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The US has tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades, and it hasn't really fixed a thing. Maybe they should just stop prescribing opioids, for a start.
by newaccount74 4y ago
The US has tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades, and it hasn't really fixed a thing.
Maybe they should just stop prescribing opioids, for a start.
- Xylakant 4y agoIt’s not even the prescription opioids alone - germany has a similar prescription rate for opioids as the US (or at least had for a very long time), and we still don’t see the same effect. The way these treatments are administered and checked upon matters, too as well as the underlying social dynamics.
- olivermarks 4y agoHow has 'the US tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades'? In San Francisco the Honduran drug dealers gather around luxury SUVs for catered meal breaks before resuming their murderous work. We are currently wildly out of control. Enough Fentanyl was seized in California in 2022 to kill everyone in the USA twice. God only knows how much more got through and into people's bodies.
- mcphage 4y ago> How has 'the US tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades'? We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, for starters.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoCheck the amount of alcohol present on the shelves of US stores. There's enough to kill the roughly half-the-population who consume several times over. The point is not to compare alcohol & fentanyl, but to note that "enough X to kill Y" is a really bad way to think about quantities of drugs.
- olivermarks 4y agoTell that to Newsom https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/23/california-seized-enough-fentanyl-to-potentially-kill-the-entire-population-of-north-america-twice/ https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/23/california-seized-enough-f...