Meanwhile trump is trying to just kill easy access to Narcan to save people.
So I’m sure in a few years we’ll see numbers climb again.
All drugs should be legal
I mean it didn’t seem to work out for Portland; maybe in a perfect world but in a world full of stresses and homelessness it seems like it might hurt people who get addicted and exploited. But would be fine legalizing weed and shrooms.
You’re right, it didn’t work for Portland - but things that were promised were never delivered. Other states took it as an invitation to send their problems out of state, which of course is unsustainable.
Lots more factors that doomed it to never really have a chance.
Yeah all that is or already was in the chopping block and on it’s way to the chipper.
Good. They don’t need narcan.
They need a healthy diet, the power of God, and a $20,000-40,000/month rehab clinic.
Hell, instead of sending kids to high school with our failing public education system, why don’t we send them straight to rehab? The debt they accrue will motivate them to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and get a job at the factory
Good. They don’t need narcan.
I get it’s sarcasm, but yeah you don’t need narcan if you don’t do drugs. People told you drugs are bad for a reason, and we should be providing aid to the people already addicted and suffering, not to some kid fresh out of high school who thinks narcan is gonna make him invincible
“Some people are just bad” is a core conservative belief. They don’t believe in harm reduction for drug addicts. In fact they want the harm to happen, and ideally for it to be fatal. Because these people are bad, so let’s get rid of them.
They have the same mentality about criminal justice. Some people are just bad - criminals. Give them the death penalty. They don’t want to talk about rehabilitation or small improvements to the recidivism rate. Some people are just bad, they think, so lock em up and throw away the key.
Of course, most conservatives have either done drugs or committed a crime, but the whole “some people are just bad” concept never applies to themselves in their own minds. Because some people are just good too, and doing bad things doesn’t change that.
So, conveniently, they themselves can get away with any kind of wrongdoing, forever. But a single transgression by another person is a good justification to simply end their fucking life.
It’s such hypocritical, violent, hateful mentality. Humans have succeeded as a species by coming together and looking after one another. This mentality is positively inhuman.
If it’s a family member or loved one who commits a crime, they’re “misguided” or “have a good heart”.
I worked for a medium sized refrigeration contractor company. The owner’s son was a massive opiate and coke addict and kept stealing equipment, embezzling and had no less than 2 ODs on company property.
The second time I was tasked to bring him his new phone in the hospital as he had sold his original one for the drugs he overdosed on.
I sat there and synched it up to his SIM and got to watch all the texts from his family pour in
All about ‘our little druggie boy’ and wishing him quick recovery and the most gentle and humorous of chiding
Two weeks before they had fired my friend, a single father, for testing positive for weed
Guess who the owner voted for
