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Originally Posted by blender
Not true, even though it may seem like it. Here in Kamloops we just elected a complete ####wit mayor straight out of the "lets get tough on these people", Trump-style mold because people want tough action. He has been banned from visiting shelters after showing up unannounced too many times and if he could be would load them on train cars and send them out if town.
The people that just want this problem to "go away" are loud and proud. Its fortunate that they can't just do what they want because they also already would have privatized everything and built an open pit mine atop a hill 2km from the city limits above town, but I digress...
The root of this problem is corporate greed, and the drug companies that pushed dangerous addictive pills into the market for profit despite all evidence against should be made to pay to clean up the mess they made. It's a global problem and ultimately just another in a long list of examples of how unregulated capitalism and corporate greed is destroying human society.
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That was definitely true for a generation of people. Drug companies certainly got a generation of people addicted to opioids.
That being said, the very unfortunate truth is that opioid users now have a very short lifespan, and most of the people you see out there haven't been there that long.
IMO the ongoing problem is caused by easily accessible synthetic opioids imported from China. Anyone with internet access can order fentanyl delivered to their door. No need to snuggle heroin from Afghanistan. There's a cheaper and stronger alternative now.