Sometimes I get the impression that just about everybody is pretty disastrously wrong about something, so much so that a layperson like me can't even determine which direction is up. I feel that way about drug abuse epidemics.
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We talk a lot about "stigma," but we also talk about "normalizing," and then we skirt around the obvious questions re: whether it's desirable to reduce the stigma on current users if it risks normalizing use. (Which is, ofc, a very big deal if we can't effectively treat addicts.)
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People understand that LSD isn't the same as meth, but they don't necessarily get that 1990s meth may not be functionally equivalent to 2020s meth. And so on. Opioids have been with us for centuries, but the mortality rates we're seeing now are new. We need to zoom way, way out.
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I do actually worry, for example, that broader **public** elite acceptance and utilization of some so-called "hard drugs" — LSD and mushrooms (for insight), ketamine & MDMA (for mental illness), etc. — may have paved the way for broader acceptance of more addictive drugs
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It can simultaneously be true that mushrooms for end-of-life care, MDMA for trauma & ketamine for depression are all brilliant suppressed treatments, AND that street meth and heroin are zombifying and killing the less privileged at an alarming clip
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In this current world opiods+benzodiazepines=death and there's fentanyl in everything, easy to lethally OD. And there isn't a one size fits all when it comes to getting clean, although there are commonalities. And most addicts don't want to get clean.
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We need more alternative names for drugs to describe them more accurately. Lumping LSD (not addictive) & Opioids (very addictive) completely disregards the part about addiction. Some drugs are virtuous, most are not.
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Drugs that... Lead to a virtuous cycle = good Lead to a vicious cycle = bad I 'm all for legalizing & destroying stigma. It works for alcohol...
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