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Shit like this is why I’m in favor of legalizing everything, paired with actual education on what drugs do. Not that DARE bullshit that lumps weed and heroin in the same “don’t do it” category.
There also needs to be significantly better mental health care because many of these people are self medicating. I speak from experience with a terrible benzo addiction fueled by my anxiety and enabled by cheap, extremely strong clearnet research chemical benzos. I’m very lucky to have gotten out of that habit with not much more than a few wasted years and slightly worse memory.
I feel for those people in the depths of opiate/opioid addiction. It’s a dark place.
It’s not education we need as much as it is treating addiction as a medical issue instead of a criminal one.
Education is part of shifting from a criminal to a medical issue. Without that education people aren’t likely to accept the change. Look at the opposition to legislation of cannabis, most of it is from the reefer madness crowd.
Education is the proactive part of it. I agree treatment needs to be fixed as well, but that’s after the damage has been done. If we had honest education about the effects of drugs, both positive and negative, I think this would reduce the number of people getting addicted in the first place.
We need a fundamentally different relationship with mind altering substances. It’s part of human nature, and found in every culture. It’s not an inherently bad thing, but we’ve painted it as such, and the current addiction crisis is the result.
I’m in favor of keeping it simple: we stop treating drugs as a criminal issue.
DARE is/was an old program and it ‘lumps in’ weed with heroin because at the Federal level it’s still in the same schedule 1 category.
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
However! There is light at the end of the tunnel: DEA Considers Rescheduling Cannabis: What This Means For U.S. And Global Policy
Cocaine and meth are schedule 2 and ketamine is schedule 3, but when I went through DARE they still got lumped in with all the schedule 1 drugs.
Crazy right? Weed I’ve plenty of experience with. Never been interested in cocaine or meth. They really don’t belong in the same group at all. Ketamine though… I’d be interested to test. I’ve read repeatedly about is helpfulness with depression.
Don’t just do k by yourself and think you’re going to do something about depression.
I’m not referring to legality, but rather the impact it has on one’s life. There wasn’t any nuance to the discussion; it simply was “don’t do these substances”. This does not prepare one for real life encounters with drugs.
I mean, I’m not disagreeing with you… 😗
I just wanted to clarify. DARE lumped them all together because it’s an abstinence model, not because of the DEA schedules.
And the tax money can offset societal costs from drugs, reduce gangs & crime, and ensure quality of product
Until we legalize drugs, their damage to our society will only continue to grow.
The drastic drop in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan after Taliban kicked out terrorist USA troops has opened a gap for fentanyl in Europe
Fixed it
Te question here it’s: who’s making the big bucks with fentanyl? Just follow the money…
