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Happy and healthy people don't usually become addicted to heroin either.

Sure they do. There are literally thousands of stories of people who were in a car wreck, sports accident, or some kind of injury and then they get prescribed Oxy and when that runs out they are so addicted they end up getting black market pills and then when they can't afford that they move to heroin.

Opiates are insanely physically addictive and you can easily accidentally become addicted to them using them as prescribed, hence all the lawsuits.

The conversation rate from pill addiction to heroin is order of magnitude 10%, even ignoring the logical leap made in saying people who get addicted to pills all have happy fulfilling lives. I think it’s substantially correct to say that happy and healthy people, by and large, don’t get addicted to heroin.

>even ignoring the logical leap made in saying people who get addicted to pills all have happy fulfilling lives.

Well lucky for you, I didn't make that claim!

Either your comment wasn't responsive to Georgelemental's or you implicitly made some version of that claim.

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