88 % der Amerikaner betrachten Todesfälle durch Opioidüberdosierung als ein sehr ernstes Problem. Mehr Konservative und Gemäßigte meinten, dass Menschen, die Opioide konsumieren, dafür verantwortlich sein sollten, die Zahl der Todesfälle durch Überdosierung zu senken. Im Gegensatz dazu waren mehr Liberale der Ansicht, dass Pharmaunternehmen für die Reduzierung von Todesfällen durch Überdosierung verantwortlich sein sollten.
https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2026/01/americans-view-opioid-overdose-as-a-crisis-that-needs-to-be-addressed
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Americans View Opioid Overdose as a Crisis that Needs to Be Addressed
Approximately **88% of adults view opioid overdose deaths as a very serious problem** with high agreement across political groups, according to a national survey conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. However, political differences over who is responsible will shape the country’s next phase of drug policy.
Historically, Americans have viewed people who use opioids as primarily responsible for the overdose crisis, with conservatives especially emphasizing personal responsibility for addiction. However, the new study, published Jan. 16 in JAMA Network Open, demonstrates that across the political spectrum, more people are placing responsibility on pharmaceutical companies, as well as individuals.
The study results come as U.S. opioid overdose deaths decreased nearly 27% decrease from 83,140 in 2023 to 54,743 in 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. **More conservatives and moderates thought that people who use opioids should be responsible for reducing overdose deaths. In contrast, more liberals felt pharmaceutical companies should be liable for reducing overdose deaths**. “Measures such as lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and investing settlement funds into programs that address addiction and overdose may gain more traction,” Dr. McGinty said.
Demonstrating the social stigma of addiction, about 38% of all survey participants were unwilling to have a person with opioid addiction as a neighbor, while 58% were unwilling to have someone with opioid addiction marry into their family. Desire for social distance was substantially higher among conservatives compared with moderates or liberals.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2844036?guestAccessKey=1b34668e-afe8-4888-aa3d-dd05b3b83eff
Both is the obvious answer. Why gatekeep the blame, when it only divides the narrative into pointing fingers instead of taking measurable action on multiple fronts?
Conservatives are groomed into subservience to the investor class from birth.
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Yes, people have to want to get better to get better, and if they don’t they can just keep spiraling even if others try to help them.
But at the same time, wanting to get better is almost never enough on its own. Addiction changes your brain and thought patterns in ways people who’ve never been addicted simply can’t understand. People with addictions don’t just need willpower, they need opportunities, support and understanding.
If it’s the opinion of our current government that countries and narco terrorists are responsible for Fentanyl addiction and overdose, then absolutely pharmaceutical companies are responsible for opioid addiction and overdose.
How about the advertisers??? Main difference in the us is dtc advertising which is illegal in most every other western developed nation. How come they’re not targeted here as well?
I abused cocaine for 20 years of my life and mixed in others like ketamine, MDMA and speed along the way.
I don’t blame the drugs for existing. I blame myself for taking them.
The Doctors prescribed them. The people abused them. Big Pharma encouraged doctors. Pharmacies ignored over selling. All at fault. Doctors are worst.
The truth is most of the problem was coming from China, they were flooding us with Opioids and precursur chemicals and the deaths fell sharply after China stopped sending such large quantities during the Biden administration.
A lot of this stems from people buying drugs from their local trusted drug dealer for years without problems and then all the sudden one day everything started being laced with fentanyl and people become addicted without knowing or wanting to.
Doctors also prescribed them like candy, because it was super cheap from China flooding out markets, and effective as long as people kept getting their fix.
Less opioids means less opioid deaths, strange how the simplest answer is usually the truthful one, and everyone standing to make money off a problem will make the problem seem more complicated than it really is.
This was one of the more notable successes from the Biden administration.
The issue is when pharmaceutical companies impose restrictions, they can have the unintended consequence of hurting people who actually need to take opioids. And yes, some people actually need them. Especially those with chronic pain.
Here we see the divide in the belief in personal responsibility. Modern liberals don’t have a strong belief in personal responsibility, everything is somebody else’s fault or responsibility.
Issue worldwide but yeah fentanyl probably causes most of them.
I truly don’t believe that most conservatives grasp that it is the pharmaceutical companies that are making these opioids and the drug reps that push them like any other drug dealer. It’s not coming in „at the border“.
Conservatives also have very little if any grasp of the societal problems and failures that actually caused most addiction in the first place. They’ve shown time and time again that they are incapable of understanding or having any empathy for their fellow Americans, no matter what.
All I know is that I’ve been hearing non-stop about the so-called ‚opioid crisis‘ for nearly thirty years now and nothing lasts like that except that somebody is making a buck on it. Folks with legitimate intractable pain are forced to suffer because of what amounts to a fabricated public health crisis. This is a moral panic, and sincere harm reduction strategies would do far more to reduce overdose deaths than any amount of interdiction. But we’d rather punish ‚the junkies‘ than fix the problem.
Meanwhile billions needlessly suffer.
Moderate here, self responsibility is just as important as not misleading your consumers.
Bottom line, everyone needs to be better instead of letting opioids take the wheel.
Which is super ironic, because conservatives are always talking about how lefties let the pharmaceutical companies roll over us all the time.
Then why are many conservatives blaming other countries for overdoses? Enough to warrant regime change, if most hold the user responsible?
Two things can be true at once
More deaths can be attributed to illegally produced drugs like fentanyl and it’s analogs. Yes pharmaceutical drugs contribute to the total. Without customers there would be no cartels producing opioids. Hard to put blame on either one they feed off each other.
Its kinda silly to say that pharma companies somehow have control of the problem
Should they stop selling fentanyl patches for hospice care? Like what should they do
Im on the left btw
The Statement made is False! Attempting to create a false Narrative! Everyone Even RFK the ultra conservative guy in charge Blames Big Pharma. PERIOD. Just pathetic divisional rhetoric to claim otherwise… If you are going to ask a loaded question based on lies the least you could do is make it close to reality… This Question lacks Constructive basis. No Answer given based on this question is of any value to /Science.
So conservatives and moderates are either dumb (ignoring the complexity of addiction) or devoid of empathy or both. Not news to me.
start by treating opioid addiction as an actual disease instead of a moral failing.
So we gotta kidnap presidents and spend billions on the ‘war on drugs’ to capture (dangerous immigrant) drug lords to keep people safe. But if the drug dealers wear a suit and tie to work then it’s the users fault. Totally consistent and totally logical!
Wonder what their thoughts are for people like me caught in the cross hairs that live with chronic pain. The ones I have been prescribed or gifted I have to use very sparingly if I cross into an 8 for pain.
Context: Require L5/S1 disc replacement and fusion, require a right SI joint fusion, and have multiple sclerosis with spinal lesions in thoracic, cervical, and brain that affects my whole body in different ways from muscles to organs.
Who opinions do the other 12% have?!
I don’t think it’s quite appropriate to force pharmaceuticals to find ways to regulate overdosing. It would be far better to have policies in place to strictly monitor those on an opioid or addiction prone medication and to have policies in place to only administer it after alternatives have been explored.
It’s a philosophy. Some people blame the user of a product and some blame the producer for negative outcomes from abuse of said product. I’m sure it’s the same way with the gun suicide problem. I think if people are to enjoy freedom they bear the responsibility to use products safely and appropriately. I guess I’d be conservative on that issue. I also think people should be free to whatever they choose with their bodies even if it’s harmful, so maybe that’s on the liberal side. I don’t know. Drugs are bad mmmkay?