Comment by rkomorn
Comment by rkomorn 2 days ago
Also... isn't the whole opioid addiction crisis basically because people were in fact buying regulated ~heroin?
Comment by rkomorn 2 days ago
Also... isn't the whole opioid addiction crisis basically because people were in fact buying regulated ~heroin?
Lol yes opiate addictions of all stripes for all time can be tied directly back to that oxycontin commercial from 1999
Did 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.
Do 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
Responding to the Opioid Crisis in North America and Beyond: Recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission
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.
A 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.