Mclovin4Life t1_ir9h1sv wrote on October 6, 2022 at 10:05 AM

Reply to comment by Isthatglass in 'I think it's doing some good:' Kentucky's first Narcan vending machine opens in Hardin County by tta2013

I think it had more to do with Crack cocaine being sold by the government to fund their various coups in Latin and South America with a sprinkle of needing a large incarcerated population because America needs its slave labour thereby needing a scapegoat to throw people in jail.. I.e. war on drugs.

Studies show that decriminalized drugs and proper support and education on said drugs does far more to lower drug use, drug overdose and death, than the current policies have. In fact, it’s cheaper too.

Isthatglass t1_ir9hd9u wrote on October 6, 2022 at 10:10 AM

You missed the part where those are 2 very different facets of the war on drugs and opiate addiction was heralded in by the companies that made the pills fraudulently advertising them as being addiction free. Legalization and decriminalization help to end casualties of the war on drugs but education and decreased access to opiates stops opiate deaths. Opiates were never without safe supply the supply caused the problem. For every death from fentanyl being somewhere it shouldn't there are dozens from it being right where it was always intended to be... sold as an opiate.