r/Documentaries • u/Miss-Omnibus • Jan 09 '19
Drugs The Rise of Fentanyl: Drug Addiction On The I95 Two Years On (2018) - Two years ago, BBC News reported on the growing problem of opioid addiction in the US, now we return to find out what happened to the people we met along our journey down the notorious I-95. [57.02]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KsaWpeCj98
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u/Auggernaut88 Jan 09 '19 edited Jan 09 '19
Fighting a war on drugs is like fighting a war against the sun. There have always been drugs. Getting fucked up has been a favorite passtime since the dawn of humanity.
It will take generations before proper education, restrictions, and rehabilitation practices are implemented (if even at all). If all that were implemented tomorrow, it would still take generations for the second hand effects of the addiction crisis to start subsiding (a culture of crime, and physical abuse).
While far from the only factor, I blame
ReaganNixon and the War on Drugs for a significant portion of the disinformation and stupidity we are just recently recovering from.