Honest Question about the "Opioid Epidemic"

My little jimmy is a junkie so it must be the doctor's fault

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How much of the blame for this so called epedemic belongs on the doctors and the pain pill companies

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About 75%

10.75% Big Pharma

10.75% retarded government policies

3.50% victim mentality

I think they can be enablers in a way. By giving refills when they know they probably shouldn't. Its the junkies fault they got addicted to pills anyways.

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if I noticed that I was still needing opoids after my surgery or whatever caused me to have them in the first place, my first action would to be to look for some kind of help, not go looking for heroin or whatever else.

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I doubt that copping heroin is usually the "first action", but there is definitely poor judgment involved if you find yourself shooting smack, agree there.

LMFAO. The "doctors" as a group hold no responsibility. They are taught by medical schools largely funded by pharmaceutical companies. So what do you think the curriculum is gong to tell them to do? Interest their patients in diet, exercise and the health of the human frame? Or prescribe medications? The Rx epidemic is larger than opioids.

The same pharmaceutical companies largely fund the politicians to get pro-Rx laws passed and the advertising to domesticate society.

If you went to see your doctor and they told you to go home and gave you a complete list of natural ways to become healthy, would you do it? Or would you call that doctor a quack bc "You paid to get well and they didn't write you any Rxs!"?

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we don't cry out that it's the casinos fault or it's the beer or porn companies fault. So why is it different for this addiction?

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Are you serious?

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How much blame belongs on the abuser?
100%

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I was addicted to pain pills but didn't really abuse them. The problem with long term use of opiods for chronic pain is you build up a tolerance to them and you have to take an ever-increasing minimum doeage regularly or you go through hell.

I never crushed/snorted/injected them and never bought them off the street. But, I had a scrip for 4 lortab 10s per day and I took them whether I needed to or not. The addiction became mental and physical.

I did everything right and still became an addict. I knew where it was going, so I went through 2 weeks of hell and started eating right and working out. It is on the user to quit, but had my doctor talked to me about eating an anti inflammatory diet, I may have never spent those years on opiods.

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Considering that physicians are trained to diagnose, to imply that the same group will blindly follow the RX directive is a bit contradictory.

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Do you not follow industry standards for your profession? You know, flip the burgers longest in the grill?

Alcohol and tobacco are both physical addictions...