Given the unprecedented breadth and depth of the opioid crisis we are currently experiencing and that our Southern border remains open as a pathway, shouldn’t we reconsider how we regard recreational opioid users and our approaches to them, even after their deaths? I’m thinking about how to make unwanted behaviors in our society socially unacceptable again to discourage them at the individual and local level since our government seems to to be too concerned. Thoughts? When we subsidize something, even by tacitly looking the other way and biting our tongues, we get more of it. When we tax it by going negative on it we should get less of it?
” ...doesn’t seem to be too concerned.”
How about holding the dealers and government responsible?
I don’t think drug users think using illegal drugs is socially acceptable, they just do it regardless of the view.
Kicking dead users in an echo chamber online does nothing except look ugly.
People are free to post what they want, and I am free to respond.
As an aside, after we controlled Afghanistan, the country’s opium output reached a high. Maybe that’s not an accident.