(August 3, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Khemikal Wrote: 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.
I have to weigh in, as a frequent and regular reader of John Rosemond for MANY years, sadly, there isn't much cause to think anything recent as causing the surge in opiate/addiction deaths.
The roots of this go way back. With that damn 20/20 hindsight, I realize all the eye rolling and head shaking I've tried to suppress at meetings for 20+ years was a strong indicator of a future playing out now . . .
And it won't be fixed any faster than it was caused.
IOW, decades . . . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
