I’m gonna disagree there, chief.

Many people use drugs because of inadequate support networks, such as health care and mental health care, or family, and community.

So when they use these drugs, a large portion of opiate overdoses are caused drugs being cut with fentanyl, which includes drugs that aren’t heroin, such as marijuana, ecstasy, lsd, and others I’m not recalling at the moment.

The things that gave actually been proven to reduce drug overdoses? Decriminalizing them, making it so people can get their drugs tested for fentanyl, safe use places, better healthcare, and better mental health care.

I would like you to imagine the following scenario happening to you;

You hurt your back during a carry down. You go through the doctors, and the physical therapy, the lawyers and all the brouhaha, alright?

But, a couple years later, your back is still hurting, and making it difficult to exist, let alone function or work.

Now, because of the “Opiate epidemic,” the doctor you were seeing will not prescribe anything that will actually alleviate enough of the pain to make it possible for you to function and work. What would you do? If you live in a recreational marijuana state, you can probably manage, IF you have the money for that legal route. If you don’t, your options are drinking, illegal drugs, or a bullet to the brain pan, squish.