SK> And, WHO are you speaking of? I've never met a drug addict that was 
SK> doing drugs to "fix" anything, except their pain...the taking of the 
SK> drug is often what CAUSES the pain, in the end it IS the 
SK> pain.....then,taking the drug it is what eases it. 
SK> You can call people "stupid" or illogical or any insult you 
SK> wish...thoseterms mean nothing. If you care, THEN CARE! Don't 
SK> insult...reach out! 
 
 EVERY ADDICT WHO USES ANY DRUG IS DIRECTLY AFFECTING HIS OR HER BRAIN 
CHEMISTRY!  And so is any doctor who prescribes any drug.  The difference is 
that the doctor is supposed to know what the consequences of that action on 
the individual will be in advance.  I say "suppsed" because they don't ask 
enough questions or have enough answers to know all of the time and do a lot 
of "Take this and see if it helps you" sort of thing. 
 A drug addict is merely attempting to alter the brain chemistry that he or 
she was born with.  Period.  Without full understanding of what is involved.
SK> Do you think people WANT to be addicted to drugs? Do you think that 
SK> condemning them to prison is the answer? Don't you think that they 
SK> WANTto stop? Got a clue (and I'm the man to state the FACTS), they DO 
SK> wantto stop. Remember? I'm the guy that was a drug addict. PLEASE, 
SK> remember...I said WAS. 
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SK> And, WHO are you speaking of? I've never met a drug addict that was 
SK> doing drugs to "fix" anything, except their pain...the taking of the 
SK> drug is often what CAUSES the pain, in the end it IS the 
SK> pain.....then,taking the drug it is what eases it. 
SK> You can call people "stupid" or illogical or any insult you 
You know only your own history of use.  Period.  One person in a vast huge 
amount of folks with problems.  And you also haven't the faintest idea of 
what I am saying so that you are very much at risk for using again when you 
get the pressures that caused you to use in the first place.  Or the 
opportunity to use if you are presently incarcerated. 
 I worked with people who were in jail over their drug use in the North 
Rehabilitation Facilty at Firlands in Seattle at one time.  Learned as a jail 
nurse in the old King County Jail just what the lack of treatment there was 
all about with those I met on my rounds.  I had the night shift at one time, 
potentially over 1,000 folks who might need my help on that shift.  Went to 
the North Rehabilitation Facility to try to find out what would work INSEAD 
of just locking them up which doesn't. 
 Last time I went into a jail to do a chemical dependency intake and 
evaluation was around 3 months ago.  The local judge sent the person to 
mental health which also won't do any good.  So the last time I did anything 
about the problem in this county was a couple of days ago when I buttonholed 
our county sherrif who I have written to before about addicts.  I am trying 
to persuade him to put a trial project into the jail system, staffed by 
counselors instead of corrections officers.   
 He wanted to know what I thought of the DARE program and I told him. 
 So please, no lectures to me on what I don't know or do or care about 
inmates.  At 69, I am still going strong on their behalf.
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