It's not the drug, its life

[angrychair]

You are Middle-class or lower income or no job at all and/or no marketable job skills or education to move up.

Every day is a fight just to keep food in the house and the lights on, yet the focus, over and over again, is on rich and powerful people, spending more money in an afternoon than you make in a month, it's on people making decisions that dramatically impact your life that you have no control over. Unless you have money politicians don't care what you have to say. Yet so many will vote for them anyway. People vote while mumbling "like it matters anyway". Many don't care what letter is after their name.
It's all about people that have all the money and all the power and all they want is more. More. Squeeze you just a little more and there is nothing you can do about it. Powerless and hopeless and stuck in that tiny apartment or home you can barely afford.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what color your skin is or who you want to love or where you are from or what god you believe in or if you believe in no god at all,
You either have power or money or you don't matter.

That is how far to many feel.

Wonder why so many people take opioids? Because you stay in a stupor, a euphoric buzz and then you fall asleep, the world isn't real for that little bit of time. It about just you for once. Something that takes the sting away for a little while. It's the one thing they cannot take away.


You are not going to "fix" the opioid crisis. You have to fix why it exist.

Dramatically overhaul our education system. Retrain workers to give them relevant job skills that are marketable. Invest in people not projects.
Rebuild our infrastructure, don't sell it to the highest bidder.
Aim higher! Reach for the furtherest star. Look in the deepest ocean. Ask for answers to the questions we haven't even thought to ask yet. That is how you build innovation and foster hope in our future.

That is how you "fix" the opioid crisis.

[Phoenix61]

1. When the dealers are making more money

than just about everyone else is it any wonder there's an opiod crisis?

[smirkymonkey]

2. Demand drives supply, not the other way around.

There was a lot of unfortunate truth in what the OP said.

[Phoenix61]

3. I realize that but dealers

will act like they are your friend and give you all the drugs you want, until they don't and then you have to pay. They are pretty good at increasing demand.

[Kittycow]

4. I never get an opioid buzz using them for severe chronic pain.

Just sayin.

[angrychair]

5. Opioids like all drugs

Effect different people different ways. Used correctly for its intended purpose, especially for people using it for long term pain management, it's not likely to have that kind of effect. Your body gets used it, you would have to take more than you are supposed to to get a "high" effect which is not healthy or helpful or legal.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. And different opiods act on different kinds of pain

My mother was having a lot of breakthrough pain with her fentanyl patch. We took her to the hospice for pain management and they gave her methadone. She did much better.

They use liquid heroin for cancer pain in the UK with few problems.