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Why the false dichotomy? Recreational drug use doesn’t need to be either a mental health disorder or a moral failing. I think there’s plenty of room in the disc
by elliekelly 4y ago
Why the false dichotomy? Recreational drug use doesn’t need to be either a mental health disorder or a moral failing. I think there’s plenty of room in the discussion to allow for recreational use knowing that for some people recreational use can and will cause health problems (both mental and physical) and we need to be prepared to help those people get treatment if we want to allow for recreational use.
- sgammon 4y agothese are merely the predominant ways society treats drug use -- and i applaud the effort to move it to "mental health disorder" where previously it was "moral failing" obviously if we are talking about harder drugs like cocaine, heroin, etc., the physical damage and dependence effects must be accounted for.
- sgammon 4y agofrankly, the data out of Portugal after they legalized nearly everything is interesting. the stigma for picking up drug use has diminished (bad, supposedly) but so has the stigma for recovery (very good), and we have lots more data about it because people are willing to self report. at least, that's how i've understood the data.