Re:Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the US...
by scrumbledober on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:54PM
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pretty sure you can get at least several antibiotics with no prescription from a fish store.
antibiotics are less effective for everyone the more they are used, so you can conceptualize the effectiveness of antibiotics as a common resource that can be spent down. if I abuse antibiotics, I am directly harming you.
there are arguments that drug abuse also harms others, but I find them somewhat less compelling. usually they follow the pattern of "I feel compelled to help you in X situation, so you are harming me by putting yourself in X situation". not an entirely illegitimate argument, but much more debatable imo. there's also the common "we have to protect people from their own poor choices" which I consider incompatible with free society.