the only opioid crisis is the one where we put poison in our pain relief drugs because an easily statistically calculable number of people with chronic pain just fucking dying is regarded as morally preferable to an imagined number of people with chronic pain feeling too good
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I think were missing a bit of the nuance here with broad sweeping statements. NSAID addition to "reduce abuse" was because studies found that if you prescribe a lower dose then people are less likely to get addicted, and by adding NSAID you can give less opioid. Not to kill ppl.
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a position that leaves the choice of a high toxicity agent over multiple available low toxicity agents unmotivated, with the only thing certain being that the murderously moralistic anti-drug culture that has animated US policy for decades magically had nothing to do with it
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