Lol fentanyl is more toxic by an order or two of magnitude. People would be on prescription opioids, lose a script, get on heroin because that was 4 to 8 times

Lol fentanyl is more toxic by an order or two of magnitude. People would be on prescription opioids, lose a script, get on heroin because that was 4 to 8 times cheaper and more available than black market pills. The fentanyl crisis is a phenomenon between cheap imported precursor and Cartel economics. The synthetic opioid demand in the US was a result of a chain of events including the purposeful stimulation of demand by marketing directly to Drs, lying about abuse potential, lying about withdrawal and addiction potential, and not introducing mediating controls when evidence of abuse and sales not meeting market demographics was clearly evident. Like they imported millions of pills to small towns with over selling pharmacies. Drs would up dosage to adjust to tolerance. But anyway it’s fentanyl that is killing people. I’d argue just let people use opium and regulate that sale. Edit: changed and to an. Chinese precursor to imported precursor bc I honestly don’t know how many different countries are sources of a precursor. Added part about importing to small towns and upping dosage.