I’m not going to finish yesterday’s segment today. If your don’t mind I’m going to push that off until tomorrow. There is a couple other points I’d like to make. I was listening to several people talk about drug abuse and addiction today and I’d like to talk about their point of view. They pretty much had the idea that anyone who abused alcohol or drugs got what they deserved if they ruined their lives. They couldn’t imagine any public funding for drug rehabs what so ever. They saw more and longer jail sentences as the solution. Lock them up and throw away the key. They claimed the “high” moral ground and placed those using alcohol and drugs as somehow below them.

I’ll keep this brief. What a crock of crap. Hardly an enlightened response, but I’m so tired of this point of view. Drug addiction and abuse is like a nuclear bomb going off in a family. It damages everyone, the person using alcohol and drugs, the parents, the siblings and also a spouse or any children present. This doesn’t include friends co-workers and empolyers. All of these people get hurt. I suppose the kids of someone addicted to drugs deserves to be punished as well. Drug addiction destroys families. Drug addiction damages future generations.

Drug addiction treatment and rehab is so cost effective when all the factors are considered, that it is just unbelieveable that some people continue to advocate more police, prisons and laws. Prisons don’t raise kids, parents do. Let’s help people into drug rehabs so everyone can get on with a better life.

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