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amanaplanacanal on Dec 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America

In the US we are moving away from that model because for the user, the cure was worse than the disease.

rayiner on Dec 13, 2022 [–]

Whatever the US is doing is working great! Annual drug overdose deaths have only quintupled since 2000: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/u-s-overd.... Almost 40 times higher than Bangladesh with only double the population. Bang up job guys.

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