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

People don't understand addiction. It is a chemical imbalance in the brain of some type. Just like how there are a lot of people who drink alcohol, but only a certain amount of people become alcoholics.

Some people can't function normal without alcohol. Everyone is built different.

Same thing with gambling. I have a friend I grew up with who has been in and out of gambling rehab (along with drug rehab). We were talking one day after one of the times he got back from rehab.. He told me him wanting to gamble had nothing to do with winning. He said winning only allowed him to keep playing. It was about being in the game.. And he fought it. It wasn't like he could just stop.

But his dad had an addictive personality. Good as gold, but he was always trying to give up things.. But when he tried to stop doing one thing, he would start on something else. And he passed that on to one of his kids.