the movie they renamed the drug to Lonafen, but the actual drug is called Subsys. The drug contains Fentanyl.
    • kube-system 3y ago
      That doesn't refute the parent's claim. Fentanyl is not prescribed very often, the primary use is for inpatient care. In fact, maybe a reluctance to prescribe the stuff is exactly why the guy resorted to bribing people. According to the CDC, 4% of fentanyl deaths come from prescription fentanyl.
• standapart 3y ago
  Not really. There were things like Purdue, but that wasn't fentanyl. The fentanyl epidemic is the result of market developments in the illegal drug trade.
  • junofan 3y ago
    You can get high for less than a dollar. It’s literally the cheapest form of recreation. That’s why people are doing it.
  • Ekaros 3y ago
    And there is nothing fundamentally wrong with fentanyl itself. Just how it is currently used in uncontrolled way.