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Originally Posted by GGG
How do you price the drugs so that you don’t encourage increased use? Also how potent to you make the drug to make it good enough to satisfy the addiction yet not increase dependency.
Does a person choose their opiate of choice like I want clean dose measured fentanyl or does the government steer to less addictive opiates?
I’m fascinated about the logistics of this because you need to deliver the same relief as the street drug and the same or lower cost or the market will continue to exist but at the same time still want to encourage use.
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The logistics of this are very difficult to manage.
I see a major issue being that many users may just use the publicly supplied drugs to supplement their street supply. If the public system only gives them X amount, they'll just acquire the rest from somewhere else. Having access to extra supply from the public sector could be what does them in to.
That being said the overdose death numbers for 2020 were horrific and 2021 is looking to smash those. The opioid epidemic needs to be treated like a health emergency. I could see this program helping some people, at the very least, which is something.
I see some of the effects of the epidemic in the courthouse, as I occasionally represent people with substance abuse issues, and several of my clients have passed away. I can't imaging what first responders, like Flames_fan_down_under must deal with. You people are absolute saints.