The US Opioid Crisis

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Crack down on the border, lower the amount of pain pills prescribed, fully legalize pot as a pain alternative to pain pills.

Then stop rescuing people after their first overdose. It won't be a popular choice, but simply put, if one near-death experience from overdosing doesn't make you stop, you're just going to have to be saved again, and again, and again, and again.

Why does the number of drug users keep growing bigger and bigger? You keep saving their lives over and over. Meanwhile the cost keeps rising for the injected anti-OD drug, and that's not counting the cost of the ambulance itself, and the medical care they need, and the personnel, and the fact that if they're busy saving junkies from trying to kill themselves, they're not available to save someone who DOESN'T want to die.