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Re:FDA advisers recommend approval of over-the-counter naloxone by bagels on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:03PM (#34813994)
Yeah, the naive idea was that this would somehow make drug parties nonexistent. Seems to have worked just as well as the rest of the drug laws.
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Re:FDA advisers recommend approval of over-the-counter naloxone by thatswrong0 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:08PM (#34814046)
Did some digging - it was killed in 2002 but "Biden reincarnated the legislation (now called the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act) and inserted it into the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today (PROTECT) Act -- the home of feel-good laws like the measure creating a national Amber Alert system. President George W. Bush signed the PROTECT Act into law on April 30."

Nothing more classic than government overreach sneaking into legislation marketed as protecting kids.

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