Quote Originally Posted by ZoraSpook View Post
Not doing drugs is a healthy choice one makes. I do agree with one of your thoughts that if regulated and produced then consistency might reduce overdoses and taking stuff when the user does not know what is in the pill offered. so That I agree with ya on.

And you hit another important point, somehow we got to get the word to folks to offer help and counseling before drugs becoames an unhealthy life choice.

Now, if we combined the 2. Laws stay in place for illegally produced drugs. If a person use illegally produced drugs and commits a crime under the influence, they still go to jail, but we increase EFFECTIVE counceling while the person is off the streets so that when they return to society they have their drug problem more under control, and have benn then given access to legally made substitutes or meds to keep them off the dangerous stuff.

Bottom line to the deal is DON'T MANAGE THE STATISTICS, manage the care we give to people and increase our bility to do dso. But, YOU HAVE TO HOLED PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR VIOLATING LAWS. You dont reduce your crime rates but declaing fewer people criminals. You reduce crime by showing peole what happens if they do, and also by EFFECTIVELY treating those that you can with vocational training, job skills, and personal skills so they don't go back to the street and commit more crime.

SOLVE THE PROBELM, NOT THE STATISTICS. Solve the probelm and the statistics will follow.

Last point, how much of a role does the Bible play in the 12 step process? Can the values found in that book lead flks to a helathier safer life?

I agree rather than sending them to jail we should send them to counseling. The war on drugs is one of the biggest failures, waste of time, money and lives we will ever see. You can %100 reduce crime by making things not illegal anymore. Think of the 1000's of possessions, paraphernalia charges everyday. Think of the amount of traffic stops a cop "smells" weed and searches a car.

If someone were to hit a pedestrian, ya they should be put in jail for DUI.

The problem is that they are illegal. You want to solve it make them legal with correct doses.

I've lost 8 friends to overdoses. 5 were vets that were prescribed unlimited pills after an injury while serving. Once stateside the supply ran out and they had to shoot up to get the same pain relief from the previously prescribed pills. Two others were blue collar workers who had on the job accidents but the story was the same after the Prescription ran out.

Long story short since it was illegal, they went deeper into seclusion scared to reach out because of the negative views on users. Most of us never knew how bad it was until we got the call.

"Pain management" in the Appalachian region killed more people than 20 years of the War on Terror.

People do drugs, if they want or need to get clean there should be free options with housing available. Not severe punishment and scrutiny.