Drug policy continues to fixate on symptoms rather than the actual disease
Friends and family members of people who have died from overdoses gather for an annual memorial, August 19, 2023, in downtown Binghamton, New York.Why do people use drugs? It’s one of those neglected questions with answers right in front of our noses. We just refuse to look.Lost in today’s raging debate over drug policy and how to curb this spiraling mortality is the deep malaise that lies at the root of substance use in America.
The unhoused person smoking fentanyl in Portland, Ore., or the couple injecting methamphetamine in isolated ruins in northern Alabama, need much more than what current policy options can deliver. That’s because the dominant policy models are utterly divorced from the emotional pain flowing out of today’s social and economic structures that fuel compulsive use of highly lethal substances..
Thanks to a disjointed and profit-driven health care system, other crucial medications rarely make it to people who need them. Manymedication to treat opioid addiction A lack of scientific knowledge or clinical skill is not to blame for these abysmal findings. Instead, it’s our Kafkaesque health system, littered with holes, gaps and silos, that is incapable of administering the best treatments science has to offer. People struggling with addiction areand widely seen across the political spectrum as a costly failure. And yet attempts to decriminalize drugs and create robust systems of health care and social services.
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