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Is this really about the impact of drugs on people or about the impact of how drugs users are vilified and ostracized, the impact of living on the streets?

• jacquesm 1y ago
  That's just the end stage, and it can take a long time before you get there. And none of these people were 'vilified' unless they gave direct cause for that.
  • louwrentius 1y ago
    Drug use in and of itself is heavily stigmatized, causing people to be “discarded” and ostracized as deeply ingrained in - for example- USA culture. Their drug use wasn’t a problem in and of itself until other people decided to treat them differently.
    • jacquesm 1y ago
      When I say their drug use was a problem, I mean their drug use was a problem. I've known drug uses whose drug use was not a problem but for the majority it really was and it caused me problems in return. Stealing, lying, fights over nothing, psychotic episodes, inability to even make the most basic appointments causing lots of fall-out. Please, I really don't need to be lectured on this.
      • louwrentius 1y ago
        This isn’t about individual experience, n = too low. It’s about what’s happening at the scale of society. And I bet there’s often more to the story than “the drugs” if you look deeper. But I‘ll stop lecturing you now.
        • jacquesm 1y ago
          n = ~100 so I'm not sure what you would consider 'too low' but since you seem to can't let go I'm going to put you on ignore now. Goodbye.
          • louwrentius 1y ago
            Funny response, I don’t buy that number from you. greetings from the guy that noticed the TLS cert issue on your blog a while back