THECATINTHEHAT
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RCs may help people taper off more dangerous substances. Like an alcoholic who was scripted benzos so then usedrcs like phenibut to taper off. Poverty is the root of all this and bad government policy.
There is absolutely nothing harm reducing about taking mystery rc benzos from a Chinese lab. Sure certain drugs can be useful for alcohol withdrawal but consuming them without medical supervision and from a non-pharmaceutical supply is absolutely not the ‘safe’ way of utilizing them and should never be encouraged.
Not sure about the relevance of poverty but would entirely agree with government policy being way off the mark in some respects. Alcohol withdrawal is actually one area where the care available is fairly reasonable though, a benzodiazepine taper for that purpose has been a central and easily obtainable course of treatment in most Western European countries for a long time (and at essentially zero cost in the UK).