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    Erika Naomi Gertz: Vom Aufstieg von Fentanyl bis zur katastrophalen Politik der „sicheren Versorgung“: Die lange, traurige Geschichte, wie sich Kanadas Drogenkrise zu einer Epidemie ausweitete

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    1. thewolf9 on

      Now compare this with the U.S. Are we in a different position and are our policies that different? What about the UK?

    2. atticusfinch1973 on

      I’ve always failed to understand why we supply drugs and a place to do them to junkies freely. I get it’s under the auspices that if they OD, at least there is someone there to save their life, but it’s certainly not helping anyone get off drugs. There’s people that have had their lives saved over ten times that I’ve read about, and they are still shooting up.

      No politician is EVER going to put enough money into mental health care and addiction because the people on the streets don’t vote. So do we just keep providing “harm reduction” – even though I think the only people it reduces harm to is the drug users themselves, not everyone living around them – and hope that someday they will decide to get clean?

    3. JoeCartersLeap on

      I still don’t think there is anything wrong with a “safe supply” policy as long as they make an effort to prevent diversion, because we’ve been doing that for the past 40 years with methadone.

      But that being said, I don’t think we need a new “safe supply” program because again, *we have methadone.* It’s an opioid. It gets you really, really high. And it’s orally active and lasts 24 hours, like that’s better than heroin.

      And I think a lot of these people designing and running these programs have a tendency to reject any and all criticism as “oh those are just reactionary right wing conservatives, we don’t have to listen to them”, which is a recipe for disaster.

    4. mycatlikesluffas on

      Friendly reminder that social scientists aren’t real scientists

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