A new study shows that overdoses in the Pacific Northwest have increased despite decriminalization laws, not because of them.

“There’s always the hope that states function as laboratories of democracy, and when one state does something that makes sense and seems to work, that other states will adopt it,” says Davis. “Arrests went way down, overdoses didn’t change: To me, that’s an improvement over the previously existing system.”

  • remotelove
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    1 year ago

    I can add to the statistics with a short personal experience.

    Alcohol is a hell of a drug and it took years off my life. It’s been over a year since I stopped drinking over a 12 pack an evening (or much more) and I haven’t looked back. The thought of drinking even disgusts me now.

    While I may have done plenty of stupid shit in the last year, I haven’t done anything stupid that I truly regret.

    Alcohol is a hell of a lot more dangerous than we give it credit for and it was close to destroying my life. It kills slow and with as much pain as possible. Honestly, I don’t know how the hell I was able to stay out of jail all this time, TBH.

    If you are a person that wants to stop, please do. While I am no fan of AA or rehab personally, there is something that one of my old AA sponsors told me years ago that finally clicked: If I didn’t want to get drunk, I shouldn’t drink.

    Am I hard-core anti-alchohol now? Hell no! If you can handle it responsibility, you do you, friend. Carry on and be happy with being responsible. I’ll even buy you a drink sometime if we ever meet.