• sulgoth@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The fact that the drug companies lied about the addictiveness of their product so doctors were handing them out like candy didn’t help.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, it was rampant here in Jersey, and we’re definitely still feeling the effects. Things that didn’t need opiates got opiates. And guess what? Lotta people all of a sudden need them for life. And it wasn’t just Oh, here’s your script. Doctors were knowingly abusing it for profit. So like with most things in life, some people ruin it for everyone else.