bioethicists:

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borg-collective:

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I think leftblr is a little too quiet about sensible drug policy and that’s really telling 🤔

Access to clean needles should be free

Testing kits for fentyl and stricnine and other laces should be free

Narcan should be free (and is given out by a lot of opioid awareness groups thank god)

Access to methadone and suboxone should be free

And this is all like… really basic stuff. I personally want full repeal of the scheduling system and other measures regarding the prison system

Drug addiction is a direct result of suppression of certain populations and the pharmaceutical industry’s push for the normalization of opiate use.

Anti drug policy is almost entirely rooted in racism and it serves to build up our prison system, while simultaneously denying addicts access to safe withdrawal measures. The war on drugs never served to help the people as a whole, and always served to isolate people of color and divide the classes even further. There’s a reason mostly poor people and/or people of color face real time for drug charges.

OP, the original post is not exactly the best one to stick an informative post onto and that’s really telling🤔

Dude I don’t give a fuck how my information is presented. If you’re not automatically willing to review your politics when someone brings up a justice issue, despite how it’s initially directed, then you’re still a baby leftist.

The left has an absolute problem with ableism, especially racialized ableism. As a recovering addict I’m allowed to make posts that make you question if you’re doing enough for neurodivergent people.

all people in prison for possession should be freed and given the economic and therapeutic means to recover from their addictions. widespread programs to provide employment and housing and community to addicts should be implemented and free to use. ideally, leftists should support decriminalization of drugs, widespread information about hiv + fentanyl + infections/safe injection habits and basically all other effective harm reduction techniques.

harm reduction rhetoric has been coopted in a lot of ways to become a neoliberal biomedical prevention technique with the purpose of protecting “””the innocent””” (i.e the talking points are about preventing the spread of HIV rather than protecting the health of addicts, who are still deemed irresponsible and unworthy by the public health system, hence why harm reduction is not seen as often in prisons) and leftists have a duty to reassert harm reduction as an act of radical compassion and grassroots public health.