I don't remember ever hearing a 'high-profile tech leader' extoll the virtues of getting high on opiates. Yes, Steve Jobs talked about his experience with LSD in positive terms, but LSD is as similar to fentanyl as Advil is to Viagra or alcohol is to coffee. They really have nothing in common other than being labeled 'drugs', which at this point is a term just as empty of meaning as 'chemicals'.
FWIW Advil and other OTC painkillers (NSAIDs) cause almost as many deaths as opiates. If opiates were readily legally available in proper dosages and cheap prices, NSAIDs would almost certainly pass them in harm.
> FWIW Advil and other OTC painkillers (NSAIDs) cause almost as many deaths as opiates.
Maybe, maybe not. The basis on which that claim has usually been made has been discredited, but there is a dearth of good data on which to make a claim either way. [0]
