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Alcohol fuckin sucks(CW: substance abuse) (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Cummunism@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Got back from family vacation, got on the dreaded Facebook, found out the woman who was my first gf 12 years ago, and subsequently a friend I talked to pretty frequently, had died of liver failure at 33 years old.

Looking back on it, when she was drinking 12 years ago it just seemed like a fun time. I didn't know she sustained that pace for a decade plus. Some other things took a toll too, like an eating disorder.

Anyways, I am fuckin sad, fuck alcohol, it's as bad as heroin but capitalism gotta make that $$$$$

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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, this is why I fundamentally do not believe anyone interested in the prohibition of drugs actually cares about saving lives. Alcohol is at once the most dangerous and most accessible drug. Meanwhile Weed, LSD, and Heroin are all treated equivalently more severe by the US federal government.

If we can accept alcohol being legal, we can accept Heroin being legal. What we ought to do is make it illegal to profiteer in any way from either substance, while we give adult users a safe supply.

[–] Ishmael@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bars are just supervised injection sites for alcohol.

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unfair to compare injection sites which are focused on harm reduction with bars which are financially incentivized to increase the consumption of alcohol.

[–] Ishmael@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

That's a good point. Key difference