Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown
by 8note on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:41PM
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Doctors can already prescribe dangerous and addictive drugs. I don't see why we can't let them also prescribe other dangerous and addictive drugs.
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Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown
by pfundstein on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:56AM
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Who's gonna offer those doctors kickbacks to sell heroin baggies?
Ohh right probably pharma companies [1] [2] [3]
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m409
[3] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/opioids-d...
Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown
by throwaway0a5e on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:46AM
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If you take a snapshot of the state of things at the height of opioid prescriptions and a snapshot now it's hard to say that it wasn't a hell of a lot better.
People weren't ODing or engaging in petty crime with anywhere near the same frequency when they could get their fix from their doctor. The feds cracked down and people turned to the black market and that gets us to where we are today.
Obviously manufacturers giving doctors kickbacks for getting people onto addictive substances is far from ideal but the enemy of my enemy is my ally and all that.