[swayvil]

Here's how.

If you have good opioids in hand then there's no need to buy opioids of uncertain strength from dubious sources. Thus your dosage is more controllable.

If your supply is reliable then there is no seesaw of deprivation when you're out and overindulgence when you're flush.

For further data, apply the same logic that keeps people from oding on alchohol.

[Workaccount2]

I think clinics with pills are the best compromise here. It would be insane to have otc access to opioids. It's not like addicts live normal lives and OD'ing is the only danger.

[bottlelion]

And then what? Does overall opioid use go up? Or do you believe it would stay the same?

[maximus-decimus]

Is that the metric we care about? Wouldn't "amount of people dying of opiods" and "amount of people having their lives ruined by opiods" be better ones?

Th way I see it, alcohol issues wouldn't be reduced if you made it illegal and less people drank it, but now people are drinking unregulated moonshine that makes them blind or kills them because it contains methanol and isopropanol.