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?

  • Runcible [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, I've had this argument before and for me it always boils down into "no one can know everything and you have to be willing to trust experts in a field for any large scale system/society to work" and "it's literally got opium".

    The opium argument has only surface validity to me, (think "vaccines have mercury/arsenic" vibes) just because how often and how much processing is done to things that otherwise we can't ingest but still use in medicine.

    There is obviously somewhere along the chain where the good faith argument breaks down and people were actively consciously accepting murdering people for profit and I don't see a need to be cautious on drawing that line.