Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News
We need to treat access to health care as a right and the drug issue as a health care problem.
Money is behind what we have now. Insurance companies are out to make a profit and their execs are out to make millions personally. My personal access to health care is NOT in their best interest. Take their money out of the system and move it into covering all and we will spend less with better outcomes. Prisons have become profit sources for corporations. Some are owned on run by corporations. Many sub-contract a lot of services to for-profit business, (food, maintenance, telephone access, etc. are examples). Incarceration as a response to drug use does NOT reduce the problem. In fact, it makes it more criminalized by being a 'school' on how to be a criminal and reducing the likelihood of being able to be legally independent and self supporting when released. Money spent on jails and prisons can be reduced and shifted to Portugal's type drug response. It would be less expensive and have much better outcomes.
We sure have a lot to learn from other countries.
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