Consumption of Hydrocodone and Oxycodone has enjoyed such staggering increases that recent years have shown one prescription per year for just about everyone in the country with the number of prescriptions tripling in twenty years.
America consumes more of these drugs than everywhere else in the world. While Congress, even Sanders, is offering mealy-mouthed platitudes about marijuana, abuse of these opioids kills an extraordinary number of Americans. Marijuana has never killed anyone.
My point is not defending marijuana; it's trivial.
From National Institute on Drug Abuse: America’s Addiction to Opioids: Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse
Opioid addicts have such a wide selection and, based on numbers of prescriptions, all are extremely easy to get. All are abused more than heroin and the number of fatal overdoses from prescription opioids is higher than for heroin.
While the U.S. has ostensibly been fighting terrorism, heroin deaths have doubled. Heroin consumption has doubled. Heroin exports from Afghanistan are back to pre-Taliban levels (i.e. highest in the world). Yet no-one asks just what war does the military think it fights.
America consumes more of these drugs than everywhere else in the world. While Congress, even Sanders, is offering mealy-mouthed platitudes about marijuana, abuse of these opioids kills an extraordinary number of Americans. Marijuana has never killed anyone.
My point is not defending marijuana; it's trivial.
From National Institute on Drug Abuse: America’s Addiction to Opioids: Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse
Opioid addicts have such a wide selection and, based on numbers of prescriptions, all are extremely easy to get. All are abused more than heroin and the number of fatal overdoses from prescription opioids is higher than for heroin.
While the U.S. has ostensibly been fighting terrorism, heroin deaths have doubled. Heroin consumption has doubled. Heroin exports from Afghanistan are back to pre-Taliban levels (i.e. highest in the world). Yet no-one asks just what war does the military think it fights.
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