• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Again- many fentanyl addicts are people in actual physical pain. The whole reason there is an opioid epidemic in the first place is that opioids used to be handed out by doctors like candy and tons of people got addicted.

    Claiming they’re doing it for fun is simply insensitive and you should ask those two people why they lost those loved ones- what got them addicted in the first place.

    I’ve had fentanyl in a hospital. It’s not something pleasurable.

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      8 months ago

      Are you saying no-one is using opiates recreationally? Or that people get addicted because it makes them feel so incredibly bad? People I know that dose some special K at a festival don’t really do so to ease their back pain…

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        8 months ago

        I’m saying that the current opioid crisis was caused by people in legitimate physical pain being oversupplied opioids by doctors due to companies like Purdue Pharma pushing them on doctors. So a large number of fentanyl addicts are taking it because they have legitimate pain issues which also need to be addressed.