Dr. Satel is the smartest person on drug policy in the United States right now, but as a veteran of over 40 years as a trial prosecutor, elected DA, and onetime defense lawyer, I would urge great caution. As in so many things, it is how you count. When I saw my home state, Oregon showing one of the greatest declines in deaths I became sk…
Dr. Satel is the smartest person on drug policy in the United States right now, but as a veteran of over 40 years as a trial prosecutor, elected DA, and onetime defense lawyer, I would urge great caution. As in so many things, it is how you count. When I saw my home state, Oregon showing one of the greatest declines in deaths I became skeptical. Oregon functionally legalized all drugs in 2020 and although a pallid recriminalization was recently passed by the legislature, the number of fatal overdoses is still staggering. And the MSM still loves to blame bad doctors and cosmically avaricious Pharma when in fact the deaths that came from semi-synthetic opioids (oxycodone) flattened out around 2010 while synthetic opioids (i.e. fentanyl) have skyrocketed.
True, there is widespread availability of Narcan, even if it sometimes takes multiple doses to prevent death, but the addicts are often back on the drug within hours. The one demographic that shows real hope is younger people. For decades the worst likely outcome of using a caged pill that might be Percodan was in reality bootleg PCP or meth, maybe mixed with heroin. But with fentanyl the safety zone is so small that many young adults may be getting that one mistake really DOES equal death this time, not like ALL the other times sanctimonious public service ads warned them in the past.
After the government department of misinformation fed us lie after lie during the COVID epidemic; after apparatchiks like Garland assumed control of Justice; and after inquiries were stonewalled or slow-walked; I have trouble accepting crime statistics, and believe there has been serious manipulation to produce a desired outcome.
Dr. Satel is the smartest person on drug policy in the United States right now, but as a veteran of over 40 years as a trial prosecutor, elected DA, and onetime defense lawyer, I would urge great caution. As in so many things, it is how you count. When I saw my home state, Oregon showing one of the greatest declines in deaths I became skeptical. Oregon functionally legalized all drugs in 2020 and although a pallid recriminalization was recently passed by the legislature, the number of fatal overdoses is still staggering. And the MSM still loves to blame bad doctors and cosmically avaricious Pharma when in fact the deaths that came from semi-synthetic opioids (oxycodone) flattened out around 2010 while synthetic opioids (i.e. fentanyl) have skyrocketed.
True, there is widespread availability of Narcan, even if it sometimes takes multiple doses to prevent death, but the addicts are often back on the drug within hours. The one demographic that shows real hope is younger people. For decades the worst likely outcome of using a caged pill that might be Percodan was in reality bootleg PCP or meth, maybe mixed with heroin. But with fentanyl the safety zone is so small that many young adults may be getting that one mistake really DOES equal death this time, not like ALL the other times sanctimonious public service ads warned them in the past.
After the government department of misinformation fed us lie after lie during the COVID epidemic; after apparatchiks like Garland assumed control of Justice; and after inquiries were stonewalled or slow-walked; I have trouble accepting crime statistics, and believe there has been serious manipulation to produce a desired outcome.