Legislatively (state/county/municipal) so far, the trend is towards greater legalization of marijuana. Can we really get harpy about drug companies strongly pushing their in house manufactured opiates ?? Perfectly legal for a doctor to write a scrip for pretty much anything, and no money is going to Taliban poppy farmers of Mexican drug lords.
Maybe more supervised dosing is the answer instead of cutting off supplies at this point to addicts who are going to find alternatives. Existence of Narcan to me at least, seems to be just as bad as increased 'legal' prescribing of opiates.
There is also a product available, that I feel is PARTICULARLY dangerous. The 5 mg/325 mg opiate/Tylenol pill. (Norco) Hard to OD on the opiate content for sure, but SO VERY EASY to get a lethal dose of liver rotting Tylenol if somebody tries, and I bet liver failure deaths from Norco OD'ing are not counted as opiate deaths.
So, I'm having doubts the opiate death rate numbers we are seeing are even accurate. They could be considerably low from not counting liver failures.
Even harder to fathom out drug policy when the numbers we're getting are suspect and an entire subset of the problem isn't included in the tally.
Maybe more supervised dosing is the answer instead of cutting off supplies at this point to addicts who are going to find alternatives. Existence of Narcan to me at least, seems to be just as bad as increased 'legal' prescribing of opiates.
There is also a product available, that I feel is PARTICULARLY dangerous. The 5 mg/325 mg opiate/Tylenol pill. (Norco) Hard to OD on the opiate content for sure, but SO VERY EASY to get a lethal dose of liver rotting Tylenol if somebody tries, and I bet liver failure deaths from Norco OD'ing are not counted as opiate deaths.
So, I'm having doubts the opiate death rate numbers we are seeing are even accurate. They could be considerably low from not counting liver failures.
Even harder to fathom out drug policy when the numbers we're getting are suspect and an entire subset of the problem isn't included in the tally.
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