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dopa42365yesterday at 11:45 PM1 replyview on HN

If the cost didn't go up, it can't have been a supply shortage. Even at its US peak, there wasn't much of a "fentanyl epidemic" in Mexico either.

The overprescription of opioids in the US (especially in the past) is hardly a secret.


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conformisttoday at 12:26 AM

“Even as quality worsens, prices in drug markets are sticky, so the decreasing potency probably meant people were taking less fentanyl.”