Claiming that the horrifying near-death experience really put things into perspective, area man Leo York announced Tuesday that a recent heroin overdose served as a wake-up call to keep on doing heroin but just be smarter about it. “That’s it. Tomorrow I’m buying a digital scale, and from now on I’m only using on weekends or after work if it was a super hard day,” said York, explaining that the close call had provided him with the clarity to realize he needed to do the hard work of finding a more trustworthy dealer instead of shooting up whatever sketchy back-alley stuff he could score. […]
It would make all the difference. People overdose on Fentanyl because it wasn’t mixed correctly when dilluted. Pharmacists wouldn’t make that mistake.
Thats not the only reason they overdose and I’d argue not the main one. Besides that though, making opiates available to everyone would produce more harm than the current system has, as more people would use it as its normalized. We have already tried that before and it didnt work out well, see early 1900s history if you are interested.
For what do I have to look? This is earlier and not so bad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_den
And another clown take.
I’ll reply just so you aren’t talking to yourself like a crazy person. How’s your day going?