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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, instead of 5150-ing people the solution that works in other countries is to provide medical access to drugs. So basically allow someone to live a life with their illness after treatments have failed to cure them: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-now-allows-prescription-heroin-in-severe-opioid-addiction-1.3753312

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Yep, imagine how many people wouldn't have their life ruined by addiction if they could work their job and buy their drugs. The system we have now just turns functional addicts into homeless addicts.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    My nibling got off opioids that way. They treated him with methadone for a couple of years until he completely dropped it.

    Here's the kicker; Changed his personality (in a positive way) so much that him and my niece were no longer compatible. Divorced within a couple of months of him getting clean.

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