I don't know.
One of my girlfriends daughters has overdosed three times just this year already, and I am pretty sure that it does not have anything to do with it being illegal. With her, she was just going to a bigger dose
There's always gonna be stupid people. Believe it or not, not all drug users are stupid. Most of 'em you won't even know are users.
Most users have families, successful careers, etc... We just notice the outliers, the ones that couldn't maintain their use. Also, these same users are the idiots that tend to get caught with drugs and end up in jail. We notice the junkies. We notice the fucking idiots that can't maintain. At least that's my observation.
Well, no... There's a skew towards the dumber or poorer - but it's not as large a skew as people think. For every full blown junkie I know, I probably know a half dozen users that use and maintain their shit well enough to function.
Damned right! Opie's not the only idiot!
I also suspect you see a different set of users. You're in a different economic and social class than I'm in. You probably don't see the drug users that wear suits and drive luxury sedans to their six figure job. You might not notice the tradesman that pulls down middle-class income but gets high as fuck on the weekends.
A goodly percentage of ODs are from people whose family (and few friends) even knew they were using.
If it was just junkies dying, nobody would give a shit.
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