If you’re putting opioid crisis in scare-quotes when they’re killing 50,000 people a year, you’re an asshole.
“If you’re putting opioid crisis in scare-quotes when they’re killing 50,000 people a year, you’re an asshole.”
I’m scratching my head wondering why you gave such a hostile reply that doesn’t seem even remotely related to what the poster said.
The headline has it that way.
“you’re an asshole.”
Do you know who “they” are? The quotes were put in by the author. You would have known that if you bothered to read the article instead of closing your mind.
You know, sometimes the government and the media are wrong. The characterization of opioid crisis by the government and media has been very misleading. It is not a simple case of demonizing doctors. I don’t think that the author would have used the quotes if he believed that the government and media were honest brokers on this issue. I would like to remind you that governments have demonized groups in the past in an effort to give themselves more credibility and power.
Go back to sleep. And when you get up stay on your knees. That’s the position the government wants you in.
I have to agree with babble-on
The quotes make it seem like there’s no there, there.
If I got my hands on a 5 dollar co pay script for 160 roxys, i could sell it for 10k if i made 2 hours’ effort.
I DONT take pain meds and DONT get them and NEVER would sell them.
But that statement about the 10k, or at least 5k if i wanted to dump them quickly is absolutely true.
The feds shouldn’t be involved in many things.
But they are.
And states that made it easy to get a script would see abuse (and folks lying about where they live) skyrocket.