“Opiates don’t kill people. Doctors do.” /S
A good buzz, being necessary for deep mellowness, the right of the people to score righteous opioids, shall not be infringed.
“The first impulse...”
The only valid first impulse on a site called Free Republic is to point out that, regardless the stats involved, neither drugs nor guns are something the feds should be funding or controlling.
Other than as it pertains to controlling what crosses national borders.
Street opioids are illegal (banned) and it hasn’t stopped them from being available. What you have are drug cartels, and dealers - black market. Ban guns, and you will get the same result, gun availability via a black market run by very bad people.
So when you boil the numbers it is: young men (20’s) who did not complete highschool, who are largely unemployed or in non-career jobs, without health insurance, and who do not go to nor have a primary doctor, and who purchase the opiates (which are heroin/fentanyl) from street dealers.
And this is doctor’s and drug company’s fault? Alrighty.
The parallels between extreme ice skating and russet potatoes.
Hey, I can write comparisons that make just as much sense as the thread title.
Sometimes a writer reaches so far that the point they thought to make is hidden in another time zone.
In WI, opioid overdose deaths went up by 35% in 2016.
Meanwhile, over the past 3years, the number of opiate prescriptions went down by 20%
Let’s thank our genius politicians for great public policy. Let’s spend more money demonizing doctors and pain patients while pretending to go after drug dealers. I want to see more tv stories on heroin abuse that show file film of oxycodone pills.
It’s good public policy when people can get treated on the street by drug dealers.
Let say that all the data is correct, and that the offender population is mostly unemployed, undereducated, unmarried men.
Is anyone going to blame radical feminism and its emasculation of the American guy?
no the death surge is due to Fentanyl, from China via Mexican drug cartels.
Here, I see an interesting parallel to the gun debate.
That is, the center of the deadly problem is with the disturbed user or perpetrator, rather than with the instrument—whether it is a gun or a drug. The instrument is the result rather than the cause.
The first impulse, particularly in a highly materialistic and secular culture like ours, is to see the problem in the thing rather than the person, because that’s the easiest approach.
Spot on. Bans fail - for alcohol, or other drugs, or guns - in no small part because they miss the point.