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| ‘These people are broken': Why the UK's war on drugs has failed |
| 2021-03-22 |
| [Aljazeera] There was a time when drug use in the UK was not considered a matter for the police and judges, but for the doctor. Then it adopted the US’s punitive approach to addiction. Pat Hudson never leaves her house without a syringe of Naloxone. She will not be needing it for herself, but she wants to be ready for any emergency on the street. Naloxone is injected into the muscle and blocks the effect of opioids: If somebody has taken an overdose of heroin, it can save their life. "It’s a bit late, of course," she says: Hudson’s 32-year-old adopted son, Kevin Lane, died in 2017 after taking heroin. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Same reason it failed here. It was never intended to succeed. It was meant to be a political issue the pols can claim to support without having to actually do anything or solve anything. Bonus points of they make it worse. As well as for them to beat their opponent with. They never intend to actually solve the 'War on _fill_in_the_blanks_'. Just look at 'War on Poverty' 'War on Drugs', 'War on Terror', etc... Its just a reason for them to spend billions without actually solving anything. One of the reasons the left (and never-Trumpers) hated Trump is that he intended to actually solve some of these problems. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-03-22 23:53 |
| #12 Just FYI, no violence was advocated against Americans. I have long advocated on here that JSOC treat the cartels as terrorists and have free reign to destroy them barring only the use of nuclear weapons. I have said so many times. |
| Posted by: Cletch Flomble5149 2021-03-22 21:34 |
| #11 Silentbrick they tried that in Columbia in '92. The US sent "support" forces to help the Columbians destroy the coke fields and help bring down Escobar. It kinda worked, but once he was gone later in the decade the cartels just broke up into smaller pieces and were nearly impossible to destroy. Unless you break the demand, cartels will thrive. Supply and demand at its basic level. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-03-22 18:00 |
| #10 Does Hunter Biden count? He certainly deserves (at a minimum) a good horsewhipping |
| Posted by: Clusosing Gonque3915 2021-03-22 17:14 |
| #9 Silentbrick, you're not supposed to advocate violence against our politicians. It might be OK to advocate sending them to prison. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-03-22 17:03 |
| #8 Has there ever actually been a war on drugs? No. Start napalming the drug fields, executing dealers, smugglers, and everyone above user who is involved and receives money or bribes and the users get flogged/caned in public, I suspect you might see an actual drop in usage. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2021-03-22 16:35 |
| #7 Failed is one way to say it. Drugs won is another. Prohibition lost - like it always does -- is still another. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2021-03-22 13:47 |
| #6 #5 Drug dependence treatment in China: A policy analysis |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-03-22 13:19 |
| #5 Is there a war on drugs that hasn't failed? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2021-03-22 12:47 |
| #4 The same bien pensants who didn’t care that that the children of the poor and working classes were being raped by Moslem colonists, the rich, the famous, and the powerful also didn’t care that the same children were growing up surrounded by easily available drugs to dull the pain of their lives. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-22 12:20 |
| #3 They blamed Margaret Thatcher for the "Criminalization" of the counterinsurgency action against the IRA. It's easier for pundits to advocate "soft diplomacy" when they are not directly suffering. |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-03-22 10:31 |
| #2 Back in the day, the Larouchies often had a table at the gun shows. They had a poster with a picture of Queen Elizabeth II and a caption that read "World's Biggest Heroin Dealer." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-03-22 09:03 |
| #1 Of course it's the Yanks to blame. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-03-22 07:53 |