Yeah but they’re the bad type of skin color so we can safely ignore them and nothing insane will happen.
Have you actually been seeing a significant number of lefty people say that we should ignore the drug overdose epidemic or that it isn’t a problem?
My “:<” was more about the situation overall.
This did fly under the radar for a while, and there was a bit of coverage, but no real political will to accompany it. In this case the GOPpers aren’t so much better since they don’t know how to actually fix drug problems, although apparently they’re changing the laws to stop handing out opioids by the 90-pill bottle after every surgery.
(I was given some prescription painkillers after my surgery and deliberately avoided using the full dose, or even many of the pills. I wanted to feel enough pain to know when I might be causing trouble. Apparently I inadvertantly followed what you’re supposed to be doing.)
God fucking dammit my I typed out two replies in a row only to have Tumblr’s donkey piss mobile app shit itself.
TL;DR the left has been trying to get drug addiction taken seriously as a medical issue rather than stigmatized as a moral failure for a while now, and I don’t see how there is/was “no political will” unless you narrowly define that to mean political will to put restrictions on opiate prescriptions, which is a policy that I’m still not really sold on even in light of the scope and seriousness of the epidemic.
Edit: also that emote only showed up as a “:” to me in your earlier reblog because of weirdness with how tumblr parses HTML and @staff needs to get their shot together
You’re thinking that I’m having a stronger reaction to this than I am. If you want to argue the point, take it up with Slart.
I don’t see how there is/was “no political will” unless you narrowly define that to mean political will to put restrictions on opiate prescriptions,
In fact, I did mean this particular issue flew under the radar, and this particular issue didn’t seem to have a lot of political will behind it. Left will is focused a lot on recreational drugs legalization and preventing all the secondary harms from incarceration (significant), rather than preventing drug abuse.
In the case of opioids, apparently what’s needed is prevention, as most of the addicts are ones that got issued dozens of pills after a surgery, when in practice they should be getting about five plus ordinary painkillers or something, then come back if that isn’t enough. (And policy is changing on this. Scott would probably have something to say about it in terms of dysfunction of the medical system.)
The “:” was probably because I originally typed “:<” on the mobile website, instead of “:>”. (I don’t use the app.)