I think we're all aware of the outcome of opioid addiction. What can we do to help people before that point?
It's pretty accepted there's a lot of collateral crime associated with drug use. Not to mention the grief of friends and/or family when a life goes sideways. Why are we only willing to throw money after instead of on prevention? Surely social sciences use modelling to predict out comes and focus efforts. Portugal seems to have a handle on things. Why is it so different other places?
https://psmag.com/.amp/social-justice/what-health-ad-researchers-think-about-the-white-houses-new-anti-opioid-campaign
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The opioid crisis was caused by rapid deregulation of the marketplace based on the con that the profit motive alone would bring needed medicines to underserved rural areas. Too many of those pill mills that opened were controlled by sales managers, not health professionals. Prescribe too few and you lose your job. Then, when the mess was discovered, states and the federal government shut them down immediately, with no accounting for what those addicted to the overprescibed pain killers would do, and what they did was turn to heroin.
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