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And it seems that our understanding of what addiction is, is very important in terms of how we deal with public policy and whether or not we think they will even… People who compulsively use drugs will stop under any circumstance whatsoever. But the question is, what happens later? And then, we make that way less destructive or easier than it might otherwise have been under the current regime, that would seem to make it… Give you fewer incentives to look for solutions in other places. There is actually no data that supports the idea that if you give people the drugs they want, they will just never get better.

What happens is people kinda get better when they get better. Because we think that if we just push people into a corner and coerce the heck out of them, that that will force them to change. And it made their day. John Parker was my favorite story, and in the story of the passing out of needles, you were there for that event at least for the civil disobedience one, but also just the way he did it for years and years and years, and how much that was appreciated by people who use drugs.

All I want is for you to protect yourself from HIV. The problem was the politicians. So anyway, so Fauci pissing him off was a big spur for Richard Elovich to do the activism that he did, and he ended up becoming one of The Needle 8, the people who got arrested along with John Parker, to try to challenge the laws that criminalizes syringe possession in New York.

And I think that what we need to do is recognize that for every medical condition, there are cases where faith healing kind of things work, and especially if you are talking about a condition like addiction, where what you really need to recover is a sense of meaning and purpose and hope. And for some people, 12 steps certainly provide that. How is that not saying addiction is not a disease?

No, no, you can change a lot of other things, and seeing yourself as powerless is not a good political stance. And so what we did was we drove people from a safer medical supply to an extremely unsafe street supply and just assumed, Oh, we cut them off that solves the problem.

We just threw them out. Very, very effective policy. No, our policy has done more harm than Purdue Pharma. But it seems not controversial to say that cutting off supply might limit the number of new users in the future. Like it…. So what can we do better? Okay, so now that person goes to the street, that is not a success. If you enjoy Free Thoughts, make sure to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or on your favorite podcast app. Free Thoughts is produced by Landry Ayres. Free Thoughts E - Oct 15th, Further Reading:.

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