IMO nothing touches opiates as far as addiction potential goes. That shit becomes as important as food, water, and sex to an opiate hijacked brain.

Still, yes I think they should be completely legal. Legalizing these drugs would completely destroy the black market for these drugs and greatly mitigate deaths from shit like fentanyl and carfentanyl.

  • sam5673 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I saw an interesting thing that said it's often not just the drug itself you get addicted to but the problems which you tried to escape with drug use tend not to go away and very likely have gotten worse.

    • MedicareForSome [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      This idea comes from the Rat Park studies which are now pretty much considered to be bad science and not possible to replicate.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park#Criticisms

      • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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        3 years ago

        I don't think that disproves the principle though, and I can attest to how different contexts rapidly change my desire to use drugs.