tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169479.post5376131353245982595..comments2024-03-10T17:55:17.884+07:00Comments on Magic Kingdom Dispatch: The Next Step in the Drug WarsEsteban Trujillo de Gutierrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07287097523152556638noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169479.post-32678684499662380392017-11-27T18:28:17.557+07:002017-11-27T18:28:17.557+07:00Thank you for that!Thank you for that!Esteban Trujillo de Gutierrezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287097523152556638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169479.post-35518933731380982112017-11-27T08:54:53.488+07:002017-11-27T08:54:53.488+07:00Great piece, Doc...
I took exception with a coupl...Great piece, Doc...<br /><br />I took exception with a couple lines... and still agree with your conclusion.<br /><br />This part: "Those rehab organizations that promote 12 step programs should be ignored into nonexistence. According to some studies, their recidivism rate exceeds 90-percent. They simply do not work, and are nothing less than a lucrative funding spigot for insurance companies."<br /><br />Any organization that claims to be based on "The 12 Steps" is already out of their depth. In A.A., where these steps originated... there are also "12 Traditions", and out of the 12 Traditions comes the tenet that "we can never receive compensation for doing 12th step (carrying the message and solution to others in need) work."<br /><br />The entire notion of "treatment centers" and mixing the treatment industries approach with A.A.'s 12 steps is anathema to everything A.A. itself stands for... for a number of reasons... and really too complicated to mention here.<br /><br />A.A. is unapologetically a program of spiritual action... designed to address the core problems of the alcoholic... a deep spiritual malady. There are many in A.A. that will not like me characterizing it that way. But then again, the treatment industry has been a scourge for A.A., as it was originally meant to be.<br /><br />Treatment centers tell drug addicts that "...a drug is a drug is a drug" and they lump alcoholism in with other drunks. That's nonsense... and all the addicts and "...and a' " folk from treatment centers have decimated the simple coherent message of A.A., which is for alcoholics.<br /><br />Modern American society, and treatment centers, don't understand the difference between problem drinking and alcoholism. Watching both... they look like the same animal to most folks. They are as different as night and day.<br /><br />Anyway... you were primarily addressing drug addiction in your piece... and I think most folks that do drugs or drink to excess start out doing it for the same reasons. It makes it easier living in their own skin, because all is not well within their lives.<br /><br />I also believe the 12 steps can work for drug addiction... but the simple truth is most alcoholics and drug addicts need to get to such a point of devastation before they will do the hard work required in the 12 steps. Once their, their pride and egocentrism blocks their capacity to HONESTLY recognize their own dire circumstances, and the damage they have done to those around them.<br /><br />Most die of their malady... because they just cannot get to a point where they are able to finally see, that the drinking/drugging is a symptom of spiritual crises. ("spiritual" having to do with reality and genuine human identity).<br /><br />Anyway... not a fan of treatment centers myself. Of the real alkies I know that sober up in treatment centers, the only ones that stay sober long term are "debriefed" of the horseshit they were taught in treatment pretty straight away.STI Teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04073653040507476121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169479.post-64002642955019430022017-10-02T12:08:09.998+07:002017-10-02T12:08:09.998+07:00this person ...http://www.drsallybaker.com/uncateg...this person ...http://www.drsallybaker.com/uncategorized/this-is-not-the-solution-to-the-problems-were-facing/...details a case study,the jobs and profit for sevice providors would be lost.black market drugs are in reality a cheaper than any proposed prices in th event of legalisation would be.licenced/patented drugs are provided such as valium/vicodin until the patent ends,then they become bad drugs.in the uk we will have legal cannabis,GM cbd oil at £30 per gram ,no personal cultivation.meanwhile an infernal triangle of spain ireland and england are developing into the drugs brokers for the rest of the planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169479.post-64607494419653884632017-09-29T13:19:04.553+07:002017-09-29T13:19:04.553+07:00in the uk before the misuse of drugs act,heroin wa...in the uk before the misuse of drugs act,heroin was prescribed for registered addicts.after 1971 this ceased due to Britain joining the war on drugs with the USA.this has not worked,and has made heroin much more accessable.instead of seeing a doctor and registering as an addict and being prescribed sufficient medication to normalise and be employed etc.presently in UK addicts can be prescribed methadone/physeptone or buy from the addicts rich enough to import it illegally,organised crime underlings bulk import sources.and that is the source of all the ills the last post emoed over,*will*.ps when heroin was prescribed heroin overdoses were very rare eventsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169479.post-32302258142616325032017-08-16T16:18:01.331+07:002017-08-16T16:18:01.331+07:00Thank you for the honesty of your comment.Thank you for the honesty of your comment.Esteban Trujillo de Gutierrezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287097523152556638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169479.post-68749028982513558852017-08-16T11:22:00.891+07:002017-08-16T11:22:00.891+07:00"Seen another way, interdiction as drug polic..."Seen another way, interdiction as drug policy, the "war on drugs," is a cash cow that turns on funding spigots for insurance companies and for local law enforcement from DHS and DOJ."<br /><br />And it is money for correctional institutions and officers, and it is employment and graft in the judiciaries. <br /><br />The simple solution is to give away free drugs and dirty needles...<br /><br />The junkies will almost-all be killed by ODs or the violence that attends drug dealing. Do we help them die sooner and younger, before they inflict large costs on the normal citizens, or do we sacrifice some lives of innocent citizens and much money to keep the drugies living for five or ten more years? (The majority of drug users, those that don't quit using, *will* live lives of increasing misery and *will* die prematurely. And they *will* inflict much misery on many good people.)<br /><br />Sad but true: If the families and friends of junkies killed by drugs could not prevent those deaths, how can any impersonal, detached, public institution do better? Constables and doctors have not (can not) fix the drug use problem. Drug use is just another Life Choice; work or use drugs, work or die...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com