tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5693305147591028842.post4814857053513104719..comments2024-02-25T03:21:38.364-05:00Comments on Opiophilia: Drug Warriors and Their PreyMorePheenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597869421901657527noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5693305147591028842.post-3662351501744837752021-12-07T04:54:34.487-05:002021-12-07T04:54:34.487-05:00If you want to look much older just lose your hair...If you want to look much older just lose your hair. Going bald is one confidence downer that everyone wants to avoid. 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Over time the drug war has become an eliminationist campaign to destroy the lives of people who use the "wrong" drugs. Miller's book details how these things come about. I highly recommend it.<br /><br />I don't think addiction is well represented as a disease. Using drugs is not a disease, at most it is a symptom. The addiction as a disease all too often is reductionist to the point of absurdity. Organizations like NIDA say that drugs hijack the brain, this is nonsense as most people who use drugs do not become addicted. This also implicitly supports drug prohibition, if addiction is merely a matter of drugs and not some underlying issues cutting off the supply of drugs makes sense. If addiction is the result of underlying psychological problems, or a response to feeling helpless and powerless in a cold and uncaring world (see the true church for more on this theme), dealing with addiction as simply a problem of drug taking is woefully inadequate. This is one reason drug treatment fails so spectacularly. <br /><br />If we extend addiction to other behaviors, it is probably common. I think we treat opiate addicts so poorly in part due to scapegoating. People recognize their own addictive tendencies in the addict, and project their own fears and insecurities onto the addict, which results in ostracism and marginalization. The beginnings of the chain of destruction.MorePheenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597869421901657527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5693305147591028842.post-2342438459430842962013-05-24T14:03:54.796-04:002013-05-24T14:03:54.796-04:00After all of the lessons history should have taugh...After all of the lessons history should have taught us, collectively, I am puzzled as to why those in authority still pursue this method of "dealing" with drugs & drug users. I understand that they want to control people but, it seems to me that it is becoming increasingly difficult to control an angry people....and that is exactly what is happening in our societ, albeit, far too slowly for my personal liking. The state arrests, prosecutes, then imprisons drug users, thus, in many states, forcing them to go cold turkey in the worst possible places and ways. The state then has the misguided assumption that this will teach that dirty bastard a lesson and he won't do it again....assuming he makes it out of prison alive. Let's say he does, what's he got to look forward to? Freedom? In a manner of speaking, yes but, he still has to deal weekly then monthly with that pesky probation officer and follow the rules prescribed by the law. Now that our hero has a felony record, he is hard-pressed to find meaningful, gainful employment. He's all but predestined to a meager existence....not a "life". What's to be happy about that? Oh, I almost forgot....his freedom. Well, at least he is out of jail.....for now. Odds are good that, thanks to the oppressive conditions of his release, our hero will succomb to depression and seek relief from.....yep, you guessed it.....drugs: the very thing that landed him in jail in the first place. Oh, but the state says, "He made the choice to use drugs against the will of society. He brought this on himself and he deserves it." So, these well-intentioned (NOT!) folks reincarcerate our hero....at the taxpayer expense and, thus, take billions of dollars away from other, more needful, more useful, more productive entitied in society.<br /><br />I'm not sure where I officially stand on the whole addiction as a disease issue (another post). I reserve the right to waffle. Are we born predestined to end up with the life of a chronic user? No, but, I do think that some of us are genotypically/physiologically (think brain chemistry here, folks) and psycho-socially more likely to end up addicted to something. In that sense, I'm not sure if some of us.....many of us.....really could help it or not. Certainly, some develop a stronger "constitution" through life than others and can and do avoid addiction to ILLEGAL and/or prescription drugs. But of those who avoid that scenario, what's the percentage of those folks that have an addiction to alcohol or to sex or develop serious codependency issues or depression or a host of mental illnesses that require chemotherapy?<br /><br />I was a much happier, much kinder, much more productive human being before my choice of (and arguably, my need for....for physical pain....)drug was taken from me.<br /><br />We're told to seek help for our problems but, when we do, we end up in the meat grinder described in this post.<br /><br /><br />-ThashMikkiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com