Posted on 08/19/2007 7:34:56 PM PDT by ventanax5
Drug-addiction services have also grown massively. In our society, every problem calls forth its equal and supposedly opposite bureaucracy, the ostensible purpose of which is to solve the problem.
But the bureaucracy quickly develops a survival instinct, and so no more wishes the problem to disappear altogether than the lion wishes to kill all the gazelle in the bush and leave itself without food.
In short, the bureaucracy of drug addiction needs drug addicts far more than drug addicts need the bureaucracy of drug addiction.
The propaganda, assiduously spread for many years now, is that heroin addiction is an "illness". This view serves the interests both of the addicts who wish to continue their habit while placing the blame for their behaviour elsewhere, and the bureaucracy that wishes to continue in employment, preferably for ever and at higher rates of pay.
Viewing addiction as an illness automatically implies there is a medical solution to it. So, when all the proposed "cures" fail to work, addicts blame not themselves but those who have offered them ineffectual solutions.
And for bureaucracies, nothing succeeds like failure. The Government spends more than a quarter of a billion pounds a year on drug treatment in the UK, despite there being little evidence of any reduction in the number of addicts.
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How very compassionate of you. Prison is a very disturbing experience for most people, though there does seem to be a certain class of folk who thrive there. Perhaps they, like you, think it's a character-building experience.
This author is full of unadulterated bovine scatology.
I’m an addict, and a LLLLLOOOONG time ago, it stopped being a moral decision for me. It actually became a true disease.
(PS: I’m clean multiple years now)
Holy moly! My beeber is stuned! I didn’t gno you were an adickt too!
just vokca and zanaxe im better now I wrote the beeber thread sober by the way
I was into cocaine. Life is much better without it!
It was my experience as a former mental health profession who worked in a chemical dependancy unit that no one gives up anything unless they want to give it up. I also (and I had to keep it to myself cuz of the higher ups) disagreed then and now with the *disease* concept utilized in many treatment programs.
Until someone is forcing these drug users at gun point to shoot up or snort some, IMO, its a choice these people make.
How very compassionate of you
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Thank you for the complement.
It is only when people reach a broken state that they can be repaired, whether in a spiritual sense or worldly sense. I have worked with men out of prison and those dealing with addictions. If you enable them so that they don’t have to bear the full consequences of their actions, they will continue the behaviour.
NEVER REACH OUT FOR A FALLING KNIFE, WAIT UNTIL IT HAS HIT THE FLOOR. THEN IT IS OK TO PICK IT UP.
They may have the same number of heroin addicts per capita, but their overall drug problem is a fraction of ours.
Decreased as compared to what? What it would have been if there was no "WOD"?
I'm sure of it. Nobody would seriously argue that ANY activity DECREASES when legalized. Unless they were high or something. ;-)
And legalizing drug usage would make the drugs even more available and remove the social stigma of illegal drug use, thus increasing supply and demand. Great idea? Not so much.
First of all, it does serve as a deterrent. Most people don't want to go to jail. Secondly, if you are suggesting that incarceration can't be a benefit in learning to become a good citizen (i.e, stay out of trouble - stay out of jail), then I guess your argument is that only people with life sentences should be serving time.
I disagree. Going to jail, even if for only a short period, is the best thing that could ever happen to someone headed in the wrong direction.
It was my experience as a former mental health profession who worked in a chemical dependancy unit that no one gives up anything unless they want to give it up. I also (and I had to keep it to myself cuz of the higher ups) disagreed then and now with the *disease* concept utilized in many treatment programs.
Until someone is forcing these drug users at gun point to shoot up or snort some, IMO, its a choice these people make.
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I totally agree, and I also worked in a mental health hospital. . . . for 11 years.
I’m all for treating substance abuse as exactly what it is- moral weakness.
I’ve been around these people my whole life and even had my own problems “back in the day”. Two basic things they ALL have in common: these are some of the most self-indulgent people you will EVER meet and it’s ALWAYS “someone else’s fault”.
I have not one ounce of sympathy for drunks or drug abusers.
What about when something is legalized, but the billions of dollars spent on running through the jungles of Columbia, chasing crack dealers through the streets, and housing imates is instead spent on tons of education for children and great treatment for any user who wants it?
Believe whatever you’d like.
Believe whatever you’d like.
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