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I am not necessarily arguing for treatment. Drug addiction is a very serious chronic disease, so treatment would be a better choice than enablement. However, I
by bermuda4you 2y ago
I am not necessarily arguing for treatment. Drug addiction is a very serious chronic disease, so treatment would be a better choice than enablement. However, I do agree that success rate of treatment must be pretty low.
- jrflowers 2y agoThis makes sense. “Treatment works” is not an argument for treatment, it may in fact not work very well. Nonetheless we must focus solely on prohibition because treatment either does or does not work to an acceptable degree and criminalization obviously increases the amount and/or efficacy of treatment
- bermuda4you 2y agoI acknowledge that treatment works and decriminalization of (highly addictive hard) drugs does not. I don't necessarily advocate for treatment because we already spend too much money on this problem.
- jrflowers 2y agoThis makes sense. Treatment works but isn’t quite worth advocating for because it is too expensive, as compared to the cost of policing and incarcerating people, which municipalities pay nothing for
- bermuda4you 2y agoStrong reasoning style! It makes sense.
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