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Re:How does fentanyl get into the US? by dyauspitr on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:15AM (#42945008)
Dumbest thing I’ve heard. You’d have large swathes of the population (at least 15%) addicted to them within the year. Any country where it’s freely available ends up having a large number of addicts (20th century China, modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan etc.)
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Re:How does fentanyl get into the US? by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:39AM (#42945214)
This argument is too dismissive for me to bother spending time on it except to say this: try to think about other factors than just availability, because it's not the only thing that matters.

Here's an exercise for you to do just that. Alcohol is legal and extremely available in the west. It has an even stronger addiction potential than opioids do. And the majority of people in the west drink at varying rates. But the rate of addiction is generally under 5%(in the west). Why do you think that is?

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Re:How does fentanyl get into the US? by warbaker on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:31AM (#42945661)
Alcohol is more addictive than opioids??
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Re:How does fentanyl get into the US? by badc0ffee on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:53PM (#42954957)
> It has an even stronger addiction potential than opioids do. And the majority of people in the west drink at varying rates. But the rate of addiction is generally under 5%(in the west). Why do you think that is?

I conclude that... alcohol doesn't actually have an even stronger addiction potential than opioids do?

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