Oh, that's fantastic! I still remember when methadone users got SO much fucking hassle for being addicts, and it just sucks. And actually just a few years ago a methadone clinic wanted to set up shop in my neighbourhood, which is FULL of addicts (seriously, it was the major place to cop in Seattle, only now it's getting v gentrified) but they got chased out. Gahhh. God forbid people get some treatment and hope rather than being shoved back in the shadows where they can put themselves and others in immense risk and probably die (and become even huger burdens on The Poor Taxpayer!), amirite?
It's so much easier, so much safer, so much cheaper, to just not try to get the addict brain unpickled out when the chemistry set we've got now isn't really up to the task yet.
Yeah, seriously. Did you read Gabor Mate's book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts? He's a Canadian doctor who write a lot about addiction and harm reuduction and he's great.
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Date: 2016-01-19 03:59 pm (UTC)It's so much easier, so much safer, so much cheaper, to just not try to get the addict brain unpickled out when the chemistry set we've got now isn't really up to the task yet.
Yeah, seriously. Did you read Gabor Mate's book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts? He's a Canadian doctor who write a lot about addiction and harm reuduction and he's great.