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dftba-ftw t1_j1mfprf wrote

Reply to comment by ohhelloperson in Machine learning model reliably predicts risk of opioid use disorder for individual patients, that could aid in prevention by marketrent

I think they're trying to argue that we should just let this people kill themselfs so that their genes don't get passed on.

So basically they're shouting "I'm a horrible human being"

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Devil_May_Kare t1_j1pkueq wrote

Opioid use rarely kills people with clean drugs of known strength. Opioid use kills people when they don't know how strong their drugs are and take too much by mistake, and when they consume poisons along with the drug, but those risks can be removed without removing the opioid.

So letting people buy opioids over the counter wouldn't actually cause people that kill themselves and not pass on their genes.

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