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MollyGodiva on March 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: US administration revokes $11B in funding for addi...

No. The government's war on drugs created the opioid crisis.

unsnap_biceps on March 28, 2025 | [–]

I don't think it created it, but it exasperated it to extreme levels.

EA-3167 on March 28, 2025 | [–]

I'm pretty sure that the Sackler family and Oxy did that.

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