RE: Opiate deaths
August 3, 2017 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 2:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Some amount of us seeming sicker and sicker has to be attributable to better screening and tools to identify illness. Chances are, we've been plodding along with various illnesses for a long time..none the wiser, and we're just getting better at detecting them....and while we don't seem to be interested in preventing them, so much, there's a hell of a market in pills.
"Well, whadda ya know, I've got x - the pill commercial just said so!"
Opiates rose on the back of (purportedly) treating chronic pain...not necessarily an identifiable illness. Maybe we should have been doling out weed instead, would have costed the taxpayer less, and as far as I'm aware...nobody od's on green. Pharma could have made their nut there too, with super strains and novel dosing. Just my 2cents.
"Well, whadda ya know, I've got x - the pill commercial just said so!"
Opiates rose on the back of (purportedly) treating chronic pain...not necessarily an identifiable illness. Maybe we should have been doling out weed instead, would have costed the taxpayer less, and as far as I'm aware...nobody od's on green. Pharma could have made their nut there too, with super strains and novel dosing. Just my 2cents.
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