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Jeff Sessions is like an evil caricature of what an Attorney General should be. I hope this whole administration goes down and soon. The war on drugs failed dec
by thebiglebrewski 9y ago
Jeff Sessions is like an evil caricature of what an Attorney General should be. I hope this whole administration goes down and soon. The war on drugs failed decades ago, let's focus on rehabilitation and getting people back to society and things to be excited about instead of drugs (but wait, that problem is so much harder to solve!)
On a trip to Montreal this weekend I seriously considered just staying...
- scurvy 9y agoI don't like Mr. Sessions, nor do I like asset forfeiture, but I'd like to know more about the efficacy of rehab before heading down that path. I asked for some stats about rehab in the recent opioid epidemic thread, but I didn't receive any. Even as everyone threw forward ideas about free state sponsored heroin and rehab programs. I really would like to see some stats before forming an opinion on emotions alone. After all, it was emotions that landed us here. Some people just don't want to rejoin society. Why choose life when you've got heroin? Pretty sure that rehab doesn't have a good success rate in those situations.
- maxerickson 9y agoThere's no tidy table, but "75% drop" sounds promising. http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/04/18/524380027/in-portugal-drug-use-is-treated-as-a-medical-issue-not-a-crime http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/04/18/524380027/i... Especially when coupled with "cheaper".
- scurvy 9y agoYeah, I'm really looking for a good study that isn't behind a medical pay wall or requires professional creds to read. The 95% drop in HIV is a great side stat, but really looking more on stats for rehab programs.
- maxerickson 9y agoThey instituted mandatory treatment for people found with personal use amounts of drugs and then but it's actually a 75 percent drop from the 1990s. I suppose what I am suggesting is that this is sufficient evidence for you to stop casting doubt and go find evidence for it if you want to continue questioning treatment. Otherwise you get to argue by shouting at the monkeys to dance as you demand ever higher quality proof that you are wrong.
- scurvy 9y agoTYPE_FASTER posted something along the lines of what I was looking for. I was looking for something more substantial than a one liner in a NPR article. That's exactly the stuff I was trying to avoid. I'll stop shouting at the monkeys now.
- syshum 9y ago>Some people just don't want to rejoin society. Why choose life when you've got heroin? I dont have the stats you are looking for, but even if it is ineffective and some people do not want to rejoin society, how is locking in them in a cage an ethical response to that?
- scurvy 9y agoI never said it was. Please don't put words in my mouth. I said I'd like to form a fact based opinion rather than one based on emotion (like yours).
- snsr 9y ago> I don't like Mr. Sessions, nor do I like asset forfeiture, but I'd like to know more about the efficacy of rehab before heading down that path. It's a lot more effective (and just) than locking people up.
- grogenaut 9y agoLinks plz... not asking for proof, asking for studies I can point to in my own arguments.
- brohoolio 9y agoIf you are interested in statistics about the success of treatment programs you can google it and do the research. It's important to think about addiction as a disease and treat it as such. It spreads like a disease and it inflicts damage across society like a disease. It's killing 60,000 people a year. I will say that I can see the damage here in the Detroit region from another untreated addiction epidemic, the crack crisis from the 80s. So much of the regions ills come from treating it as a criminal justice problem instead of a health crisis. A generation was lost to either the drugs themselves or the war on drugs.
- scurvy 9y agoI've tried to Google it and do the research, but I mostly find rhetoric or self serving studies (or good ones behind medical association walls). That's why I posted and asked for links. I'm not against rehab, I just haven't seen anything saying that it works on a large scale (except enriching treatment corporations). I'm not saying incarceration is the answer. I'm trying to do research to see what might be better. Everyone downvoting, thanks for the negative feedback on someone trying to form a fact based stance on a touchy subject and asking questions.
- TYPE_FASTER 9y agohttp://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/04-01_rep_mdtreatmentorincarceration_ac-dp.pdf http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents... https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-abuse-treatment-criminal-justice-populations/providing-drug-abuse-treatment-to-offenders-worth-f https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-abuse...
- scurvy 9y agoNice! This is what I was looking for. Thanks!
- skywhopper 9y agoTreating those addicted to heroin as criminals is far less likely to help them or society, and is probably just as expensive if not moreso. What exactly do you propose doing instead?
- scurvy 9y agoNot sure, that's why I'm asking. Rehab? Government provided drugs? Safe places for taking drugs that also provide the drugs? If there's someone on drugs that wants to be on drugs, I think a real possibility is that we keep giving them drugs until they want to change. Remove the criminal element and possibility of disease and adultered drugs be having the government provide the drugs. Then give them help once someone is ready for help. Just spit balling here. Maybe I'm wrong and forced rehab has better efficacy rates.
- allwein 9y ago>Why choose life when you've got heroin? Heroin abuse is in the extreme minority when it comes to opioid abuse. You need to get rid of the image in your head of the strung-out heroin addict lazing about in a grubby drug den. A majority of the opioid epidemic these days is actually from prescription opioids like Oxycontin , Vicodin, and similar drugs. So there's plenty of high functioning blue and white collar opioid addicts out there with plenty to lose.
- buttcoinslol 9y agoThe only difference between heroin and oxycontin is oxycontin is more expensive. The effect is identical. Most opiate addicts that can get heroin do it because it's a fraction of the cost.
- scurvy 9y agoI live in San Francisco and the majority of street junkies here are on heroin. The junkies here are strung out on the sidewalk and my doorway, not in a grubby drug den. Maybe that's what I'm faced with so that's what I care about? Sure there's so term for that.
- root_axis 9y agoWhy would the administration "go down"?
- aaomidi 9y agoThe collusion investigation and Muller's potentially damaging report?
- thebiglebrewski 9y agoYup, exactly. Though unfortunately I don't think it's going to take down as many people as it needs to that are pushing insane policies.
- root_axis 9y agoAn investigation doesn't necessarily mean that actionable wrongdoing will be uncovered (even if it occurred). Mueller might come back and say "we discovered some inappropriate behavior, but nothing that can be effectively prosecuted". It's also possible that the investigation discovers wrongdoing that does not implicate Trump, even if it does implicate some of those in his cabinet or campaign. Finally, even if Trump "goes down" Pence will simply replace him and continue a nearly identical agenda except he'll be relatively competent.
- sremani 9y agoWe are better than this, over the top rhetoric is only going to make this discussion ugly. I know I had my fair share of hissy-fits, but the idea that some group of people are inherently evil cannot be logically argued beyond a point.
- specializeded 9y agolike an evil caricature, not actually one. You’re not doing any better going up and down this thread punching straw men and condescendingly misinterpreting comments. They didn’t even characterize a group of people as evil!
- sremani 9y agoI was warned (by mods)of comments like that in past, I am not playing a mod, but trying to be a bit helpful. If you take it with worst of assumption, I guess I am a condescending prick who got out of bed, to wag a finger at some comment submitter and feel better. #SoBeIT.
- knieveltech 9y agoThis is going to rack up downvotes and idgaf. It certainly can be argued, and quite effectively, your "mommy-and-daddy-are-fighting-again" response to the faintest whiff of conflict notwithstanding.
- davexunit 9y agoJeff Sessions is an evil person and that's not rhetoric, unfortunately.
- mythrwy 9y agoThat is _exactly_ rhetoric. And hyperbole. (As well as subjective opinion). Jeff Sessions is just a guy. An old guy, from a different time with who's opinions you don't agree. He won't be here long so don't get all worked up.
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- Lagged2Death 9y agoThe war on drugs failed decades ago... If you subscribe to the view that the war on drugs is/was chiefly motivated by white supremacy and the preservation of a minority right-wing establishment (as Ehrlichman apparently did [1]), it's arguably been a success. The administration is supported by a minority of the electorate, the administration is a right-wing regime filled with unrepentant bigots, the administration wants the war on drugs to be maintained and intensified. These things fit together in a very unsurprising way, once one can get over the shock of just how petty and vile the fabulously wealthy elites running the government turn out to be. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#War_on_drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#War_on_drugs
- hashkb 9y ago> that problem is so much harder to solve! Is it? Why don't we try and see?
- thebiglebrewski 9y agoI'd love our government to do that! They seem more focused though on deporting people and pushing unpopular policies, though.