12-09-2016, 11:08 PM
(12-09-2016, 09:39 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: You read that correctly. Heroin is now responsible for more deaths in American than guns. More than twice as deadly, when you combine all opioid and synthetic opioid related deaths.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/08/heroin-deaths-surpass-gun-homicides-for-the-first-time-cdc-data-show/?utm_term=.7beeda16ed9b
But yeah, we should end the "war on drugs", not enforce the boarder, etc..
Yes, we should end the policies from the war on drugs, though no one has said we should not enforce the border that I am aware of.
Anyway, the policies from the war on drugs seem to not be having the desired effect, so maybe it is time to rethink our approach. Though when it comes to this it is a problem that needs to be addressed on many fronts. Not just our legal system changing to keep people from being afraid to seek help, but the medical field and how they prescribe medications. I am sure there is even more, but that would be a good start.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
