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"DPA is working to reduce the harms associated with drug use in California. Our priorities include expanding sterile syringe access, preventing overdose, increasing access to effective treatment and establishing supervised injection facilities."
You know who else works to reduce the harms associated with drug use? The addict's wife, parents, kids and friends who they manipulate to keep using so they can... *drum roll* .....escape or reduce the harms associated with their drug use! Why not just rename CA's DPA "The Giant Enabling Fuck Up Association"?
The one thing addicts fear more than death is jail time. The reason for this is because addicts seek escape. Death is just another escape. It’s why preaching to them about death doesn’t sink in. They subconsciously WANT death: which is why they started using in the first place. At some point they said to themselves “who cares? Who wants to live anyway?”
Jail however is like their arch nemeses. It is the unthinkable torture. It is having to be alive & deal with reality without a numbing buffer or escape. Addicts fear jail more than anything. So when you remove jail from the equation, you remove the most powerful incentive for addicts to get clean. Jail has to be part of our nation’s plan for the addiction epidemic. Some form of incarceration away from substance access.
I envision a minimum security work camp with the drug dog making daily rounds. One on one counseling time blocs for every inmate at least once a week. Group sessions too, but one on one stuff is necessary & hopefully the family of origin/ important contacts come in for special sessions to confront enabling/relapse.
Removing jail from addiction is like society committing the biggest enabling fuck up ever. They say and it’s true, drugs don’t kill addicts, enablers do.
California is killing addicts with their policy. California, let's face it, is cash-strapped. The last thing they want to do is pour more money into addict-camps. However, if managed properly, the situation can more than offset the cost to CA citizens and clogged courts by reducing the number of active addicts over time, which will save the State $billions of dollars. I don't think there is one politician in CA who passed basic elementary school math.
Discuss.
"DPA is working to reduce the harms associated with drug use in California. Our priorities include expanding sterile syringe access, preventing overdose, increasing access to effective treatment and establishing supervised injection facilities."
You know who else works to reduce the harms associated with drug use? The addict's wife, parents, kids and friends who they manipulate to keep using so they can... *drum roll* .....escape or reduce the harms associated with their drug use! Why not just rename CA's DPA "The Giant Enabling Fuck Up Association"?
The one thing addicts fear more than death is jail time. The reason for this is because addicts seek escape. Death is just another escape. It’s why preaching to them about death doesn’t sink in. They subconsciously WANT death: which is why they started using in the first place. At some point they said to themselves “who cares? Who wants to live anyway?”
Jail however is like their arch nemeses. It is the unthinkable torture. It is having to be alive & deal with reality without a numbing buffer or escape. Addicts fear jail more than anything. So when you remove jail from the equation, you remove the most powerful incentive for addicts to get clean. Jail has to be part of our nation’s plan for the addiction epidemic. Some form of incarceration away from substance access.
I envision a minimum security work camp with the drug dog making daily rounds. One on one counseling time blocs for every inmate at least once a week. Group sessions too, but one on one stuff is necessary & hopefully the family of origin/ important contacts come in for special sessions to confront enabling/relapse.
Removing jail from addiction is like society committing the biggest enabling fuck up ever. They say and it’s true, drugs don’t kill addicts, enablers do.
California is killing addicts with their policy. California, let's face it, is cash-strapped. The last thing they want to do is pour more money into addict-camps. However, if managed properly, the situation can more than offset the cost to CA citizens and clogged courts by reducing the number of active addicts over time, which will save the State $billions of dollars. I don't think there is one politician in CA who passed basic elementary school math.
Discuss.