For heroin, a lot of them get prescribed opioid painkillers, then its all downhill from there.
This. For serious injuries, some doctors are pressured to prescribe opioids to diminish the sheer amount of pain people can go through. Then there are other doctors that will willynilly prescribe those addictive painkillers because they're getting a bonus from pharmaceuticals for each subscription.
That really isn't the case anymore. It's very difficult to get an opiate prescribed these days unless you're like me and have had a script for them for years.
I'm really interested in seeing numbers behind it. Literally every heroin addict I know either started with pills (that were bought illegally, not prescribed) or they just started with heroin.
Too often I see people blame doctors on the crisis but anecdotally speaking, the doctors didn't have much to do with it. A lot of users just try it and like it.
Yeah, they switch to heroin because the street price of pills is insanely high. Heroin is cheap. ---
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