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Let's not ignore how a great many people got hooked on these in the first place: Through their doctor.

Here is a relevant article from today:

Like tobacco, too much resistance in the US means Oxycontin is going global.

A shame the presidential candidates don't seem (as far as I'm aware) to have mentioned this epidemic as one of the important crisis facing America. Might have resonated deeper than ISIS or some other things.

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> A shame the presidential candidates don't seem (as far as I'm aware)

There was a fair bit of that (particularly NH primary, I think), though a lot of it was lost in the noise of emails, FBI & the leaks.

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/21/12973740/trump-clinton-opioid-h...

I probably picked up on that was when I had to go pick up painkillers for a family member ... with all the added complications of looking the way I do.

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