>>24631947Well, that's one of the ways societal flaws emerge. They also emerge from corruption and top down decision-making in the form of poor policy or inability or a choice not to address an issue.
>Getting hooked on shit despite all the information about it etc etc etcWell, maybe in some cases. However, in others these were directly a cause of top.down decision making and corruption at the highest levels.
Do you know how the opioid crisis started in earnest? With a drug called oxycontin. It was the fentanyl of 2009. It was being prescribed by doctors, both legitimately and illegitimately for anything and everything. They had "pain clinic" pill mills that you could walk in, tell them your back hurt, and walk out with a script for enough oxy to kill 500 people.
How were they able to do this? From the top down. Pharmaceutical executives told doctors that oxycontin was not addictive. It was literally in the fucking literature initially. It's a non addictive opioid prescription pain medicine. The solution to everyone's problems.
So it was handed out to anyone and everyone as a direct result of top down policy and prescribed to old ladies and teenage kids getting minor procedures don't under that pretense.
So your supposition, while correct, is a vast oversimplification of the issue that directly absolves institutions designed to protect people who were actively harming them, and they did so for profit. This is just legalized drug dealing. it's why they cracked down. But that happens about 5 years too late and by this point millions of millennials, generation x, and boomers alike were hooked on this shit.
Drug abuse is a problem in America that affects literally every single household. From the poorest paint huffing red Indians squatting in a squallorous hut in the Arizona sun all the way up to the white house, of which the last presidents son was a known drug addict, and cocaine was found in the white house, in a common area, unattended.
