At a party last night a friend mentioned that she'd been listening to a German podcast (she is German) about the American opioid crisis, and how fascinated she was by it. So much of the attention in the media, including the German media, apparently, is on the role of OxyContin and its like. My friend mentioned the Sacklers, for example: their company's role in perpetrating the crisis is unforgivable. There are so many stories about people getting injured or having surgery, getting addicted to the painkillers their doctor prescribed, and eventually shifting to heroin because it's cheap and easy to get. It's a compelling story: hardworking ordinary people as victims of a conspiracy of greedy corporations and doctors gone wrong.
Not everyone who ends up addicted to narcotics took that path, of course.
Not everyone who ends up addicted to narcotics took that path, of course.
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