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Yeah, the last documentaries i saw about Canada and fentanyl, instantly draw me back to the horror show in portugal in mid 90s before got better.
Its true Portugal makes you see the therapist if you are not a lost case. And there is some sort of treatment. A lot of free methadone, not heroin or any other opioid.
Addicts, since methadone doesn’t give you the high will still chase it, but they are lot less violent and rob lot less.
I mean, the problem is not eliminated but its better than before.
I have to recognize fentanyl was not present until the last 5 years and its still residual i think. Its been years i dont see the lab results so i might be wrong 😅
I hope it stays low. We have more of a coke problem nowadays. I wonder if that is laced..
I never had the chance of driving a euro car made in china, but i guess a bmw here and there is mostly the same.
But when they have 70% or 700%( tech) gross margins, the price is a game of adjusting to local cost of life and ability to get more credit. Fiat being fiat…
Is the brain a biological computer?
I do think so. We are definitly emulating our own brain in computers..
Funny we also work with RAM and ROM kind of setup.
When one looks into the Fractal hypothesis end up question phrases like:
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..."
Genesis 1:26
And as we like to play god..
Maybe the transiction from Carbon Based Life to Silice Based life is just one more step on evolution and we are the "gods" making the computer after our likeness.
Maybe the transiction from Carbon Based Life to Silice Based life is just one more step on evolution and we are the "gods" making the computer after our likeness.
So it seems like Portugal is the poster child for this and, at a glance, seems very successful
Boots on the ground here,
I was there when it started. It was good.. It was kind of amazing. Before decriminalization there was a huge number of junkies. Heroin took a hugel toll on portuguese consumers. Zombies everywhere, needles, robberies, shooting on the street.. Living hell.
All this almost disappeared once they started to open safe spaces and giving free methadone.
Safer spaces, lot less horror on the streets. ( its weird because despite being horrendous, it made me very scared of opioid addiction and kept me far from them).
Reality is, people self medicate. Anyone thinking opioid addiction is a choice, is because they dont understand how addiction works.
The way to go is not offering free drugs just because. You have to find a somewhat middle ground to treat these people and contain them in safe spaces for themselves and the rest of the people. And by containing i mean a facility more close to a mental hospice rather than a prision.
Most of this addicts would have a somewhat normal existence if they had access to cheap and safe drugs. How do we finance this is a another discussion, but treating them as people who need treatment is a much more correct approach of treat them as criminals.
This doesnt mean free drugs and skidrow alike campings.. There is a middle ground to be explored. Other countries like switzerland have also interesting models.
proibition wont stop drugs, education and family will
If the nation is short of 450k homes, where are the Spaniards staying now?
Its crazy here.. After 2008 the picture changed a lot.. We cant buy houses..
Madrid is now same aprox price of places like Washington DC where the income is like 5X
problem is FIAT and Government..
airBNB does not help, and that is a fact, but not the main reason.
If you look into specific turistic places like Tenerife or Ibiza, has more impact but Fix the money, fix the world