Good parsing of headlines/stats. I'm the child of an alcoholic, so all the feels about how this drug gets to be legal while millions do time for small amounts of pot but... despite the recent headlines, little evidence that occasional drinkers are at some worrisome health risk.https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1032878415450386433 …
There is clearly a subset for whom opiods are the best path for a reasonable quality of life and many seem to be doing just fine: they are dependent on it for pain relief but not in any kind of personal crisis over long-term well-managed use. So both short & long-term uses.
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But sure, may not be the first thing to try in every case. This is exactly the point: need well-managed evaluation of trade-offs in a case-by-case basis. Preferrably as far away from the incentive distortions: pharma profits, moralizing, corrupt docs, etc.
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