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Originally Posted by stampsx2
It became a problem when we told drug users they are the victims of drugs. Up until then there were consequences to a persons poor life choices.
No i don’t think drugs are a result of hardships in life. There are many people that have come to canada from war torn countries like syria and don’t turn to drugs. If it was from life traumas then we would have a serious drug problem among our paramedics.
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It became a much bigger problem when addiction began to be treated as a moral failing worthy of shame (not that there was a singular point in time when that happened). Holier-than-thou moralizers, who could
never sink so low as to become addicted themselves, treat addicts as worse than sick people, but as
bad people. This makes it all that much harder to first admit to the problem, and second to get treatment.
There are consequences for choices. But making addiction itself an issue of morality, as opposed to just arguing about the morality of crimes some addicts commit, has been a major impediment to treating the broader segment of addicts who are Ill but not criminal.