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Wasn't Oxycontin kind of the boot loader for the present opioid crisis in that it mainstreamed opioid use and got a huge number of people introduced to it? The
by api 2y ago
Wasn't Oxycontin kind of the boot loader for the present opioid crisis in that it mainstreamed opioid use and got a huge number of people introduced to it?
Then it was taken away and things like illicit fentanyl filled the gap, but that came later.
- MavisBacon 2y agoIndeed. At the undergrad college I went to in New England in 2008 it wasn’t uncommon to see people at house parties doing lines of oxycontin out in the open. Was fairly socially acceptable.