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Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis by frozenport on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:40AM (#17176954)
The opioid epidemic is uniquely American, plenty of places are experiencing economic inequality.

Don't let health care providers and pharma off the hook.

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Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis by klibertp on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @08:26AM (#17178474)
I vouched for this comment specifically to refute it: it's not uniquely American at all. With 5 seconds of searching I get this article: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2015/04/18/... which states: "A painkiller becomes Egypt’s favourite recreational drug". It's from 2015 - just yesterday I read on my local news site that there are at least 3 million people addicted to opioids in Egypt. The topic comes up fairly regularly in the Middle East context.

It's not just the Middle East, you can find a lot of other examples all over the world. So, no: not uniquely American at all.

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