You speak as if you've never read about the US opioid epidemic and how we got here. Do realize, this makes you sound like a religious prohibitionist extremist..
Your proposal is bunk. Someone who became addicted to prescription opiates does not deserve to play roulette with their life by being forced to buy street drugs after their own physician arbitrarily decides not to provide any more.
A prescribed drug, mind you, where one of the known side effects (of opiate consumption) is addiction, but the physicians prescribing aren't responsible for curing the addicts they create. Because <regulations, guidelines, prescribing practices, etc> mandate they cut patients off. This is "Just say No" all over again, but now it's the doctors saying "No."
What utter BS..
And to think that possession of fentanyl testing equipment is illegal in dozens of US States. It's as if the laws are designed to funnel humans to be slaughtered by adulterated product. Under the revenge-ethics banner of "they deserve it".
The US system:
- humans that are too poor to pay an expensive private doctor get to buy street drugs.
- Rich folks get private doctors that will prescribe what they physically depend on.
Ex:
Prince didn't accidentally die from taking Fentanyl-poisoned street drugs. He was adequately supplied with whatever he needed, for years. Years! While also functioning!
Prince was a functioning human, while also being addicted. There, I said it.
What harm to society was he? Why must we eliminate all addicts as you suggest?
Accurately describes the public costs of private for-profit businesses' whipsawing the labor force, and foisting all the consequential costs of periodic waves of unemployment onto the public.
Every corporate downsizing is an example of a "private decision" with clearly visible public costs, unemployment insurance payouts among them.
Social and emotional distress have a cost, not just to the employee, but their social group and family.
But, did I catch your opinion correctly? You believe we(society) are(is) providing unemployment benefits for too many months?
In your mind, who benefits from decreasing that assistance benefit? Cui bono?
ISOs may have a 10 year limit, but that's only for their ISO tax treatment status... they don't (necessarily) need to expire. They can convert to NSO by way of an extension. https://www.esofund.com/blog/nso-extension
When it comes to tools you use every day, everyone should be critical. Does this tool decrease my workload? or do I need to expend extra work just to operate it?
I'm a user of mercurial.
I've learned enough git to know it's an inferior tool. git's CLI complexity (and mental model) is patent overkill for 99.9% of all users.
Mercurial gets out of my way.
I'm able to clone and push git repos with it just fine (thanks hg-git!)
This is because both (git,hg) are tools that manipulate the same simple data structure: the DAG.
hg CLI's verbs match my mental model from decades of use of other VCS's. I'm able to perform my daily tasks with simplicity (including n-way merge/cherry-pick tasks that git "expert" colleagues often struggle with).
My 2¢.
I've used local (SCCS,
RCS), client-server (CVS, subversion, perforce) and distributed (bazaar, git, hg)
> Drug consumption is at least as much a demand side problem as a supply side one.
Perhaps you meant "drug importation is at least..."
The importation of fentanyl is not due to demand.
The importation of fentanyl is due to it's low cost (synthetic ingredients) and high potency (less mass, smaller volume when smuggling) - and its ability to be added as a potent adulterant to any other drug (can be used to cut any other drug, to increase dealer profits) - all without end consumer's knowledge or desire that it is in there.
> Bottom line is that you need centralised state intervention to eliminate dealers and distributors, coupled with renditions to remove the vulnerable from the exposure to opportunity, coupled with pathways out of poverty for those who wish to take a different life.
An overwhelming number of accidental overdoses begins with patients becoming addicted to pharmaceutical pain medications after surgery/medical-care. Those patients need continuous, unfettered access to both the medication they are addicted to, and no-cost medical care (and income replacement, if they are working), in order to allow them to enter inpatient detox programs. The FDA's approach to treating doctors as criminals if they provide long-term access to Rx pain medication is an injustice to every patient in need.
Patients that are unable to provide themselves with the pain medication they have become addicted to (through no fault of their own) will seek other sources, which is where non-pharmaceutical (black-market counterfeits) and fentanyl enter the picture.
Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States [1]
It would really help all of us if all media used the phrase "accidental overdose" because that's what they are.
When media uses the word "overdose" alone, most readers believe the individual who "overdosed" was ingesting illegal drugs and knew there was a risk overdose.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction