Sad or funny? "Tolerant San Francisco fed up with dirty, smelly streets"

[Gman]

I can say that being able to get opioids if you need them has become downright painful. The doctors that are willing to prescribe them for pain management require multi-page patient agreements. I remember having to agree to 48 separate clauses (would have been 49 if I were a woman due to pregnancy risk). I had to agree to pill counts and drug testing. I felt like I was being treated like a criminal.

...yet I understand that abusers get scripts from multiple doctors and get them filled at numerous pharmacies.

When I was reading articles about the epidemic, there were statements made that it was easier to find illegal drugs than prescription opioids. I wouldn't know the first thing about finding illegal drugs. That's an entirely different world of which I have no understanding.

Fentanyl on the streets is a big part of the problem, but prescription meds and illegal street drugs all get lumped into "the opioid epidemic".

In further study of the issue, there were some parts of the country where insanely huge quantities of opioids were being sold (like Florida and Kentucky). These were being funneled to the streets by doctors who had turned their backs on the Hippocratic Oath to make some bucks. Because some criminals were selling these legal drugs illegally, we must all be punished. Kind of like law-abiding firearm owners being punished by the acts of criminals.