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> I know of approximately 0 people who have had the thought “I’d try heroin if it were legal”. How many people do you approximately know of that have had the t
by kgwgk 1y ago
> I know of approximately 0 people who have had the thought “I’d try heroin if it were legal”.
How many people do you approximately know of that have had the thought “I’d try heroin”?
> I truly believe that there would be fewer addicts and fewer overdoses if you could buy regulated heroin.
How many people do you approximately know of that have had the thought “I’d try heroin but only because I cannot buy regulated heroin”?
- rkomorn 1y agoAlso... isn't the whole opioid addiction crisis basically because people were in fact buying regulated ~heroin?
- etempleton 1y agoA lot of people in the early OOs got addicted to pills because doctors subscribed them liberally and they weren’t regulated that well in hospitals so medical staff who wanted to make an extra buck could easily steal and sell them. The government cracked down on this and then all of the pill poppers turned to heroin, which now is mostly fent.
- rkomorn 1y agoIf we're gonna start factoring how well regulated something is, then sure, as long as there's a problem, something's not "regulated."
- mattmaroon 1y agoThey were told by doctors it was non-addictive too.
- johnnienaked 1y agoLol yes opiate addictions of all stripes for all time can be tied directly back to that oxycontin commercial from 1999
- rkomorn 1y agoDid you have a point or are you just a troll? The whole context was "regulated heroin would be safer", but we've had a whole crisis of overprescribed (but still regulated) opiates that very much disagrees with the notion that regulated heroin is safer. Reading my comment as "all opioid addiction is only due to regulated drugs (and that one commercial)" is misguided, at best.
- johnnienaked 1y agoDo you even remember what you wrote? >Also... isn't the whole opioid addiction crisis basically because people were in fact buying regulated ~heroin? Of course not, this is a ridiculous comment. People have been addicted to opiates for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Blaming oxycontin is passé
- kgwgk 1y agoResponding to the Opioid Crisis in North America and Beyond: Recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968/ The first wave of the opioid crisis began in the 1990s when the long-acting opioid OxyContin and other high potency opioids were employed for an extremely wide array of patients.
- johnnienaked 1y agoHow are they defining the opioid crisis?
- rkomorn 1y agoAre you taking "the whole opioid addiction crisis" literally? As if I meant that every single opioid addiction in history is because of "regulated heroin"? You think that's a reasonable read?
- johnnienaked 1y ago