Even without Doctors prescribing opiates as recklessly (often) as they currently do, there are much bigger factors at play here.

First of all, substance abuse and misuse (yep, there's a difference) as a whole is the issue at hand. But in either case, it's the conscious choice of the (ab)user to consume <insert-drug>.

Society, modern culture, etc, etc, aren't filling the needles people are shooting up heroin with, or holding a torch to a pipe with any number of crystalline substances inside of it. Yes, "addiction" is a shame, but it doesn't happen at the fault of anyone else but the users'.

For the sake of not offending anyone on here, I left out my most sound arguments on the topic, as they also would make for a crude reality check for those of you who haven't had the/any experience with the sheer hell of being in the grips of a drug that both quitting cold-turkey, or continuing the use of, would end with the same sad ending of the demise of said user.

Lastly, in an attempt to address/stay on topic with your specific referencing of opiate addiction....
On both the clearnet and the darknet, dangerously potent substances such as Fentanyl (and its many analogues) are cheaper and easier to acquire than any heroin on the street, and is between a hundred to a few thousand times more potent.

Signed,
obfuscate-me

#drugs #addiction #opiates #self-control