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Yep, better keep the more addictive, more dangerous drugs illegal, because keeping them illegal totally stops addicts from taking them. Don't worry at all about the fact that not having a safe, clean source of these drugs frequently leads to accidental overdoses, say, because some dingus dealer accidentally stomped on the blow with some fent.

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Legal heroin won't solve the issue of overdoses. Instead there should be a "replacement" program - proposing different drug to these people, of course on 1 by 1 basis in a special medical facilities. Replacement drug should be cost free (so some clean and carefully selected synthetic low impact drug).

A lot of the overdoses you're seeing these days is because people are receiving drugs contaminated with fentanyl when they're expecting just oxycodone or heroin. The lethal dose of heroin is about 30mg, whereas the lethal dose of fentanyl is 3mg. It does not take much contamination to kill you. A prominent example of a fentanyl death is Mac Miller. Fentanyl has also been found in batches of cocaine and ketamine, and also has caused accidental overdoses that way. Overdoses can also happen when you are used to a relatively impure product and one day receive a much more pure version.

I know addicts, and I know the issues at play here. Do tell me again how legalizing / regulating drugs wouldn't help greatly reduce overdoses.

I support legalization for most of the drugs. To elaborate: 1. All legal drugs will help with contaminated drugs and overdoses. 2. Legal heroin specifically also will help with contaminated drugs and overdoses. 3. Legal heroin is bad on different merits than help with overdosing, simply because it is so extreme and there is almost no way for humans to stop it's use.

Meaning that legal moderate drugs is almost pure benefit with zero drawbacks, while legal extreme drugs has both benefits and drawbacks simultaneously.

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