• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    You can buy enough alcohol to kill you in any supermarket here in the UK. Along with other chemicals that could easily kill a person if not used responsibly. Pretty sure you can in the US too. Along with guns if I’m not mistaken, which can also kill if not used responsibly.

    If Fentanyl was sold at retail it would probably be in pre-measured doses, like pills.

    Your reference to a “massive junkie” concerns me. People often think that the second someone uses drugs they become an addict with no self control. Just as the majority of people who use alcohol do so responsibly the majority of people who consume illegal narcotics, including opiates, also do so responsibly. But because of drug laws they have to hide it or they could lose their job, be ostracised by society or arrested. So the only illegal drug users who openly speak about it are the addicts who have lost control and want to quit or mentally ill people, so they’re the only drug users people see.