Drug Users – Should We Pay For Their Rehab?
I found a post regarding Drug Enforcement & Prevention. Of course, you know me. I had to add my two cents. Here it is for those of you who’d like to read my comments on the subject:
I know I tend to be opinionated on some subjects, and this is one. I have never used drugs in my life. And no, I have not had a perfect, unblemished life. I, too, like everyone else, I’m sure, has had hard, hard times I’ve had to deal with. Yet never in my 35 years have I turned to drugs or alcohol to treat the sometime harsh reality of living. Personally, I do not feel that I should pay for insurance that covers extended drug rehabilitation or that the government should use my tax money to fund such increasing health coverage . I believe it is a weakness in the person who uses drugs, and our society’s “it’s all about me” attitude that contributes to our drug problems. There is a prevailing attitude in our country that the world owes us a perfect life, and well, if we don’t get it, let’s just zone out and get stoned. Puleeze.
Prevention, I believe, is much more effective. Continue the marketing campaign against drugs, make it so “uncool” that even the ‘losers’ won’t want to be caught doing it. Take away the peer pressure and the drugs might go away. How to do that? Now there’s the rub….
On the other side of the coin, perhaps if we legalize the stuff, those people who can’t stop using it can just keep using until they wipe themselves right off of our planet. I say let them drug themselves out all they want, just don’t make me pay for it. Some of us actually have a brain in our heads and enjoy both the passive and purposeful firing of neurons that we like to call “thinking”. And as far as prevention, any Mother knows that the more you make a thing “taboo”, the more the kid wants to do it. Legalize drugs, let them do it if they want to, round them up and put them on an island full of the stuff.
Natural selection (sort of). Thinning out the herd. Populace control. Whatever you want to call it. Well, it’s a thought.
