The opioid epidemic, like most diseases, will reach its limit. The market always has its limits. I expect it will reach its limits because the fools running the war on this epidemic are total clowns and many are bought off by the CEOs of the illegal drug industry. These limits will have most of America with the monkey on their back. America will be a third world nation under a dictatorship.
When you have military aircrafts bringing in heroin by the ton into McCord Air Force Base, you have idiots and people on the take. When you have police chiefs and drug enforcement officers being paid off, you have idiots letting themselves become compromised for their own fat bank accounts. When you have mayors lining their pockets with drug money and city officials orchestrating the distribution network, we are a sorry nation with their thumbs up where the sun does not shine. Enjoy the feel because there will be hell to pay.
That is all true, but without a market for heroin, there would be no Demand for heroin and there would be no incentive to Supply heroin.
Military planes bringing it in by the ton? Not likely at all.
There was a reason that the penalties for drugs were so steep in years past.
This type of thing is why.
Duarte in the PI is right. Kill off the Dealers and corrupt officials.
The opiod “epidemic” is a Dim inspired distraction.
Mexico has become the largest supplier of heroin in the world, beating out all the Asian & other producers and the Mexican drug cartels starting switching from coke to heroin.
THAT, not the pharmaceutical industry is why there is a heroin epidemic - cheap, plentiful heroin from Mexico.
It pisses me off to no end that we are using blood and treasure to GUARD OPIUM FIELDS IN AFGHANISTAN......
We could at the very least be raising the crap domestically and cutting the crazy jihadis out of the profits and that would at least help the war or terror...
Instead we took the w3ar on terror and turned it into a even more dangerous Narco-War where the profits from the Opium are working against the goals of the war on terror.
It was bad enough with the Saudis taking their oil monies and dumping them into hands of Wahhabi extremists, but now we have given another income source to the crazy ass jihadis...
I read a story the other day about a manufacturer in Ohio trying to hire over a hundred employees for good paying jobs, but is having a hard time finding people that can pass drug tests and simple math tests.