>>>>It is very sad when people die from opioid overdoses - very sad. And I'm willing to bet a steak dinner that the vast majority were preventable with better choices and better judgment.
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>>>Yes, most probably were preventable.
>>>However, putting people in jail for doing drugs makes no more sense to me than putting people in jail for drinking booze did.
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>>Again, back to the original point, O'Reilly has talked about tougher sentences for selling/trafficking drugs
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>Yeah you keep saying that - but that's not quite exactly true. He's cited Singapore’s policy of hanging drug offenders, and wouldn’t say that America should rule it out. He's repeatedly said that drug abuse is not a victimless crime, and that selling drugs is a violent crime. ..and then there is this stupidity https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2015/11/02/bill-oreilly-reforming-drug-sentences-sends-the/206572
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>Do the tougher laws work? No - it has no effect on drug use. Does it create more problems that it solves? Yes. Its not that complicated - war on drugs is dismal failure and has done more harm to or society than help. Now you got out-of-touch-with-reality Jeff Sessions at the helm in the process of making matters worse.

Amazing - I agree with you on something!