• BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    …I’m fairly certain monitoring waste waters to determine the rate of drug use is a common and widely used procedure. Like, it is happening and it has been happening for a while now.

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      8 days ago

      Yeah, they have been monitoring the amount of various drugs for as long as I’ve been paying attention.

      Now the religious leo bullshit, that is entirely expected and I don’t have the words to say how much I hate it. But like i guess it’s just one more front to fight

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        8 days ago

        It sounds like he’s using bipartisan rhetoric to justify funding a reasonable strategy. Knowing how many people are taking which psychoactives is important for making policy decisions.

        … An accurate monitoring system is needed to prove the effectiveness of different harm-reduction strategies. People lie on self-surveys.