Legalize psychedelics to treat addiction.
Use of pharmaceutical grade psychedelics in a clinical setting might have some benefit.
Having made poor choices in the past (drugs) they now have the neuro-chemical pathways cut into their ~brians~ brains; literal ruts that signals will prefer to get to the end-state (high/low).
With enough use, heroin doesn't leave a person with choice, but rather impulse.
[edit] lol, brians [/edit]
I think it's undisputed that there would be a lot fewer deaths per addict if the heroin available were (1) of a known concentration, (2) not fentanyl, and (3) devoid of other harmful adulterants.
The problem people argue about re: legalizing heroin is that they expect the number of addicts to rise.
n.b. My brother died of a heroin overdose. He made that decision himself and the existing laws did not help prevent.
FTFY. Since you care so much, please grant me control over your life to approve what you consume.
Videos still float around, but they seem to have this voyeristic leer to them (like malign scared-straight after school specials) that genuine footage or journalistic coverage usually doesn't carry.
On top of that, there aren't many people actually owning up to being involved in the footage that does surface, and people who claim to have witnessed instances or met individuals affected by it, only seem to be the kind to tell tall tales.
This leads me to wonder if it was largely a media campaign to get in front of a problem, and head it off, before something like its portrayal emerged.
One could say [...] benefit?
But more to the point, people are helped by information, and not perversions thereof.
If it were helpful it would neither be called disinformation nor misinformation. It would just be accurate information, applied in a practical manner.