• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    The DEA certainly shares some fault for the opioid crises, as the widespread use of fentanyl is a direct result of actions intended to suppress heroin

    • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOP
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      4 months ago

      Arguably its a direct result of fentanyl’s ease of synthesis and import from overseas

      but more importantly I’m talking about the creation of the epidemic in the first place, not on addicts switching from one opioid to another… the whole thing is complicated but ultimately drug enforcement is neither the source of the problem nor the solution.