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9509064 No.9509064 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a scientific explanation for the recent surge in the opioid abuse and -use ?

Or studies, thereof?

Who the fuck would even consider that? Is this phenomenon an indication of somebody pushing more opiates on the market, or low IQ? Perhaps its being sold on the media as "cool kids thing"? As you can tell I am clueless on this

>> No.9509068

>>9509064
People are sad, they do drugs, doesn't take a genius.

>> No.9509087

>>9509068

> people are more sad, now that theres electricity, safe to drink -water supply and ample food and healthcare

?

>> No.9509112

>>9509087
Exactly. Which part confuses you?

>> No.9509114

>>9509087
Are you autistic?

>> No.9509156

>>9509064
My understanding of the rise of the epidemic is that the development of these very potent pain killers was initially restricted to certain types of cancer patients with chronic pain (chronic pain being an actual medically diagnosed thing iirc). The companies that sold these realized that if they could rebrand the same drugs and describe them as pain relievers for all manner of mundane issues they could sell much more.

They did just that, and flood the market with these products. Occasionally, a company will receive a lawsuit from a family who had someone get addicted from using their products, and possibly overdosing when they turn to street distributors. The compnaies deny everything, and rebrand the packaging to continue selling their products.

As far as a scientific explanation for you OP, somewhere in the venn diagram of ethical business practices, herd mentality, biology and psychology lies some formula about how much of a certain potency manufactured drug is advertised to a certain population of people, and based on the amounts of exposure to those manufactured drugs those people get addicted based on other factors within their own lives and biology, all of that over time.

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9509158

>>9509064
>opioid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LfJnj66HVQ

>> No.9509250

>>9509087
> ample healthcare
t. Eurofag detected

>> No.9509312

>>9509087
most people arent robots who only have fixed parameters for complex thought

>> No.9510164

Scientific? You know sociological phenomena are hard to study scientifically, right? Like that is why sociology and psychology are 90% bullshit and hype.

Here is a good rundown on the issue from a very rational perspective. I would not call it scientific.

http://www.unz.com/article/opioids-and-the-crisis-of-the-white-working-class/

>> No.9510169

>>9509064
The Sackler family create an opioid drug called oxycotin, falsified studies which stated that it was not addictive which enabled them to sell it to millions of low IQ people and turned them into drug addicts.

>> No.9510171

>>9510164
>>>/pol/

>> No.9510172

>>9510171
It should have taken you longer to read that article before responding. Hmmmm... I wonder why?

>> No.9510205

>>9509064
Its due to doctors overprescribing every single drug. Opiates just happen to be the most addictive of the drugs they peddle.

>> No.9510206

>>9509064
Generally speaking, problematic drug use is caused by a lack of social support and some kind of dissillusionment with life.
There are high correlations with suicide risk and (inversely) with economic opportunity, which backs this idea up.
There's various historical circumstances which led to the spread of opioids in particular, mostly pharma companies pushing for their use in more applications.

>> No.9510228

>>9509112
>>9509114
>>9509250
>>9509312

What rational person thinks drugs are a solution to sadness

>> No.9510232

>>9509156
This is a big part of it, but there was also the development of fentanyl making street drugs cheap and plentiful. It's a synthetic opioid thousands of times more potent than heroin. It's a lot easier to smuggle a few pills of it than several bricks of heroin and also a lot easier to overdose on. In most places when dealers sell heroin and other street opioids it's partially or entirely fentanyl.

>> No.9510248

>>9510228
a person who's read studies that link drug use with loneliness in rats