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To: pocotrader who wrote (1464192)	6/23/2024 3:47:28 AM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Recommended By maceng2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

People die BECAUSE of the drug war. Portugal has proved that. Portugal was once Europe's worst country for drug misery and deaths. Now, it’s a public-health success story with a system that's been copied by its European neighbours. In 1999, use of heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs was rampant. Approximately 100,000 Portuguese, or one per cent of the population, reported an addiction to hard drugs. Hundreds died every year, says Dr. Joao Goulao, the public health physician who has received much of the credit for helping turn the situation around." How Europe’s heroin capital solved its overdose crisis During the same period New Jersey also had a terrible rate of ODs. New Jersey has roughly the same population as Portugal. They had over 3000 opioid related deaths last year. You'll note the per capita rate of deaths in Oregon is fairly low. The states that are lower are mostly very rural midwestern states. Oregon 26.8/100k Washington 28.1/100k California 26.6/100k - as per usual MAGAs try to make out that CA is a Hellhole of drugs. States with big cities and harsh drug laws fared much worse West Virginia 90.9/100k = probably the worst because of coal mining and oxycodone over prescription ----- Ya gotta feel sorry for those folks losing lots of their kids AND dads because of ignorance Tennessee 56.6 Louisiana 55.9 Kentucky 55.6 This is no surprise to people familiar with the drug/alcohol recovery world. The more shit you tack onto an addict the less likely their recovery