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Visualizing The Costs Of Drug Addiction
Drug addiction ravages the health of the body and mind, but it can also be ruinous to the wallet. Here is a look at the financial costs associated with drug addiction and treatment, which for most people includes counseling.
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Fuck this bullshit.
Doesn't even consider electronic heroin: internet, tv, texting, its all the new normal, vectors to gratification. Where is this "addictive behavior"?
Chemical drugs are not the only pathways to induce a sympathetic response. You damn "some" drugs, but not others, and you give Rupert Murdoch's legions of turds a pass?
Guess what's coming?
The average cost of cigarettes in Australia is over $20 for a pack of 20's, would be better of with a meth, alcohol or cocaine addiction.
Dr. Emanuel Revici was able to reverse addiction to heroin and methadone as well as alcohol in as little as three days without withdrawal symptoms.
The FDA refused to approve the nontoxic treatments. They would not allow it into the New Drug Application, let alone to conduct Phase I, II, III trials, even though the treatment had been used on over 1,000 human beings without any harm.
What about the drug QE?
Unfortunately once you learn something, in this case the vice of your choice, you never forget and here in lies the beggining of all your problems. Play nice everyone & don't judge. Self discipline is a bitch & truly one of life's hardest virtues!
SHROOMS!
And the most expensive one ommitted. Pussy, the original Quicker Pecker Upper. This one will cost you big time.
1 dollar invested saves taxpayers 7? Who came up with that? Anyone who's been around drug addicts knows the relapse rate is huge. Not saying the money is not worth putting in, but that seems wildly optimistic
I am just guessing as well, but one dollar saving seven DOES seem too high. I would contend (as you seem to as well well) that it is worth doing, but the return does not seem to be 700%.
Too bad! I guess there are few free lunches.
so what about the cost?, end the war on drugs and legalize pot and other drugs. that is the mantra right?
Friends! Thinking about "Drug Addiction" as being the key issue is flat out wrong. It is placing the cart before the horse.
Why talk about cost of the problem when you can address the cause?
Addressing societal issues like overcrowding, low pay, social master-slave roles and enforced submission in the work place, lack of control over one's life is how you address the CAUSE of drug addiction.
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It's not the morphine, it's the size of the cage: Rat Park experiment upturns conventional wisdom about addictionWe all learned this in DARE class. About the rats in a cage who can self-administer morphine who get addicted to the stuff, and then just hit that lever until they die. A seemingly keystone argument in the war against drugs. Professor Avram Goldstein, the creator of that study, has said: "A rat addicted to heroin is not rebelling against society, is not a victim of socioeconomic circumstances, is not a product of a dysfunctional family, and is not a criminal. The rat's behavior is simply controlled by the action of heroin (actually morphine, to which heroin is converted in the body) on its brain." So, it's the drug, and its addictive control. Surely we must eradicate drugs as a result!
But there's another model out there by researcher Bruce Alexander of Simon Fraser University called Rat Park, from 1978. From that wikipedia page:
Alexander's hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiate drugs commonly observed in laboratory rats exposed to it is attributable to their living conditions, and not to any addictive property of the drug itself. He told the Canadian Senate in 2001 that prior experiments in which laboratory rats were kept isolated in cramped metal cages, tethered to a self-injection apparatus, show only that "severely distressed animals, like severely distressed people, will relieve their distress pharmacologically if they can."
...So, if Rat Park is to be believed, drug addiction is a situation that arises from poor socioeconomic conditions. From literally being a rat in a cage. If you're a rat in a park, you'd rather hang out with your friends and explore the world around you.
Perhaps it's time the war on drugs becomes a war on the existence of poverty? (edit: Poverty of our relationships to family, community, and nation too, not merely monetary. As commenters have pointed out, there are plenty of people who have plenty of money who may well be the most poverty-ridden in other respects.)" http://sub.garrytan.com/its-not-the-morphine-its-the-size-of-the-cage-ra...