President Trump has explained that his high motives for defining the definitions on Canada and Mexico stops the cross -border flow to the Fintanel, which “kills hundreds of thousands of our citizens.” When he put his speech in front of Congress: “They must stop fentian and drugs that flow to the United States.”
One may think that New York – which, according to the latest full year, He claimed that the lives of more than 3000 New York City residents in 2023 should participate and support his concerns. But the state is actually following a radical different approach to any drug war: accepting illegal drug use. Or, in another way, allow the drugs to win.
It is impossible to conclude otherwise from a review of the current media campaigns and services of the public service provided by the main state agency: OASAS Services Office (OASAS) and Hemp management office (OCM). Both spend millions to enhance the idea of safe use of drugs; New York residents do not urge not to start using drugs in the first place.
Among the programs offered by OASAS – the state agency in charge of spending hundreds of millions in national opium settlement funds – is always called “always”, which is defined as “how to request supply supply supplies.” The main phrase here: reducing damage, or contentment with difficult drug use. This is the approach that gave the OnPoint Nyc East Harlem “Safe injection site”, illegal under federal law, where addicts gather to use difficult drugs under medical supervision.
OASAS has created up to an online version of the same: “The” damage to damage “model via the Internet, through which New York residents can be requested.Requires to reduce the free damage that is delivered directly to your door. (Hats originally.) This includes “”Fntanil test strips, xylase test strips, and/or naluxon. “The aim of this is to test the illegal drug purity-that is not inhibited its use.
The “Safe Use” office, similar to the State Office for the Management of Cannabis, which supervised the start of the legal marijuana sales in the state, is characterized by a slow license and ventilation from illegal outlets. For all OCM “general education campaigns at the state level, such as”Hashish talks“I have helped educate the public about the legal aspects of hemp consumption, including those who can consume it and where. Safety advice for products such as eating and focusing on targeted advice for specific groups such as older adults and parents, and Medical hemp patients“
The aforementioned is the increasing evidence of the harmful effects of the use of marijuana in the first place – even as a warning of the boiler. There are no media campaigns, for example, on the results published in The American Psychiatry Journal About the risks of the legal user of adults, including “poor perception” in the long run.
Instead, OCM appears to be determined to increase, not decrease, use hemp.
There were paid ads including one urging more New York population to take advantage of the medical marijuana, A bilateral digital advertising campaign six numbers to enhance medical hemp “-based on the opinion that” marijuana is a drug“The evaluation cannot be the fact that, as Mayo Clinic notes,“ The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not agree to the use of hemp as a treatment for any medical condition. ”As the medical marijuana is safe, May notes that“ more study is needed to answer this question. ”
The broader point is this. State agencies in charge of treating difficult drug addiction and the safe use of hemp fails to educate the public regarding the risks of drug use. Even the modern addition to the OASAS media campaigns – which warns that online gambling can be addictive and harmful – urges only a “temporary stop”, instead of stopping directly.
In fact, the only public health warning that focuses on urging the explicit stopping to “use drugs” is to focus on tobacco; The state’s Ministry of Health has allocated $ 9.5 million to a media campaign to achieve this goal this year-despite the fact that only 12 % of the state’s residents smoke cigarettes now, and that the lowest level in high school students-2.1 %-now smoke cigarettes. One looks in vain to the issue of the campaign, which can complete it to “reduce damage”: the best way to avoid drug use: don’t start.
What was considered one of the vices to be avoided – drug use and gambling – it seems with us to stay. This does not mean that the state must encourage and enable it.
Husock, older colleague in American Institute of Institutions.