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originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: intrepid
The activity is a symptom of the addiction. You remove the addiction and I believe most would never have done anything to begin with. To remove the addiction, means dealing with what caused them to start self medicating in the first place and jail is the antithesis of that IMO. What's the point of it?
I suspect the first time addicts are arrested, rehabilitation would be far more effective in helping them if they never went to jail and instead went straight to a treatment facility for at least 3 months. From being involved with a treatment program I do know, reality is that more like 6 months should actually be the minimum. It' takes 6 months at least to change behavior.
You deal with it early on, the later problems of stealing or other crimes to support habits would never happen to begin with.
It's not just the legal system that is at fault though IMO. The other issue is family and friends enabling the behavior or covering up for it, instead of immediately seeking help for their loved one, even if it has to be court ordered.
originally posted by: CornishCeltGuy
LMAO, was waiting for your funny one liner
originally posted by: butcherguy
Why spend tax dollars on anything related to drugs?
We should be raking in tax dollars from drug sales.
Legalize and tax the sale of all drugs.
Then we don't need to put people in jail over drug sales/use.
Why spend tax dollars trying to rehabilitate people that decided to use drugs on their on volition?
originally posted by: Xcathdra
originally posted by: butcherguy
Why spend tax dollars on anything related to drugs?
We should be raking in tax dollars from drug sales.
Legalize and tax the sale of all drugs.
Then we don't need to put people in jail over drug sales/use.
Why spend tax dollars trying to rehabilitate people that decided to use drugs on their on volition?
The exact same thought process went into our gun laws.