ONTD Political

I un-lazy'd to confirm my own question.


Man, the dinner table discussions must of been uproarious at the Hitchens household, huh?

Yes, and I don't think they were that close. How surprising, really! I'm still amazed they were related just because Christopher was a great orator and Peter is a nyaff.

It shouldn't take 3 years to ween someone off any drug.JFC what are those people doing? That sounds incompetent as all hell.

Very little. Many prisoners return to shitty situations - they can't get jobs, they may not be able to count on family members for support, and the conditions of their post-incarceration supervision usually demand that they cut ties with any friends who are criminal offenders, which ultimately isolates the returning prisoners just when they need the most support. Conditions of parole can also interfere with them getting jobs, as many re-entering offenders are required to attend treatment or therapy meetings, have their urine tested for drugs and meet with their parole officers as often as once a week. These appointments often take place during business hours and employers are rarely flexible - I've spoken to many women who have lost jobs because of their parole requirements or, conversely, violated their parole because they could not keep up with the requirements while also trying to hold down jobs and pay their bills.

This situation is EXTREMELY stressful, and stress is a powerful trigger for substance use. So you have a person who's trying (maybe) to get clean and will be sent back to jail if he/she is found to be using drugs, and you drop them in a situation of extreme stress with very, very little social support. And then people are fucking surprised when the person relapses.

Money doesn't make parents less neglectful. Foster system is not a good solution. Drug addicts should be sterilized. The U.S. treats it's drug addicts in varying ways because no one way always works. Some people need jail, some need a couple weeks at a recovery program, some need AA, some people overdose and quit. I think there would be more dead addicts if prison gets take out of the equation. Just like drunk drivers. First offense the judge usually sides with leniency unless someone died.
http://www.bop.gov/news/research_projects/published_reports/recidivism/orepramjalcd.pdf

I think a lot of people self medicate with things other then drugs though. I don't like calling addiction a disease because it's a genetic part for some, environmental influenced, and/or a personality issue. I agree many of them experience abuse and neglect but so do others and they still make different choices of the choices available. Some people need a hug and cognitive behavioral therapy some people need to be smacked with a big stick called the law to get to therapy.

There's a serious correlation/causation when addiction is at least for some genetic predisposition. The children of drug addicts are often abused and neglected. And having children may give them a reason to get off drugs in for some but it could also stress them so much they relapse later (if they wouldn't relapse anyway).