How Normalizing Drug Addiction Leads to More Overdoses
The city Health Department’s subway ad campaign reassuring hard-drug users that they can be “empowered” by “using safely” is not an isolated approach to the epidemic of overdose deaths. It’s part of a larger “harm reduction” movement based on the idea that the combination of decriminalization or outright legalization will reduce the tragic number of US overdose deaths — 100,000 last year. The ads are of a piece with the “safe-injection sites” inaugurated by the de Blasio administration.
But as evidence starts to come in from the real world, this Pollyannaish view deserves to be questioned.
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