Of course we do, but at least in Western Europe we take better care of them. There's generally social welfare programs, shelters, etc. In Amsterdam there's shelters where they can safely use crack so they have access to clean supplies.

The question "like we DON'T have them" is kind of silly. It's about how predominant the problem is, not whether we also have a couple.

The US has several times the crack user per capita compared to Europe, depending on where in Europe.

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[–] redsand@infosec.pub 13 points 3 months ago

The CIA worked very hard to get those numbers where they are thank you very much.

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[–] Gregers@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Some people are just assholes though. There was some junkies poking used needles in lemons in stores here to clean them some years ago, even though they could get free needles

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[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

Yes some people are just assholes, that is true. The point is there's several times more assholes per capita in the US.

O, crack users I mean of course.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I ve heard from someone in europe how a shopkeeper frequently has candy bars stolen.

The candy gets tossed on the street, its the foil they want.

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fake news

They would obviously eat the candy also

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[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Not on crack they wouldn’t

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I would have assumed the same but the littering of the candy bars was a specific part of the problem.

I have little reason to believe this person was lying, i also don’t want to give to much if their personal detail context online but fair i wasn’t there myself to witness it.

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[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

"Having heard from someone" this or that is a whole different category than the extent of the drug problems in the US.

"I've heard from someone there's this American Football team in Amsterdam, so basically football is the most popular sport in Europe now."

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

I wasn’t really comparing the severity of drug problems in the US vs Europe.

Just that the phenomenon is not exclusive to the US just like being naive about drugs isn’t exclusive to Europe.

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[–] bryophile@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Of course it's not exclusive to the US? The severity is exactly what is noteworthy about the situation in the US though.

What do you mean with being naive about drugs? I don't think in Europe we're naive about it, we know there's addiction here as well but we generally try to take care of addicts as fellow human beings instead of excluding them from society and making the situation worse.

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