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joxeloj t1_j6pcadn wrote

Reply to comment by dizzariffic in Canada province decriminalizes hard drugs in new bid to combat opioid crisis by scot816

Compulsory treatment is objectively ineffective and only serves to further a moral crusade against drug use. The vast majority of the social, economic, and health consequences of which arise from its stigmatization and a lack of regulation.

Even voluntary, motivated treatment has much poorer effectiveness than the vast majority of people seem to believe. The most effective treatment for opioid addiction, the global gold standard, is literally giving the individual stable daily doses of opioids to take in place of street opioids. The most effective opioid replacement therapies in terms of quality of life, socioeconomic functioning, and health outcome/preventing deaths are literally the more recreational opiates; buprenorphine < methadone < oral morphine < injectable hydromorphone.

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art-love-social t1_j6pbrww wrote

Reply to comment by Ivy_lane_Denizen in Canada province decriminalizes hard drugs in new bid to combat opioid crisis by scot816

How will it enable more pure drugs ? [ I assume they already have a clean needle program - most places have] - thre is no mention of support network or doctors on sites. The Portuguese model works-ish because the users are persuaded to join a rehab. Once they are in rehab - they cannot leave/just sign themselves out

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Youngerthandumb t1_j6pbko8 wrote

Reply to comment by Cultural_Flounder107 in At 6.1%, India to be fastest-growing economy, projects IMF; China at 5.2% by Gopu_17

You're not wrong. Overall, they may be better off on paper, notwithstanding changes in cost of living. However, relative to the upper classes, they are worse off than they would be if the upper classes hadn't gobbled up a disproportionate part of the increased wealth of the nation. Extreme poverty is still a giant problem in India and I think it's unjust that they should see their proportion of wealth decrease (by 40% since the 80s!), even if their total wealth increased somewhat.

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djqvoteme t1_j6pb2y6 wrote

Reply to comment by FiveDirtyDishes in Canada province decriminalizes hard drugs in new bid to combat opioid crisis by scot816

This story comes from a newswire, specifically Agence France-Presse. I doubt anyone outside of Canada or the U.S. could name like 2 Canadian provinces or even know what British Columbia is.

The BBC (and other European news agencies) do stuff like this too for Canada all the time. It's bizarre as a Canadian, but understandable why.

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Ivy_lane_Denizen t1_j6paulj wrote

Reply to comment by art-love-social in Canada province decriminalizes hard drugs in new bid to combat opioid crisis by scot816

Other countries have seen a lot of success with this method. I dont know Canada's and assume its similar.

The idea is to remove barriers to recovery as well as making it safe for people to consume.

Things like more pure drugs (not cut with anything dangerous), clean needles, lightening stigma, a support network, and doctors on site.

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