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The opioid crisis has gotten much, much worse despite Congress’ efforts to stop it
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Maybe they will realize soon that they have fucked this world up so bad that disproportionately more people don’t even want to deal with it. Fuck, Canada has the same issues, and we even have MAID now that they suggest to people because the country doesn’t want to care for them anymore (veterans, disabled people who can’t afford rent with the lower disability payments).
Then you have the fact that the medical systems still push too many opioids, and people who reach too high of a tolerance on standard opioid medications seek out something stronger like fentanyl. If only they made access to other pain relief as easy (like cannabis), but that won’t happen until Purdue can put it into a prescience bottle.
MAID requires two separate doctors to sign off on. Is there any actual evidence that people struggling to pay rent have been recommended for MAID?
Or is this just so deliciously outrageous that we're just going to repeat it often enough that it becomes mistaken for the truth?
It required two doctors to sign off, but there is no restrictions on who can recommend it.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2022/12/2/1_6179325.amp.html
https://globalnews.ca/news/9176485/poverty-canadians-disabilities-medically-assisted-death/amp/
Anybody deemed mentally sound should have the option of a safe and painless suicide. Or is it only okay to kill people when they are guilty of a crime?
You are widely missing ehe point. It shouldn’t be an option if the only reason is ‘rent is to high for my government benefits’. That’s an absolute failure by the government
Good thing that's not a real option.
That isn't happening. Get fucked you little bitch and go back to Facebook
You can’t even come up with something yourself? So your arrogant AND stupid, I thought so.
Anyone can recommend anything. I recommend you find a large trash bin and sleep in it like Oscar the Grouch to save on rent and improve your current smell. Please find find two doctors to sign off on it.
That’s your attitude when confronted with evidence that goes against what you say? Get fucked you little bitch and go back to Facebook
Evidence? Look at the first link you sent me.
This is not government policy. This was not serious. This was a military grunt making a dumb joke that he got reprimanded for, that CTV is using for click bait and idiots like you are taking as fact.
Your media literacy is embarrassing.
Are you really complaining about media literacy when you are just making assumptions based on…nothing? Writing this off as ‘just a military grunt’ is so obviously ignorant it tells me you don’t really care about the evidence provided since you are just going to nitpick words and sentences, then make wild assumptions (like knowing exactly what was going through that persons mind that makes it a ‘joke’) and conclude that you were right.