Why is there an opioid crisis in the united states?

why is there an opioid crisis in the united states?
and how would you fix it?

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Make it free. Hand it out on ice cream trucks. Make sure the hospitals don't treat any O.D.s

Social decline, see the Mouse Utopia experiments. It's a behavior sink. The only way to fix it is a restoration of social norms to a more conservative one. Also, for now, a legalization of marijuana would greatly reduce deaths from opioid overdose, as has been proven in the states that have legalized recreational use.

>Also, for now, a legalization of marijuana would greatly reduce deaths from opioid overdose, as has been proven in the states that have legalized recreational use.
links? genuinely interested in reading about this

When your gubbament says scheduling substances is a good thing, but it isn't.
Drug dealers need to make a profit, so they'll split your shit with anything they can find to turn up a profit.
Same goes with psychedelics, they make it a schedule 1 substance so people create new ones that can fuck you up, loopholes.

I like how America only started to care about the opioid crisis once middle aged white women started suffering from pain killer addiction.

When a black person overdoses, it was simply seen as a 'black thing'.

>restoration of social norms to a more conservative one
>legalization of marijuana

You didn't think this one out very well

let me google that for you
drugabuse.com/legalizing-marijuana-decreases-fatal-opiate-overdoses/
peer reviewed research proving a 25% reduction in overdose deaths:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1898878

it's mostly a white person's drug, it doesn't even start to hit the black belt until 2011

The former is a social issue, the later is a legal issue. Prohibition has never worked. You can't force social norms through legislation. Well, you can try, but it always fails.

Well short term, make it legal for a very short while, but make sure it can only be gotten from a pharmacy, over a period of a year or two, slowly reduce the strength of what is carried so the junkies aren't so physically addicted, if that doesn't work well put them in concentration camps until they get clean.

The fix is to allow those inclined to be addicted to these things od themselves Into extinction

First step is to hold the pharma companies that pushed the opioids and the doctors that overprescribed the pills accountable. Everytime I read a story about the current crisis there is always a doctor quoted stating, "I had no idea that long term opioid painkiller use was highly addictive." The fact that anyone with an advanced medical degree can utter those words and get away with it just astounds me.

Looks like it's only really a problem out west, in the rustbelt, and in Florida.

>First step is to hold the pharma companies that pushed the opioids and the doctors that overprescribed the pills accountable.
what do you propose their punishments be?

stop replying to ancap flags

Opium wars.
You cant let it be legal. Its not like alcohol or pot.
Seriously read up on the opium wars.

Legalize weed, outlaw prescription opioids entirely

Bruh, the majority of those areas on there are white-heavy counties. The black belt doesn't even look that bad.

>outlaw prescription opioids entirely
because that worked so well with getting rid of all the other drugs, right?

CIAniggers acquire opium from Afghanistan, manufacture the drugs and distribute them to poor white folks using their nigger and spic drug dealing cartels. CIA wants to weaken, demoralize, and suicide all white people and they are doing a wonderful job of it.

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Short term, give people help, doctors, medical detox, rehabilitation programs. Obviously for free ( obviously their money is going 100% to drugs)

Harm reduction, safe injection sites, free testing of drugs ( mostly for fentanyl)

Put more effort into stopping importation of fentanyl and analogs. Not easy or effective but do what you can.

Long term focus on the root causes of why people are starting in the first place and then making changes.

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All of these cost tons of money. Even checking packages for fentanyl is expensive as police need to wear full on hazmat suits. The real cost is in fixing the social problems at the root of it all.

The cheap quick fix is just give addicts free medical grade heroin so they can keep on their addiction but maintain mostly normal lives and have jobs - which hurts black market sales making the risky importation of fentanyl not worth the massive jail sentence.

None of this will happen because it's unpopular politically. We won't do anything and people are going to keep dying.