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Big problems require solving root issues (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends to c/justpost

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Overdose prevention sites are still just treating the symptoms, but at least in a way that doesn’t attack the victims. Offer free meaningful rehab treatment to addicts like China did. They went from 30% of their population addicted to opium to nearly 0 within a few short years this way. We shouldn’t be encouraging destructive drug use, nor should we be criminalizing victims of drug companies and criminal organizations.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 2 points 2 months ago

IMO, this is the data people who are arguing against it refuse to see.

Removing those resources isn't stopping the problem, it just pushes it deeper underground. And then it spills out into the neighborhoods/small towns that have been wrecked by it.