Fentanyl presented the biggest challenge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 50-year history. It faltered, according to former agents and DEA officials.
The state of pain medication in the united states just keeps getting worse and worse. The antiquated idea of restricting opiates in response to over-prescription clearly does not work. The federal government overstepped here and we’re scrambling and struggling to find ways to solve this within this broken framework. Unfortunately there’s such a taboo around using drugs that we don’t seem to have any consensus on the federal level on how to fix this problem.
One potential route would be to ease restrictions on prescribing opioids and combine it with more screening for abuse and treating drug dependence instead. Another possible route would be to fast track drugs which we already know and have studied for alternative use, such as ketamine or other dissociatives for pain relief. The most radical route would be to decriminalize drugs and work on support networks as opposed to persecuting those who get addicted.
Yet here we are, with this subject almost never addressed by candidates for governmental positions which need to deconstruct or rework existing legislation to appropriately address this problem.
And they keep saying “we need to address the underlying cause of addiction” but will never admit the driving force behind it is people just dont want to cope with the state of the world as it is.
Who would have thought people would prefer to live their life in an opiated bliss for as long as they can rather than work some shit job and have none of their needs met. Then one day wake up at 60 with thousands in debt and nothing to show for it. The ends are the same so why bother with the latter, just eat the pill, shoot the dope, and enjoy it while it lasts.
Oh on top of all that other stuff there’s the ecological collapse in progress, which most individuals are powerless to avert.
The state of pain medication in the united states just keeps getting worse and worse. The antiquated idea of restricting opiates in response to over-prescription clearly does not work. The federal government overstepped here and we’re scrambling and struggling to find ways to solve this within this broken framework. Unfortunately there’s such a taboo around using drugs that we don’t seem to have any consensus on the federal level on how to fix this problem.
One potential route would be to ease restrictions on prescribing opioids and combine it with more screening for abuse and treating drug dependence instead. Another possible route would be to fast track drugs which we already know and have studied for alternative use, such as ketamine or other dissociatives for pain relief. The most radical route would be to decriminalize drugs and work on support networks as opposed to persecuting those who get addicted.
Yet here we are, with this subject almost never addressed by candidates for governmental positions which need to deconstruct or rework existing legislation to appropriately address this problem.
And they keep saying “we need to address the underlying cause of addiction” but will never admit the driving force behind it is people just dont want to cope with the state of the world as it is.
Who would have thought people would prefer to live their life in an opiated bliss for as long as they can rather than work some shit job and have none of their needs met. Then one day wake up at 60 with thousands in debt and nothing to show for it. The ends are the same so why bother with the latter, just eat the pill, shoot the dope, and enjoy it while it lasts.
Oh on top of all that other stuff there’s the ecological collapse in progress, which most individuals are powerless to avert.