Oregon State Police K-9 officers say they seized 80,000 fentanyl pills and 14 pounds of fentanyl powder in traffic stops on Interstate 5.They made the stops bet
I’ve donated a lot of money to organizations that provide free drug testing at music festivals because harm reduction works.
But I’ve also seen the lives of friends and coworkers ruined by fent. I’m for decriminalization but I’d be a fool to want unregulated, not properly dosed, fent pushed on the streets to the unsuspecting.
Please tell me more about how to fix issues caused by a cheap synthetic that’s 100x stronger than morphine?
What’s the solution? Tax and regulate? Safe injection sites? Dispensaries? Lockout laws?
Or will just leaving drug dealers alone to do their thing work out?
For overdoses, a regulated, safe supply. People don’t overdose because it’s inherently more dangerous than other opiates, they do because it’s difficult to tell how concentrated a random powder is, and the people selling it aren’t great at calculating concentration. Being sold by the same people as drugs like cocaine also leads to people using cocaine that is accidentally/intentionally contaminated with fentanyl, when they didn’t intend to use opiates at all. Hospitals use fentanyl all the time without accidentally killing people because it comes in a safe, predictable, consistently measured form. Plus people didn’t even want to start using fentanyl instead of heroin, dilaudid or morphine, it’s just that the market switched to that because it’s cheap, easy to synthesize, and easier to transport.
For the dealing side, sort of legalization (like, very grim medical dispensaries with access to treatment) would be the worst nightmare for the people who profit from selling and trafficking it.
Taking 80k pills off the market, while it sounds like a lot, will barely make a dent. It may raise the street price by a few cents on average. I’m all for drug interdiction for other reasons but it barely makes a dent in the drug supply. These seizures are acceptable losses for cartels.
I like safe consumption sites, plus expansions in access to narcan, suboxone, and methadone. Community outreach to users using recovering folks. We’re doing many of the right things, but we just need a lot more of them.
Thank God, they fixed addiction in Oregon
I’ve donated a lot of money to organizations that provide free drug testing at music festivals because harm reduction works.
But I’ve also seen the lives of friends and coworkers ruined by fent. I’m for decriminalization but I’d be a fool to want unregulated, not properly dosed, fent pushed on the streets to the unsuspecting.
Please tell me more about how to fix issues caused by a cheap synthetic that’s 100x stronger than morphine?
What’s the solution? Tax and regulate? Safe injection sites? Dispensaries? Lockout laws?
Or will just leaving drug dealers alone to do their thing work out?
Or maybe libertarian police? https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department
For overdoses, a regulated, safe supply. People don’t overdose because it’s inherently more dangerous than other opiates, they do because it’s difficult to tell how concentrated a random powder is, and the people selling it aren’t great at calculating concentration. Being sold by the same people as drugs like cocaine also leads to people using cocaine that is accidentally/intentionally contaminated with fentanyl, when they didn’t intend to use opiates at all. Hospitals use fentanyl all the time without accidentally killing people because it comes in a safe, predictable, consistently measured form. Plus people didn’t even want to start using fentanyl instead of heroin, dilaudid or morphine, it’s just that the market switched to that because it’s cheap, easy to synthesize, and easier to transport.
For the dealing side, sort of legalization (like, very grim medical dispensaries with access to treatment) would be the worst nightmare for the people who profit from selling and trafficking it.
Taking 80k pills off the market, while it sounds like a lot, will barely make a dent. It may raise the street price by a few cents on average. I’m all for drug interdiction for other reasons but it barely makes a dent in the drug supply. These seizures are acceptable losses for cartels.
I like safe consumption sites, plus expansions in access to narcan, suboxone, and methadone. Community outreach to users using recovering folks. We’re doing many of the right things, but we just need a lot more of them.