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Why would recreational opiate use be a terrible thing? Would the world not be a better place if recreational crystal methamphetamine users had the option of le
by wycx 10y ago
Why would recreational opiate use be a terrible thing?
Would the world not be a better place if recreational crystal methamphetamine users had the option of legal recreational opiates (of known strength) instead?
- robbiep 10y agoI have worked in addiction services. The fact of opiate abuse and addiction is that people almost never kick it. The rate of methadone program increase in Australia is 5% a year at present. But heroin usage plateaued years ago. Some small percentage of this increase is crossover from prescription opiates to methadone. The increase comes entirely from new addicts who completely destroy their lives getting to the point where they decide to get in the program, and then never get off it. You show me more than 5 examples of people who have successfully recovered from methadone and rebuilt successful lives in the whole of Sydney and I will eat my hat