“I don’t need no drugs in my system ’cause my dancing and didge sets me free.”- Bruce AKA Boy BC.
Reading through the material the Australian government has provided to the public as part of various drug campaigns has been very effective in both testing my patience and draining my hope that policy disgraces of this variety can’t persist for much longer. The fact that these campaigns are not subject to any serious scrutiny seems to suggest a level of misinformation about drugs that surprises even me. How anyone could process this shit and not be left at the very least confused is something I am having difficulty comprehending. To better illustrate what exactly I mean, here’s some of the content on heroin from the most recent government mindfuck, entitled “Where’s Your Head At?” (An understandable question).
Heroin is an ‘opioid’, which is a term that refers to substances similar to the drug morphine. Street heroin is mixed with other substances, such as glucose, caffeine, sugar and paracetamol. These additives can be dangerous when added to heroin.
Hold your questions, there’s more…
Because there’s no way to tell the purity of heroin being used, users can’t gauge the amount they are taking and can accidentally overdose. Heroin overdose is one of the leading causes of death in Australia in 18 to 34 year-olds, and non-fatal overdoses are common amongst heroin users.
Other than perhaps the imprecise definition contained within the first sentence, this is accurate information. That is, information about the heroin supplied illegally under current conditions. It conveniently ignores two simple questions. Why is street heroin mixed with other dangerous substances, and why is there no way to tell the purity of heroin being used? The answers to these questions are simple (The market is furious), yet they expose the huge flaws in the conclusions that the government is attempting to convince the reader to accept. From that point, the real causes of the drug problem that don’t receive any form of acknowledgement in the campaign materials at all become easily identifiable. The agenda falls apart from there, and the most important question of all eventually arises-
Wouldn’t it be more effective to legalise all drugs?
Of course, getting that far also means the realisation that by maintaining a policy of drug prohibition the government is willingly causing countless preventable deaths. Oh dear!
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