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  1. It's hard to use a "tool" responsibly when the experts and authorities dispensing the "tool" were corrupt and feeding these overly addictive pills to people who didn't need them and hiding how addictive they were. This IS a valid point. Purdue and the Sacklers presented a narrative different from the evidence they had, and justifiably were held to account. When ‘for profit’ models and systems interact with health care, significant oversight is needed.
  2. Yes. When looking at an issue, death is by far the most impactful outcome, both for the individual and those left behind. From the medical side, prescribed opioids have lessened in impact compared to the impact street level fentanyl is having, due to its inconsistency and potency.
  3. As a retired doc, I can testify to this from the other side of the desk. Early on, after entering practice, the messaging was that these new meds were great, you didn’t have to leave people suffering, we have pain receptors in the brain that we can effectively block, and it was simply good practice to utilize these tools. Fast forward 20 years, and these drugs were bad, people reporting pain needed to be looked at as possibly drug seeking, and our regulatory bodies were actively analyzing and overseeing opioid prescriptions. As usual, the truth lies in the middle, and the solution is to use a tool responsibly.
  4. That’s not the case, Todd. Invincible is fantastic, and the first 48 issues of WD stand up to almost anything. And, of course, there’s Irredeemable Ant-Man, a closet favorite of mine.
  5. I've seen a lot of stores promoting it and one or two store variants. I’d like a mulligan on that comment. The Stool says 101K were ordered.
  6. This could be underordered. People have lost faith in Kirkman.
  7. That makes me sad. Absent a market where current releases are bought and discussed, your market implies a shrinking of the comic ecosystem…
  8. We… are getting old. They… are getting older…
  9. Right, forgot about that part. There was a great series of articles in Comic Book Artist about 20 years ago that detailed the shenanigans that occurred back then.
  10. Theoretically, the corner store reported unsold copies, got credit back, and disposed of the unsold copies.
  11. Over time, actual returns were replaced by credit for stripped covers, which was replaced by the reporting of ‘returns’, IIRC.