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Isthatglass t1_ir9gdyz wrote

Reply to comment by downonthesecond in 'I think it's doing some good:' Kentucky's first Narcan vending machine opens in Hardin County by tta2013

Increasing "safe and legal" access to opiates is how we created the opiate epidemic in the United States, reopening the pill mills won't stop opiate addiction or deaths.

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Mclovin4Life t1_ir9h1sv wrote

I think it had more to do with Crack cocaine being sold by the government to fund their various coups in Latin and South America with a sprinkle of needing a large incarcerated population because America needs its slave labour thereby needing a scapegoat to throw people in jail.. I.e. war on drugs.

Studies show that decriminalized drugs and proper support and education on said drugs does far more to lower drug use, drug overdose and death, than the current policies have. In fact, it’s cheaper too.

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Isthatglass t1_ir9hd9u wrote

You missed the part where those are 2 very different facets of the war on drugs and opiate addiction was heralded in by the companies that made the pills fraudulently advertising them as being addiction free. Legalization and decriminalization help to end casualties of the war on drugs but education and decreased access to opiates stops opiate deaths. Opiates were never without safe supply the supply caused the problem. For every death from fentanyl being somewhere it shouldn't there are dozens from it being right where it was always intended to be... sold as an opiate.

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[deleted] t1_ir9l5nw wrote

That’s such an ignorant take. The deaths started when pill prices went sky high as result of crackdown on prescription practices and people started switching to heroin because it was cheaper. That street heroin quickly became all laced with fent. Reopening pill mills would literally reduce deaths because pharma quality opioids are incredibly physically safe.

You can’t eradicate demand for drugs, no country has ever managed to, you can only either push the production and supply to the unregulated black market or produce your own drugs with state-mandated quality control.

This is just alcohol prohibition debate all over again, and we all know how well that worked.

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