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Why are the opoid manufacturers who are creating this addiction in the first place not being billed for it?
How did they create it? Consumers can't buy direct, can they? There's always a middleman. Why not blame pharmacies or better yet, doctors?
They mislead doctors about safe usage of their product.
This is one of the sickest, most disgusting, most disturbing, most inhumane things I have ever heard. I guess police are not satisfied with just shooting unarmed people, now they have to let sick addicts die. So they can save $50, an amount that would be even less if it could be negotiated by a program like Medicaid or Medicare. At least it finally confirms the fact that a lot of police, like Jones, would rather stand around, do nothing, and let the people they are supposed to serve and protect die while they watch. What a sick, disgusting mother fucker. No, there's isn't a word in the English language that even begins to describe this lowlife. And the give this piece of shit a fucking gun? I wonder how many he's murdered so far without impunity?
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By "organized crime," I assume you mean something other what's traditionally thought of as organized crime, e.g. the Mafia, but I can't tell what. > I presume she managed to avoid becoming a junky because she has a pretty stable day-to-day life. While circumstance and upbringing are factors for addition, I think it's accepted that there is also a biological component; your mom may be inherently less prone to becoming…
Addiction is fundamentally about not being able to regulate ones nervous system and looking for external triggers for dopamine release. This is almost always linked to developmental and shock trauma earlier in life.
Why are the opoid manufacturers who are creating this addiction in the first place not being billed for it?
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A Civil War today would look like Afghanistan or Iraq, not like the one we had before. It won't be pretty and will probably end in authoritarianism the likes we've never seen.
~50% of all US war casualties occurred during the Civil War. It was very nasty, even if only 3% of the total US population died in direct fighting.
I realized I was being vague.
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> It'd be far more cost-effective to reduce the need for acute care by providing access to addiction treatment before things get to this point. Easier said than done I suppose. Johann Hari has pointed out that it's very effective to just give heroin addicts pure heroin and a safe place to inject it. Switzerland has 'essentially' [edit] eliminated opiate deaths with this strategy: [edit: added 'essentially' in respons…
In reports about the Swiss strategy and in this story about Hari I see plausible claims that Switzerland has eliminated deaths due to needle-borne HIV, but no claims anywhere that prescribing heroin has eliminated all opiate fatalities. Can you cite a more rigorous source?
http://www.suchtmonitoring.ch/de/3/7.html?opioide-mortalitat
In 2015, there were about 10 cases of needle-borne HIV infections in Switzerland, out of a bit more than 500 overall.
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100 years ago, politicians were tricked into trusting organized crime to tend to the health of people who are drawn to opiates. Those politicians are dead & gone, but we're still stuck with their mistake. My mother broke her wrist 6 months ago, and was given opiates to deal with the pain of having a plate put in her wrist. She did not become an opiate addict. I presume she managed to avoid becoming a junky because sh…
When the drug war started, politicians had a problem: banning someone from ingesting wasn't something the US government had the power to do. We were a free country after all. They had to bend the constitution by implementing a tax rather than a ban, and simply never issued tax stamps. Fast forward 100 years, the federal, state and local governments can ban anything they damn well please with little to no resistance,…