"Evil" Libertarians and the Drug War

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Buckey and Desh will hate this as they and their party are big supporters of the war on drugs unlike the "evil" Libertarians.




Four Decades and Counting: The Continued Failure of the War on Drugs

Proponents of drug prohibition claim that such policies reduce drug-related crime, decrease drug-related disease and overdose, and are an effective means of disrupting organized criminal enterprises. In a new Cato Policy Analysis, Four Decades and Counting: The Continued Failure of the War on Drugs, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall analyze these claims, using tools and insights from economics, and explore the economics of prohibition and the veracity of proponent claims by analyzing data on overdose deaths, crime, and cartels.

The long federal experiment in prohibition of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs has given us crime and corruption combined with a manifest failure to stop the use of drugs or reduce their availability to children. The Cato Institute has long been dedicated to ending the war on drugs. In addition to our latest Policy Analysis you can find more research on the drug war here.

And learn even more about the war on drugs with a free ebook download of the acclaimed Ted Galen Carpenter title, The Fire Next Door.


https://www.cato.org/research/drug-...141401397&mc_cid=8a99e232c6&mc_eid=6a352b4244
 
Heroin is still inherently the most dangerous drug to play with, so, it's only logical that it beat-out opioids and other classes of drugs.
 
Combover said:
Heroin is still inherently the most dangerous drug to play with, so, it's only logical that it beat-out opioids and other classes of drugs.
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it's become less costly & more available with the rise of cheap heroin, in combination with more restriction on pain pills.
heroin is an opioid
 
anatta said:
it's become less costly & more available with the rise of cheap heroin, in combination with more restriction on pain pills.
heroin is an opioid
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Ah, fuck, I was thinking amphetamines. That stupid article got me confused by separating prescription opioids out like that.
 
Combover said:
Ah, fuck, I was thinking amphetamines. That stupid article got me confused by separating prescription opioids out like that.
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war on drugs fucks everything up..look back at Prohibition and alcohol.
Al Capone, bathtub gin..for what? to serve a morality play
The template is clear. people will do what they want to do regardless of laws when it comes to drugs.

Better to legalize it all and regulate it out in the open. Libertarians have the right view
 
anatta said:
war on drugs fucks everything up..look back at Prohibition and alcohol.
Al Capone, bathtub gin..for what? to serve a morality play
The template is clear. people will do what they want to do regardless of laws when it comes to drugs.

Better to legalize it all and regulate it out in the open. Libertarians have the right view
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I agree.
 
Strict opioids laws hit chronic pain sufferers hard
Today in Massachusetts, many people are losing access to those crucial drugs, said Claire Sampson, cochairwoman of the Massachusetts Pain Initiative, an advocacy group.

Sampson, a nurse, sees the evidence at the Western Massachusetts pain clinic where she works, which she said is facing an influx of desperate pain patients.

“Providers are turning their backs on them,” Sampson said. “They’re afraid of consequences from the government. . . . They’re afraid of having their licenses pulled. They’re afraid of scrutiny.”

In many cases, doctors are misinterpreting or overreacting to new federal and state guidelines intended to rein in opioid prescribing, Sampson said. One patient came to her with a note from her doctor saying that “due to state law” he had to reduce her dosage. State law contains no such requirement.

Some physicians consider the new rules reasonable and appropriate, in light of the crisis of opioid deaths. But critics say regulations often fail to account for individual differences.

“Opioids absolutely harm some patients. But they absolutely help some patients,” said Dr. Daniel P. Alford, a Boston University School of Medicine addiction specialist who directs the school’s Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education program.

Alford decried what he called “opioid phobia” and “blanket regulatory changes that treat everybody the same.”

RELATED | Evan Horowitz: US facing not one, but two opioid epidemics

Patients vary widely in their response to the drugs, and only about 1 in 10 is at risk of addiction, said Dr. Daniel B. Carr, a pain specialist at Tufts University School of Medicine who is president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Meanwhile, Carr said, global studies show that many more people suffer from chronic pain than from addiction.

Carr and Alford say that certain patients, who function well on a steady dose and comply with monitoring, can safely use opioids for years. But lately, many can no longer get the medication, or enough of it.

First, she found good news: Overdose deaths declined. But she also found downsides: People in chronic pain had higher medical costs and worked fewer days, suggesting a decline in health.

amison, the Brigham pain specialist, said he fears that some patients, suddenly unable to get drugs they have relied on, will turn to heroin or other street drugs to treat their pain.

And although no one could document it, nearly every pain patient interviewed predicted an even more dire consequence: an increase in suicides. “More people are going to die,” said Rodis, the man with Marfan syndrome, who works as an advocate for chronic pain sufferers. “It’s going to get worse.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...war-opioids/i9YYLR0bGWFdP9z1T1pwjI/story.html
 
Buckly J. Ewer said:
Your headline;
"Opioid deaths dip while heroin deaths increase"

I'll bet you must feel pretty fucking stupid about now, Captain Oblivious"
LMFAO!
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I don't write headlines -that is a c/p

the "war on opioids" however is mostly about pain pills
which is a freaking shame -it's an EZ target, while reducing legitimate and needed pain management medicine to an afterthought..
 
cawacko said:
Buckey and Desh will hate this as they and their party are big supporters of the war on drugs unlike the "evil" Libertarians.




Four Decades and Counting: The Continued Failure of the War on Drugs

Proponents of drug prohibition claim that such policies reduce drug-related crime, decrease drug-related disease and overdose, and are an effective means of disrupting organized criminal enterprises. In a new Cato Policy Analysis, Four Decades and Counting: The Continued Failure of the War on Drugs, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall analyze these claims, using tools and insights from economics, and explore the economics of prohibition and the veracity of proponent claims by analyzing data on overdose deaths, crime, and cartels.

The long federal experiment in prohibition of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs has given us crime and corruption combined with a manifest failure to stop the use of drugs or reduce their availability to children. The Cato Institute has long been dedicated to ending the war on drugs. In addition to our latest Policy Analysis you can find more research on the drug war here.

And learn even more about the war on drugs with a free ebook download of the acclaimed Ted Galen Carpenter title, The Fire Next Door.


https://www.cato.org/research/drug-...141401397&mc_cid=8a99e232c6&mc_eid=6a352b4244
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just for sh*ts and giggles some more right wing racism from CATO
 
Libertarians have a great ideology. Let a country emerge as an economic power, and then say, 'Hey? What the fuck we need a government for anyway? Lets stop funding it, and called everything we disagree with welfare and waste.'
 
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