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Hard Hit by the US Opioid Crisis, Oregon Reconsiders Decriminalization
Reuters ^ | February 18, 2024 | Deborah Bloom

Posted on 02/21/2024 12:20:18 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: allendale

If you made it a capital offence to sell these drugs, that should dry up the supply.


21 posted on 02/21/2024 1:27:21 PM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: desertsolitaire
"Some of those big sawmills use equipment that can be dangerous, even
when not stoned or high, yes?

The circular cutoff saw at the beginning of processing logs can be up to an
eight-foot diameter, spinning at a few thousand rpm.

Yes, one could easily lose finger(s), leg(s), etc. from various moving equipment

Falling in a chipper can also ruin your day.

22 posted on 02/21/2024 1:31:24 PM PST by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: nickcarraway

RE: You didn’t have to be paranoid anymore, you didn’t have to be worried about the cops,” said John Hood, a 61-year-old drug addict living on the streets....

So many people like him yearn for the golden years of their lost youth. Cherished memories never to be taken away.

Unless drugs kill too many brain cells.


23 posted on 02/21/2024 1:51:05 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: gitmo

The Singaporean method.


24 posted on 02/21/2024 1:53:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: desertsolitaire

Yes, all places in a sawmill are dangerous.


25 posted on 02/21/2024 2:51:15 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: nickcarraway

I actually know someone who died a fentanyl overdose today.

Legalize???? NO F***ING WAY!


26 posted on 02/21/2024 2:53:27 PM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: nickcarraway

I have no idea what California laws are.

All drugs are legal in OR. That does not mean you get to work at XYZ sawmill. IF, you want to work there, you have to agree to random drug test. IF NOT, go work somewhere else.


27 posted on 02/21/2024 2:56:51 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Lazamataz

Condolences.


28 posted on 02/21/2024 2:58:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: woodbutcher1963

What you say is sensible, I just don’t know if the lefties who implemented it agree.


29 posted on 02/21/2024 2:58:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“criminalization is a way to get junkies into forced treatment”

The clowns in Salem sold this as a way to force the drug addicts to go to rehab. They would still get a fine but they were given a choice to pay the fine (like they’re going to come up with the $25 fine) OR, they can call a drug rehab line and get their charges thrown out. Guess how much they enforced that? NOT at all. Go downtown (unfortunately I have to go their on occasion driving through to visit family at the coast) and you’ll see scores of cops on bikes and just walking around as junkies are doing any amount of drugs, defecating on the streets, and sleeping on the sidewalk.

BUT Antifa has run Portland since the 1990s when the commies started up their “Rose City Antifa” crew. This is what they want.


30 posted on 02/21/2024 3:14:50 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: nickcarraway

It would make a lot more sense to allow physicians to prescribe opioids for chronic pain and methadone and Suboxone for addiction and OUD.
Right now state board and DEA have made it too dangerous to prescribe opioids. The risk of criminal prosecution by Feds or license revocation is simply too great for prescribers.
No one is going to risk their livelihood or liberty to treat these people properly.
The result is that patients and addicts go to the street for unregulated opioids.
It looks like law enforcement is in charge of chronic pain and addiction. The “treatment” is asset forfeiture, prosecution and prison.
The politicians, police state, DEA and medical boards can own the opioid crisis.


31 posted on 02/21/2024 4:09:11 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: nickcarraway

We all know that the police state would absolutely love that here. I don’t know how or why it works in Singapore. It’s likely because of more cultural acceptance of authoritarianism.
But we all know based on current abuses by all the US police state agencies IRS, FBI, DEA etc and an unaccountable DOJ that drug enforcement of Singapore style regime would be a disaster.
This would be an ideal means of targeting deplorables and other inconvenient citizens that oppose the government.
Keep in mind that agents have qualified immunity here and they frequently get away with defendant due process violations without consequence. If you lie to them it’s a felony, if they lie to you it’s SOP.
But, using the law and lawfare against inconvenient citizens would never happen here, right?


32 posted on 02/21/2024 4:20:57 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: nickcarraway
Excellent question, and I do not know.

Would it not be a modern miracle if it's at least partially true?

Here's a fertile research topic for this very day and age.

33 posted on 02/21/2024 5:50:25 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Seaplaner

I’m skeptical of the drug for weight loss and diabetes, but it seems to be a miracle for diabetes. I hope they are testing it.


34 posted on 02/21/2024 5:51:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I'm just glad, if it's a success, that it's not by Pf..er.

Not a get even thing, just that I trust other pharma companies a whole, whole lot more.

35 posted on 02/21/2024 6:52:47 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Seaplaner

Novo Nordisk.


36 posted on 02/21/2024 7:34:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: conservative_cyclist; ten18; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
37 posted on 02/22/2024 5:53:03 PM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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