tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post6142293000044789166..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Medical Statistics III: Why So Many Opioid Deaths?Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38071051862903854542017-09-14T03:23:17.036-07:002017-09-14T03:23:17.036-07:00@Borepatch
Actions have consequences, and the road...@Borepatch<br />Actions have consequences, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.<br /><br />I'm no fan of government getting the camel's nose under the tent, nor the endless civil liberties violations palmed off under The War On Some Drugs.<br /><br />But decriminalization is fraught with more and bigger landmines than what we've got, as sure as gravity works, and they'll be endless. We do not have the same sort of Americans as we had here in 1880, so we can't simply revert to the 1880 status quo ante.<br />And the "War On Some Drugs" is <i>designed</i> not to do bupkis, and is doing exactly what your overlords intend, at every level.<br /><br />I observe purely for informational purposes that countries which execute smugglers and dealers, and incarcerate junkies for their treatment, have a near zero recidivism rate on either count, and nothing like the level of the problem we enjoy under the half-libertardian and half-jackboots model currently employed, which combines the worst of all approaches, and delivers them to us at the speed of stupid, all on our tax nickel. Dysfunctional government ineptitude for the win!<br /><br />And I daresay their budget for enforcement, court procedure, and incarceration is commensurately lower across the board as well.<br /><br />Their ammunition budget may be higher, but that's a feature, not a bug.<br /><br />@SiG,<br />You did more than a little, sir. What your wife found in her internet meanderings is probably just the tip of the government-trough and Clinton Crime Syndicate iceberg, and your essays have been germinating things in my head since you authored them. Sincere thanks.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-86251764763820826312017-09-13T17:49:33.142-07:002017-09-13T17:49:33.142-07:00Some of us libertarian(it) folks support decrimina...Some of us libertarian(it) folks support decriminalization because the War On Drugs isn't doing bupkis to reduce supply. Prices are falling, which means that supply is increasing - despite a trillion dollars down the WoD rat hole and a bunch of civil liberties in the local PoPo impoundment year due to Civil Asset Forfeiture. <br /><br />But sure - we all want legalized drugs and OD deaths, because reasons.<br /><br />Other than that bit, this was a great post. ;-)Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-12565510710511771842017-09-13T17:17:50.385-07:002017-09-13T17:17:50.385-07:00Thanks for this series. Just read it all on the l...Thanks for this series. Just read it all on the link to Part III from the Feral Irishman. <br /><br />Really well done series, that communicates the story clearly. And I'm glad to have contributed what little I did.<br /><br /><br />SiG<br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-37374918329329723332017-09-13T05:48:57.528-07:002017-09-13T05:48:57.528-07:00Reason number 13,987 why the Clintons (all of them...Reason number 13,987 why the Clintons (all of them) should be beaten with barbed-wire covered baseball bats, dunked into lemon juice, folded, spindled, mutilated, set afire, hanged, drawn-and-quartered, and beheaded.<br /><br />Mark D<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-77769002980722961072017-09-12T17:37:05.563-07:002017-09-12T17:37:05.563-07:00I have no doubt I could go buy street heroin cheap...I have no doubt I could go buy street heroin cheaper than I could get traditional pain meds. The problem being of course who knows the purity or potency or dosage etc.<br /><br />Much to my surprise I learned that way back in the day one could walk into a pharmacy and buy pharmaceutical grade morphine or cocaine from Bayer or whoever without so much as a doctor's note. You could buy any pharmaceutical without a prescription either from your local pharmacy or through the mail. I'm not convinced that it wasn't a better system. Yeah I'd prefer the guidance of a physician but if you want to go buy your own bp or boner pills at walgreens on your own I see no reason why you should be prevented by the state from doing so. One could probably make a better case for restricting antibiotics than opiates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-54606235630368940822017-09-12T15:23:35.553-07:002017-09-12T15:23:35.553-07:00Thank you for crystalizing what I have suspected f...Thank you for crystalizing what I have suspected for years. There is no opioid prescription drug epidemic. TPTP keep lumping heroin and Percocet into the same category and calling it an 'opioid epidemic'. As a result, they have made pain meds for people who have a legitimate need harder and harder to obtain, with lots of hoops to.jump through. And as a result of that, I think at least some of those people have turned to heroin, as it is widely available and it is cheap (sometimes cheaper than the street price for Percocets). So the gummint is actually creating heroin users. Color me not shocked.George Truehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352709031834067303noreply@blogger.com