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Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America
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#63Black market opiate & opioid users need to get off the danger train and start taking kratom. It may not get you quite as 'high', but it can stave off cravings and withdrawal symptoms, and help you find stability. Harm reduction is a viable solution.
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Does the UK have those bizarrely obtuse not-an-ad-for-prescription ads like in Canada?
I can't think of any although maybe some erectile dysfunction drugs are (don't know if they're prescription only or not). Otherwise, there's ads for cold remedies, cough medicine and analgesics. The idea of advertising prescription drugs seems bizarre to me as surely you'd want your doctor's opinion, not whatever's on daytime TV
Imagine the TV asking if you're feeling down, not quite right and many other euphemisms for depression while being very careful to not use medical terminology, then suggesting you to go see your doctor.
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But that would upset the teetotalers and puritans. Also if drugs were legal, how would one look down on poor people and blame them for their situation in life on moral failings like addiction?
> But that would upset the teetotalers and puritans. It's easy to cater to them. In the packet that legalizes all drugs you also remove all gun control laws. So you make all drugs and all guns legal in all circumstances and at all times, just like it should be in a free country. The state should not control what you put in your mouth or veins or what you carry in your pocket.
And if I don't want some rando putting a bullet in me in a mall or school shooting spree what "freedom" do I have to avoid that?
And don't say "carry" because that's been proven time and again to be utter nonsense in practice.
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#66All drugs should be legalized. That is the only solution. You should be able to buy cocaine, heroin, fentanyl at the local grocery store. No question asked. Maybe even subsidize it for poor people who can't afford market prices. The local pharmacy should provide training on how to inject/consume them safely and give for free the associated consumables.
The problem is not that people don’t know they’re using fentanyl.
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#67The phrase "leading cause of death" has circular reference there. Each article is pointing to the other. I wanted to see where they got that figure. At the bottom of the current article it says "in a provisional tally seven months ago, [The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] calculated the overall number of drug overdoses at 107,622. Two-thirds were due to fentanyl." So fentanyl is the drug most people overd…
It's not laid out explicitly, but you can see the numbers here and pull the 2 textual representations to get the detail: "Top Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. for Ages 1-44" https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/animated-leading-causes.h... "Unintentional Injury" holds overdoses, which are called "unintentional poisoning" in the breakdown in the bottom chart. For 2020: 80,208 Unintentional Injury deaths (consisti…
For anyone else wondering, one of the two "Heart Disease deaths" is "Malignant Cancer deaths", but mislabeled. Inferred from the years before 2020.
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Sure would fix it. By killing them faster
Chemical weapons of personal destruction. What an ingenious invention. And the victims even pay for them!
It's tempting to wonder if this isn't stochastic eugenics.
If you die, you weren't fit to survive. So - you know - no real loss to anyone who matters.
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#69This would be solved if drugs were decriminalized and testing kits were very easy to use and come by but I guess a lot more people have to die before society as a whole acquires common sense
Parts of San Francisco have implemented these exact policies and they have made the problems a LOT worse.
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Your argument is intriguing but you haven’t explained why this would help keep people from dying of fentanyl overdoses?
A lot die of fentanyl without even knowing, because fentanyl was added to another drug to increase it's potency. My proposal would sell pharma-grade drugs of known quality/dose in grocery stores at affordable prices. The illegal market would die overnight.
And increase the number of users which cause substantial problems on its own - crime, addiction, disease, various family issues.