“It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense.”
Ah, but it keeps so many jack booted thugs employed (and here in California a lot of them are unionized Prison Guards).
RIP Amy, the 27 club was already too damn big.
>>RIP Amy, the 27 club was already too damn big.<<
I read an article (here on FR but I can’t find it) that many rockers with addiction problems died at 27. Hendrix, Morrison, Janice, and others...
God, 27 is so young! I knew so much at 27 and knew so little at 30. And that pattern repeated by decade until I hit 50 and realized I knew so little and will know so little forever...
Poor tortured child.
I don’t think she was all that talented but she was popular. She could have done a lot with that.
I really do pray for her soul and her family and friends.
I was thinking that the one artist whose life most closely paralleled Amy’s was Hank Williams Sr. And in the end, it may very well have been the alcohol that did the most damage.
“It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense.”
part of rehabilitation is hitting bottom. For many folks, this means several trips to jail, prison, hospital or what not. I’m not talking about confinement on YOUR terms, like these stars who “check in”, I’m talking about losing everything, and doing some real time.
further, as a society member, I’m not too concerned about rehabing a person, unless they want to be rehab’d, I’m concerned with getting drug addicts off the street where they can cause harm to me or my family, or themselves and their families (often their own children).
As someone who put the cork in the bottle many 24 hours ago, I will tell you, that you cannot force anyone to rehab. Those that try are beating their heads against a wall. I have never in my sober career seen anyone really rehab, that didn’t want to. I’ve seen plenty go through the motions, and get released by the courts, but they were right back again, using, until they either hit the morgue, or hit bottom hard enough to want to sober up.
It makes no economic sense to send people to rehab who don’t want to be there. It just don’t work.
(but let me be clear, the feds have no business in the drug war, it is a states right and power)