Is the government the reason why drug addicts become drug addicts and die? Is it logical to compare recreational use of drugs to alcohol use?
A Chicago Tribune columnist article titled, Overdose deaths are the product of drug prohibition, is a sad comparison of two different substances which have entirely different health risk factors.
This article by a liberal who believes the government policy is to blame for drug deaths because of enforcing drug laws to limit a much greater use of addictive drugs available. The writer compares drug enforcement to be the same failed occurrence when alcohol was prohibited and then repealed.
When in fact, the two substances, by allowing greater access and availability, will eventually result in more drug addicts and more deaths in time, greater rehabilitations costs and treatments in the future to be paid by, you know who. That being taxpayers who wisely decide not to partake in use drugs for recreation.
In other words, there is no incentives for making wise choices in the USA. Our nanny liberal government legislators will somehow care and rehabilitate you when and if you need rehabilitation for making wise instead of foolish choices. And the government is to blame when some fool chooses to take drugs for recreational pupposes and winds up being a drug addict and/or becomes sick and unhealthy as a result of drug use.
King Solomon
1 My child, have you promised to be responsible for someone else’s debts? 2 Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises? 3 Well then, my child, you are in that person’s power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him and beg him to release you. (Proverbs 6:1-3)
“The leech has two daughters, Give, Give. (Proverb 30:15)
Field of Dreams (1989)
“Build a ballpark and they will come.”
What’s My Point?
The medical evidence is proven that our brains are wired for addiction, even greater for adolescents up into their twenties. A certain percentage of people who engage in drugs for recreational purposes will turn out to be drug addicts..
The long-term risks for users’ health and welfare are much greater for drugs than alcohol.
The easier you make drugs available, the result will be more people will become addicted over time.
In My Opinion
Liberal nanny government of allowing people to do whatever they want is similar to a parent who allows his child to do whatever they want. Problem is when the kid gets in trouble, in the USA, the nanny government makes the wise pay for the foolish mistakes of fools.
When recreational marijuana becomes legal, peer pressure will certainly introduce more young and foolish to experiment using drugs because they will certainly assume if its legal its can’t be harmful. There nanny government would never approve anything harmful to be legal, right?
The legislators who believe it is best for the nanny government to make recreational drugs legal and will spend all the tax revenues they may gain in the short run, will be insufficient to cover the damages to care and rehabilitate brain damaged, mentally and physically health problems that will result in the future to be paid by taxpayers.
You Decide
Wise or Foolish in the long term to use recreational drugs?
Do you believe taxpayers should be responsible for the fools who by their own choice make foolish risky choices to obtain pleasure?
Is the government really the cause for over drug deaths or the drug addicts who make the foolish choices to use drugs for recreation? That is assuming they were not addicted by taking drugs as pain killers for legitimate reasons and then became addicted because of false drug marketing.
Is the writer comparing apples to oranges?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Source Links
Chicago Tribune Article
Wired for Addiction
https://ohiobwcblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/wired-for-addiction/
Previous Post Links
https://rudymartinka.com/2017/06/06/king-solomons-caution-about-giving-endlessly/
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/03/26/king-solomon-marijuana-kudos-dahleen-for/
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/02/07/king-solomon-alcoholic-pothead-logical-reasoning-legislators/
https://rudymartinka.com/2017/11/26/king-solomon-legalize-opioids/
Health Source Links
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/success-rates-and-statistics/
https://www.cdc.gov/pwud/addiction.html
http://www.theclearingnw.com/blog/6-reasons-drug-alcohol-rehab-success-rates-are-so-low
Rudy u Martinka 
If access to drugs were legal the strength and purity would be consistent and regulated. Many deaths could be avoided because of this. If an addict is using it would be accounted for.
The longing which is underlying the quest to seek something to feel different is inherent in humanity, in my opinion. Use of alcohol or drugs in excess is but a symptom of the affliction. There are many who can use and not have it affect their ability to function. The last thing to ruling class want is free-thinking, self-reliant people, they prefer mindless dependents and are willing to let them die in the process
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@vapor_sage
Not quite certain what you are saying. Is the abuse of drugs a sign of free-thinking, self-reliant people? I doubt you mean it that way.
@scatterwisdom
I am sort of ambivalent abort legalizing drugs. As you observed, some of them are terribly addictive, and there are lots of people who are foolish enough to equate legality with morality.
I do think we need to fix a considerable amount of the blame for this problem on the users. I don’t think we should coddle them, thereby enabling bad behavior.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to stop people from getting illegal drugs. Some people will do anything for money, and some will do anything for a drug “fix”. It is a marriage made in hell. Illegal drug user makes vile people rich, and those vile people use their wealth to wreck their countries.
Once someone is addicted I don’t think there is an easy solution. I just think it is a bad idea to give them any money to spend.
Would legalizing narcotics fix anything? Doubt. We would still have vile people getting rich off the abuse of drugs. They would just be doing it legally.
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Tom,
Most people in my opinion are ambivalent about legalizing drugs for recreational purposes.
Problem is making recreational drugs legal is the same as being ambivalent that sin is okay.
Christians believe God will forgive a sinner. However, Christians also believe God gives us power to make choices whether to sin or not. Christians believe that if we choose sin, there will be a consequence for making a choice to sin. For example, Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden.
My point is when our government makes a choice to allow recreational drugs to become legal, it is the same as a father saying to his children, it is okay to sin.
In my opinion, we cannot be ambivalent about recreational drugs. We know scientifically, it is not wise to use drugs because it affects our brains. If a father uses recreational drugs in front of his children, he is in effect telling his son that it is okay to destroy our brains, or in the case of sin, to destroy our souls.
Better we not be ambivalent on ever telling the truth to our sons and daughters to neither sin nor destroy our brains.
Allowing recreational drugs is foolish, same as sin is foolish.
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We need to tell the truth, there are long term consequences for making foolish choices for both the body and the soul.
The sinners may prosper in this life, but they will not prosper in the next life.
If the government prospers by allowing taxes money to be gathered from people making foolish choices, in my opinion, that is same as a father using recreational drugs in front of his son or daughter.
In other words, making recreational drugs legal is same as a Christian saying it is okay to sin.
Alcohol in moderation, is more controllable than drugs.. There is no moderation in the use of recreational drugs once it affects the brain according to scientific evidence of how brains become wired to seek more and more pleasure once a pleasure is experienced.
We must make a choice. Either we are Christians or we are not Christians. There can be no moderation for a Christian to compromise with Satan.
Better to say emphatically, rather than ambivalently.
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'” (Matthew 4:10)
Keep also in mind, King Solomon.
I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.( Ecceclesiastes 2:13)
Destroying a brain is a sin, in my opinion, and that is what Satan is all about when he influences people by using drugs as a tool to addict a person to sin for recreational purposes.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Thank you Tom you raise some very good questions. In my opinion and experience addiction originates as a spiritual longing. Removing criminality saves a great deal of resources, in enforcement and corrections. I’ve considered this since first attempting recovery in the early nineties. When the government declares war on anything rest assured there’s a great deal of money wrested from tax payers to engage in typical inefficient fashion.
Better quality, higher purity narcotics are easier to withdraw from. It wouldn’t be free. There is too our government’s involvement in distributing illegal drugs.
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Not too certain the savings on police resources will offset the costs to rehabilitate, treat resultant health problems, or ever compensate innocent victims adequately in car accidents from drug addicts in the long run.
Police are engaged in many other duties than just drug crimes.
I don’t have the resources to keep tabs on the balance scales. In my opinion, if you believe in Satan, adding legalized recreational drugs to his side of the scale will give him a far greater “weight” advantage than he has now, in my opinion.
Why, because recreation is big business in the USA based on how dollars are spent when you compare recreational spending by consumers to Charitable contributions based pm tax returns and government statistics.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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It’s all still happening. If we’re ever going to get more united we all have to step away from our tribe and see things from another’s perspective
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Most people frankly care less if people want to risk their own lives in a quest to die b4 their time.
Problem arises when their actions affect others who prefer to walk a straight perhaps more narrow path to live longer.
Make it easier to obtain substances is to build a wider path for young and foolish to include paying the price for other people’s risks.
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