re: 'Drug overdoses have reached epidemic proportions in North America': UN issues warning

This is like issuing a tsunami warning after the wave has sucked everything back out to sea.

How many of these are accidental...meaning some average Joe took the wrong pill at lunchtime and died.

Otherwise, this is just druggies doing their thing. It’s sad they don’t value life. Isn’t this one of those ‘play stupid games and win stupid prizes’ situations?

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How many of these are accidental...meaning some average Joe took the wrong pill at lunchtime and died.

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That’s kinda the situation most of the time a lot of these kids think they are buying oxy but it’s actually fentanyl. It’s sad when you can think of a handful people you grew up with or used to hang out with that are dead from fentanyl.

Just legalize all drugs

Just seems like Darwin doing work. Don't do dope....don't get dead. Sounds reasonable to me.

I have never been "high" off an opioid. Well maybe twice in the '70's with a Quaalude and an episode when I was recovering from ACL/MCL knee surgery at the age of 15.

This is an important distinction. Addicts want to get high, those with infrequent pain just want the pain to subside. Legally I can get a prescription for hydrocodone, 30 will last me more than a year.

An addict would abuse this drug to the point where it would last a week.

Is the problem, the drug or the doctor or the person?

My two cents. Fifty years ago when I watched the clock to get an injection of Demerol at the age of 15, I could be an addict. I still remember the doctor Monday morning, yelling at the nurses. Even though he had prescribed "pain medicine as needed".

I was cruising.