I'm only thinking about this bc I just had surgery and I'm on oxy for the first time in 17 years, but, like...
Doctors really claim, like as a profession, that they just didn't know fucking opium was highly addictive and oopsie woopsie did a little fucky wucky and now like a million people are dead?
Cause I really never thought about that, but I took 1 "take 2 every four hours" pill SEVEN FUCKING HOURS AGO and I am still tripping balls and in my current altered state their cutesy little "We just forgot morphine was dangerous" shtick sounds pretty fucking ridiculous.
Oh and the DEA and FDA must have been in on this, too, right? The whole time? Because no one would actually be stupid enough to believe this shit, right?
Yes
ex-opiate addict here. Did pills for like 4 years, then heroin for another 3ish. I wanted to like, have an answer that was a little more i depth, and I tried to type out some stuff that gave more information and nuance but there isn't any. I considered typing something up for people that weren't aware of the situation so they could understand. I wanted to be able to explain the intricacies of a fucked up system that takes advantage of the poor and destitute. I thought about warning people . None of that is realistic. None of it matters.
"Yes" is the only accurate answer