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Opiate crisis was so bad that all leftists could do about it was scream about funding free needle exchanges and the right to camp out on the street of certain cities. Portland ODs are higher than ever now, great job Team Blue 💙
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US Politics 21h
People say this shit and then the innovation is the opiate crisis
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Anonymous 21h

how is someone against needle exchanges? they’re going to do drugs anyway, so at least stop them from contracting diseases

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Anonymous 21h

You see an opioid crisis, I smell a business opportunity. Legalize private opium dens now! Far safer and highly profitable. Plus tourists will love the dark cavernous atmosphere, quite romantic

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Anonymous 21h

Hey how did the opiate crisis start in the first place?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 21h

If you want to risk your own life do it on your own dime. STOP building a degenerate society that caters to the least productive. Lol the entire U.S. would look like skid row with this mindset which is why it’s essential for Dems to fail.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

so you’re in favor of letting people die? doesn’t sound very pro life of you.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 20h

It started when Dumb-ocrat Bill Clinton’s FDA colluded with Purdue Pharma to say their Very Dangerous Opioid was “low risk” and “slow release.” That set the stage for perhaps the worst Public Health Disaster this country has ever seen.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20h

Was this supposed to be a gotcha? Did you think I was a bill clinton fan? I’m a socialist. Corporate influence on government policy is bad and this is a great example of why we shouldn’t have powerful healthcare companies influencing policy.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

Did you read the post? They die regardless but this time from a government provided syringe.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

Yeah so they do harm reduction strategies like needle exchanges because that is actually significantly fucking cheaper than the medical costs it takes to save someone from dying of sepsis, HIV, Hepatitis C, necrotizing fasciitis, osteomyelitis, DVT, or endocarditis. Who foots the bill when a patient requires lifesaving care but is unable to pay? Hospitals. Your brain, use it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 20h

Portland ODs INCREASED after starting programs like this. Is this how the left views “success”?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

That does tend to happen as it becomes more common to lace drugs with fentanyl. Which is why another harm reduction strategy exists, free fentanyl test strips. Why don’t you focus on the real issue? The distribution of drugs in this country, the growing fentanyl crisis, the fact that being homeless or poor is so fucking shitty that more people are turning to drugs to cope? But no the problem is the people trying to stop preventable deaths

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4h

this guy’s a master rage baiter. just ignore him.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4h

it’s cheaper to provide a needle exchange program than to treat HIV and other diseases. excuse me for trying to save government money.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4h

“It’s cheaper to give them the resource to OD” is the only tangible result from these programs.

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