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From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com
Mikey wrote in
news:l4akr3F7polU1@mid.individual.net:
> On 2024-02-29, Sam wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:59:21 -0500, "61h.1601" <61h.1602@e3t2w.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2/28/24 7:10 AM, Surrender! wrote:
>>>> Tonight, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt testified
>>>> in favor of Oregon legislatorsÂ’ latest proposal to recriminalize
>>>> hard drugs, ending a lengthy public silence on whether he supports
>>>> rolling back the heart of the 2020 ballot measure that made Oregon
>>>> the first state in the country to decriminalize the possession of
>>>> small amounts of heroin, meth and fentanyl.
>>>
>>> How quickly they turn .... :-)
>>>
>>> Look, there's no perfect - or even halfway perfect - fix
>>> for the 'drug problem'. Criminalization = Big Crime,
>>> legalization = Social Dissolution. It's a human nature
>>> thing, people just LOVE their drugs and will get 'em
>>> and take 'em no matter what even if it kills them. It's
>>> how the species is hardwired.
>>>
>>> So, what ya gonna do ?
>>>
>>> Throw all the dopeheads/dealers in jail for 50 years and
>>> you'll run out of jail space real quick - and $$$ to run
>>> any such system even if you turn some big island into
>>> a gulag. Oh, and up the stakes too much and the crime
>>> gets more and more violent. On the flip, go TOO easy
>>> on 'em and it will be a situation similar to the west
>>> coast BlueVilles streets - a "no worries, gimme a
>>> bag of ..." attitude.
>>>
>>> Not every human issue has a good solution. We just have
>>> to kinda kludge our way through it.
>>
>>
>> Oh the best policy with drug abusers is to give them enough Fentanyl
>> to
>> do them selves in. Back when China had millions of opioid addicts Mao
>> just had his police shoot them in the back of their head. Everybody
>> gotta die sometime and it would be much cheaper then putting them up
>> in a steel bar hotel.
>>
>
> My family spent $10k trying to rehab a family member. Despite all the
> money
> spent the day after he was released he had of a Fentynal overdose.
> It is sad, but there is no salvation for opiate addicts. Only about
> 97% of them that go to treatment relapse back into the drug within 30
> days.
>
That sounds like propaganda from someone who doesn't want to pay taxes
for rehab.
This is actual:
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Between 85 percent and 95 percent of all people who successfully complete
drug rehab report still being abstinent from all drugs nine months after
discharge.
https://www.legacytreatment.org/blog/rehab-success-rate-statistics/
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