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user-inactivated  ·  2773 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: YOU DRAW IT: The Opioid Epidemic

I think we're mostly in agreement that it's important to treat heroin addicts as people who need medical help and not criminals. Where the disconnect comes in for me though, is that heroin is demonstrably much more dangerous than say alcohol or other types of illegal drugs, in its addictiveness, in the health problems it creates, the risk for and severity of overdoses, etc. With that in mind, I don't think it's unreasonable at all to aim to keep it from being produced and distributed, especially now that we're seeing it being made with more dangerous substances.