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Given that justice reform for low level drug offenders has gone precisely nowhere in the last 30 years, I'm thinking we haven't really learned anything from the
by kchoudhu 9y ago
Given that justice reform for low level drug offenders has gone precisely nowhere in the last 30 years, I'm thinking we haven't really learned anything from the epidemic in the 80s.
I'll let you fill in the blanks: If the 80s epidemic and the current opioid crisis are experiments and the sentencing scheme remains identical, what is the independent variable?
- Zarath 9y ago- Ease of obtaining opioids compared to crack as a member of the middle class. - Ease of becoming addicted to opioids when the original intent of use was medical, rather than recreational - Arguably larger reach of opioid epidemic, specifically that it is less isolated to a few geographical areas - Socioeconomic class of people that are affected - More accepting/understanding of addiction and drug use in general, even if the laws yet aren't