Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

It’s fine to disagree with me but I’m raising a serious question: is the plan here to just maintain the fentanyl & meth addictions of people made jobless, family-less, and homeless by their addiction? If that’s the goal be honest about & don’t claim Europe did the same, it didn’t

https://twitter.com/ashtondelaney/status/1466085995351322624

In Netherlands & Portugal they pressure homeless street addicts to quit. They shut down the open drug scenes. They required people to live in shelters, not the street. Housing is earned. There’s less than 150 people the Dutch govt let’s shoot heroin bc methadone didn’t work.

Where the New York experiment appears to be headed is to have thousands of people administered fentanyl, heroin, meth, whatever, with no regard for getting people off those debilitating drugs so they can re-unite with families, work, and be independent, not chemically controlled

The idea, saving lives, sounds compassionate, and is something everybody supports, but where this is headed is positively Brave New World

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can just do what the Dutch, Portuguese, and every civilized nation does

Nobody has ever doubted that such facilities could reverse ODs, what’s misleading is the claim that state-sanctioned drug dens are the ONLY way, or the EUROPEAN way to do so. They are neither the European way nor the only way. In fact, they are a radical new experiment.

https://twitter.com/Seattle__kraken/status/1466094007100919809

No society has ever decided to subsidize the addiction of anyone in these ways

In both Europe and Portugal it was a strong public reaction against addiction, not drug prohibition, that led to the crackdowns on open drug scenes

In New York, we are in Brave New World territory.

"The direct delivery of opioids to those with an opioid use disorder should raise serious concerns. The movement to establish so-called safe supply is dictated by activists who... have failed to address significant safety and ethical concerns."

policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/july…

"Despite the creation of over 40 supervised consumption sites, opioid overdose deaths have remained staggeringly high: more than 10,300 Canadians lost their lives to an opioid overdose between January 2016 and September 2018, the Public Health Agency of Canada recently reported."

“In their zeal to undermine the 'war on drugs' activists are creating a prison system of their own: a mental prison of perpetual, state-sponsored drug use. This prison is even more insidious because it purports to offer treatment while keeping patients trapped in their addiction”