Watched a documentary on the opioid epidemic in the US that aired on BBC World today. Wished I hadn't. It ended with the simple caption: America is losing the war on drugs, and that was the obvious conclusion to be drawn. A few days ago I'd read a powerful essay entitled Opioid Nation in the NYRB that was equally despairing, but somehow the reality of the suffering involved was more haunting in encountering the pain of the various victims interviewed in the documentary.
There's something apocalyptic about the scale of the problem - such that the word 'problem' seems entirely inadequate in this context.
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