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> In the US, I guarantee that compulsory psychiatry would become corrupt in just a couple of years. We already have court-ordered private drug and alcohol reco
by NoGravitas 4y ago
> In the US, I guarantee that compulsory psychiatry would become corrupt in just a couple of years.
We already have court-ordered private drug and alcohol recovery programs (offered as an alternative to jail time) renting out their patients as unpaid labor to, eg, chicken processing plants and offering no actual treatment.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoI wouldn't mind seeing a citation on that. I am quite aware that the rehab/detox industry has some very shady actors, but I've not heard that.
- NoGravitas 4y agoHere's the link to the article I read on it: https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/ https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-...
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoThanks. Sounds like an ugly place, but I doubt there's too many places like it. Addicts in early Recovery are not an especially reliable workforce. I think that SynAnon was like that, in the early days. The problem with addicts, is that society hates them, so it's fairly easy to do what you want with them. Also, a lot of rehabs and detoxes are run by addicts, and many of them have not progressed too far in Recovery, themselves.