Quote From: mareekilleId like to remind people one place drugs are readily available IS jail. By putting an addict in jail you are exposing them to huge drug availability / access (often easier and more readily available inside than out), majority of other inmates are also drug addicts, learning more criminal behaivour, meeting peers/new contacts for drugs and crime and putting them in a depressing, negative unsupportive and cold environment. After struggling with a heroin addiction for 10 years myself, I could not think of any worse environment to be put in if rehabilitation is the real goal.
It is also important to understand that an addiction is just that; something completely out of the control of the person afflicted. There really is no choice, its an unconcious decision and people are kept in the spiraling cycle because they are addicted, they dont have the power, strength and support to break the cycle. Does anyone seriously believe jail is the answer and help addicts need? You and your family are in my thoughts, Brandon.
Unfortunately, being addicted turns users into dealers and the vicious cycle just keeps rolling along.
It was a bit more information than I might have imparted on the ways to fool the drug tests.
Since this incredibly vicious challenge is destroying this Nation's future, I would like to see the importers and manufacturers of drugs to be labeled as terrorists. Before you start calling me harsh names, look at the statistics on drug and alcohol related crimes (deaths, theft, vandalism, etc.) and then tell me it isn't something to be terrified about.!! Forget the cute little phrases like "recreational drugs" and call it what it is.
Ask any military recruiter how many perfectly (otherwise) able-bodied young people have to be disqualified because of crimes related to drugs; including failure to get even a high school education because it was more fun to get high
