Don't know about others but it seems to not work in Vietnam. While Vietnam has largely decreased the production and use of opium they absolutely failed to do anything to stop the increase in numbers of addicts which has been continually rising since the 90s. Even they are now switching from viewing addiction as a vice to viewing it as a health issue since their policies did nothing to stop people using.
According to UNODC, Vietnam’s drug overdose rate per million people was 36 in 2016. It was over 230 in the US at the same time. You can treat addiction as a health issue while executing drug dealers. That’s what Singapore does.
> According to UNODC, Vietnam’s drug overdose rate per million people was 36 in 2016. It was over 230 in the US at the same time.
How is this relevant to anything that I wrote? Besides, EU has lower drug overdoes rates than Vietnam without any need to execute anybody. Why do you think that we should kill people for these types of crimes when looking at the numbers it appears, to me, to do almost nothing to help solve the problem?
> You can treat addiction as a health issue while executing drug dealers. That’s what Singapore does.
Judging by the number of countries that don't execute anyone and have lower numbers why don't we just skip the killings?
