Danny – the model 29-year-old, not the type you’d expect to get into drugs at all – took Percocet once to handle a hangover. The euphoria had him hooked right away and before long he was taking 25 Percocets a day.

When in recovery, he asked himself why there weren’t painkillers available that were not addictive. The answer occured to him in a flash of light: ”According to Theodore Dalrymple’s book, “Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and The Addiction Bureaucracy,” why would time, effort and millions of dollars go into research for non-addictive alternatives, when the aforementioned pain relievers are … ahem, addictive?”

That’s right. Follow the money. We hear lots of research being done on painkillers that are difficult to abuse – meaning it’s hard to break them open or melt them down so they can be shot into veins – but research on painkillers that aren’t addictive? No, we don’t hear much about that.

Big pharma wants drugs that people will keep taking – not something they can easily quit when they no longer need them for their original purpose.

It’s really time someone with clout understood these legal drug dealers. They’re counting on prescription drug addiction – not just prescription drugs – to make their fortunes.

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