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You don't understand why people are addicted to drugs
I think you don't understand it. These people made a choice to start using drugs and got addicted. It sucks but they made that choice.
Not sure why the rest of society needs to pay for their shitty decisions.
I genuinely can't tell if you're serious or not
100% serious why should I care about drug addicts and criminals killing themselves? Let them.
Wild
Should I rush to stop someone who wants to do bad things to themselves? They're an adult.
So you're the same person who says "do a flip" when somebody is on the edge of a building?
What no materialist analysis does to a mfer
Fundamentally, opioids are painkillers. Some of these people got hooked because their doctors prescribed them these drugs. Others may have been self-medicating for chronic physical pain. Are you blaming them for being in pain? There seems to be a physiological and genetic component to addiction—an inborn reason why some people get addicted to drugs or alcohol while others escape even if their circumstances are the same—that we're only beginning to explore. Are you blaming them for their ancestry? Still others get addicted because they needed mental health support while going through a bad patch and didn't get it. "Shitty decisions" are almost never the only factor in an addiction. Often, they're not even a significant one.
The rash of overdose deaths we've been seeing these past few years are due to the powers that be tightening controls on prescription-grade opioids, which have a known dosage per pill and seldom killed anyone even when being taken without a doctor's endorsement. Without the prescription pills, people who were already addicted were forced to turn to street drugs that can't be dosed properly because the purity varies from baggie to baggie. We've killed hundreds, if not thousands, of people as an unintended consequence of the War On (Some) Drugs—so yeah, this is society's fault.