Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a ‘Public Health Emergency’

[sundin13]

fatslob-:O said:

sundin13 said:

No it doesn't. It means that prescription drugs are fueling demand. Obviously, that is a problem (and the 5+% of the population who are using them for non medical purposes are a little bit of an issue). If you reduce the prescribing of opioids, you reduce the demand for heroin. What aren't you understanding about that?

It gets kind of ridiculous for you to be saying "opioids are a huge problem in America, but 90% of addicts using Prescription opioids are irrelevant"... Doesn't that kind of invalidate your point that abuse rights in the USA are so high? If prescription opioids aren't a problem, then the abuse rate for the USA is still above average, but not by much.

Prescription drugs aren't fueling demand if the users can't get the so called prescription drugs anymore ... 

Supply for prescription opioids is decreasing but contradictory to what you said the demand heroin and synthetic opioids is rising ... 

You could argue that prescription opioids create future demand for substitutes but that doesn't mean the problem persists with prescription opioids when it is heroin or synthetic opioids which are the ones meeting the demand ... 

That is exactly what it means. When an addict loses their supply, they go for the next best thing. We have 20% of our population with  prescription for opioids. Prescription opioids have a misuse rate for that population of around 30%. How in the hell is that not  clear red flag? 4 in 5 heroin users started with prescriptions. How is that not  clear indicator of how prescriptions fuel demand?