Education is the proactive part of it. I agree treatment needs to be fixed as well, but that’s after the damage has been done. If we had honest education about the effects of drugs, both positive and negative, I think this would reduce the number of people getting addicted in the first place.
We need a fundamentally different relationship with mind altering substances. It’s part of human nature, and found in every culture. It’s not an inherently bad thing, but we’ve painted it as such, and the current addiction crisis is the result.
Education is part of shifting from a criminal to a medical issue. Without that education people aren’t likely to accept the change. Look at the opposition to legislation of cannabis, most of it is from the reefer madness crowd.
It’s not education we need as much as it is treating addiction as a medical issue instead of a criminal one.
Education is the proactive part of it. I agree treatment needs to be fixed as well, but that’s after the damage has been done. If we had honest education about the effects of drugs, both positive and negative, I think this would reduce the number of people getting addicted in the first place.
We need a fundamentally different relationship with mind altering substances. It’s part of human nature, and found in every culture. It’s not an inherently bad thing, but we’ve painted it as such, and the current addiction crisis is the result.
Education is part of shifting from a criminal to a medical issue. Without that education people aren’t likely to accept the change. Look at the opposition to legislation of cannabis, most of it is from the reefer madness crowd.
I’m in favor of keeping it simple: we stop treating drugs as a criminal issue.