Technically but someone almost always prescribed the drugs initially. Apparently, we created a very effective medicine for getting addicted. We started to get “Pain Clinics” popping up in the area a few years back. They appeared in the poorest counties in the area. I know one of the Drs and she went to prison for forging scripts.
I am going to be in Southern Illinois in a rural area next week, and I was scoping things out using Google Street View. The town I am going to has a pain medication or a recovery center on every block, or so it seems.
I was thinking Mayberry, but it looks like I’m headed to someplace considerably less appealing.
One thing about this eclipse next week is that it is going to get a lot of urban and suburban types out of their protective bubbles and get them out rubbing elbows with rural America.
It could be an interesting day.