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Hate to break it to you but your dealer does not give a fuck about your health. It is extremely difficult for the police to find the dealer of a dead person, an
by hristov 10y ago
Hate to break it to you but your dealer does not give a fuck about your health. It is extremely difficult for the police to find the dealer of a dead person, and then very difficult to prove the elements needed for a murder charge.
The police do not even try to find dealers of drug deaths, unless the victim is a celebrity.
Furthermore, every heroin dealer knows that each of their clients is likely to go into a downward spiral and become a liability. Thus, they treat their clients as expendable.
- rhizome 10y agoWhile it isn't yet the law everywhere in the US, it's not just celebrities whose dealers get charged with murder for supplying drugs that kill via overdose.[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/her-fiance-gave-her-heroin-she-overdosed-does-that-make-him-a-murderer/2016/05/08/f9a9e79a-f29b-11e5-a2a3-d4e9697917d1_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/her-fiance-gave-her-...
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- brainfire 10y agoI don't know where you're from, but my personal experience in my area (Maryland, USA) is that everything in your post is incorrect.
- dopamean 10y agoI'm from New York and now living in Austin, TX. I'll add that from my experience I agree that what he said was incorrect.
- opiatethrowaway 10y agoI can also concur. My dealer cares more about me than anyone except my mom.
- bduerst 10y agoConversely, dealers that have customers who OD will go up in demand, because other addicts will seek them out for their "stronger" drugs.
- onetwotree 10y agoTrue - although one often prefers the OD not be fatal.
- feklar 10y agoThere are also plenty of incompetent dealers like the one here who mixed up his crack and fentanyl stash causing 39 ODs http://vancouversun.com/news/crime/36-drug-overdoses-in-one-weekend-prompt-warning-from-surrey-health-officials http://vancouversun.com/news/crime/36-drug-overdoses-in-one-...
- onetwotree 10y agoWhat's interesting about dealers (at least the very low level ones that addicts typically buy directly from) is that they're often selling dope to support their own habits or to get ahead in a world they see as being stacked against them. Thus, many of these people are not ruthless sociopaths, and recognize on some level that what they're doing is wrong. Through a great deal of rationalization, they are often able to convince themselves that it's morally OK. These people would prefer not to have to bring murder into line with their already quite dissonant mental schema. This is my experience talking to current and former dealers, mostly as part of my work with recovering addicts - I've had dealers help me track down relapsed sponsees, for instance, with very little convincing.