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originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
The obvious way to attack the opiod problem is to attack the source. Go after the Mexican cartels.
In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers, and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates.
Opioid overdose rates began to increase. In 2015, more than 33,000 Americans died as a result of an opioid overdose, including prescription opioids, heroin, and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.1 That same year, an estimated 2 million people in the United States suffered from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers,
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Hazardous1408
There's already a shortage of doctors. Arresting those who over-prescribe Opioid medications would reduce their numbers by about 20%, don't you think?
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Hazardous1408
There's already a shortage of doctors. Arresting those who over-prescribe Opioid medications would reduce their numbers by about 20%, don't you think?
I mean, seriously, unethical doctors overprescribing is a major part of the crisis in the first place...
originally posted by: sligtlyskeptical
As far as Trumps plan, I would guess it is very similar to Duterte's, which of course is why it needs to be kept unsaid.