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Years ago (2017 ish) I remember reading an article where they interviewed some French public health or law enforcement people about whether they were concerned
by version_five 4y ago
Years ago (2017 ish) I remember reading an article where they interviewed some French public health or law enforcement people about whether they were concerned about the opioid problem coming there, and they basically said no, we have lots of treatment options here (which I understood to mean more legal access to opiates) so it's not a problem. The drug way is entirely the cause of all of this. I'm generally right wing but when I see the nonsense about the illegal immigration / border crossing being in any way related to the overdose problem, I find it idiotic. Its squarely a problem with how we've handled drug prohibition
- cwkoss 4y agoSeveral societies (incl France) offer codeine over the counter and have much lower opioid usage rates. I think there would be a lot of benefit to legalizing at least one molecule in each drug class for OTC recreational use, chosen based on harm reduction standards like toxicity, therapeutic index, and duration. I think so much of the drug war's ills could be headed off by making codeine and vyvanse OTC - destroying demand for dirtier more dangerous drugs would do enough good to offset the increased abuse rate for these particular chemicals.
- runnerup 4y agoVyvanse might be tough to OTC. It's still quite possible to get increasing need to take more and more and get psychosis.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoFrance has plenty of other drug problems, the most obvious being crack cocaine. You can walk around the parts of Paris to most obviously see this yourself, if you're curious. In fact a huge amount of violence in the banlieues relates to drugs.