Fentanyl topic split off election thread.

[Deesse23]

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).

Thats not entirely correct. You get Fentanyl as well in EU, for strong and very strong pain that is. Not for tooth aches or other tings that are manageable without opioids. My neighbor has cancer, got surgery, and was put, for quite some time on Fentanyl. He showed me his patch.