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Finally started reading Dopesick a few days ago

It's very disturbing.

Any ideas on how best to attack this problem? Have a few ideas, but they would never fly in America.

Posted: 05/20/2021 at 09:27AM

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Finally started reading Dopesick a few days ago -- EDGEMAN 05/20/2021 09:27AM

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Just based on the number of deaths alone. Stunning problem. ** -- Riverguy 05/20/2021 11:03AM

Yeah.... this whole situation is more complicated than we'd like to think -- Hokie Fiji 05/20/2021 11:02AM

Part of the 12 steps. Families Anonymous saved my wife and me. ** -- HokieJay 05/20/2021 2:55PM

I didn't know there was an F.A. Cool. ** -- Riverguy 05/21/2021 07:45AM

Uber cool and uber needed. -- HokieJay 05/21/2021 10:13AM

And China gladly supplies our market. -- EDGEMAN 05/20/2021 11:01AM

We lose more people to this every year than we lost -- Riverguy 05/20/2021 10:38AM

It all starts with the doctors, they should be targeted first. -- HokieNoVA 05/20/2021 10:37AM

It doesn't all start anywhere. That's reductive -- Beerman 05/20/2021 4:12PM

Come on now ** -- typed by ben 05/20/2021 12:02PM

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Not too much figuring to be done there -- DJ Golf 05/20/2021 1:12PM

You could argue that, but the law says they do have a role in prevention -- jmanatVT 05/20/2021 11:02AM

But on the other hand, when a drug company ships … -- EDGEMAN 05/20/2021 10:56AM

Yep. Pharm companies and doctors alike need to be held accountable. -- reestuart 05/20/2021 12:21PM

They only care about how much profit they can take from a region -- EDGEMAN 05/20/2021 12:25PM

Yep. I'm from southern WV, and it's been horrible there. -- reestuart 05/20/2021 12:42PM

No coincidence that it was worst in economically depressed areas -- DJ Golf 05/20/2021 12:57PM

Read an article about those places in West Virginia -- `lag 05/20/2021 10:15AM

That opens with a story near Winchester, right? ** -- One4VT 05/20/2021 10:01AM

Easy for society to blame, not many take accountability for their choices ** -- darnellm 05/20/2021 10:00AM

It's tough for me to blame the user that was experiencing chronic -- ElbertoHokie 05/20/2021 11:34AM

Addiction is a type of disease -- Riverguy 05/20/2021 10:41AM

Personal responsibility plays a large role but you can’t say that ** -- fordham 05/20/2021 09:58AM

How DARE you! How can you be so insensitive? -- YardBird 05/20/2021 12:29PM

If someone kills themselves w/ that shirt, they're responsible. ** -- Riverguy 05/20/2021 10:42AM

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Right out of Tech, my wife was a pharmaceutical sales rep in Roanoke. -- Stork 05/20/2021 09:42AM

Mrs. Golf has been a nurse her whole life -- DJ Golf 05/20/2021 1:05PM

They cribbed that with legislation requiring opiate prescribed patients -- typed by ben 05/20/2021 1:17PM

Gotta make sure people don’t get hooked on the whacky weed!!! ** -- reestuart 05/20/2021 2:11PM

SHUN ** -- indiahokie 05/20/2021 10:52AM

UnShun -- Riverguy 05/20/2021 11:07AM

That's about what it looked like. ** -- Stork 05/20/2021 1:56PM

Boooooo ** -- indiahokie 05/20/2021 11:16AM

Just say no. ** -- GreenvilleVT 05/20/2021 09:34AM