The opioid epidemic has nothing to do with pain, and everything to do with culture and self-control.
If the opioid epidemic were about pain, the geographic distribution of opioid addiction would be evenly distributed as humans that suffer from pain are evenly distributed over all geographic regions.
The pharmacy that sells Oxycodone LIED about its addictive effects. It’s already paid 600 million in fines with MANY more to come.
People need to do SOME research on this subject before commenting.
ALSO, Oxy was originally ONLY for cancer patients but then the powers that be got greased enough to make basically synthetic heroin available for EVERYONE.
You unknowingly take a brutally addictive drug, then get addicted, then years later, when congress, only because they’re afraid of losing their jobs, makes it near impossible to get oxy, you turn to heroin, which is MUCH cheaper and easier to get.
Roxys go for 40 dollars a pill.
12 years ago I was offered 2000 dollars for a bottle of Roxys I had. I said no. I dont sell death.
It cost ME 5 bucks because I only had a copay.
How many people are going to say no to a multi thousand percent profit?
Not enough.
And now that they’re near impossible to get (except from law breaking doctors who sell scripts) heroin is the replacement drug of choice.
For some reason, the most I ever got was a 5 or 10 minute high off of them, and even I knew that WASN’T NORMAL to get that feeling from a SAFE DRUG!!
Stopped using rather quickly cause it didn’t help the pain at all and those 10 minute highs scared me.
All along I-40 there are pain management clinics that seem to be nothing more than prescription drug dealers.
Are there an extreme number of people in Ohio without self-control or something?
It has a lot to do with how the medical industry works. Americans go to the doctor expecting a prescription to fix the problem. When the problem is chronic pain the prescription is addiction. Other countries either don’t go to doctors for pain, or the have more of a personal relationship with their doctors and they discuss how lifestyle plays into pain and less pill oriented ways of dealing with it. Most folks here don’t even know the doctor prescribed them an opioid and they’re now on the path to addiction.