“cutting the drug supply”
They can’t even stop thousands of teenage Hondurans from getting across the border.
It’s always going to be easier to smuggle Fentanyl than a live human being.
Addiction, like human homosexuality, is a normal part of the human condition for small percentages of the population.
The emphasis must be supplying the addicts with FDA-regulated liquid solutions of the drug based on their ability to tolerate opioids.
If an addict dies, I blame the politicians and the parents unwilling to accept the addiction of their children.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.”
The combination of buprenorphine/naloxone can keep an addict off street drugs, if the addict wants to.
Simply make buprenorphine/naloxone prescriptions have unlimited refills.
One $250 doctor visit and the addict never has to see an addiction treatment doctor again until the addict is ready to come off opiates with a methadone taper.
Methadone, tapered over a month or two, can wean an addict off opiates.
The US has tried to wage war on drugs for about 109 years.
All that has accomplished is to fill prisons with dark-skinned people.
Make it (and everything) legal and let the problem sort itself out. I don’t want to spend one cent keeping druggies off drugs or out of jail, let ‘em overdose and be done with it.
Yes, the swamp's solution to the unintended consequence of the swamp is more Corporatist stuff with unintended consequences.
And predictably, the politicians are mostly concerned about who will pay, and how much, and who will get paid. Like many freepers, they seek to avoid the reality of how it happened.