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The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

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Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

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Post by ivanhoe »

pmc1 wrote: post #11

> Millions of people have fallen victim to drugs, painkiller abuse, alcoholism, the rise of meth and the revival of heroin. Through all this carnage somehow the left still fights for the legalization of the gateway drug marijuana. Of course not all weed users move towards harder drugs, but it opens the door to more lethal drugs once susceptible individuals become accustomed to the highs. I have personally seen friend…

This is totally not true, and it was proven by many countries where marijuana had been legal for years without any significant changes in hard-drugs abuse. Just google for it, this is the 1st result: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...

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pmc1 wrote: post #11

> Millions of people have fallen victim to drugs, painkiller abuse, alcoholism, the rise of meth and the revival of heroin. Through all this carnage somehow the left still fights for the legalization of the gateway drug marijuana. Of course not all weed users move towards harder drugs, but it opens the door to more lethal drugs once susceptible individuals become accustomed to the highs. I have personally seen friend…

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Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

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Post by 1undo »

pmc1 wrote: post #11

> Millions of people have fallen victim to drugs, painkiller abuse, alcoholism, the rise of meth and the revival of heroin. Through all this carnage somehow the left still fights for the legalization of the gateway drug marijuana. Of course not all weed users move towards harder drugs, but it opens the door to more lethal drugs once susceptible individuals become accustomed to the highs. I have personally seen friend…

That's true, but HN tends to be more liberal so you will be downvoted though.

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Post by shams93 »

MechEStudent wrote: post #10
sidcool wrote: post #7

I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. And why people are not revolting. There is a clear nexus between pharmas and doctors. Something should be done.

The 0.1% unilaterally owns the government. Better than half of all laws are made for them. Where do you think the 0.1% stands on the opioid crisis? It doesn't touch them. It is a poverty-problem, not theirs.

They're making money off their big pharma stock holdings do for the 0.1 this addiction crisis is no crisis at all it's an opiate Bonanza

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Post by Alex3917 »

jijji wrote: post #9

Heroin is a Schedule I (in the US) which means no medical benefit, and its a 20 year felony for distributing it. There is also the Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, which is supposed to group similar drugs in the same category. So, how do these companies get away with selling analogs of heroin? Shouldn't the people who work there and make money off these opioid drugs be arrested? Why haven't they?

I mean there obviously is a medical benefit to heroin, it's all just arbitrary politics based mostly on graft.

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Post by SnowingXIV »

It does not take much, I had injury that resulted in a prescription and once it's no longer hitting just the pain receptors (I don't really understand how this all works or claim to) and you feel the "calming" effect you can pretty quickly see why it can become so addictive and scary. Even being educated, happy, well-off, and aware you can fall to these type of addictions, I can't imagine how hard it must be for many others.

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

sandworm101 wrote: post #13
jijji wrote: post #9

Heroin is a Schedule I (in the US) which means no medical benefit, and its a 20 year felony for distributing it. There is also the Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, which is supposed to group similar drugs in the same category. So, how do these companies get away with selling analogs of heroin? Shouldn't the people who work there and make money off these opioid drugs be arrested? Why haven't they?

Because what they sell isnt on the schedual and does have medical use. Hate opiods addiction and overprescription, but dont forget that these things have a place.

Absolutely yes. We don't want to go back to a world without drugs for chronic and severe pain.

For all the hoopla around the addiction problem, we must never forget there are real people who need these things. With some of the treatment options, as I understand it, it's even possible to be an addict and a functioning member of society.

I start worrying in public discussions when people ascribe too much good or evil to inanimate objects. Drugs are tools, like a lot of other things. They can do great good or evil. It's how we use them that makes the difference. Education will get us a lot further in helping folks than prohibition ever will.

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Post by jnbiche »

pmc1 wrote: post #11

> Millions of people have fallen victim to drugs, painkiller abuse, alcoholism, the rise of meth and the revival of heroin. Through all this carnage somehow the left still fights for the legalization of the gateway drug marijuana. Of course not all weed users move towards harder drugs, but it opens the door to more lethal drugs once susceptible individuals become accustomed to the highs. I have personally seen friend…

This is false, and there's a lot of data to support the assertion that you're wrong. Just a sample of articles covering such studies:

1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/16/legal...

2) https://drugabuse.com/legalizing-marijuana-decreases-fatal-o...

Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

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Post by TylerE »

Alex3917 wrote: post #25
jijji wrote: post #9

Heroin is a Schedule I (in the US) which means no medical benefit, and its a 20 year felony for distributing it. There is also the Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, which is supposed to group similar drugs in the same category. So, how do these companies get away with selling analogs of heroin? Shouldn't the people who work there and make money off these opioid drugs be arrested? Why haven't they?

I mean there obviously is a medical benefit to heroin, it's all just arbitrary politics based mostly on graft.

And it is used medically in many countries for things like end-stage cancer pain.

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