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Biden's fentanyl position sparks criticism from 2 sides​

Geoff Mulvihill
AP
8 Feb 2023

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President Joe Biden’s calls in his State of the Union speech for strong criminal penalties in response to soaring deaths linked to the potent opioid fentanyl are being rebuked by harm reduction advocates who say that approach could make the problem worse, even as some in Congress jeered the comments and blamed the Democrat’s border policies for deepening the crisis.

The reactions laid bare how preventing drug deaths touches on deep political, practical and philosophical differences even in addressing an unrelenting U.S. overdose crisis connected to more than 100,000 deaths a year.
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One phrase in particular — “strong penalties to crack down on fentanyl trafficking” — drew applause in the House chamber but criticism from harm reduction advocates working to contain the crisis.

While such advocates support other aspects of Biden’s framework, their view is that handling the crisis largely as a law enforcement issue makes it worse, and that “strong penalties” could be linked to permanently listing fentanyl-related drugs in the highest tier of controlled substances. That brings higher penalties and make it harder for researchers to work with them. All fentanyl-related drugs are listed on that tier through 2024, but it’s up to Congress to decide whether to make it permanent.
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Snafu in the Void said:
Joe Biden is the one who pushed for stronger legal penalties for crack cocaine in the 80s.

He's either out of touch or wants to treat it like the crack epidemic for political gain. Or both.

Whatever happened to his drug policy expert he awarded last year for his work on the crisis??

Fucking Reagan era politics.
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Reagan era stuff is such BS. It’s like they piss on your head and tell you it’s raining. Trickle down is piss too.
 
There no poticial fashion, it s an evolution in the speeches and the positions, it s not just one wo.man who marks its time, it's the process, and it's fucked up, designed to be unsolvable, by lack of eco-socio-economic balance
 
And we all know that tuff penalties will do nothing but put people in jail with no positive effect. Once one goes to jail another will just take their place.. it’s just business as usual because the market and profits will still be there.
 
Note they say fentanyl-related drugs but they don't say they're going to move fentanyl itself to schedule I. How could they, considering how extensively used it is in legitimate medicine.

*Forgot to add: this is an important omission since most of these products primarily contain fentanyl itself, at least as the primary active. Almost all the dirty 30's contain fentanyl itself (sometimes with analogs). Thus this scheduling gesture is an empty one since all these analogs are already temporarily schedule I substances and fentanyl itself isnt included.
 
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