Purdue doesn’t make fentanyl, they make oxycontin.
Doh! You are absolutely right. That was a mixup on my end. Thanks for catching that.
You seem to have a similar myopic view of the crisis but instead of evil Mexican immigrants and drug cartels being the sole problem it’s the evil sackler family.
It was not my intent to suggest that the problem lies solely on the supply side. I was responding to the subject of the article and not attempting to share my views on the broader and more complex topic of drug use, regulation, abuse, addiction, and the ancillary topics associated with them.
In order to solve this problem we need to look at the demand side
I agree and by (wrongly) referencing the Sacklers, my intent was to highlight how America is not addressing other factors contributing to the problem of drug addiction. Problems like how the pharmaceutical industry has a financial incentive to create addicts.
I am not aware of that. Nor of any such organization existing. Could you name what these resources are? I would be interested in learning more.
Are you aware of any articles written by these journalists? Can you share a link to the reddit post where you learned this from?
I’m not trying to shut anything down. This is not a “I’m right your wrong” discussion. You have your experiences which you have used to form your valid opinion. I have my experiences that I have used to form mine.
As for my “point”, it was a request that people “please try to keep perspective of what is true risk / reward for pursuing vs walking away”. Is that what you are arguing against?