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> Opioids can't be banned until we can replace them with something equally generally effective.

Opioids should not be banned

Opioid addiction (I have seen a lot of it, not had it) is a social problem and is best managed with, opioids

The problems stem from putting unreasonable obstacles between adicts amd their appropriate treatment. Practical legal and financial obstacles, sadistic legal obstacles, and bizarre moral obstacles

Great Britain for many y4ars managed Opioid addiction with opioids, principally methadone and heroin

Nineteenth century society managed it with laudinum

We westerners in the twenty first century are failing to manage it with cruelty

The Sacklers are, were, parasites profiting from that social malaise and bad things will finally happen to them. But the cause of the malaise is our irrational attitude to drugs

parent worik 2 years ago

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