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Fentanyl test strips are illegal in Florida, the legislature refused to decriminalize them for some reason.
As far as I can tell, this program is not widely known. It shouldn't be too hard to scale up the pharmacy collection side, and make it available in pretty much every community. I don't know how to convince people to actually use it, though.
The real question we should be asking is why can't these poor people get access to proper medicine and treatment? Instead they have to resort to playing Russian roulette every time they use. Decriminalisation and regulation are the biggest harm reduction measures that could be taken and it would have the added bonus of freeing up space in the prisons and reducing the power of the cartels. There wouldn't be a fent pro…
> why can't these poor people get access to proper medicine and treatment? Maybe the Government doesn't like the type of people that get addicted to drugs... a friend of mine just died this week from overdose... maybe from Fentanyl but I don't know.
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> why can't these poor people get access to proper medicine and treatment? Maybe the Government doesn't like the type of people that get addicted to drugs... a friend of mine just died this week from overdose... maybe from Fentanyl but I don't know.
There's people out there whose opinions are that addiction is a problem that "eventually solves itself". When I first heard that I just tried to change topics as quick as possible, it was just a conversational dead end. I still don't know what to say.
It probably killed a lot more people then Covid-19...
If you don't mix the correct ratio of drugs to water its very easy to get false positive (for amphetamines and mdma) or a false negative with others.
Also, frankly, it makes the whole experience less sexy and fun. I know its a dumb reason but its true.
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> why can't these poor people get access to proper medicine and treatment? Maybe the Government doesn't like the type of people that get addicted to drugs... a friend of mine just died this week from overdose... maybe from Fentanyl but I don't know.
There's people out there whose opinions are that addiction is a problem that "eventually solves itself". When I first heard that I just tried to change topics as quick as possible, it was just a conversational dead end. I still don't know what to say.
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In the US and Canada: not really. In other countries, yes. Australia's heroin supply is still basically just heroin, and extremely high purity, even on the street, interestingly. While fentanyl does exist here, it's not that common. I cannot give a good reason as to why. It's interesting.
I'm not saying this is the reason, but out of curiosity: does Australia's drug agency/agencies place as strong of an emphasis on border interdiction? A large part of the US's drug policy emphasizes "flashy" seizures of large amounts of drugs at the border, which has incentivized smugglers to pursue more potent (and therefore more compact) alternatives.
The real question we should be asking is why can't these poor people get access to proper medicine and treatment? Instead they have to resort to playing Russian roulette every time they use. Decriminalisation and regulation are the biggest harm reduction measures that could be taken and it would have the added bonus of freeing up space in the prisons and reducing the power of the cartels. There wouldn't be a fent pro…
I recall reading about an economist who based on studying the failure of the prohibition, tried to warn about the futility of 'war on drugs'; from this I thought that if some economist knew it'd fail, so could the government have known....
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I'm not saying this is the reason, but out of curiosity: does Australia's drug agency/agencies place as strong of an emphasis on border interdiction? A large part of the US's drug policy emphasizes "flashy" seizures of large amounts of drugs at the border, which has incentivized smugglers to pursue more potent (and therefore more compact) alternatives.
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