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What does sensible drug policy look like?: Recovery-and-abstinence advocates
The room nobody invites us to Walk into any church basement at 7 p.m. and you’ll find the part of this debate that policy forgets: people who got out. Decades sober, holding coffee, telling the truth to someone on their first day.... What does sensible drug policy look like?: Harm reductionists
A dead person never recovers The needle exchange I worked at handed out naloxone and reversed overdoses in the parking lot. A man we revived four times got clean on the fifth year.... What does sensible drug policy look like?: Prohibitionists
The legal drug that did the most damage Here is the fact that should make everyone slow down: the deadliest drug epidemic in American history did not come from a cartel. It came from OxyContin — legal, FDA-approved, doctor-prescribed, marketed as safe.... What does sensible drug policy look like?: Decriminalization advocates
Portugal, twenty years on In 2001 Portugal was losing people to heroin at one of the worst rates in Europe. It decriminalized possession of everything and moved drug use from the courts to health panels.... What does sensible drug policy look like?: The Story
The experiment that got reversed In February 2021, Oregon stopped arresting people for possessing drugs — any drug, including heroin and meth. Measure 110 was the most progressive drug law in American history, passed by 58 percent of voters, watched by the world.... - johnrblake...
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I substitute a Delta canabinoid beverage for alcohol often. I tell ya: there's sum dangerous stuff out there. Mishandled the CBD cannabinoid beverages and edibles can b VERY intoxicating.... - gayle...
I used a lot of drugs when I was in my twenties. (I am 71.) Meth was my drug of choice. I quickly realized it was going to kill me if I didn't stop. When my hair dresser said I was losing a lot of hair I quit cold turkey and never touched Meth again....