Adderall is basically chemically identical to meth. The Sacklers are fuckin billionaires for pushing Oxy onto tens of millions of people (who later had to go to the streets for fent and smack to avoid becoming dope sick if they couldn’t ween off successfully). It’s time to stop leaning into this bullshit drug-war rhetoric that was already de-humanizing long before benzo-dope and fentanyl etc hit the market.

Anyone who opposes medically supervised safer-supply is de facto pro leaving things the way they are, which are illicit drugs being distributed by cartels and gangs at extremely elevated costs to the user, which creates an economic situation that the addicts need to come up with the money to stay unsick by any means necessary.

In most cases the legitimate cost to produce a dose of a given drug is pennies. Street prices reflect all of the greed and logistics of smuggling them across several borders to get them into the hands of users. And those costs don’t take into account all of the violence and corruption and murder which come into play when cartels and gangs are responsible for those supply routes.

At the very least safer-supply would bring the cost down for end-users and those drugs would be taxed which could be put back into the system, instead of those profits being taken by assholes with zero concern for who lives or dies. I’m saying this with no love for the government but I would way rather go to a doctor than a street dealer (even while I’ve met lots of dealers who have more empathy than the medical system as a whole). I think that’s pretty fucking easy to parse.

People need to stop being so prejudice and do everything we can to help people with substance abuse issues.