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When you say a co-factor, can you say more about what you have in mind? For instance it could be a junky who needs to feed his own habit. It could be that the
by iguy 6y ago
When you say a co-factor, can you say more about what you have in mind?
For instance it could be a junky who needs to feed his own habit. It could be that the profits available from dealing in some area motivate gangs to take control of it. And it could also be just that people taking drugs have impaired judgement, and do things they would avoid while sober. Would you care to guess how much of each goes on?
For alcohol, I guess it's mainly the 3rd (DUI, and manslaughter, etc.) and a tiny bit of the 1st (shoplifting to buy a drink).
- joncrane 6y agoLet me put it this way: if you were to create a Venn diagram of habitual drug and alcohol users and people who get incarcerated, 90+% of the incarcerated people would also be in the habitual users circle. I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but that's not the argument I'm making here.