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by jnovek 2866 days ago
A similar situation has already played out with people who deal with chronic pain and opiods. Stricter laws may reduce abuse but they have a chilling effect on prescribing physicians.
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I don't think the laws even reduce abuse. If anything, they move people from prescribed, professionally manufactured drugs with some degree of monitoring to the black market.