I just read an article about how one solution to the opioid crisis is to have doctors prescribe less pain medication.

The result will be fewer drugs available on the street and higher prices. Hence, more pharmacy robberies and theft. Addicts will also turn to other drugs. Then we will be looking at a heroin crisis.

I am a drug counsellor in Essex County and literally go to the dealers' houses to give them clean supplies and take out the dirty ones. Lately, I have sadly been giving out naloxone kits with as much training as they will listen to.

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