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You can’t characterize dead children as collateral damage and not expect it to come back on you later.

It helps to remember that when it comes to crime, drugs and alcohol play a dual role.

When you’re addicted, it’s probably more correct to say that your addiction is abusing you. And will continue to do so if allowed.

Having read the research, I’m confident it’s not just a matter of decision-making, or willpower, or even depression.

When the push to use more opioids for pain began, we kept hearing that there were 100 million chronic pain patients in the United States, most of whom were untreated (or undertreated).

Money is a tool that allows some to delay the inevitable. They construct a protective bubble that minimizes the risk of getting caught and the other consequences that follow addiction.

Eventually it’s the business that adapts to a changed environment. But before they do, some will go to great lengths to prop up the revenue from their current opioid products.

Of course, we still lose several hundred thousand people annually. But that’s actually progress.

The benefits of the program are framed mostly in terms of harm reduction– what doesn’t happen.

As the old chief says in the movie Little Big Man: “Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t.”