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Originally Posted by polak
It is useless! You think the people taking opiates dont know what they're doing!? What do you think you're going to teach them?
This is extremely naive and I'd love to hear any education "plan" that will stop people from doing drugs.
The only solution for people dying from dirty drugs is legalization. So you either continue to let otherwise normal people with a debilitating problem interact with organized crime and continue to let them play Russian Roulette every time the get their fix or you decide that their lives arent worth the increased addiction rates that will probably result from legalizing crazy hard drugs. I personally don't know which is the right answer and I can't even put myself in the mindset of someone who would try a drug like Heroin so I don't want to judge.
But education is a laughable idea. Safe injection sites and home testing kits are the direction we should be going. Not more PSA's and DARE posters.
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The point is to educate young people properly (IE, not just saying, this is bad don't do it), before they ever do. Education is preventative, treatment is reactive. Legalization is to maintain control, but it only goes so far. There will always be black market drugs that are cheaper and more dangerous than anything available in a safe manner (Ie, when people can't get their high, they look for ANYTHING that will alter their state of mind). I would agree that, by the time it comes to that, the people are aware of their own situation. The point is to try to prevent it from getting to that point.
Education is never useless.