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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't get the hesitation about the government handing out drugs. If it's cheaper than using healthcare and emergency services to deal with ODs, and the drugs are safer so there are fewer ODs in the first place, where's your concern? If it's about tax dollars, it seems to me the goal of this program is to reduce the spend and keep people safer and allow our resources to be used elsewhere. What's the downside?
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Perpetuating addiction. You can see in the short term it's a good policy. But the really tough work is getting people out of it. If you only hand out free drugs, well, that's just government enabling people to die as addicts later.