Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o


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[28 Points] None:

I don't really have any beef with Oliver over this segment. I think if you make a choice to take opioids or heroin then fair do's, but that's not the problem. When a Doctor gives you an opioid for an injury or pain that can easily be solved with a less hardcore drug is when a problem occurs. To me, that's as fucked up as when dealers lace heroin with fentanyl. You're giving people who have no real perspective on drugs, a highly addictive one and telling them to take it everyday-- that's pretty messed up, man.

Hence why the legalization of all drugs will quell this problem, I bet more than half the involuntary opioid addicts would've had their pain lessened easily through drugs such as cannabis and kratom rather than shit like tramadol.


[25 Points] LedLevee:

I like the issues he tackles, but I hate this kind of humor.

https://i.imgur.com/T0RFHZv.png This sums up my thoughts really well.


[12 Points] xanax_xombie:

That really, really made me wish I had more btc to order painkillers right now, fuck!


[7 Points] kamexe:

Tbh I love LWT these are great.


[6 Points] Cannabun:

Mayne that black woman doe from 96 to 2012 she got wrecked.

"It'd be better if I didn't have health insurance, it would've saved my life."


[4 Points] Medacali:

The addiction with opioids are a bitch. I caught myself within 3 days of becoming an addict of the opioid rush it gave me. Luckily I escaped the withdrawals by using my marijuana stash.


[1 Points] None:

We're not allowed to like John Oliver? Please internet strangers, tell me what I can and can't like! I have no thoughts or feelings of my own, I am only the collective!


[-21 Points] None:

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