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Why is there no opioid crisis in Europe ?

• insane_dreamer 3y ago
  An analysis of this question here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01594-X/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... A lot has to do with the availability of health care in Europe (universal health care), and specifically addiction care.
  • nobodyandproud 3y ago
    Are you sure? I'd wager that Europe and most of the world was slower--thankfully--in adopting a new painkiller like Oxycontin and dodged a bullet, by seeing what the US was already facing. https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oxycontin-part3/ https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oxycontin-part3/
    • insane_dreamer 3y ago
      I didn't write the study in the Lancet -- maybe you should read it
      • nobodyandproud 3y ago
        Fair but I only have the access to the summary, which I already read before posting (unless that 3 or 4 paragraph article was it).