Why Opioid Solutions Are Emerging from the Private Sector
With swift vivacity and vulgar duplicity, the Massachusetts Legislature — and, as expected, the executive branch — effectively signaled that "bump stock" accessories to rifles, rarely used in crimes, pose a greater threat to Commonwealth residents than fentanyl-laced heroin, killing daily. Demands are made incessantly for so-called "common sense gun control." But corresponding calls to action for "common sense opioid control" have been largely unanswered, as government has been largely ineffectual. So, action and answers are arriving on the latter front from the private sector, with the likes of S.A.F.E Coalition. And recovery angels.
As creators and custodians of public policy, public officials have, it must be emphasized, resoundingly failed in arresting the opioid crisis here because of a lack of seriousness. Consider:
