Due to the Heroin epidemic in the white community

Because prohibition, of anything, does nothing but make the problem worse.

Making pain pills harder to get simply upped their value and pushed more people into heroin to feed their addiction.

We criminalize things instead of focusing on intensive treatment centers.

Once a Dr gets you taking the high power pain meds there is no such thing as self will.

I always kind of roll my eyes when people blame doctors or the government. Junkies are junkies, no outside force makes them stick needles in their arm.

Not to mention the double standard when it comes to how *they* talk about black crack heads.

Because as usual, government took a bad problem and made it worse.

well, you know, personal responsibility only applies to certain types.
And I'll add that most of these young people using heroine did not get started by going to their doctor after back surgery.

Watch it. If you preach personal responsibility in our society today it means you are a mean, selfish, hateful person.

Stats?

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And I'll add that most of these young people using heroine did not get started by going to their doctor after back surgery.

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Not all addicted to opiates are white

Stupid thread

The green Herons are beautiful birds, the blue ones..not so much. Are they only landing around white people? I can see how this might be a race problem, communication is the first problem. Does anybody here speak Heron?

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the same people blaming Doctors and the government for this are that same people who blame mcdonalds for obesity. Don't act naive either like people don't purposely got to the drs. to get pain meds even before they get addicted but just to get the high.

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Well, that's really an imperfect analogy.

Some of the blame for the opiate epidemic in the U.S. goes to the government for a variety of reasons, not only the pain medication policies but also a misguided attempt to eradicate hardcore drug use, a lack of treatment facilities, and a lot of other things. Just like the government carries some blame in the obesity epidemic as well, mostly through subsidy policies.

Don't get me wrong: the lion's share of the blame still falls on individuals. I've had two major orthopedic surgeries in the past 18 months (a reconstructed ankle and a smashed wrist with several broken bones), and I still managed not to get hooked on Oxy or Norco or whatever, but an objective overview of the problem naturally leads one to assign some blame to the federal and local governments. A lot of it is cultural as well. Long story short: in the United States, the government tends to frick shite up a lot more than they ever help.

You want to take a look at a place where the heroin problem is absolutely out of control due in no small part to state policies? Check out the opiate problems in Iran.