In my opinion, it was FAR better to have opiate addicts copping and abusing prescription painkillers, versus street heroin...this grew to a HUGE problem in alot of cities around the country, especially here in my state (KY), so the state dealt with this in the absolute 'dumbest' way they could...they simply created tough new laws for doctors offices, doctors themselves, pharmacies, etc, and these new painpill laws DID solve alot of the problems, closed down alot of the 'pill mill'/ pain mgt doctor offices...BUT, imo, it backfired in a major way, when all these addicts suddenly found it nearly impossible to get roxis, oxys, opana, etc, they simply all switched over to heroin, which suddenly became the easiest opiate to get, plus it was a cheaper bang for the buck than most pain pills, so the Govt just created a WHOLE LOT of heroin addicts, when initially they were just dealing with alot of prescription pain killer addicts/ abusers....this is turning out to cause much more problems now.
Even if all these pain pill laws were suddenly repealed now, all those addicts are now on Heroin and would not go back to a lesser drug anyway.
Im assuming the Govt thought that if they made it very tough to get prescription opiates, all the addicts would just stop using..LOL...Could they really be that stupid??!!
Ive always thought it was better to have people abusing prescription pain pills versus heroin because at least with pills, they know for a FACT, they are made in a controlled lab, and do not have anything extra in them, like street heroin does, and when buying and using street dope, you have NO CLUE what its been cut with, what kind of conditions it was produced in, etc. WHY would ANYONE think its better to have 100s of 1000s of heroin addicts versus having them all using at least pills made in a controlled, safe, clean lab, by major pharmaceutical companies??
Plus, the big thing, Im still not sure why the HUGE pharma companies did not fight these tough new pain pill laws more..?? It seems to me they would also prefer people using/ abusing their pills versus all those people using heroin instead? These new laws have likely put a major dent in their profits too!
I mean, if the Govt suddenly wanted to create a lot of tough new laws to curb alcohol use/abuse, I find it hard to believe all the big alcohol producers would just sit by and let it happen..Instead i think they would fight tooth and nail to prevent the laws from being passed, or at least fight to keep the laws from being as tough...but with the recent pain pill laws, I never heard anything about big pharma companies even disagreeing with them...?? did I miss something, or...??