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The opioid crisis has gotten much, much worse despite Congress’ efforts to stop it
(www.politico.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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Almost like it's caused by broader societal issues
What if people do drugs because their actual lives are dissatisfying because literally everything they could do to enjoy themselves or socialize with others costs money at a time when inflation and poor planning has made the things they need to live more expensive and pay isn't keeping up because of the greed of a relative minority?
Or it's just that people like drugs idk I'm not a psychiatrist or senator.
I am guessing in some cases it is a combo of psychological trauma plus external stressors like being broke af.
But drugs also cost money
Yes, but the current state of crisis unfolded because pharma corps like Purdue lied about addictiveness thanks to the consult of such upstanding groups as McKinsey, and then the printed billions in cash for almost 2 decades while the top of the funnel of opiod users exploded. The bottom of the funnel, your meth, heroin and fentanyl ODs and related crimes are the cost of that years laters as addicts inevitably spiral downward. Pharma companies took what used to be an extreme and made it mainstream by hooking everyone from high school kids, to those injured at work on their products.