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To: tacticalogic
Keeping kids away from drugs is an admirable goal, but realistically, this is just an expensive "feel good" idea that's going to have little impact on the problem.

You could be right, tacticalogic. But I've know a lot of kids on drugs who begin to despair that they can really break the addiction. This would help them do so. Though many would go back to drugs, all would know that they could give them up if they had to. That's a really valuable lesson for an addicted teen.

301 posted on 10/31/2002 11:05:53 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
You could be right, tacticalogic. But I've know a lot of kids on drugs who begin to despair that they can really break the addiction. This would help them do so. Though many would go back to drugs, all would know that they could give them up if they had to. That's a really valuable lesson for an addicted teen.

Maybe, but realistically, you're talking about kids who are truly addicted. From what I know about the psychology of addiction, there is nothing you can offer an addict as an incentive to quit until he's ready to quit. What evidence do you have that this would help them break their addiction?

317 posted on 10/31/2002 11:19:38 AM PST by tacticalogic
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