Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids 1st Got Them from a Doctor.

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Healthcare has been business-ized. It is ultra-profitable to sit at the executive table and apply a broad brush to health provision and policy, but it is rarely good for patients or their doctors.

Administrative bloat has exploded. Big companies providing "healthcare" must focus on following policies written by people at high levels of government who have no idea how healthcare is actually performed.

The one entity that can actually change this won't, because it's intricately tied to corporations focused on profiteering in other arenas (bombing brown people to oblivion), and capitalist health executives will fight tooth-and-nail to keep it this way because they're making millions on the backs of drugs that people need to either, 1. Stay alive, or 2. Get back to healthy.

Meanwhile the patient is unhappy and lacks access, the doctor can't practice the way he was taught and is buried in paperwork and red tape, people are chronically sicker than ever before, and all of it costs incredible amounts of money.

But if you have any ideas, I'd be happy to entertain them.

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