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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
For the same reason doctors ween people off other psychoactive drugs like anti-psychotics, anti-depressants and a variety of other drugs?
Because the withdrawal symptoms of most of these 'street drugs' is reason enough for many addicts to continuing using them rather than deal with the effects of going cold turkey?
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Withdraw pains while a reason for not getting off the drugs is not the major reason for getting off of drugs. Its rare that addicts decide themselves to get off of drugs like crack and crystal meth and go cold turkey.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Because in many instances, it may not be advisable, optimal or even possible for addicts of some 'street drugs' to maintain a decent quality of life AND stop cold turkey?
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Its rare that a doctor would ever advise a addict to just quit, without getting the other support that they need. Even if you go into a regular and monitored rehab program, the effects of the initial stages of rehab and detox are extremely unpleasant.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Because even if the addict makes no progress towards curbing their addiction, giving them regulated drugs for their addiction has less impact on society than forcing them to shoot up with dirty needs from puddle water with chemicals that may or may not contain the drug they are addicted to in the first place?
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I don't see how writing a prescription for meth or crack does anything to curb the addiction at all. And to be honest with drugs like heroin and meth and even crack you can't just write a lessening prescription. As addiction goes with these drugs they take increasing quantities to chase the high, and then eventually increasing quantities to just get well. If a doctor sits there and tells a addict that he's going to lesson the dose, its just as likely that the addict is going to go down the street and rob a pharmacy, or go find the underworld home made equivalent.
Like I said I am totally against legalizing hard drugs, its a model that doesn't make sense. While clean injection centers have helped, with the marginal addicts, serious addicts and the mentally ill and the junkies that just want to be left alone aren't going to see a doctor to get their fix, if they find a needle in a gutter and they need to cook a quick fix they're probably going to use that.
Its not as easy as saying legalize it, and lets right prescriptions for it and it will give them a good quality of life. Those drugs on a whole promote poor help, create serious mental illnesses and create other really bad side conditions.
On top of that are you proposing that these drugs are given to the addict for free? Because as a taxpayer I would have serious problems in enabling addicts using what are termed as recreational drugs.
On top of that, if drugs are given away for free because addicts can't afford their daily fix. Wouldn't that money be better spent on people with medical conditions that actually need prescription medical for survival or real quality of life in the face of disease.
Sorry buddy, I just can't be on board with legalizing anything but grass.