The part where doctors were prescribing Purdue's pills by the dozens, creating a huge potential market for the black market to flood with opioids when these peo

The part where doctors were prescribing Purdue's pills by the dozens, creating a huge potential market for the black market to flood with opioids when these people eventually run out of pills. Without that the fentanyl market in the USA would be much more constrained since there wouldn't be a big incentive to push it as there wouldn't be so many opioid addicts in the country The rest is just a consequence of it, Mexican cartels being fed Chinese fentanyl, etc. It'd be good if the USA started to learn to point fingers in the right direction sometimes, it was the lax enforcement of rules when a pharma company went way overboard to increase shareholder value that created this mess, trying to blame that on Mexico or China is absurd. As usual with the USA it's a self-made/self-inflicted systemic issue caused by greed, money over people should be America's motto. > Edit to reply: > That was shut down by the FDA when one of the dead children was still a toddler. > You’re talking about a problem over a decade old, while ignoring the actual problem, because far from “pointing the finger in the right direction”, you’re distracting from it with your historical grievance. Edit because you deleted the reply: No, it wasn't shut down by the FDA, pill mills were still an issue barely 5 years ago. Do you think this kind of issue goes away quickly? A big cohort (relatively speaking) of American society got addicted to Oxy, Percocet, etc., a lot of those ended up buying street drugs to fuel this addiction after doctors stopped prescribing them, the lack of empathy to take care of those people meant that overnight a lot of them had an addiction while having no access to the "safer" products to fuel it. Your society has created a massive problem that will take probably a generation to fix, while your worldview is to go against the by-products of this fuck up. If people in your country were the main focus you'd have by now a federal system to take care of this addiction, to create paths for recovery, instead there's no political or societal will to actually fix the problem, just to have another knee-jerk reaction to the 2nd and 3rd order effects created by it. It's a lack of understanding systems, while your society doesn't understand that systems need holistic and pragmatic approaches to solve complex issues you will keep repeating this idiocy, over and over again. Just look at the vitriol you spout, it's a completely ignorant view of a complex problem but here we are, having to discuss why shoving more money into policing and border control won't pragmatically solve this issue. You just lack empathy and pragmatism, as a society. You are too ideological in stupid ways, one of them is exactly this revanchism and undirected righteousness, you blame the addicts (and the poor, the homeless, etc.) for their issues instead of trying to solve the foundational issues causing these problems. It's simply myopic and ignorant.