(02-09-2018 05:31 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  Opioid epidemic is exaggerated.

Jacob Sullum at reason Wrote:As Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, noted in a 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article, "addiction occurs in only a small percentage of persons who are exposed to opioids—even among those with preexisting vulnerabilities." A 2010 review found that less than 1 percent of patients taking opioids for chronic pain experienced addiction. A 2012 review likewise concluded that "opioid analgesics for chronic pain conditions are not associated with a major risk for developing dependence." Volkow found that "rates of carefully diagnosed addiction have averaged less than 8% in published studies."

The risk of fatal overdose is even lower. A 2015 study that had followed pain patients treated with narcotics for up to 13 years found that one in 550 died from an opioid-related overdose, which is a risk of less than 0.2 percent. A study of opioid-related deaths in North Carolina found 478 fatalities among 2.2 million residents who were prescribed opioids in 2010, making the annual rate 0.022 percent.

yup.....

also wkuyg and arkstfan came with some good relative info....

I've posted about a 'pharmacy' the feds busted here in the 'burg a number of times.....I'm not going to repost the article, but one needs to understand that hattiesburg is a planned retirement community with a shiteload of old folks....

it's hardly surprising that sessions is pining about this in FLA.....

it's amazing how stupid they are attacking the real issue.....that stupid fk doesn't have a clue what he's doing....

you go after the dispensaries and protect the border/mail/etc distribution techniques.....you can't stop the chemists.....

you educate the young folks that are tapping into the chemistry in a way you guys have no clue about.....

you can't stop people that willingly destroy themselves.....you can only attempt to curb that appetite via education.....

and that happens by creating incentive to get a goddddammmmed job......

the rest of the hype is utter bs....