Blaming opioids for addiction reminds me of the people who blame violence on guns rather than the criminals who abuse them. The rhetoric is the same too. "Epidemic of gun violence", "epidemic of opioid addiction" when in fact NEITHER is an epidemic.
If someone's kid become an addict (and all addicts have parents) then who do you blame? The parents? Maybe, but not necessarily. The drug? The drug is a thing, it doesn't make you take it. HOW ABOUT BLAMING THE PERSON WHO MAKES THE BAD LIFE STYLE CHOICE even if it is your kid.
You paint with a broad brush, sir..
White folks are more likely to get addicted to opioids than any other group. Kids use them as party drugs. Mexican dealers target white people with free/cheap product to get them hooked. They lace pot or use heroin saying it’s something else.
I’d be very careful blaming addicts and saying, “To Hell with them.” Could easily be someone you know and love - or you - in the same boat after an accident or raising kids in today’s culture.
Similar to alcoholism. Ton of people drink. A certain percentage are going to become alcoholics. Certain percentage of those will die from it.
I’d be inclined to blame the kids or the parents, and to some extent I do. But a HUGE mitigating factor is that most of today’s kids are being raised by government schools and the media which are filling their heads with mush. Even diligent parents who are very involved in their kids’ lives, even homeschoolers, can be sabotaged by the pervasive culture which is at odd with their values.
IMO, this is just one of MANY evil effects of corruption in our government, our legal system, and our “culture”.