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With fentanyl being so potent these days and most guns never winding up killing anybody I wouldn't be surprised if the body count per "retail transaction" wasn'
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
With fentanyl being so potent these days and most guns never winding up killing anybody I wouldn't be surprised if the body count per "retail transaction" wasn't on the same order.
This isn't your 70s hippie weed or 80s crack. Dealing in hard drugs these days is a business with a pretty high body count due to the low LD50 of the substances involved. It's like the addictive substances equivalent of giving dynamite to teenagers. A lot of fun will be had but a lot of bad outcomes too.
So yeah, I'd say that dealing often has a victim too.
- standardUser 4y agoImpure drugs are a consequence of drug prohibition.
- DisjointedHunt 4y agoSynthetics are more potent and technically the opposite of impure. They’re also sourced from China, a geopolitical adversary where political figures routinely point to the opium wars and revenge for that period on the west.
- standardUser 4y agoI don't get your point. If we want to save lives, let's stop forcing people to buy drugs from black markets. Lives will be saved if people aren't forced to buy unknown drugs and essentially "guess" what the right dose might be. That's how most deaths from illegal drugs occur. There is a separate issue of doctors over-prescribing dangerous drugs and people abusing those drugs. I think preventing those overdoses and deaths takes a totally different approach.
- DisjointedHunt 4y ago“Forced to buy”? You understand what “addictive substances” means , right? Your solution to protecting a population from being hooked on drugs is . . . Give them more and without restriction? Sometimes the naïveté in the tech community amazes me.
- projektfu 4y agoPure fentanyl makes for quite an impure heroin.