Main reason being that the EU doesn’t allow advertising for pharmaceuticals.
I think the cultural aspect is also very important. I Europe, having used drugs a couple of times is viewed as completely fine, as long as you are not currently addicted to them. Add to that the lack of a social net in US and you have the perfect storm.
I’m still rattled by videos of the homeless camps in US. Those people have no way out. Drugs at least provide an escape.
prescription pharmaceuticals.
there is plenty of ads for over the countrr medicine like aspirin or the wici medinait, which is hilarious to be sold otc. It contains alcohol, ephedrine (methamphetamine precursor), dextromorphan (opiod) and paracetamol (tylenol). That is quite a drug cocktail right there.
But yeah, advertisment for prescription drugs is insane. Nobody should ask there doctor if some drug they saw on the tv could be right for them.
You’d have to be very very sick to get a prescription for opioids at all in Europe.
Which is also fucked up. It’s either one extreme or the other. Overprescribing to cause addiction, or forcing people to suffer when they don’t have to because doctors assume everyone’s an addict until they prove otherwise, and nothing convinces them. These drugs have a purpose. Just use them for their purpose. It’s not that fucking hard.
It’s the freedom drugs
Waiting for some ®tard to chime in about how’s it’s all the bad hombres bringing drugs from Mexico and completely giving big pharma a free pass.
America is a fucked up place. Europe is much less so. That is why.
While the drug problem in America is horrifying and deserves highlighting, this whole article is an absolute indictment of America. Most of the increased deaths are young adults and middle-aged people. What an embarrassment, what a tragedy.
