So then, why now?
Why all of a sudden are so many people getting opiods for pain? My grandfather worked every day till his 70’s on the farm. He didn’t take ANY of these cocktails till the very end of his life.
His joints were gone, his back hurt, and he just dealt with it.
We are not seeing any epidemic of pain. Either people are getting to lazy and fat to support their bodies (which does happen), or there is something else. I know of a great many former coworkers and friends on some sort of opiod that DIDN’T get into because of pain. I also know some that DID.
Again, I look at my grandfather’s generation (the generation that grew up with morphine being sold as headache medicine), and they worked much harder than my father’s or my generation. Yet it is my generation and younger popping the poppy seeds juice like it is going out of style.
What changed? It isn’t just “Oh, they hurt so they need it”. People don’t have the type of jobs that break them down like our forefathers had. Why all of a sudden is most of the worlds prescription opiods being sold in the US?
People can pursue happiness however they want, as long as they don't infringe on others' rights.
The rest is between a doctor and his patient.
People like Rush Limbaugh can get away with anything, and the riff raff gets sent to prison. No f-cking way.
To Hell with the nanny state. Just like with alcohol (which is the worst drug on the face of the earth bar none) if people develop addiction problems, they can be treated without SWAT teams with machine guns breaking down doors with warrantless searches, without trampling the Fourth Amendment, and without prison sentences.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."—C. S. Lewis