Why Are Drug-Addicts Treated Like Criminals?
Question by Cameron: Why are drug-addicts treated like criminals?
And how exactly does putting a drug-addict in jail help them get off the drugs and return to being productive members of society? Is it obvious when billions is spent on the war on drugs with an 80% failure rate and a worsening poverty and societal discontent?
“(3) Whether or not they become a “productive member of society” is *their* choice.”
Choice is an illusion, everyone is a victim of circumstance.
It’s all well and good for you to grow up in a nuclear middle class family who say grace every night and choose not to ever try heroin or cocaine, but dont act like people who fallen into the trap of drug abuse are there because of their choices, they’re there because our society failed them and their positive role models failed them.
Best answer:
Answer by Someone S
Because long ago we were condition to think we are supposed to treat them like criminals…
The truth is, we dont offer any real help to these people, we just penalize them. They aren’t JUST criminals, they’re people you should feel sorry for that need help getting out of a hole.
Answer by Welcome to my Nightmare
(1) Because they *are* criminals.
(2) “Getting them off the streets” will keep someone’s house from being broken into or someone robbed.
(3) Whether or not they become a “productive member of society” is *their* choice.
(4) The “war on drugs” is failing because they’re doing it wrong.
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