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To: koan who wrote (21121)	9/15/2006 3:02:45 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78419

I always felt that if the drugs were dangerous enough, they supplied their own penalty for the ill advised ingestion, obviating the need for a constabulary and penal system to control them. On a serious note, given that most drug/alcohol use is a psycho-pharmalogical illness in and of itself and is for the most part genetically driven by conditions such as depression and the so called addictive personality, the best way to combat it societally is to make it expensive to get the drugs, and then deal with the user as a mandated pro-bono patient, using all that is known in medicine and psychology today to induce weaning from the lifestyle, psychosis, and physiological lock in of the substance. L-Glutamine, vitamins and (low refined carb-sugar) diets have been helpful in therapy for addiction. Paying the medicare for such people and revamping rehab along intelligent operations theory would cost society a lot less in the long run. Salmon addicted to swimming upstream ... Mathematician in his own stream