Re:US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, ...
by MollyGodiva on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:53PM
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No. The government's war on drugs created the opioid crisis.
Re:US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, ...
by unsnap_biceps on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:15PM
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I don't think it created it, but it exasperated it to extreme levels.
The opioid crisis created a LOT of addicts, the rise of fentanyl is killing a lot of people, and combined with the mental health problems you tend to find in and around addict populations, this is a genuinely huge problem. Without a suitable mental health infrastructure, all you have left are the prisons, streets, and programs like this.
I agree that this is an inefficient way to address the problem and that a major re-evaluation is required, but probably in quite the opposite way you mean it.