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[insane_dreamer]

An analysis of this question here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

A lot has to do with the availability of health care in Europe (universal health care), and specifically addiction care.

[nobodyandproud → insane_dreamer]

Are you sure?

I'd wager that Europe and most of the world was slower--thankfully--in adopting a new painkiller like Oxycontin and dodged a bullet, by seeing what the US was already facing.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oxycontin-part3/

[insane_dreamer → nobodyandproud]

I didn't write the study in the Lancet -- maybe you should read it

[nobodyandproud → insane_dreamer]

Fair but I only have the access to the summary, which I already read before posting (unless that 3 or 4 paragraph article was it).