Drugmakers fought state opioid limits amid crisis

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8. Someone should fight the bastards

First of all, calling drug addiction an "epidemic" is fucking stupid to begin with. People use opioids for a variety of reasons, some of which does involve abuse. For even those who abuse these drugs, very few are addicts contrary to what the government anti-drug efforts would have everyone believe. Some people are addicts, not because they are abusing these classes of drugs, but rather because they are dealing with chronic pain. Meanwhile the vast majority of overdoses which result in hospitalizations or death are directly related to mixing opioids with other drugs. So rather than deal with that problem directly, the government would rather restrict everyone's access and distribution whether legit or not or whether it's an actual social problem or not while simultaneously warehousing in prison those are involved in the black market that failed government policy virtually guarantees.

The so-called "epidemic" isn't the actual problem. It's a symptom of the actual problem which is a failed drug policy at just about every level. Rather than listen to people who actually have a handle on the problem and know how to address the societal ills of drugs, policymakers instead listen to dipshit do-gooders and law enforcement most (but not all) who are on the right wing and are deathly afraid someone else might get high or laid while they are getting neither and have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.