re: let's discuss this opioid issue in the USA

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It’s the people. Whether it’s drugs, guns, whatever. People make choices. We’re a society that likes to place blame on everything else but ourselves.

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Some people are more susceptible to addiction. Some do willfully abuse drugs and become addicted and I don't have much pity on them. Others are prescribed painkillers for injury and become addicted.

This is incredibly juvenile take on the issue. Often people are given pain killers by the doctors and become hooked on them. Opioids are often highly addictive and the pharmaceutical industry knows this. They want people addicted so they can sell more.

This also why you see an outbreak of heroin addictions among young white people in rich areas

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It’s the people. Whether it’s drugs, guns, whatever. People make choices. We’re a society that likes to place blame on everything else but ourselves

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I agree. If addiction wasn't in the person and it was in the substance then how do people get addicted to shite like shopping, cracking their knuckles and food. Seriously, fricking food. Something we need to live.

As a libertarian I'd like to see all drugs be legal. I would like to occasionally partake in recreational drug use so it pisses me off to no end that I can't do anything but drink alcohol because I can't trust the drugs that are available because theyre illegal and come from shady sources.

For people like me who can handle his shite, we shouldn't have to suffer and be denied enjoyment because some people are weak and can't handle.

Drug addicts don't piss me off because of some religious or moral objection or because I'm afraid they're going to steal my shite. They piss me off because they deny me the opportunity to legally use drugs.