This makes total sense to me: give opiod users clean drugs, so that they don't need to take street drugs that are laced with fentanyl and god knows what else.
#opiod #fentanyl #heroin #hydromorphone #overdose
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@mirabilis make sure people get their basic needs and psych help so there is less reason to take the stuff as well.
If you want a war on drugs, fight it by removing the reasons depend on them.
Yeah it seems quite arbitrary which drugs can be prescribed and which not.
@webmind @mirabilis in this country its called a "postcode lottery" and it actually does depend a lot on what district you are in (various factors such as costs, availability, risk of diversion (if controlled)) are used by the NHS management in each region so London, Essex and Suffolk all have slightly different policies/procedures!
@webmind @mirabilis I work in a healthcare environment where senior patients (at/near end of life) /legitimately/ get strong opiates; and local NHS have stopped prescribing the stronger ones and gone *back* to diamorphine (heroin) because there is less risk to patients from errors leading to accidental overdose (and to combat any paranoia about "euthanasia by stealth" from families who are often still quite religious in this area)