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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires
this was a senior citizen with a broken hip taking meds prescribed by his doctors for managing the pain due to the hip. Big fault on them for prescribing such meds to a person with a known history of addiction to opioids (heroin) and for giving him prescriptions of so many drugs in such high amounts. It's like giving and alcoholic a key to the alcohol cabinet and saying, just take one glass a day.  |
It was pain medication that was being supplemented by a synthetic fentanyl that is manufactured in China and Mexico and then smuggled into the United States.