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News Brief: Fentanyl In Our Halloween Candy and Liberal Messaging Failures of the Overdose Crisis

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One Pill Can Kill

The idea that drug dealers are devious either foreigners or baddies in our urban neighborhoods, not our safe suburban spaces is an urban legend. It conveniently avoids the idea that maybe people want to do drugs and that that is something that is itself its own reality. Safety when it comes to drug use is different than pure kind of prohibition,. which obviously has everything to do with then drug enforcement policies, law enforcement policies. The only way this can be wrapped around teenagers is if all these who took a pill got tricked by an unsuspecting person. Drug users are criminalized and scapegoated as a group because we've created so many myths about them.

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