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The only thing that's going to solve this is safe and regulated access to clean drugs. Cut the black market dealers out of the market, and dump all the profits into harm reduction and addiction prevention and treatment resources.

The "tranq" additive that's becoming endemic in streets drugs doesn't respond to narcan either. It's only going to get worse. Wait till carfentanil gets into the supply.

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This is what I support too. If you could buy safe, laboratory made & tested cocaine or whatever in the drug store, the overdoses would basically end. We'd still have to deal with people who want to just shoot up in the back of busses in big cities. But we already have that problem. We have a problem with drunk drivers, but we already learned that prohibition didn't work.

We'd have to sell it cheaply enough that the black market wouldn't under cut it. And I can't see this every passing in america. Maybe if every congressman in america had a kid who almost overdosed?

This is the best and quickest solution. It's not without its own problems but they pale in comparison to the situation we currently have.

Too bad more people don't know how or don't have access to darknet markets. They are a panacea for drug safety problems.

Maybe this is the way. Spread knowledge of how to safely order from dark net markets and receive the orders, and saturate high drug use areas with quality and purity testing labs.

The average street drug user won't have capacity to learn how to order from darknet markets and may not have an address to receive it either.

Wealthy, tech literate demographics get their drug of choice safely while the poor or the youth getting drugs from "friends" or dealers keep filling body bags.

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