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My focus (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by AnninCA on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:13:59 PM EST
on drug abuse and alcohol is rehabilitation.  We are doing nothing, absolutely nothing, after years of the law and order crowd.

I know the "war on drugs" in other countries is stupid, ineffectual, and pointless.  Waste of money.

What's insane is having no addiction recovery programs active in the jails/prisons/streets.

That's nuts.  

Right now, AA can help about 10% who walk in the doors.  The more often they walk in, the more likely they are to get real help.  Now, if some 12-step program where you toss a buck in the basket can help that many people, then the idea that the drug addict is hopeless and just lock them up or try to burn down the supply is simply not rational thinking.

Recovery efforts are truly cheap.  Best deal in town.  And the AA model works as well as expensive rehabs.  

So what the heck?

There are so many (none / 0) (#9)
by Helen8 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 01:10:48 PM EST
reasons to end the drug war, but that fact that the same governments who throw users and sellers in jail for decades are the ones whose officials facilitate the transport and sale. That just makes me crazy and that includes the USA with CIA drug running.

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