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?
yeah basically. but its lumped together & muddled with the 'war on drugs'. sometimes "opiod epidemic" is people getting addicted through 'over'prescription, sometimes its talking about overdose deaths (sometimes related to scripts, sometimes not), and sometimes its just about perseptions & fearmongering around the fact of druguse whatsoever
A missing component here is that lot of the minor pain was chronic pain. People would go out and develop chronic pain from the American lifestyle or hard labor like construction and then be prescribed a diet of prediction opioids by doctors, which isn't so much pain management as it is total obliteration of the person over time.