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Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020) by sneak on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:13AM (#28996314)
> The US is really grappling with diseases of despair, and heroin/fentanyl addition is on of the biggest ones impacting the wellbeing of our society.

This is a false narrative. Tobacco use kills 7-8x more every day, week, and month in the USA. That's a legitimate industry, though, so that's not pushed on the news.

Opiates aren't that big an issue, they're just the one the media tells you to care about.

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Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020) by spoonjim on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:26AM (#28996396)
Absolutely ludicrous comparison. The people dying of opiate overdoses are much younger than cigarette deaths, and the smokers don't have their lives debilitated by their addiction.
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Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020) by denton-scratch on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:03PM (#29003871)
Really? COPD is an incurable and debilitating illness, almost always caused by smoking. Also, smoking causes death, which I would put in the "debilitating" category.
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Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020) by kashunstva on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:50PM (#29004593)
Well, there's limb loss due to ischemic peripheral vascular disease, lung carcinoma, various other upper airway malignancies, ischemic heart disease, obstructive pulmonary disease...
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