National Fentanyl Awareness Day is rhetoric supporting the War on Drugs | Opinion – The News Journal

Jordan McClements| Special to the USA TODAY Network

You think that May 10, National Fentanyl Awareness Day, will provide awareness of the overdose crisis? You would be right, according to the state, until you realize that National Fentanyl Awareness Day is supported by the group Drug Induced Homicide. Then you type druginducedhomicide.org in and the first thing you read is the headline: Why Are Drug Dealers Getting Away With Murder? You think it makes sense, but youre wrong.

National Fentanyl Awareness Day is a reactionary movement headed by cops, lawyers, parents, and other agents of the state who are feigning ignorancewhen, instead, they are painting a racist portrait straight out of the red herring rhetoric of the War on Drugs.

This is the backside of the Biden administrations approach to ending the overdose crisis outside its small approach to harm reduction. The supply is cut before it even makes it to the United States or any part of the world.

Going after cartels and dealers will only continue prohibition, as the state wants abstinence-only policies, which are enacted by the state to enact class warfare and consequently the elimination of the working class and working people.

There is a supply of fentanyl because there is a demand. When my cousin and I shot up, we went to dealers of people who overdosed because we knew wed get higher. And we did.

Now is the time to implement harm reduction and eliminate this red herring attempt a holiday that the state will recognize because it not only supports the War on Drugs it is the very definition of the War on Drugs.

I and my cousin overdosed. This day is a slap in the face to users and ex-users alive and dead, along with our friends and families.

Embrace harm reduction. The world hasnt and will never stop using drugs. National Fentanyl Awareness Day is a holiday for the state to announce all the people it is murdering due to its lack of harm reductionist policiesand inability to care about human life especially current and ex-drug users.

You want the reasons? The reasons are that the state doesnt want people to use any drugs except the three that help you deal with work, those being alcohol, caffeine and tobacco. Alcohol and tobacco kill you faster than any clean illegal drugs.

By placing the blame on dealers and cartels, you are taking away the material reality that not drug dealers, but the state is getting away with homicide on a national and international level.

This new day on the calendar on May 10will be a rallying cry for the overdose count to increase even higher because it is the antithesis of harm reduction.

As a nation and world, we need to use harm reduction instead of putting people in prison and murdering them by the state doing nothing about the overdose crisis besides further pushing the overdose count up with its abstinence-only policies as you and everyone else drives by us.

The reason the state has legalized only alcohol, caffeineand tobaccoand no other drugs is the other drugs make you question the American dream. Shooting heroin in your veins tells you that the American dream doesnt, hasntand will never exist. And until you realize that the state has been murdering the world in the attempt to stop this uniquely American perversity, we will watch helplessly as we lose our friends, family, countryand world die at the hands of those who only wish to preserve their conception of the state by murdering the working classes.

The world and its solution to the overdose crisis in harm reduction cannot coexist with murder from the state through policy failure and consequent murder of the working classes as a result of the War on Drugs.

Until people with lived experience shape policy, the assassins of the state will always get away with murder as they continue to further paint the nations face with the blood from our track marks.

Until you realize this propaganda machine through the symbol of National Fentanyl Awareness Day is rhetoric that supports the War on Drugs that created and continues to increase the overdose crisis you will lose your friends, family, country, world, and life just as we did.

JordanMcClementsis a resident of Felton.

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