Certainly a true statement, but I submit that the most recent rash of overdoses has been because our WTO trading partners, you know, the Communist Chinese are intentionally (perhaps state sponsored) flooding our society with cheap, very potent Fentanyl.
Mexican heroin has flooded across our Southern border for decades. Most addicts get a feel for the dosage they are able to tolerate. With Fentanyl...they do not, thus sending them into overdose.
It is really that simple. Now the all knowing, all seeing, all powerful gubbamint declares a national emergency opiod crisis, then cut availability to folks like my F-n-law and dad who suffer from chronic pain.
Sad, predictable knee jerk government reaction.
Also once you try fentanyl cut heroin, supposedly non-fentanyl cut heroin won’t cut it for you. So you have to go back to the dealers that use fentanyl. So I imagine pretty much all the dealers have to go with fentanyl once one does.
Freegards
“Now the all knowing, all seeing, all powerful gubbamint declares a national emergency opiod crisis, then cut availability to folks like my F-n-law and dad who suffer from chronic pain.”
‘Tis true. There is a nationwide network that tracks legitimate painkiller prescriptions that pharmacies are tied into. After a certain point as determined by some filthy bureaucrat you get red flagged. My youngest son has had chronic, painful dental problems but nevertheless his dentist got a warning letter from the government about over prescribing so he had to cut off my son.
Chronic pain is an awful, awful thing to endure.
Very sad. I am 75 and suffer choronic pain. Pain patches often cure the pain in one area, but pain pops out somewhere else on my body. I have had spinal fusions, hip and knee replacements, cancer with lymphedema, it never ends, I have gotten off these medications several times, but hace always had a new problem. At my age, just let me alone. I never take more than I am supposed to.