Fentanyl topic split off election thread.

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Even a broken clock will tell you the right time twice a day
Indeed RFK is a poor retard (nothing to do with the worm, just not the smartest boy in class), but as European I can definitely state that a lot is wrong on the approach to health in US.
You have such a long list of food additives that are forbidden in the EU that I wonder why is that (I know why, the bog food lobby).
Moreover, I am impressed by the Fentanyl: you got a lot of Fentanyl addicted that just started taking it as painkiller for things here in the EU you receive ibuprofen or way milder solutions.
I remember a friend of me when she moved in the US, fellow scientist, with her boyfriend also scientist (mathematician, not pharmaceutical chemist like her). He got his ligament broken and reconstructed, in the hospital he got Fentanyl as painkiller for the surgery and she stopped it and prevented him for taking it, giving instead high dosage Ibuprofen. Result? Very little pain for 3 days and then pain gone with zero chance of becoming Fentanyl addicted. Look now in your circle (for the ones of you in the US): how many slipped in Fentanyl addiction for uses of Fentanyl that could have been substituted with other drugs?
And this is just one small example, I can go on for hours with examples on differences where on "big food" and "big pharma" we fade better as EU (conversely in many other fields we fade way worst than US).

Not sure where you get your info.  I was given Fentanyl when I had heart surgery...one dose, one time.

I don't know of anyone walking around with a prescription.  

The problem with Fentanyl is that it's being used as a street drug or added to other drugs.  It's so deadly that overdose is common as it doesn't take much.  A few years ago, they clamped down on pain killers to the point that you were lucky to get anything regardless of how bad you needed some relief.  It's easing up but still closely monitored as far as prescriptions go.

And, as and FYI,  the word "retard" is generally not acceptable.  

Try harder.