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British Prisons Help Addicts Relapse Before Re-Entering Society
A new government "retoxification" program is helping formerly drug-addicted inmates get hooked back on drugs before being released to help avoid accidental overdoses. From the article: "Thirty-three prisons across England offer highly addictive heroin substitutes like methadone to inmates, even if their sentences mean they are effectively drug-free at the time of their release. Supporters claim it gets former addicts' bodies used to drugs again by building up tolerance and slashing the risk of overdose deaths. Critics blast it as 'state-sponsored' drug dealing." I'm surprised they don't give robbers a complimentary get-away car upon release to help alleviate future auto thefts.
It was better when any addict could get a prescription for the drug itself, at an insanely low cost. You can be "very" functional on opiates, so long as you keep it up. Now that was state sponsored drug dealing.... Low, pure heroin with a prescription if you are an addict; and to be an addict you just had to tell your doctor you were.
Violent drug dealers could not compete, and went to other organized crimes. Crime rate was much lower because the addicts could afford their fixes, and a failed drug test could be said "I have a prescription" and keep their job.
To lament better days before the US forced Britain to adopt its "methods".
3 degrees of separation from Vladimir Putin
I'm having difficulty understanding where the following process requires intervention or is not already fully optimized:
1) Inmate kicks his/her addiction after a lengthy prison sentence
2) Drug-free inmate is released for re-integration into society
3) Former inmate chooses to begin using again, despite the fact he/she kicked the habit months or years ago
4) Former inmate dies from an overdose
5) "Last chance" used up. Former inmate will never trouble anyone again
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
And yep, I got down-moderated for that observation.
Then you should have written something beyond triteness and pablum, which is a specialty of both the far right and far left.
Deep thinking is what this world needs, not "We Are The World" or Sarah Palin.
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You mean Murdoch's American politically-motivated news empire is reporting a story from one of his British politically-motivated rags? And with a story that portrays a doctor-driven decision as the ultimate example of destructive coddling of criminals by liberals?
Say it isn't so.
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we don't have to worry about the Left since they are increasingly isolated into small pockets of the world like Cuba.
Shiiit. Obama and his cronies are about as left-wing statist as you can get. They'd love nothing better than to make this country a really big Cuba or Nicaragua.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Just because there are barbarians at the gate, it doesn't mean that you have to become one.
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Moderating for the first time for a while. Disappointed to note that there's still no "-1 Stupid" option.
Getting away, obviously. From whatever. A bank robbery, say. And if it wasn’t your get-away car, then by definition the get-away also occurs during the theft of an automobile. So now you get charged with bank robbery and car-jacking.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Yes, of course, Communists *always* go for market-based solutions like requiring people to purchase private health insurance, or creating a commodities market for carbon dioxide to create an entire new bunch of rich financiers. Maybe learn a little about the things you're against so you can argue against them intelligibly?
If an ex con wanted to, say, knock off a bank, he would require a get-away car, which would require stealing one. If you give ex cons get-away cars, they no longer have to steal them prior to committing a bank robbery. Capisci?
Right, Obama is completely different from Bush. He closed down Guantanamo Bay, ended the "War on Terror", ended the practice of shoveling billions of dollars into the gaping maw of Wall Street Leech Monster, and is fighting hard to repeal Patriot Acts I and II so that we can have our privacy and/or freedom back.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
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Laws are horrible moral guides, moral guides make even worse laws.
Maybe if I used the word "free" you'd be correct. But there are plenty of non-free markets that are still markets.
would agree that, as addicts, their lives were degenerate. and that whatever they wrote is in spite of their drug use that was destroying their ability to write
drug use easily leads to addiction. addiction hollows out a formerly delightful human being into a monomanical zombie: "fix, fix, fix, fix..." then they usually wind up being unable to hold a job or have a relationship. then myself, society, we have to house and feed these drug addicts
since we are taking care of them, that therefore gives us every right to tell drug addicts to stop taking the substance that renders them unable to take care of themselves. and we also have the right to try to control the substances that create drug zombies. of course such efforts are messy and incomplete, but making the effort is far superior to allowing zombifying substances free reign over society, turning useful productive lives into degenerate dependents
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Sure the addict is dead and will never again burgle my house to pay for his fix, but what happens to his poor children? They will will grow up with no father.
And they might better off for it. Heh.
Baiting liberals is fun.
Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
But by the standards of most of the developed world, he is.
He wouldn't have been elected otherwise.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You are a grade A, class 1 fucking wrist-tapper.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."