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It is extremely helpful. It is very incovenient, to be sure, but it is very helpful. If you want people to not use drugs, then you have to provide them with a
by otakucode 9y ago
It is extremely helpful. It is very incovenient, to be sure, but it is very helpful. If you want people to not use drugs, then you have to provide them with a fulfilling life or the opportunity for such. If your desire is to operate a society that grinds people down, restricts them in ways that feel burdensome to them, insults them, and also does not have people using drugs? You might as well wish to fly. Because your wish is as realistic, and as worthy of ridicule.
It comes down to whether you want to stop people using drugs because you don't like that they get happy so easy, or whether you want people to stop using drugs of their own accord and have happy lives. If it's the second - help.
- ubernostrum 9y agoNever mind people who get addicted after being prescribed medication for an injury, then? Never mind that the new generations of opioids were marketed as safer/less addicting when they probably were more addicting, and thus prescribed even more out of perception of their safety?
- zaroth 9y agoAlthogh this has certainly become the narrative of late, TFA seems to discount this fairly strongly; "To that point, pain treatment is not the most significant risk factor for addiction. Far greater risk comes from simply being young and from using alcohol and other recreational drugs heavily. Ninety percent of all drug addictions start in the teens — and 75 percent of prescription opioid misuse begins when (mainly young) people get pills from friends, family or dealers — not doctors. Opioids are rarely the first drug people misuse."
- ubernostrum 9y agoThere's a difference between "is not the most significant factor" and "is not a factor at all". The latter is what's being implied by the comment chain I responded in.
- betenoire 9y agoAnd whether or not it is the most, least, or somewhere in the middle, risk factor, makes no difference in treatment. The article is about effective treatment for that addict and TFA suggests medication. It does not suggest addressing addiction issues, except as mean to getting the addict into actual treatment. Filling voids and seeking happiness aren't mentioned in TFA.
- emodendroket 9y agoI don't know that we can say that teenage substance abuse in parties is a symptom of some "void" either.
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- betenoire 9y agoThis is not true in the general sense. If I take a pill that my doctor prescribes, I run the risk of becoming addicted. Now you put it on me and my happiness? Not helpful either.