Did Russia invent the world's worst drug?

[DinoDoc]

She was the only addict who presumably up until her death due to the drugs she so loved (more than her 2 kids apparently) saw nothing wrong with her habit.

That's a huge presumption.

In what way?

[notyoueither]

Presuming that she's the only person who sees or saw nothing wrong with her habit. It's also a red herring.

So what?

The point is to make certain drugs legal to cut down on the harm and crime that go along with blanket prohibition.

[DinoDoc]

Presuming that she's the only person who sees or saw nothing wrong with her habit. It's also a red herring.

I didn't make the presumption that she was the only self delusional junkie. I'm assuming that the husband felt the same way before playing such a large part in his wife's death and depriving his children of both a mother and father. I'm merely pointing out that they were the only what one might call pro-junkies listed in the article and that's all I was saying.

[regexcellent]

Only some of the harm of heroin comes from the toxicity of street crap. The drug is itself very dangerous. Oxycodone and vicodin abusers are getting it from pharmacies and they still manage to **** themselves up. The idea of harm reduction sounds nice but it's retarded because then you'll just have more victims. Making killing yourself slowly more attractive by making it a little bit slower is not a winning policy.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Doesn't this qualify as an assumption of risk on their part?

Why shouldn't we enact a policy that would lessen the risk to drug addicts? People assume risk every day by performing countless activities and the government generally tries to make those activities safer if it can.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Drugs that eat the user sounds like a self-correcting problem.

Your moralistic tone on this issue is really reprehensible. Drug addicts don't deserve to die just because you think their personal behavior is morally wrong.

[onodera]

Are there people that deserve to die? Even Ben doesn't, in my opinion.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Hitler.

[Aeson]

Your moralistic tone on this issue is really reprehensible. Drug addicts don't deserve to die just because you think their personal behavior is morally wrong.

... but what if they are baby boomers on medicare?

[Captain ******* Kirk]

I don't think Medicare should cover drugs.

[Aeson]

Not even prescription drugs?

[Captain ******* Kirk]

No. Medicare Part D was a horrible idea, possibly in the top five bad ideas of the George W. Bush administration.

[Aeson]

Just to clarify ... you don't think middle class boomers on medicare abusing prescription drugs deserve to die, right?

[onodera]

Hitler.

No. If you were Hitler, would you rather live or die?

[DinoDoc]

Your moralistic tone on this issue is really reprehensible. Drug addicts don't deserve to die just because you think their personal behavior is morally wrong.

Deserve or not deserve doesn't enter into the equation. Drugs that eat the user is a self correcting problem. Either the junkies will switch to another drug or there will be less junkies. Either way the problem solves itself.