Welcome to 2017, drug dealers are now victims.
Society is totally ****ed!!
On the contrary, they're going soft on addicts now. Black addicts didn't get this type of sympathy during the height of the crack era.
I'm as conservative/libertarian as they come and don't like injecting politics too much around here but this is spot on. The opioid "epidemic" surrrrrre is being framed through a much more compassionate and even justifying lense than the crack problem ever was......and it ain't because people's view on addiction have evolved. Perhaps we should treat the opioid heads in West Virginia and New England as strictly a crime issue too (which I wouldn't necessarily oppose) and only THEN on the next drug issue start talking about compassion and understanding? Might even things out for all the hypocrites now blaming the loss of coal mining jobs in 1978 as why 19 year old Jim Bob Jr. Is a pillhead in Kentucky in 2017. Annnnnd......end rant.
Maybe the medical and pharmaceutical industries should be held accountable for pushing painkillers like candy. 'Pain Management Centers' are nothing more than legal drug pushers.
Plenty of blame to go around on this very complex issue.
They should but won't , pay off enough politicians you can do evsgdver you want.
Another reason why I find politics hilarious.