The US Opioid Crisis

[Benton]

(08-08-2017, 11:33 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote:   While 80% of opioid users in the 60's first used heroin, today the trend is completely different. Most users start with prescription drugs. 86% of those using injection drug between 2002-2012 first used prescription drugs. 

Which makes me think about the folks who rail against legalizing marijuana to treat minor pain/chronic conditions. It's frustrating, and shows a lack of understanding of the issue.
People fighting the use of pot medicinally treating pain don't seem to have any issue with doctor's doling out highly addictive opioids. Or maybe they do, but stay quiet about it. I don't know. But it's absurd we have highly add drugs being legally regulated, which superficially seems to have led to increased abuse of harder drugs, and there's still federal obstacles toward less addictive, non-lethal substances.