We don't import it. The drugs find their own way into our country. Drugs may be one of the biggest businesses in the U.S. A lot (tons) of Fentanyl have come across the border from China to Mexico to the U.S. thanks to the illegals being able to walk into our country unvetted. It needs to stop. Last year, we lost 107,000 people (mostly young adults) to drug deaths.
It's easy to spot an addict. For example, because it represses hunger, meth causes extreme weight loss and malnourishment, resulting in acute vitamin deficiencies that cause permanent physiological changes everywhere in the body, from the brain to butthole. Fentanyl changes brain chemistry, causing neurological and psychological changes, often permanent. SOME hallucinogens can cause changes in the central nervous system that result in personality changes, some permanent.
I see your point but addict's sole purpose in life is staying high or that next high so everything else goes to the bottom of the list.
Yes, of course. Imagine if all that could be prevented. Prevented. Jails empty of addicts. Child protective services caseloads cut by millions. People being civil, being self-sufficient, capable of making reasonable or even wise life-decisions.
Part of the issue is many addicts are lacking to begin with ie life skills ie career, social norms, handling stress. Others are a bit of rebel or 'not me syndrome' they think or assume they can drink/drug days on end year round without it becoming an issue as with other things. There always trying to do things their way. The rules don't apply. I know half century old drunks and druggies and going back to high school/teen years they were or had rebel in them in more ways than one.
Yes, social services and re-education are all good.
I agree with your assessment of how drugs can change a person’s mind, etc. But a drug to prevent addiction? Hmmm____, I need time to consider the possibility. It is well known that long term narcotics use will cause brain damage. Even short term use can do the same, however, if I only learned one thing spending time learning how to aid drug users is that withdrawals are hell and do deter many from wanting to get detoxed and then going onto rehab. They fear what they don’t know or understand. BTW, up until about 2015, the most addictive narcotic was (drum roll please) nicotine.
My granddaughter is an alcoholic and was hospitalized about 2 months ago for alcohol poisoning. They did a medical detox to save her life and it was a horrible experience. Now she's afraid of rehab because she won't accept that it isn't the same thing. It's still not at all pleasant at first, but not the rough ride that a medical detox is.
Kind of doubt that is either possible or would be successful, not so long as the kind of money involved could be stopped.
I respectfully disagree. It is possible, although not 100%. There will always be a few that will get in, which is a long way from the few million that have crossed the past year and a half. Many of these illegals pay for their passage by carrying illegal drugs into our country.
Many Addictionologists, which are also M.D.'s also recommend watching the movie. It's a very inciteful look at the way rehabs work, but only to a point. Medical detoxing is a bit different than just allowing the person to "dry out" or giving the drug addict Naloxone.
You make a good point, and smoking rates have come way down, 42% in 1965 to 14% now. And this could be good model.
I think the two issues, illegals and drugs while connected have important differences.
