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> Opioids are bad.

Years of life aren't the most important thing. Opiods might reduce life expectancy but increase the averge quality of life of those living in a given year.



For those using them according to prescriptions maybe, sure. But the opioid crisis isn't an opioid crisis because people are using them according to what their doc told them. It's a crisis because they are abused.




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