The Opioid Crisis

[Speaker to Animals]

I agree with you about why they are doing it, but I disagree about how to get them to stop. The answer is an equivalent retaliation that is not inherently evil like flooding a nation with dangerous drugs.

[The Conservative]

Does no one else see the scary statistic that 1 in 7 will die from cancer? WTF?!

[Zlaxer]

Does no one else see the scary statistic that 1 in 7 will die from cancer? WTF?!

Considering that we are living way longer than our bodies were designed to? Not surprised...

[The Conservative]

Fentanyl is #1 and the screws have been down on it since the beginning, and heroin is #2 and it’s totally illegal.

I meant illegally produced and sold fentanyl. The opioid crisis began because of the large amounts of prescription narcotics flooding the streets. Once that got clamped down on, the addicts turied to heroin, which has been replaced by fentanyl. My point is, I think in the coming decades, we will see a decline in opioid addiction, since people don't start shooting fentanyl and heroin.

ILLEGALLY produced Fentanyl is NOT part of the "prescription drug epidemic." Racheting down on legal pain medications because of illegal production is NOT the answer.

Sounds like the same argument gun owners have been saying for decades...

[Zlaxer]

I agree with you about why they are doing it, but I disagree about how to get them to stop. The answer is an equivalent retaliation that is not inherently evil like flooding a nation with dangerous drugs.

So why no Embargo? What do we get from PRC that we couldn't possible live without?

[The Conservative]

Does no one else see the scary statistic that 1 in 7 will die from cancer? WTF?!

Considering that we are living way longer than our bodies were designed to? Not surprised...

I'm not sure if I would say that we are designed to... but I think the issue is that we artificially decrease the death rate of infant mortality, and mortality as a whole, instead of letting nature take its course, we have had people survive that normally wouldn't and because of it, we are seeing things that would not be the norm. In turn, we are seeing an increase of issues that normally nature and Darwinism would have taken care of a long time ago if we allowed it to do so.

[Speaker to Animals]

I agree with you about why they are doing it, but I disagree about how to get them to stop. The answer is an equivalent retaliation that is not inherently evil like flooding a nation with dangerous drugs.

So why no Embargo? What do we get from PRC that we couldn't possible live without?

I am not against an embargo, per se, but I would go with something much more personal for this shit.

Also, an embargo could cut of my "supplements".

[Kath]

I didn't mean to say they were. I was talking about the opioid crisis in general. I agree that it has been become harder for those in legitimate pain to get the medicine they need and that isn't right.

It's damned near impossible, now. We pick up stuff every time we go to Mexico as insurance, since I know if a break my ankle, all I'm getting is a cast and advice to use Advil. I hope I never need another root canal.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Does no one else see the scary statistic that 1 in 7 will die from cancer? WTF?!

Considering that we are living way longer than our bodies were designed to? Not surprised...

We’ve polluted pretty much everything into a toxic wasteland at this point. Cigarettes are a convenient scapegoat, but everything gives you cancer now.

[Hastur]

Everything has always given us cancer. Our overall environment has never been friendlier.