I can't understand why otherwise reasonable, educated people fall for homeopathic quackery

[Tsiyu]

11. I keep wondering why otherwise reasonable, educated people

fall for the painkillers they are prescribed like candy.

And then, once one is addicted, the state makes it harder to get the painkillers, and more of a felony if you possess even one.

So you can't get a legal script, you need a very real, Big Pharma-created fix, you buy one pill off the street, you get caught, you go to prison and your family is fucked.

The homeopathic route may seem the safer to some

I'm not a pill person myself, but I know that a great many people are using painkillers to mask long term illness, as they can't afford surgery or other therapy to correct painful conditions.

Our health care isn't exactly administered in an egalitarian way; those without access just want to feel better, too. Whether the methods work or not remains to be seen. Traditional medicine can be "quackery" in some cases as well.