I am all for aggressive treatment for terminal conditions and other palliative cases like cancer pain. But this is different than the person who wanted to get high to numb life’s troubles and accidentally found themselves completely addicted.
Same way you did it with cigarettes. Maybe slightly more subsidizing in treatment programs and counseling, like I mentioned. Otherwise, I don't know if you can. You may have to wait a generation or two, as that's what basically happened with cigarettes.
This is the absolute and utter truth, regardless what anyone else here pretends to know. This man knows what he's talking about, and I'm positive has experienced this first hand. I've seen it second hand many times myself. Kudos to you.
These homeless people are getting the drugs from somewhere, heroin doesn't grow on trees and how are they getting money to pay for it? crime. it's a bad cycle.
I mentioned Montel William's Let's Be Blunt podcast in another thread months ago (which completely changed my opinion about mar1juana). The reason I bring it up is, one of his guests stated there are three kinds of mar1juana users: medical, spiritual, and reckless. Most of us were probably reckless at one point in our youth, and no doubt there are some harming themselves and their position in the world with the stuff, but for the others it's truly a gift from God. To limit its medical research is truly a crime, IMHO. Full disclosure: I am slightly high on a prescription barbiturate as I type this and will soon have to shut down for the night mar1juana would treat my symptoms without risk of addiction, be more effective over time, cost me less out of pocket, cost my insurance company less, and, unlike the drug I'm taking, it has known health benefits when not smoked. But better to enrich pharmaceutical companies, Wall Street, foreign corporations, and funnel money to the political parties to better control us I guess.
@tinman is correct. A drug addict won't begin to stop till they want. That's the issue with a lot of the progressive ideas.
Look how hard rich drug addicts like Josh Gordon of the NFL have it trying to quit now imagine a poor person who will only spend every penny they get on drugs
For my own sanity I don't post here in D&D anymore, but for those who feel ashamed or discouraged after reading this thread... if you think you have a problem with drugs and/or alcohol and have the slightest inclination of seeking help, contact me though the board and I'll point you in the right direction. Homeless or not. Carry on.
You mentioned it’s a prescribing problem, prescribing regulations don’t really differ. The fed will crack down and limits the amount of days you can prescribe. The only people that can beyond that are pain management specialists and getting into them for some people is a pain. so it’s not really a big pharma etc getting people hooked. If someone gets a surgery and gets prescribed something for it, as they should and ends up getting hooked how do you get around that? If it’s that easy don’t they have a crazy tendency to get hooked on anything that takes the edge of? Again it’s collective punishment imo
