{"id":3842,"date":"2024-01-16T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T02:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/destigmatizing-drug-use-has-been-a-profound-mistake\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T02:31:18","slug":"destigmatizing-drug-use-has-been-a-profound-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/destigmatizing-drug-use-has-been-a-profound-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blue America needs to send a stronger, more consistent message that hard drugs should be shunned.<\/p>\n

The general message carried by the San Francisco billboard appeared as well in the New York City health department\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Fentanyl\u201d campaign, which last year told subway riders, \u201cDon\u2019t be ashamed you are using, be empowered that you are using safely,\u201d and further counseled<\/a> them to \u201cstart with a small dose and go slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nationally influential Drug Policy Alliance<\/a> goes further: It lauds many fentanyl dealers<\/em> as \u201charm reductionists\u201d who should be respected and left alone by authorities (because the arrest of a trusted dealer might cause users to seek the drug from an unfamiliar source). A prominent subset of academics provides intellectual support for these initiatives, theorizing that stigma against drug use is ethically wrong and also worsens public health.<\/p>\n

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