John Oliver discusses why overdoses in the U.S. have been on the rise and what we should, and shouldn’t, be doing to prevent them.
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John Oliver discusses why overdoses in the U.S. have been on the rise and what we should, and shouldn’t, be doing to prevent them.
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Could re-title this: Tell me you do not understand Addiction without telling me you do not understand Addiction. Sadly folks there is only one way to get even close to effective drug regulation and that is to go after the manufacture and distribution instead of the user and well, as literally EVERYBODY is aware; there is too much money flowing for that to work.
Funny that I am not even exaggerating, literally everyone knows that the need/love of money is the direct cause for pretty much everything wrong or evil but also literally NO-ONE is willing or able to change things enough to have any meaningful effect. Or rather, the people who are able are not willing and the people who are willing are not able.
Much easier to sit in ones own little bubble either wringing hands or pointing fingers.
ReplyRussians used Fentanyl as bioweapon in 2002. In Moskau cinema. 145 people died.
ReplyIn the 80s and 90s Switzerland was the heroin capital of Europe. We tried the american approach of punishing the shit out of everyone for years and years and ended up with a small island right next to Zurich main train station full of thousands of people using heroin openly day and night. With all the downsides you can imagine: many daily overdose deaths, robberies, AIDS, street prostitution, needles and actual shit everywhere etc.
Then we switched to a harm reduction appproach with safe injection sites. The number of heroins users went down massively. AIDS transmissions, drug related street crime, overdoses etc. all went down by well over 90 percent in a few years. Nowadays Zurich has fewer new heroin users per year, than per day back then. And the people using these facilities are almost all pretty old now, because no young people get hooked anymore.
Plus the then health minister who introduced this new approach is to this day living right across the street from one of those injection sites in Geneva and she is now the head of the UNs global commission on drug policy.
ReplyPoverty is the main source for drug addiction and violent crimes in our society.
ReplyPortugal has done this for decades, redosing by 50% the consuption of drogs.
ReplyDon’t forget that you can still get pregnant from a public toilet seat!
And using condoms can get you pregnant and cancer and an overdose of plasticity all at the same time.
ReplyIt is the trifecta of diseasism.
It is basically a spermicizoidal shooting gallery.
The who’s who of diseased misinformation.
Henry Heimlich, USA: This maneuver will save your life.
ReplyJohn Oliver, Britain: I would rather die than feel your touch.
The real problem is that ALL DRUGS NEED TO BE LEGAL. Get it out of the underground and into a legal regulated market space.
ReplyI totally believed the inhalation-myth(that inhaling/exposure of fentanyl is deadly).
ReplyIf memory serves me I do remember seeing it in a HBO documentary Crime Of The Century 2021.
The #1 opioid harm reduction centers are not approved is those not suffering believe themselves SUPREME to those who are. Same reasons domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters, low-income housing is not approved. And why ADA is not enforced. White supremacy. Period.
ReplyPlay the 1942 USDA film *Hemp For Victory* on your show.
ReplyStop wasting everyone’s time. How many years have you had a show? *Hemp For Victory* is less than 14 minutes long and will change everything.
This whole topic is basically:
ReplyAddict: life was hard, so I turned to drugs. Then people made life even harder, so I turned to drugs more.
#ISupportSCSinPhilly #SupportSafehouse
ReplyI can’t beleive I used to like this corporate schill
ReplyJust another one of America’s problems fueled by racism and supercharged by stupidity
ReplyDrugs brought us Euphoria.
ReplyHow did a person this bad become our president? Hate for another person.
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