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On Painkillers - by Zineb Riboua - Beyond The Ideological

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Genocide of neurons, mass murder of brains

Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820), by Francisco de Goya. “ It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions.” ― Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology In the United States, since 1999, nearly 841,000 people have died from a drug overdose, and over 70% of drug overdose deaths in 2019 involved an opioid1. Because of competing circumstances, the normalization of painkillers does not receive much attention despite its worrisome proliferation. Behind the men in suits, women in high heels, and the bleached…

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