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It is hard to get true data, when the only supposedly creditable source (CDC), mixes its data to include all prescription drugs including SSRI's and illicit fen
by loverofcode 10y ago
It is hard to get true data, when the only supposedly creditable source (CDC), mixes its data to include all prescription drugs including SSRI's and illicit fentanyl from china.
Opioids can be used in VERY high doses as a person becomes more dependent. What is clear is that people are use to heroin and then take the higher dose without knowing and OD. This is the current trend. It is cheaper to get the Fent from Ch than the H from Afgan.
- shams93 10y agoYou could take a look at the results in Portugal: https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening#.MNdTXLhE0 https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decr...
- d0mine 10y agoThe "Drug-induced deaths" plot from the link is very telling.
- loverofcode 10y agoit is.
- loverofcode 10y agowow. very good info. saved link.
- slavik81 10y agoThe statistics are interesting, but they kind of miss the GGP's point. Decriminalization is not legalization. If you just decriminalize, drug users still have to buy their drugs from sketchy black-market suppliers. That's very dangerous compared to buying from a legal, regulated industry. For example, alcohol is predictable and pure today but in the prohibition era, when all suppliers were criminals, it wasn't [1][2]. [1] http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1864521_1864524_1864626,00.html http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288... [2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...