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Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:41AM (#36967331)
It’s totally a selection bias: if someone is doing drugs but isn’t running around screaming half naked in the street having a fent crisis, you would hardly notice them would you? It is for the same reason that homelessness has been wrongly equivocated with drug addiction (you don’t notice the ones that aren’t shoplifting to support their habit or having a crisis on the street for one drug related reason or another).

Surely there are adults and kids doing this in their homes, and we usually don’t notice them until a tragedy occurs (eg a teenager tries fent for the first time…and they are dead).

Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs by imgabe on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:06AM (#36968933)
I am skeptical that there are large numbers of casual Fentanyl users who are just injecting a little Fentanyl after work to relax and otherwise leading normal lives. If there are any, they probably don’t stay that way for very long.
Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @12:52PM (#36973469)
Oh, ya, probably. Although I wonder if the Fentanyl crisis is just limited to the people we see going nuts on the streets, or much broader than that.