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by tjs8rj 632 days ago
This is 100% correct but because society is increasingly apathetic about everything we're only interested in the low lift solutions.

You don't fix a drug epidemic by going after the symptoms: narcan and other drugs that are a bandaid only at the very last stage.

You go for the root: we've created a society where people are overprescribed pain killers, and where the general outlook is so bleak that escapism is more popular than ever. It's the same reasons people don't have children and mental health is all record lows.