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Here's the thing. There's that famous study of Vietnam vets who used heroin. Turns out that 95% quit cold turkey and never relapsed. In Vietnam, their life was shit, so they used heroin to cope. Back in the US, their lives weren't that shit, so they simply stopped using.
Alcohol? If an alcoholic quits cold turkey, there's a high chance they'll drop dead.
This is partly why there's that 2010 study that ranked alcohol as being more dangerous than heroin.
So what you're saying is we should legalize heroin?
Edit: it was a joke, but for the ones replying, I do support legalisation (though it has to be extremely careful for the harder drugs)
Unironically yes.
Make all drugs legal, so they can be regulated for purity/safety, and treat addiction like a disease, rather than a personal failing
Among other drugs, yeah. There are better ways to deal with the harm these drugs cause. You can get high huffing gasoline aswell and that's not illegal either. (Please don't huff gasoline)
Try to stop me
Here's a relevant article about Portugal:
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-portugals-drug-decriminalization-a-failure-or-success-the-answer-isnt-so-simple/
The article's far more nuanced, but if you're going to ask a simple yes/no question, then yes heroin should be legalised. Done well, and if you adress the true causes of addiction, this is likely to result in the best societal outcome.