LucidSDreamr
Bluelighter
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Every US solution I see in liberal areas to address drug use and homelessness associated with it is severely flawed. (Red states just cage you and torture you like a demented child torturing an animal to death - obviously no hint or facade of rehabilitation there)
It operates under the assumption that forcing the addict or homeless person to go to rehab will fix everything.
Any drug addict or person in recovery know immediately that you might as well burn your money and smoke it through an crack pipe than send an addict that doesn’t want to get clean or had underlying pain or mental issues causing them to never want to get clean. It’s a total waste of money and the person will relapse 99% of the time.
The only way ppl get clean is when they themselves decide to get clean.
It’s maddening that we are still staking a punishments approach that is even far more expensive than jail (treatment) to throw at this problem when the science amd statistics have shown it doesn’t work.
Imo many ppl on hard drugs like heroin or merh
Could continue to work and contribute to society if we simply allowed them to and made their drug legal (and thus cheap).
Sure they likely aren’t going to be curing cancer in a Harvard lab (but you’d be surprised, trust me) but they can do manual labor or service jobs on drugs (like a great percentage of the active workforce from laborers up to intellectual jobs like law or tech, isn’t already on drugs).
Is this being done because the rehab industry, like the law enforcement industry. Realizes their solution will never fix the problem and just create a revolving door of bodies to use as an excuse to steal tax dollars?
Or are they actually just that stupid that they haven’t realized or nobody has told them “an addict will NEVER get clean unless THEY want to". No amount of forced rehab prison or torture will get someone clean.
It operates under the assumption that forcing the addict or homeless person to go to rehab will fix everything.
Any drug addict or person in recovery know immediately that you might as well burn your money and smoke it through an crack pipe than send an addict that doesn’t want to get clean or had underlying pain or mental issues causing them to never want to get clean. It’s a total waste of money and the person will relapse 99% of the time.
The only way ppl get clean is when they themselves decide to get clean.
It’s maddening that we are still staking a punishments approach that is even far more expensive than jail (treatment) to throw at this problem when the science amd statistics have shown it doesn’t work.
Imo many ppl on hard drugs like heroin or merh
Could continue to work and contribute to society if we simply allowed them to and made their drug legal (and thus cheap).
Sure they likely aren’t going to be curing cancer in a Harvard lab (but you’d be surprised, trust me) but they can do manual labor or service jobs on drugs (like a great percentage of the active workforce from laborers up to intellectual jobs like law or tech, isn’t already on drugs).
Is this being done because the rehab industry, like the law enforcement industry. Realizes their solution will never fix the problem and just create a revolving door of bodies to use as an excuse to steal tax dollars?
Or are they actually just that stupid that they haven’t realized or nobody has told them “an addict will NEVER get clean unless THEY want to". No amount of forced rehab prison or torture will get someone clean.