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I know this question is odd, but unfortunately we have a lot of unhoused addicted people in my city. I often see them sitting on a bench bent at the waist in half like a rag doll, or standing somewhere half bent over, like stooped over nodding out I guess? I don't really know anything about substance use, but it's such a strange sight, what substances cause them to bend over like this?

Poor souls. The mayors of big cities here have asked the provincial government to declare a state of emergency due to homelessness and addiction being so rampant, but Doug Ford doesn't give a shit about them.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Casual reminder that the Sackler family pretty much single-handedly manufactured the American opioid-crisis.

Dopesick this is basically as much of a documentary as "Chernobyl" was. Highly based in real events, but still a dramatizatio so not everything is 100% accurate, but the large lines are.

Sure opioids get used a bit elsewhere as well but I live in the worst part of my city and while there is opioid abuse in Finland, it's mostly "just" buprenorphin addicts. Buprenorphin is to fentanyl what hard cider is to moonshine, more or less. Yes you can technically kill yourself with both and definitely have a problem with the substance and ruin your life, but the stronger one seems to do that quite a bit more.

bits of Richard Sackler's actual deposition, acted out by your choice of the following: Bryan Kranston, Michael Keaton, Richard Kind and Michael K. Williams

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Sacklers. Just as the worst as cocaine cartels. Their properties should be expropriated to destroy fentanyl, and those bastards should be in supermax.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I'm actually pretty pissed off that people are trying to take fentanyl off the market completely. It needs to be a highly controlled substance but to take it away from the burn ICUs and hospice units is wildly inhumane.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

The supply of fentanyl out there isn't coming from legitimate use. It's all from overseas labs. So taking the legal stuff off the market would be a mistake.

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