"by making desperate people’s lives worse."

Few people talk about "making peoples worse" as the mechanism to solving the drug problem (there are, but they are not a majority).

People might disagree with solutions, but calling others morons hardly seems constructive

(btw, I'm against criminalizing addict. Though I would have CEOs of opioid Pharma shot, and opioid pushing Dr. pressed into indentured medical service - so I"m hardly a softy)