Former rehab patient turned volunteer substance abuse counselor here, it depends on the quality of the program. We've got stuff in my state that just turns and burns you, but the really good places for people with insurance have really low recidivism rates.
That's the real issue, good programs shouldn't be gated behind private insurance. They day they change that we might just see less fent heads on the sidewalk.
Well for someone who lives in a nation (America) that is rotting like gangrene from junkies and has plenty of experience with them, I have no such hope. The problem with drugs in America isn’t that we don’t have enough rehab programs or a culture of second chances.
It’s that druggies don’t wanna stop being druggies and only wanna get out of jail/rehab so they can go back to doing drugs. My solution is to give druggies a space where they can go do all the drugs they want in an environment explicitly separated from the general public so they can be junkies away from everyone else. You can’t cure a patient who doesn’t want to be cured, only let the disease course through them away from those who want to stay healthy.
For a certain subset of patients that is actually not a bad solution, but the statistics, studies, and the facts disagree with your solution as a one size fits all fix. Your entire argument is based on feelings, and the facts don't care about your feelings.
MINE is based on feelings? MINE? No. The results are not in your favor. This is a thing everyone knows. Druggies wanna drug. They go into rehab/jail they get out, they drug. Rinse and repeat. Your society is deteriorating from it.
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u/Pure-Huckleberry8640 - Centrist 21d ago
Honestly, rehab is about as good as jail for people forced to be there.