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To: Brumar89 who wrote (866272)	6/19/2015 2:01:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579136

>> I know they also LOVED drugs. More than anything else. Willing to sacrifice girlfriend & fiancee, & sell everything they had to buy dope .... only getting arrested would stop them. Only the threat of arrest could get them to give it up, otherwise they'd use it till they killed themselves. You have to understand the history of how drug problems became legal problems then you can understand why your statement above is 100% wrong. No drug addict ever quit using drugs because of threat of arrest. A person who does that is not an addict; he is a casual, recreational user. Because an addict has no such control to be able to respond to legal pressures. Way back when, when addiction was first recognized as a problem society has to deal with, the physicians looked at the problem and said, "We have nothing to offer. It just looks like someone who doesn't know how to act to us." So, the legal system, by default, dealt with it. Science today has nailed down the cause of addiction. And it turns out, because of knowledge about how the brain works in addiction we now know that the "bad behavior" of drug addiction is not that at all: It is the addict's brain intervenes in some way between the midbrain and the frontal cortex causing the demand for drugs to escalate to the top of the hierarchy of needs, generating a "fight or flight" response. You can say, "What difference does it make? We can't allow these people to run around stealing and terrorizing" -- and that's true, but if you don't acknowledge it as a medical problem you can't solve a medical problem. We see it as a moral issue and stupidly continue to lock people up in prison for being sick.