If you don't believe how serious this weapon of mass destruction against our country is, just visit MyDeathSpace.com once in a while. I do it regularly just to see. Every single time, a cluster of young dead people, fentanyl and heroin mixed, sometimes just fentanyl, sometimes Xanax and fentanyl, but the result is always the same, dead at 23, dead at 20, dead at 27, dead at 28, dead at 18. Young, American, and DEAD.
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True, but in a society where it's pretty common for young people to experiment with intoxicants, Fentanyl was a pretty sinister chemical to cook up in a lab and unleash on America.
No, it's common for young people to use them. The word experiment has a hallowed, pure-sounding history of intellectual inquiry.
Using an intoxicant is not trying to find out something. It is simply using an intoxicant. There is nothing to find out. You know what it will do, or you wouldn't use it.
Yes, it was throwing a match into gasoline. But you are not supposed to walk around soaked in gasoline. Even without the match, you weren't fine.
Drug use is temporary, rented insanity. It is impossible to argue with insanity.
Life got bad way back when drug use became common, as you say, in the Sixties. Once that was in place, the US was sitting blithely on the railroad tracks, assuming no train would ever run it over. But you aren't supposed to be on the railroad tracks.
We were sitting ducks after the Sixties. Just ripe for the picking. Ripe for an attack of this kind, the fentanyl.
I think "experiment' is an appropriate word for trying something new to see how it feels. That's why a lot of people do it in the beginning. It's also a very common way to describe the entry into drug use for teens and college students.
Yes. I am nitpicking you.
I am grumbling that it is too good and noble a word for doing something bad. It is a common but annoying euphemism.