Daily use of opiates is not harmful to the general health. The horror stories most people are familiar with involve unsterile injection of street concoctions, anything from bathtub fentanyl to baby powder.
Lifelong oral users (and even users who inject using sterile technique) of pharmaceutical grade opiates can and do live long productive lives.
The decision to deny an addict a transplant is a moral judgement, not a medical one.
Most people's rational judgment on this issue is clouded by the highly offensive public abuse of these drugs by exhibitionists, narcissists, people generally so fucked up that their use of junk in public is to them a sort of obscene performance intended to broadcast their own personal degradation. Such people belong in jail as public nuisances and not offered the conditional "rehab or jail" option, which just wastes everybody's time and taxpayer $ in an absurd revolving-door setup that coddles the worst sort of grifters, liars, and leeches, addicts and "counselors" alike
Legalized OTC sales of narcotics to 21+ would at least allow us to isolate and punish the above-mentioned criminally antisocial assholes.
Daily use of opiates is not harmful to the general health. The horror stories most people are familiar with involve unsterile injection of street concoctions, anything from fentanyl to baby powder.
Lifelong oral users (and even users who inject using sterile technique) of pharmaceutical grade opiates can and do live long productive lives.
The decision to deny an addict a transplant is a moral judgement, not a medical one.
Most people's rational judgment on this issue is clouded by the highly offensive public abuse of these drugs by exhibitionists, narcissists, people generally so fucked up that their use of junk in public is to them a sort of obscene performance intended to broadcast their own personal degradation. Such people belong in jail as public nuisances and not offered the conditional "rehab or jail" option, which just wastes everybody's time and taxpayer $ in an absurd revolving-door setup that coddles the worst sort of grifters, liars, and leeches, addicts and "counselors" alike
Legalized OTC sales of narcotics to 21+ would at least allow us to isolate and punish the above-mentioned criminally antisocial assholes.