The best recovery I’ve seen was a small faith based private operation. Unfortunately, a Bible is almost radioactive to many these days.
An addict can function and reliably make a living while using methadone.
I just hope Bobby has thought this obvious problem through.
sorry for being a hard, cold realist but the best solution for any monstermaking drug is to legalize it and let natural attrition do the rest.
It’s ok. The Darwinian approach is OK. Survival of the fittest. Those unfit will just die
Unfortunately, these things are built like a sinewave. The more we allowed it, the greater the consequences for when we finally stop allowing it.
It will be painful, but we should do something.
How about re-opening the state mental hospitals...perhaps leasing them out to faith-based organizations or commercial outfits?
A friend who is a Public Defender assures me that his clients who are assigned to the best rehab clinics for long periods of time permanently leave Meth or Fentanyl at less than 5%.
95%+ go straight back to their drug.
Shutting down supply will rock the streets. Crime will temporarily skyrocket as addicts try to afford a quadrupling of prices. If they can die of withdrawal symptoms, they will. I suspect many will choose suicide.
This is going to be a massive short term calamity to help ensure the next generation is not also destroyed by China’s chemical warfare on America.
(DEATH TO HAMASS!!!)
Well if we dont stop it soon 2 million or 3 million will be addicted.
My experience with addicted people...They will tell you whatever they think they need to say, take whatever you have to offer, all with the intention of getting to their next fix.
Drug addiction is a symptom, not the cause. Treating the mental condition for thousands of addicts...a nonstarter. Cut the supply is the only large-scale quick solution. The problem with that is it’s such a large business, meaning the agencies involved, that I question the motive of any program they generate.
Hogwash!
The last I heard, just LOOKING at a picture of a fentanyl tablet would kill a person!
A single grain of fentanyl powder is enough to kill every man, woman (whatever that is), boy, girl, and “other”, in the entire U.S.! /s
My apologies; I haven’t had my coffee yet...
Drugs must be expensive.
How do these homeless guys always afford it?
No fentanyl?
To paraphrase Marie Antoinette, “Let them eat heroin.”
I’ve seen a lot of former addicts and alcoholics “put on a tool belt” and rejoin society. It isn’t easy but it is possible. This moron really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
If there are 1 million fentanyl addicts, then how many METH addicts are there?
It seems we have a major problem with drug addiction in the USA that needs to be addressed.
They won’t put on a tool belt UNTIL they go cold turkey. It’s step No. 1.
Cry me a river.
If/when they recover they’ll have a real appreciation for something bigger and greater than they are, and that if they ever go back to it, they’ll probably die.
Schumer has the magic steet taco breakfast burrito cure. Corona beer, a Mexican lime and some guacamole.
That is what methadone is for!
“Friends” of addicts usually get them to relapse after successful treatment. The very talented Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark was sent to rehab for booze in AZ. But then he started dating a girl he met in rehab who did heroin and pills, and within weeks Clark was found dead in her couch with a fatal combo of alcohol and morphine in his system.