'We are only as strong as the most vulnerable in our society. We’re only as strong as the least of us,' explains samquinones7 during a conversation with MrJDWalsh about the state of the opioid epidemic
Gabriella Santamaria, 9, holds up a picture of her uncle Stephen who died from a heroin overdose during a candlelight vigil on Staten Island. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images For the past few years, figures illustrating the nation’s overdose death toll, driven largely by opioids like Oxycontin and fentanyl, have been appearing in headlines with jaw-dropping frequency. In 2019, drug overdoses eclipsed car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
Reading about synthetic drugs during COVID, I couldn’t help but think about them as the ultimate variant that will overtake all other drugs, and whose spread feels all but unstoppable. You come down in favor of efforts to really reduce this supply, which is like stamping out COVID. I’m wondering how policy makers can stem the supply without repeating the sins of the war on drugs.
Maybe. I don’t know. I’m interested to see what effect they have. I don’t believe we should be saying no to anything right now. Every form of treatment needs to be tried. The problem that I think may happen with the safe-injection sites is that they will be evaluated with the statistics of how many people they revive, and I’m sure they will revive many.
First of all, I kind of bridle against the idea of it being a theory. I’m not upset about the word choice, but it’s based on street reporting. Sure, there is no neuroscience, rat or mice studies, that shows that the stuff seized on the streets of the United States today creates these problems. I understand that, and said that in the book.
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