Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)
by asdff on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:33AM
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The long term mental damage from stuff like meth induced psychosis is not something that the state should be furthering, especially when the state isn't even picking up the ball for mental health treatment facilities. If we were serious about addiction, we would heavily crack down on users and send them to detox facilities where they will remain until they are clean and well rather than maintaining the status quo of tolerating increasing levels of open hard drug use on our streets.
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Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)
by standardUser on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:11AM
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"we would heavily crack down on user"
Learn some history. We tried this. It failed spectacularly, as if in slow motion, for decade after decade.
Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)
by asdff on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:37PM
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Nothing will stop trafficking since its a lucrative product and we live in a capitalist society, but crackdowns at least push drug use out of the open and cause people who get picked up to end up in jail or some facility rather than turned back out to the street where they often continue to commit more crimes. It keeps these chronic hard drug users out of public places like train stations where they are less likely to harm innocent bystanders. I've seen meth users on the train go off in racist tirades and start fights on transit just because someone happened to make eye contact with them. The status quo of not doing anything and shrugging our collective shoulders just leads to more people getting harmed, both the addicts and random other people.