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I don't think it is right to try to get public approval by going after drug addicts' sources

posted 3 months ago by brux (14724)
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I read in the news today that they are charging 5 people in connection with Perry's death.
I am all for, at least in the case of drug use, people taking and being given personal
responsibility for their outcomes if they die, or harm others.

Being on drugs or taking drugs that are not legal or certified is on them. I would occasionally
like to take a pain pill because something hurts, but the health care industry treats you like
a junkie off the street if you even ask these days.

I think these pharmaceutical makers don't feel they make enough profit off the health care
industry, so they make pain meds so hard to go you have to try some illegal sources where
their profits are hyped up. It is a sick system.

[–] JoWilli (19957) 3 months ago

thats just because he was an A-list top tier celebrity. if he was just a regular joe junkie than no one would care.

DRUG TYPE* (ESTIMATED DEATHS 2023) (ESTIMATED DEATHS 2022)
Synthetic Opioids (fentanyl) 74,702 76,226

have all these people selling fentanyl been arrested? prob not.

[–] Ldlamb (636) 3 months ago

As a local prosecutor…I can tell you that if we can figure it out…there are very few defendants we will go after harder right now than Fentanyl traffickers

[–] JoWilli (19957) 3 months ago

if 4 people were arrested for every 1 death then there wouldnt be any drug dealers left. but a certain percentage of drugs is let into america and allowed to be produced, other wise millions of people would be out of a job.

[–] brux (14724) 3 months ago

WTF are you trying to say?

[–] JoWilli (19957) 3 months ago

150,928 people have died from fentanyl overdoses in the past 2 years... where is the outrage?