Can someone please explain to me why this Opiate Addiction problem is being treated as a medical issue......

So what do you want? Perhaps because the approach to crack was done in the 80's and 90's and, as a whole, our society and culture has progressed since then to a more progressive approach with a better understanding of addictions?

I mean we used to treat illness by leeching... Doctors have since changed their ways.

Maybe its not always about race and instead about change over time?

But feel free to keep spewing rather common and unoriginal thoughts under the guise of being "radical."

I remember my first semester of college.

Typi wrote:

So what do you want? Perhaps because the approach to crack was done in the 80's and 90's and, as a whole, our society and culture has progressed since then to a more progressive approach with a better understanding of addictions?

I mean we used to treat illness by leeching... Doctors have since changed their ways.

Maybe its not always about race and instead about change over time?

But feel free to keep spewing rather common and unoriginal thoughts under the guise of being "radical."

I remember my first semester of college.

So your view is that AmeriKKKan society has progressed since the prehistoric days of the 80s and 90s? Race has nothing at all to do with it?

"So your view is that AmeriKKKan society has progressed since the prehistoric days of the 80s and 90s?"

Yes. Anyone can see this.

more like duhlik wrote:

"So your view is that AmeriKKKan society has progressed since the prehistoric days of the 80s and 90s?"

Yes. Anyone can see this.

You must be a young Buck. If you were an adult in the 80s you would know shittt hasn't much.

Typi wrote:

So what do you want? Perhaps because the approach to crack was done in the 80's and 90's and, as a whole, our society and culture has progressed since then to a more progressive approach with a better understanding of addictions?

I mean we used to treat illness by leeching... Doctors have since changed their ways.

Maybe its not always about race and instead about change over time?

But feel free to keep spewing rather common and unoriginal thoughts under the guise of being "radical."

I remember my first semester of college.

That's ridiculous. If young black people were robbing, stealing and killing to feed an heroin addiction like these crackers are doing now........the pigs would just lock em up. They wouldn't give a crap about treating their addiction. Stop lying!

American taxpayers prefer taxpayers. What good is it to pump money into a system where we'll see no return? Rather have the addicts working hard labor in prison. Tho I guess you could make the same case for the MW opiate epidemic - will manufacturing return? Either way yes, America prefers whites and always will.

huwite man wrote:

American taxpayers prefer taxpayers. What good is it to pump money into a system where we'll see no return? Rather have the addicts working hard labor in prison. Tho I guess you could make the same case for the MW opiate epidemic - will manufacturing return? Either way yes, America prefers whites and always will.

I respect your honesty.

Pookie Jones wrote:

more like duhlik wrote:

"So your view is that AmeriKKKan society has progressed since the prehistoric days of the 80s and 90s?"

Yes. Anyone can see this.

You must be a young Buck. If you were an adult in the 80s you would know shittt hasn't much.

Wrong again.

Because doctors aren't over-prescribing crack to people, and patients in hospitals and dental offices are rarely introduced to crack during surgical procedures.

Not giving an excuse - but this has to have a small part in it.

Calm down Malik/Pookie/Daryl. You would never dare trying any kind of drugs.

probably... wrote:

Because doctors aren't over-prescribing crack to people, and patients in hospitals and dental offices are rarely introduced to crack during surgical procedures.

Not giving an excuse - but this has to have a small part in it.

This. Its a;so caused the issue to be prominent in the upper and middle classes where as crack is mostly an extreme lower class thing.

probably... wrote:

Because doctors aren't over-prescribing crack to people, and patients in hospitals and dental offices are rarely introduced to crack during surgical procedures.

Not giving an excuse - but this has to have a small part in it.

it might have to do as major part in it. when crack addicts participate in a black market the united states government loses track of that cash, which is not in their interest. whereas when someone whose addicted to vicodin wants a fix his purchase is taxed. the government doesn't care where the money is coming from as long as it's flowing.

Race plays a role, obviously. Softens up your average Republican politician a bit. But it's mostly because the efforts of liberals and certain pockets of the medical community over the last several decades dramatically changed the public's perception of an issue that had long been framed in an extremely backwards way by conservatives and their financiers.

It took mountains of evidence, anecdotes, and advocacy campaigns showing that treating drug use as a criminal issue is insanely expensive, completely ineffective, and downright inhumane/fascistic, but even a fair number of moderate Republicans started coming around to the idea of taking a better approach over the last several years or so.

If not for these libturd efforts, you'd undoubtedly be seeing conservative legislators across the country putting forward policies that would feed these opioid-addicted, white communities to the prison industrial complex. With an old crackpot like Jeff Sessions at the helm, I wouldn't be so confident that we won't return to the old ways.

The Gallant Pig Man wrote:

It took mountains of evidence, anecdotes, and advocacy campaigns showing that treating drug use as a criminal issue is insanely expensive, completely ineffective, and downright inhumane/fascistic,

It did make neighborhoods safer which was the REAL purpose.

Malik Shabazz wrote:

while Crack Addiction was handled as a criminal problem? When I hear or read about people addressing the problem of opiates the solution seems to be medically related but AmeriKKKa wanted mandatory minimums for crack addicts. Am I wrong?

Nah its only excuse mongers who claim addiction is a reasonable excuse.

And the most basic difference is that you can be addicted to opioids, and legally obtain them for their correct usage. And its only illegally if you illegally obtain them. Like any drug.

If you commit crimes to get them, you'll be deep in it.

Unlike crack, opioids are not illegal.

more like duhlik wrote:

"So your view is that AmeriKKKan society has progressed since the prehistoric days of the 80s and 90s?"

Yes. Anyone can see this.

Hey careful with the micro-aggressions, bro, were sensitive Feel-good group.

Opiate addiction is ruining many lives in rural areas. It is one area where I appreciated Trump for talking about this during the election.

People don't choose to be addicts. It is like they have a broken foot and people tell them to get over it and don't use their foot. No, they need treatment. Yes, to be successful they need to want to get over their addiction but addiction is a messy business.

Some people are more predisposed to be addicts. I am glad I am not one of them. Once their addictive genes are activated by trauma or other issue, it is tough work to get them back to their state before their addiction takes hold of them.

because LIBERALS TO THE RESCUE!