Maya Schenwar,: How Biden could make our growing problem with fentanyl even worse. - NBCNewsTHINK
Ultimately, to work toward ending the overdose crisis along with the racist impacts of the drug war, full drug legalization will be necessary, so people who use drugs can have access to, with accurate information about the dosages, composition and effects of drugs. This should be undertaken in concert with reparations for communities most affected by criminalization policies.
Although the Biden administration insists that it supports harm reduction strategies, the classwide ban on fentanyl analogs is a step away from those priorities. Come January, Congress and the Biden administration should let this policy expire. Five decades of the drug war should prove to us that increasing criminalization does not prevent drug-related harm. Instead, it worsens mass incarceration and drives drug users into hiding while more and more people die every year.
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