jeffw@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoHow the US turned the tide on drug overdose deathswww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
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minus-squareCommissarVulpin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI’ve had people (family) argue that drug use increases crime, and by providing things like safe injection sites or narcan you’re encouraging more drug use and inviting more crime by removing the consequences.
minus-squareisolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.deBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agothey’re not completely wrong, but wishing death upon people is still utterly insane
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThey’re more wrong than right. The illegality of drugs is a huge part of why it leads to crime. How many alcoholics do you see busting car windows at 3am to steal something to pawn for a six pack?
minus-squareAngry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoThis was one of Rush Limbaugh’s biggest drug talking points, one that he pushed again and again All while secretly addicted to opiates I guarantee you his rhetoric led to preventable deaths The hypocrisy of the modern repugnican party is grounds for violence
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months ago his rhetoric led to preventable deaths Eventually including his own, barely age 70 - no amount of money could stretch him to an average lifespan.
I’ve had people (family) argue that drug use increases crime, and by providing things like safe injection sites or narcan you’re encouraging more drug use and inviting more crime by removing the consequences.
they’re not completely wrong, but wishing death upon people is still utterly insane
They’re more wrong than right. The illegality of drugs is a huge part of why it leads to crime.
How many alcoholics do you see busting car windows at 3am to steal something to pawn for a six pack?
This was one of Rush Limbaugh’s biggest drug talking points, one that he pushed again and again
All while secretly addicted to opiates
I guarantee you his rhetoric led to preventable deaths
The hypocrisy of the modern repugnican party is grounds for violence
Eventually including his own, barely age 70 - no amount of money could stretch him to an average lifespan.