Made me sick

to see the mental gymnastics the narrator goes through to convince us and himself that rx drug abusers are actually victims, as compared to street drug abusers who "go seeking out looking for crack". It's sad and unrealistic. It really feels like they're trying to make it sadder because middle class suburban "good" families are dealing with it, so now it's like really scary huh? Because drug abusers are bad people from the poor, seedy parts of town, right? The dr prescribed it so how can it be bad? And it's different because they were taking it for pain, not for pleasure. Yet the path they went down is the same as it is for street drug users. They use to self medicate and it spirals out of control. He says no one ever told them they could get addicted, but it says you can right on the bottle and all over the net. they're habit forming, if you take more than prescribed you can die like any drug. It's common sense. i knew this as a child, so how can you be a victim if you're cruising for pills on craigslist to buy obscene amounts of pills as if it's an impulse from your addiction,whereas if a crack addict did that he is a bad person with a moral problem. This is a really important issue but the rationalization to make it less crazier than street drug users turned me off. Are rx drug abusers(not sellers or distributors) being sent to jail like heroin, meth and crack users?

There are good parts of this documentary, exposing the conspiracies that keep people sick and the cash rolling in to the government and other authorities, but man was the above a bunch of bull. maybe i'm letting it get to me, i just wish we could edit those parts out. it felt like he was trying to be better than others.