Hello forum. I don't create topics often but I think this is an interesting question to ask everyone. I honestly don't know the answer and would like opinions/facts. The question is:

Is the pharmaceutical industry involved in the narcotics black market, specifically, does the pharmaceutical industry account for a significant percentage of illegal narcotics consumption/buying?

The reason I ask this is because if the answer is yes, it would explain how the USA is supposed to be this gigantic consumer of illegal narcotics, but drug abuse doesn't seem to be as widespread as it should be to the untrained naked eye. It would also explain how pharmaceuticals could be making a killing twice, once by buying the raw narcotics bases dirt cheap, and twice by jacking the price for a pill sky high to the consumer. Or maybe it's all just a figment. What do you guys (and gals) think?

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