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Originally Posted by Locke
First of all...hey, if you're addicted to Heroin then you get the Afghani stuff that understands the importance and benefits of a good snuggle.
Especially if you're in a tent when its cold.
Secondly...you're right, which...when one looks at the concept of a system that provides easy access to the substances but difficult, limited access to resources to kick those substances the imbalance is really starkly obvious.
One might think that there are parties that would prefer to see this problem sort of 'Solve Itself.'
It wont.
The addicted and homeless that we see are, in their own ways, the products of other issues within society. Be it education (lack thereof) limiting employment, obviously housing, mental health issues and lack of support thereof, and frankly...cheap and easy access to substances that make all of those problems (albeit temporarily) go away.
Thats not a generational thing that is going to phase itself out, thats a social cycle.
If one doesnt address the core underlying issues it doesnt matter because the next Generation is going to run into the same problems and address those problems with the same substances and the wheel just spins round and round again.
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I would add that fentanyl and meth are so strongly addictive that sometimes it doesn't take some major deficiency to create an addict. Maybe just one night partying too hard. The line between addict and regular member of society can be very thin.
That wheel spins very fast. In BC there's 2000 dead every year now. In Canada, it's about 7000, and it's now the leading cause of death for people aged 18-45.