I don't think it's quite that simple. The kind of painkillers you get from poppies, morpheine based painkillers, are very addictive. In fact, some criminology authors I've read have claimed that the heroin problem has its origins in vets returning from WWII addicted to morpheine administered to treat the pain of wounds.. So flooding the world with cheap painkillers might have unintended consequences. Not to metion the appetite for legitimate painkillers is alway small compared to the demand created by addicts.
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Date: 2006-10-30 03:57 pm (UTC)