Author knows too little about this subject to be writing articles on it.
The source of our “opoid epidemic” are doctors’ prescriptions. These create the addicts. The fentanyl smuggling supplies the addicts who can’t get enough from the system or who got cut off.
The increasingly Kafkaesque-nightmare nature of modern life provides many with enough incentive to choose to take that path.
The causes of the opioid epidemic are the the very same as the crack cocaine epidemic.
And both are the result of dumb people making poor decisions.
“The source of our “opoid epidemic” are doctors’ prescriptions.”
You may as well blame the pharmacists for filling them.
The real culprits are the people who allow themselves to get addicted. It’s a choice, not a disease. Countless people have used opioids without getting addicted. They chose not to abuse them.
During the Tobacco Wars, we were warned by liberals that quitting smoking was as difficult as quitting heroin. Well, I quit smoking and it wasn’t that hard. So there....
Your last sentence was the whole point of the writer’s article!
“The source of our “opoid epidemic” are doctors’ prescriptions. These create the addicts. The fentanyl smuggling supplies the addicts who can’t get enough from the system or who got cut off.”
Hmmm, while there may be some substance to this claim, this smells an awful like the progressive standard “it’s someone else’s fault” meme.
A good many folks I know were prescribed opiods following painful surgery and virtually none of them finished the prescription. When the pain subsided (not gone, just subsided), they quit the drug.
Those who continued CHOSE to do so. In these cases, the doctors do share some responsibility, but then again, do we have free will or not?
Doctor prescriptions are of course part of it. But he’s going to just one level deeper and finding out why so many people turn to dope and want a prescription. I would add him one other thing, when the GOP and Clinton gave us NAFTA and looted jobs from this country, there were a large population of people sitting around losing their minds in poverty. That adds up to drugs. Also one cannot ignore the very large role our intelligence agencies have had in this.
My brother-in-law is a doctor and he despises the Hospitals Joint Commission standards that pushes and forces doctors to make sure their patients are not in pain. This started around the 2001 time frame and the results are coming to fruition.
He owns some Urgent Care clinics and will not allow any of his MD’s to write a script for an opioid. He says every day people show up with back pain wanting opioids. It’s not worth the aggravation on the law enforcement side and he won’t be a part of pushing of unnecessary pain medication.
I had hemorrhoid surgery in 2016 and was given a huge prescription for opioid pain meds. I filled one bottle and took as prescribed for one and a half day and then went to Ibuprofen.
I disagree,the center of the opioid crisis is cheap heroin brought in through porous borders.
I can see the path that it travels throughout the states and the damage it wreaks. ‘
The small towns between large cities are strewn with drug dealers going between the cities.