Out there in therapyville earnest clinicians have long been working hard to explain why treatment so rarely works. Following Freud and others they have lit on the notion that people who do not get better do not really want to get better. Or else, that they do not want to get better badly enough.
I also have a recommendation for treatment of drug offenders. One that I cadged from programs offered in some other countries. Particularly Singapore, where you can face execution for the mere possession of prohibited substances. Seems to work pretty well. Of course, we are too civilized to consider such a successful policy. We would rather let drug users destroy the country rather than take effective steps against them because reasons.
Give a problematical addict, one who has been offered many chances at rehabilitation and failed many times, an implant into the pleasure center of the brain that can be activated with a simple pushbutton. Just like in an experiment of the same nature with rats, the addict will forgo all pleasures, even eating, to just sit and push the button until he starves himself to death.
No one’s civil liberties are respected or enhanced by fostering drug addiction.
This should be the underlying premise for all policies related to drug addiction treatment.
Seeing the throngs of Zombie street people in every city, large and small, we have all but lost the war on drug addiction and attendant homelessness.
A radical new approach is necessary but I doubt we have the political will for it.
I also have a recommendation for treatment of drug offenders. One that I cadged from programs offered in some other countries. Particularly Singapore, where you can face execution for the mere possession of prohibited substances. Seems to work pretty well. Of course, we are too civilized to consider such a successful policy. We would rather let drug users destroy the country rather than take effective steps against them because reasons.
Give a problematical addict, one who has been offered many chances at rehabilitation and failed many times, an implant into the pleasure center of the brain that can be activated with a simple pushbutton. Just like in an experiment of the same nature with rats, the addict will forgo all pleasures, even eating, to just sit and push the button until he starves himself to death.