• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        24 days ago

        Like seriously it’s so fucking transparent that us govt and its various agencies being on a side of drugs in the war on drugs. It’s really the 3rd Opium War and it’s being waged by USA against its citizens.

        • glans [it/its]@hexbear.net
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          24 days ago

          cracking down and pulling the rug out from people absolutely led to countless deaths.

          but everyone had to personally know 5+ people who died of toxic drugs before any harm reduction was in the realm of consideration. naloxone has only been legal for 10 years and nominally available for 5ish.

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            24 days ago

            I never knew anyone that overdosed on legit pharma opiates. The dosage is always correct and oxycodone and others have a reasonably high ld50. Not saying no one did but when pills were everywhere naloxone was hardly needed at all.

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              23 days ago

              it’s a fair point. essentially what happened was just total industry deregulation.

              it wasn’t regulated in the way some people wanted to begin with. doctors being the sole gatekeepers and only allowing access according to clinical guidelines arrived at by legitimate scientific research. in their attempt to enforce this they ruined what controls were in place. the pill mills were hooked into the pharmaceutical supplies and therefor provided a reliable and predictable product for the consumer.

              See the graph I posted in another comment that shows pretty dramatically what happened