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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
It says a lot to me that Rodrigo Duterte, ex Philippines president famous for encouraging drug-abuser genocide— and the American state of Oregon, which decriminalized most drugs in 2020 only to re-criminalize them in 2024— both seemed powerless to resolve unaffordable housing and healthcare, key causes behind most public drug-use grievance. I have been around plenty of rich people and there’s no shortage of unhealthy illegal drug use. However, because they’re not unhoused and wandering the streets, they aren’t understood to be a public pain point. Their problems and tragedies remain out-of-view. Lopsided prosperity contributing to lopsided basic-need affordability is the puppeteer behind headline-grabbing drug use and homelessness. The unwillingness to re-distribute unearned prosperity that was dubiously distributed upwards back downwards is why some now see a need for involuntary abduction and treatment for substance abuse: Having your own home and paid bills is an unattainable “treatment.”
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Trigs
@trigs
It won't stop until we stop looking at drug use as the problem, like calling addiction a disease. Drug use is a symptom, and treating symptoms doesn't usually cure the disease. Addressing the underlying problems, whether they are: mental health, resource scarcity, social & community support/acceptance, personal identity... The problems are nuanced and deeply embedded into our society. Blaming ppl for being "bad eggs" sure isn't solving it tho.
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