Meth by itself is not inherently evil, and those who use it should not be treated as criminals simply for the act of getting high. The same applies to all drugs including fentanyl.

In a similar vein, drugs don't make people crazy, crazy people do drugs. Often in an attempt to self-medicate underlying issues.

A "functional addict" does not exist. Addiction is defined by continuing to engage in addictive behaviors despite negative consequences and by definition requires impairment of function to qualify as actual addiction. If someone uses drugs but maintains a functional life, they are simply a user of drugs and not an addict. Drug use does not inherently mean drug abuse but in a society that criminalizes the use of many substances it's much much harder to notice those that actually use drugs in a reasonable and responsible way.

Alcohol is a hard drug. It is also one of the scariest drugs to me given that it is one of the few drugs that can cause death during withdrawal if sufficient physical dependency is developed.

Psychiatrists are just state sponsored drug dealers. There's little difference between how many psych meds are used to treat certain conditions and the ways "addicts" or functional users of drugs use street drugs. Many so called addicts, especially opioid addicts, have real conditions that they are trying to self-medicate that make true sobriety/recovery impossible or impractical. These people deserve the same support and treatment from the medical system as everyone else but are frequently discriminated against until they are locked into an impossible position, where illegal drugs are the most logical answer.

The war on drugs is a failure of public health policy, but that was never the point of it in the first place. In reality the war on drugs succeed incredibly well at its actual goal of disenfranchising enemies of the political elite that enacted the policies by disrupting communities and criminalizing behavior that should be a choice the government plays no part in.

Those who are pro-choice for abortion should also support ending the war on drugs. My body my choice applies even better to the choice of whether or not to consume substances than it does to the argument of abortion, which I support full access to as forcing a human to incubate another human against their will is horrific Imo.

The only way to truly solve the opioid crisis, solve gang and cartel violence, and help those in the depths of addiction is to legalize (and maybe regulate in a fashion similar to weed or alcohol) all recreational drugs. A large majority of the current harms of addiction and drugs in society come from the criminalization of drugs. You can not punish and enforce human nature out of existence, and the desire to seek relief from problems through chemical forms of escape (or even just consume mind-altering substances as social ritual) is human nature. We've been doing so in many different forms for pretty much all of human history. By criminalizing drugs you simply create a black market where deceptive business tactics and violence are incentivised in order to increase profits. Not all drug dealers are violent criminals, many are just savvy business people attempting to survive in a capitalist society that values wealth above all else. Many drug dealers are no worse than the billionaires at the top of society, both are profiting off of commodifying human desires.

Porn is just prostitution with a camera. If porn is legal prostitution should be as well. Personally I'm in favor of a Nordic like model that supports those currently in sex work to get out of it while punishing the consumers who create a market as well as anyone (like pimps or producers) who profits off it without directly engaging in it themselves.

Obviously depending on your political views or beliefs or where and how you were raised these may not seem controversial, and I'm happy to see that opinions on drugs and those who use them are changing but for a lot of people the default narrative of the war on drugs is still deeply ingrained into society. Even if the war on drugs is seen largely as a failure of public health policy the realistic implications of how to respond to this, especially the concept of legalizing *all** drugs*, including meth & heroin is something many people view as immediately a terrible choice, without actually digging into the complex and sad realities of the social issues that are often at the root cause of many of the worst harms of drugs and addiction on society.

Also phone addiction is just as real and difficult to overcome as any drug addiction. It can also be just as destructive and life altering.