So I have spent the last few days thinking about writing a blog post, but I have so many things going around in my head, I was having trouble deciding on just one. Today, I decided to just start writing and see what comes out. It may very well be word vomit, and for that I apologize. I wanted to talk about banning books. We seemed to have become very confused on what exactly banning books means. Refusing to stock sexually explicit books in an elementary school is not banning books, especially if you can go on Amazon and order that book and have it delivered to you the next day. I spent most of my life in conservative Christian schools. And yet, from 6th grade on, I developed an intense fascination with the writer, John Saul. He wrote horror books. I also really had a thing for the Sweet Valley High books (yes, my tastes were all over the map.) Neither one of those books could be found in my Christian School library, but somehow I managed to read them all. They were effe
But still a lack of personal responsibility. Let me explain. I recently read an article from Real Clear Investigations, "Night Train to Oblivion:Anatomy of an American OD". They hit on some good points, and they missed on a few others, but there is an extreme lack of personal responsibility in this story. There is a lot of blame to go around in the current Opioid Epidemic. The blame doesn't rest soley on the back of the Sackler's from Purdue Pharma, or for that matter, on pharmaceutical companies in general. Of course, Big Pharma has a big share of blame, but so does the FDA, doctors with organizations who pushed "pain as the fifth vital sign", pharmacies who were more interested in making a profit, even when they knew they were seeing suspect prescriptions, and the patients and their families. (Although some families tried their best to fight the idea that long-term opioid use was perfectly okay.) I encourage you to read the article, but I'm goi