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Originally Posted by habernac
Tom Petty and Prince died trying to manage pain with fentanyl. These aren't skid row homeless people, it's a real issue. A guy I grew up with died from it. He was a successful lawyer, died because he made a poor choice when he bought something on the street. A woman I know, same thing happened.
These people need access to supervised consumption, addiction services, rehab, etc. Isn't it Portugal that basically legalized everything and addiction rates went down in a big way? Go off of that format and improve on it if we can.
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Portugal decriminalized possession for personal use in 2001:
https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug...ecord-straight
Basically, all their indicators show that drug use, overdose, crime, disease transmission etc.. have all decreased substantially in relation to the rest of the EU.
More or less proof that the war on drugs does not work.