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mo_ztt@lemmy.world 8 months agoI mean… what can you do?
“Hey, all you druggies! You can’t be druggies here! Go be druggies somewhere you’re not familiar with! Or maybe briefly to jail!”
Yeah, that’ll help.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
Needle exchanges and safe injection sites help a lot. Decriminalization if not full legalization like in Portugal would help even more.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah. Punishing people for being addicted is like throwing rocks at someone who’s drowning to try to knock them closer to land.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
Yeah, or put in another way: treating this health issue like a criminal one scares people away from seeking the help they need and exacerbates the socioeconomic issues that put people at greater risk of developing the disease that is addiction in the first place.