[0d311]

"A study of young, urban injection drug users interviewed in 2008 and 2009 found that 86 percent had used opioid pain relievers nonmedically prior to using heroin... Of people entering treatment for heroin addiction who began abusing opioids in the 1960s, more than 80 percent started with heroin. Of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s, 75 percent reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug."[0]

What if they're being intentionally coerced by pharma?

[0]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/rela...

[vorpalhex]

That seems like a correlation argument. I'm sure at least 86% of those users had also been exposed to cell phones and sugar.

Even if that correlation shows causation, that's a big jump to: > What if they're being intentionally coerced by pharma?