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KC:
I fall into the liberal category on almost all things social, and truly belive that government has a place in helping those in society. Often times I do disagree with how the idea is played out, but the idea is sound.

For example, love canal exists. Upton Sinclar wrote about the meat packing industry, ect. People do bad things against society and society protects itself with governmental laws.

That said, I do recognize that deep down we as individuals are society. Government can only protect the normal from the 3rd deviation. In other words, people as individuals have to choose to watch their individual medications for themselves. Should those drugs be regulated pure by the government? You bet. I shouldn't have to have an NMR in my basement to know if what is on the bottle is in the bottle. Part of why the FDA exists is a bad run of sulfa drugs killing thousands.

My wife will be having pretty major surgical procedure soon to deal with cancer, this crazy opioid crap would have her sent home with Tylenol by default unless she asks for stronger. WTF. Opioids have there place since they don't contribute to bleeding like NSAIDs do. After surgery, you might like to minimize bleeding and not have to suffer from pain!

Bottom line. Pharma didn't do squat. People and their doctors did.