Posted on 09/14/2016 12:55:42 PM PDT by buckalfa
The opioid epidemic in America has captured the attention and efforts of policymakers. The Obama administration seeks to allocate $1.1 billion to fight opioid abuse. States are requiring prescribers check databases as part of prescription drug monitoring programs to identify patients who may have dependency or abuse problems. Canada has taken a slightly different approach to help treat addicts: prescribing pharmaceutical-grade heroin.
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Hollywood is moving to Canada for sure now
We’ve had Methadone treatment centers here for decades. I don’t know how different that is from the real thing.
Why Not , what could go wrong with that? sarc needed?
Could someone order this from, say, an apartment in New York City? Maybe get a 90 minute delivery on September 11?
Could someone order this from, say, an apartment in New York City? Maybe get a 90 minute delivery on September 11?
Good idea. Especially if it is in conjunction with weaning them off of it and helping them get effective treatment.
If my memory serves me correctly, I once read that Morphine was used so extensively during our Civil War that it produced great numbers of Morphine addicts among our Civil War Veterans, so Heroin was created to cure these Morphine addicts. Heroin worked to cure Morphine addicts, but it, of course, only created Heroin addicts, so nothing was accomplished.
I have a better idea. Canada can help build the wall.
Seems like nothing more than honesty to me. We’ve got a raft of opioids we prescribe in this country, frequently lying to ourselves and saying the aren’t addictive. No real reason not to make the real thing OK.
I wrote the following in 2011...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2729674/posts
...and some laughed at my speculations. I can’t say I blame them because they sounded to ridiculous to take seriously. But I was only following the obvious logic the social engineers put forward, to its end.
Well here we are, and my speculations are coming true. It seems to be happening in Canada and not the U.S.... thus far.
But don’t think for a second the social engineers here in the states are not watching this Canadian program with an eye towards adopting it.
Problem: fentanyl is Super Potent and you are working with microgram amounts. Too much and your clients stop breathing. Lets just say the quality control laboratories of the distributors are not so good and Viola you have overdoses.
IF your priority is to prevent overdoses then place some comeptitive pressure on the market by supplying quality-controlled (government dope) stuff on the street. It sends the local "entrepreneurs" crazy - but they now must UP their quality control measures accordingly (to have a comeptitive product). Fewer overdoses.
But its a messy business and the idea of government-supplied dope makes most tax paying workers' stomach churn with resentment.
If people could buy something for price of a cup of coffee that got them clean, then how would all of the bureaucrats and pharma execs be able to vacation at St. Bart's anymore?
I don’t think that government-directed provision of high-grade heroin to addicts is going to help with the addiction problem.
Legalize a problem and get more of it. The Canadian government is engaging in the kind of thinking that propelled abortion from being a crime committed a few hundred times a year to a legal butchery committed hundreds of thousands of times per year. Legalizing abortion led to astronomical loss of human life, not less.
I doubt we can solve the drug abuse problem, but making drug abuse legal and providing purer, more potent drugs to addicts is certainly NOT the solution.
If they want to shoot up, let them OD. One less loser.
IMHO drug addiction should be treated as a medical, not legal issue. Putting addicts into the criminal justice system is great for those who make their living in the system, terrible for addicts, their families and taxpayers who foot the bill.
I am gratified that there could be at least some support for the authorities. They are just as anxious as are the average person to do something that works. The real culprits are those who smuggle drugs into our respective societies.
Marijuana, that is sold on the street, is marinated in Fentanyl to increase dependency and the high.
I’m not sure why Canada is giving them heroin instead of Methadone. Had an addict in my close family, and he said the worst part of it was that the tolerance for heroin kept going up, so by the end of it all he was just trying to avoid getting sick and wasn’t getting high hardly at all. He got good results from an impressive local Methadone program and eventually was able to clean up entirely. I’d support free treatment centers with the proviso that the patients would have to stay long term AND COULD NOT LEAVE.
I’m beginning to think we’re gonna need a wall on the north side too.
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