I’ve written before about the hypocrisy of our nation when it comes to drug use. On the one hand, we label it a moral failing and a scourge. One the other hand, we push drugs like nobody’s business. Most magazines contain many multi-page ads for cholesterol pills or anti-depressants. TV shows are filled with commercials touting fixes for our high blood sugar and low libido.
Now we have an “epidemic” of opioid abuse. Most of these addicts began their journeys with a life-threatening accident or surgery. Their doctors gave them medications to ease their pain, and when the pain didn’t let up, they took more and more. They went from doctor shopping, to robbing people’s medicine cabinets to finally buying drugs on the streets.
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