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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.

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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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