Drlee wrote:Nonsense. Name an addictive drug that does not ruin lives.
Caffeine.
Read my posts. I have answered this question several times.
No, you have dodged it several times.
Besides. I am not going to explain how the world is round. If you wish to challenge a couple of centuries of research please feel free to do so.
So, still no actual facts or logic to support your claims. Check.
Drug addiction, like obesity, has health issues that are caused by the behaviour of the person.
Not necessarily. There are time when neither are initially driven by behavior.
Obesity is always driven by behavior: consuming more calories than you use or excrete.
But even if I grant this point, then you must also grant that so are strokes, cancer, COPD, AIDS, and diabetes. In such company we single out drug addiction but almost universally refer to those with the others as victims.
But without a biological basis for such a distinction.
Well, I think that rather than focusing on drug addiction, we can focus on the negative impacts of drug addiction,
You are seeking a distinction without a difference.
There is a
huge difference: regarding addiction as the problem prevents you from ever knowing the fact that prohibition is the problem.
as well as the negative factors that lead to drug addiction.
So you want to ignore treatment? Why?
He didn't say that.
I am all for dealing with the factors leading to drug addiction, obesity, cancer, COPD diabetes, etc. They are legion. But once someone is addicted I utterly reject any solution that does not incorporate treatment as an easily accessible option. Free treatment. Ready when the addict is.
...in jail.
There is no doubt that needle exchanges, methadone clinics and the like save lives.
Oh? How is that even possible if ADDICTION is the problem, hmmmmm?
We insist on seeing addiction as naughty but a colon cancer patient who has never had a colonoscopy or a breast cancer patient who has eaten a high saturated fat diet as victims.
Huh? Aren't you the one who thinks
addiction is the problem?