So basically NASPER is another "fund various foreign drug cartels" law. Great, because they don't have enough money and power. I'd prefer addicts get stuff from a lab, rather than illiterate peasants in the hills of Columbia or Afghanistan under the guns of the local warlord.
"You have to live with the pain, die screaming, to hopefully prevent some unspecified number of addicts scoring safely manufactured drugs instead of unsafely manufactured drugs."
Seriously, what is wrong with people that push this crap? They HAVE to know it isn't working. I could understand if the politicians were on the take from private prisons, DEA employee union, the cartels, etc. But why would anyone NOT on the take support this? It demonstratively is not working, and it's hideously expensive. Sounds like Afghani heroin purchased from a shady drug dealer is going to be my generation's only solution for real pain killers for real medical purposes by the time I get old.