Am I the only one not seeing the problem here? Yes it is tragic, but like any kind of drug use it kind of falls on individual choice at the end of the day. No one is shoving these pills into someone else's mouth.
I wonder what impact pot legalization would have on this crisis. Maybe people would flock to that as a safer alternative for pain relief or to get high or whatever reason people decide to abuse drugs for.
The only crime here is a tremendous wate of money on drug treatment programs, law enforcement and etc.
Let me frame it this way, which would you rather have? Let's say I could give you $500 or so back in taxes every year (that is a Switch and a few games every year), or you could have that money taken from you and given away so some addict you don't know can get drug treatment. I would take the $500 myself ...
