It shouldn't need to be said, so of course it does, that the opioid 'crisis' is created precisely by the means proposed to fight it.
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And prohibition creates incentives to deal in more potent drugs. Fentanyl 50-100x more potent than morphine, thus 50-100x more profitable.
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Fentanyl is also much much easier to OD on, of course. Prohibition creates the lethal risks it pretends to protect us against.
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I have heard estimates that about half the deaths from non-Rx use of these pills are from the Tylenol.
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I did a back of the envelope estimate a while back and it looked more like 5%. But very hard to know for sure.
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But stacking opioids with benzos and/or alcohol seems to account for a lot, maybe a majority.
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Acetaminophen toxicity is increased when taken with alcohol. Liver damage is horrible even if non-fatal. Poisoning drugs is unconscionable.
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I'm with you on pain relief, but there is also an element of social/economic despair among the unwillingly idle.
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So what? Nothing the drug warriors propose will ever help those people, only harm them.
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I agree with you. I simply meant that more than one approach is needed to bring opioid policy to some semblance of sanity
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cost (time/money/risk) of black-market opioids causes people to potentiate w/ benzos and/or EtOH - most “opioid overdoses” involve those too
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pharmaceutical-grade opioids, taken regularly (w/o supply lapses) in precise doses are nowhere nearly as dangerous as DEA implies they are
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