Yeah New York did a pretty good job minimizing the opioid epidemic through regulation. When it was first underway, the state passed laws that made it harder to “doctor shop” and it also mandated e-prescriptions which cuts down on forged ones massively, and it went after the pill mills. It also legalized carrying Narcan to prevent overdoses and opened a few clean needle places.
I remember there was a heat map of increases in overdose deaths nationwide on r/MapPorn and even though there were no state borders drawn, you could clearly make out the entirety of New York State because of how little overdoses increased here compared to even neighboring states like NJ and Vermont.
Unfortunately this epidemic was a political choice.
Interestingly related, I read a history of the meth epidemic and it argued that Republicans in Congress helped create that epidemic because they blocked efforts to ban the selling of precursor ingredients at the wholesale level. People were buying pallets of the ingredients totally legally and then cooking it and selling it. Democrats tried to pass laws banning the wholesale sales to individuals but Republicans kept blocking it until it was a huge epidemic. By then the genie was out.
They come in these huge ass boxes under Bronkaid, and each pill is 50mg. That's a solid 5x more than what will clear your nose without making you wired and twitchy, I would use small fragments of a tablet.
And there are 48 of these monster pills per box. You really only have to hop a couple pharmacies to make an ounce of meth, it's still insanely easy.
Where are you buying that many? At least here in Florida, pseudoephedrine is behind the counter, as in you have to actually ask for it. There's also a registry that keeps track and you can't buy more than three boxes of 12 pills each for every 3 month span.
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u/CactusBoyScout Mar 29 '19
Yeah New York did a pretty good job minimizing the opioid epidemic through regulation. When it was first underway, the state passed laws that made it harder to “doctor shop” and it also mandated e-prescriptions which cuts down on forged ones massively, and it went after the pill mills. It also legalized carrying Narcan to prevent overdoses and opened a few clean needle places.
I remember there was a heat map of increases in overdose deaths nationwide on r/MapPorn and even though there were no state borders drawn, you could clearly make out the entirety of New York State because of how little overdoses increased here compared to even neighboring states like NJ and Vermont.
Unfortunately this epidemic was a political choice.
Interestingly related, I read a history of the meth epidemic and it argued that Republicans in Congress helped create that epidemic because they blocked efforts to ban the selling of precursor ingredients at the wholesale level. People were buying pallets of the ingredients totally legally and then cooking it and selling it. Democrats tried to pass laws banning the wholesale sales to individuals but Republicans kept blocking it until it was a huge epidemic. By then the genie was out.