>Looks, here's what it boils down to: drug use (except when prescribed by a licensed physician) is just royally, royally, royally stupid. Drugs destroy the youth, destroys families and communities.

More people - 95 million- used prescription painkillers last year than used tobacco.

The myth that it all starts with marijuana, while interesting, is out of date.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FFR2-2015/NSDUH-FFR2-2015.htm

Last year, I broke a toe in a fall (seniors fall a lot) and the MD prescribed painkillers, without ever warning me of the possibly addictive effects.

Fortunately, I had read about them and opted instead for Tylenol and a little pain. Somehow, I survived.

59,000 people in the US died from opioid overdoses last year.

Should we be putting MD's and the pharma people who pay them to prescribe these killers in jail?