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The dangers of the drug mostly come from its legal status and that it is being adulterated with various substances in the unregulated market. People also don't
by varispeed 6y ago
The dangers of the drug mostly come from its legal status and that it is being adulterated with various substances in the unregulated market. People also don't get a leaflet that they can consult on the strength or dosage so often they overdose.
Medical grade heroin is not as dangerous as people supporting prohibition would like it to be. You can take clean heroin for decades and be perfectly fine. This would rather not apply to alcohol or other legal drugs.
- tanseydavid 6y ago>> You can take clean heroin for decades and be perfectly fine. This seems to me to be a excessively myopic way of thinking about it. To the point of amounting to rationalization.
- varispeed 6y agoIf you suffer from chronic pain, that's your only option if everything else fails. Opiates plus cannabis can make one's life bearable. Unfortunately many people would like them to suffer instead just to satisfy their own morals - for them someone else's suffering is a virtue.
- johnyzee 6y agoI would say the main danger is the crippling physical addiction (as well as psychological, but that is harder to quantify) it causes in a substantial amount of users.
- varispeed 6y agoYes, the downside is that you have to take it every so often, but after a while it becomes a second nature so you won't be even notice apart from occasional situations where "medication" is not possible.