The Horrible Side-Effect of the War on Opioid Addiction

[iscooterliberally]

77. As adults over the age of 21 we ought to be able to buy pain pills.

We ought to be able to buy pain pills on our own without having to ask for a doctor's permission. We can already buy tobacco, alcohol, motor vehicles and combat rifles. Instead, the government has pulled the safer drugs away and let the drug cartels flood our neighborhoods with heroin and fentanyl and who knows what else. I know very well how addictive pain medication is. I have had all sorts of injuries from dislocated shoulders to multiple fractures. I have been shot up with the strongest opiates by doctors and have had all sorts of percocet and vicodin prescriptions over the course of my life. People who of have real and chronic pain should not be cut off, but neither should people who have become addicted. We have a false sense of morality when it comes to taking drugs. Drugs aren't going to go away because we prohibit them or restrict access. All that does is cause even more problems. Our drug laws were meant to hurt people not help them. Our drug laws are the cause of of this crisis and need to be changed. We need to treat people as adults and with compassion, not derision. Taking a drug is morally neutral act and should not be considered a crime.