Do you have experiences which would give you good perspective and the wide range of drug abuse that occurs within our society? Do you have a sense of how much of it goes unnoticed? Who do you think paid rehabilitation clinics are for exactly?
I think drugs are the issue. People have plenty of other problems outside of the scope you mention. These typically provide negative feedback which leads the person towards solutions.
Drugs interfere with this and turn them into positive feedback loops which just drags the person further into addiction. And these problems are most definitely commonly experienced outside of the "homeless junkie" caste, which is a very recent problem in the grand scheme of this issue and _seems_ to be correlated with recent changes in drug policy and resulting availability.
I am with you though in that treating the _addiction_ is insane. The drugs are just a response to other conditions and unless you treat and examine those you stand no chance of improving someones life. The best you can hope for is they hurt themselves badly enough that the trauma causes them to recognize their circumstances for what they really are.
Which is why I think criminalization is also insane; however, that doesn't mean the state just has to stand by while massive quantities of illicit substances change hands freely across our country. That's a problem you can address without even having to jail anyone other than dealers and traffickers.
And at the end of the day, even this minor action would bring massive improvements, by preventing people from prolonging their problems with addictions that destroy their lives, health and wealth.
I think drugs are the issue. People have plenty of other problems outside of the scope you mention. These typically provide negative feedback which leads the person towards solutions.
Drugs interfere with this and turn them into positive feedback loops which just drags the person further into addiction. And these problems are most definitely commonly experienced outside of the "homeless junkie" caste, which is a very recent problem in the grand scheme of this issue and _seems_ to be correlated with recent changes in drug policy and resulting availability.
I am with you though in that treating the _addiction_ is insane. The drugs are just a response to other conditions and unless you treat and examine those you stand no chance of improving someones life. The best you can hope for is they hurt themselves badly enough that the trauma causes them to recognize their circumstances for what they really are.
Which is why I think criminalization is also insane; however, that doesn't mean the state just has to stand by while massive quantities of illicit substances change hands freely across our country. That's a problem you can address without even having to jail anyone other than dealers and traffickers.
And at the end of the day, even this minor action would bring massive improvements, by preventing people from prolonging their problems with addictions that destroy their lives, health and wealth.