The only way to get these addicts to choose help is to threaten them with jail if they don’t do that.
I had a good friend who passed in 2021. He was an alcoholic, but he had been sober since about 2007 or 2008. When he was drinking, he did a really shitty thing by stealing about 600 dollars from his younger brother to fund his habit. His father heard about it. His father is a cop. His father threatened to refer him to the Maryland State’s Attorney for prosecution unless he got help.
So my friend went into a treatment center. He hated it at first, but afterward, he said it was the best thing that happened to him.
Sometimes, with these addicts, to help them, you must leave them no choice.
When it comes to drugs, societies can ban it with severe penalties, or freely allow it.
We in the US have seen it both ways.
Going forward, it is entirely up to us how lax we want to be.
Is everyone happy with things the way they are now?
Homelessness by the million, all major cities ruined, people defecating on streets openly, slow motion rioting and mass stealing of most urban merchants forcing closures of stores of all kinds, deaths and permanently impaired criminal addicts by the million, families destroyed everywhere, small towns destroyed everywhere, political corruption in every aspect of our lives, open borders, rule of law dead, prison a way of life for many families, dirtbag tat and piercing culture everywhere?
Everyone happy with how permissiveness has worked out?
You are right. What I don’t understand is why treatment options can’t be made mandatory in lieu of jail instead of part of the sentencing agreement. Does it really have to be all or none?