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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago

Is it coincidence that more and more states are legalizing pot?

Maybe. Who's to say? Oh, you mean besides basic cause and effect? Yeah maybe.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago

That coupled with the drastic reduction in opiate scripts helps. The hardcore have died or are finding treatment, the interested are finding little supply to start the habit, it's all around a good thing to have fewer opiate painkillers in use. They absolutely have a place in society but that place should be "everywhere".

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

Its worse than that, the prescription model for opiates for quite a while was to maximize two things:

  1. Time on medication, how long they use it for
  2. Higher doses, how much they use per dose

And this was because those two things going up meant profits went up.

When health is for profit, this is what happens.

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