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Thank you for your leadership on this @eff
I wonder how will this impact recovery coaches, sponsors, or the +20 million people in long-term recovery.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/your-messaging-service-should-not-be-dea-informant
A new U.S. Senate bill would require private messaging services, social media companies, and even cloud providers to report their users to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) if they find out about certain illegal drug sales. This would lead to inaccurate reports and turn messaging services into government informants.
curious - we're thinking about looking into addiction stigma, misinfo on AI models (Bing, BARD, midjourney, etc) - preliminary analysis found some (predictable) problems.
BUT this feels like free labor for people with billions of dollars that should have considered these harms when developing models. I still think it's important to show how they are causing this harm though..?
thoughts? @caseynewton et al
What is a reasonable price for a medication that costs ~5cents with a plastic delivery system? Maybe $5-10 for OTC. MAYBE! I recognize that even $5 is a lot for many people, but it might be a reasonable number for states and is much closer to the generic injectable price.
I would *love it to be free* but do know as long as pharma is making it *there will be a profit motive.*
We need to decouple the opioid response from profiteering companies.
It's being reported that Narcan is are floating $50 for the OTC product....
Try again Narcan.
I don't see anything in Narcan media statement about the *actual price* of OTC Narcan. Just lots of hand wavy stuff about how great they are and how hard they are working to come up with a price. Because it's so hard to thread the needle between profiteering and access.
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@jonkeegan seemed like that might have been the strat the whole time.
I think these are smart people w malicious intentions.
One way to sow chaos is to show labels are artificial constructs then throw hands up and say, "guess we can't have them anymore". Way easier than doing the work to understand the problem.
They misidentified the problem to further their goals: labels v *incorrect* and *arbitrary" labels
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