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third way: Mainstream users largely move away from consuming illegal drugs into abusing prescription drugs. The drug marketplace becomes a confusing grey market
by shalmanese 12y ago
third way: Mainstream users largely move away from consuming illegal drugs into abusing prescription drugs. The drug marketplace becomes a confusing grey market of legitimate, semi-legitimate and completely illegitimate usage of the same substances.
- vidarh 12y ago> The drug marketplace becomes a confusing grey market of legitimate, semi-legitimate and completely illegitimate usage of the same substances. Largely like today, then. E.g. the largest gateway to heroin use is prescription opioids (which are far more expensive to buy on the black market than it is to buy equivalent doses of heroin from your friendly neighbourhood dealer; and in some countries heroin too is provided on prescription - e.g. in the UK, in addition to occasionally being made available to addicts, it is used as legitimate pain relief for post operative pain though I believe only for inpatient use)