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Re: Drugs Are Not Really the Problem

Posted by baseball55 on May 5, 2016, at 18:44:57

In reply to Re: Drugs Are Not Really the Problem » baseball55, posted by SLS on May 4, 2016, at 21:07:16

> > Yay! The best thing I've ever read on addiction.
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> Why?
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> What are the things that you agree with?
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> - Scott

I've kind of forgotten much of the article by today, but generally I think his point that addiction is not nearly the community problem it is made out to be is interesting. The problems are caused mostly by the illegal market, where gangs battle for turf, prices are high and poor addicts need to steal to pay for drugs. After all, where drugs are used by people with money - when I worked on Wall Street, virtually everyone abused cocaine - there are no noted problems at all. Many people are addicted to opioids for years with little effect if they have the money to get them. I know, because I was addicted and wrote two books, dozens of articles, was highly regarded in my job, was a good mother. What stopped me was the difficulty and illegality of getting the drugs, not to mention the cost.
The founder of Johns Hopkins was a morphine addict.

Even the OD problem is often due to the unpredictability of potency in street drugs. The AIDS-Hep-C problems due to the unavailability of clean needles. A drug agenda that focused on treatment, education and - yes- acceptance of drug use, could also teach people who OD on pills about the dangers, potency, dosages that are tolerable, etc.

I do not believe in the war on drugs. I think drugs should be legal but only by prescription, so that addicts can be identified, educated and treated. I'm not sure what seizing cocaine, burning opium crops, prosecuting low-level dealers and users really accomplishes except to raise the street price and drive addicts to criminality to pay for the drugs. Where there is a demand, a way to supply will always be found. The key is to reduce the demand.


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