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Alternately, you just execute people for drug trafficking. A total win in terms of net human suffering.
El Salvador seems to be quite happy these days...
New Zealand now has more murder than El Salvador.
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El Salvador seems to be quite happy these days...
The murder rate of the USA is now almost 3 times higher than that of El Salvadors. New Zealand now has more murder than El Salvador.
Alternately, you just execute people for drug trafficking. A total win in terms of net human suffering.
Confirmation bias at its best.
I don't have a lot of personal experience dealing with addiction in either myself or others, but TFA lays out to me a pretty compelling claim that addiction is a developmental disorder. The current mainstream belief of addiction as disease has always seemed to me like it had a great number of holes; it's main purpose was to make people stop stigmatizing addicts for moral failing. The comparison to ADHD made in the ar…
A lot of addiction is trying to get back to the comfort of the womb to escape from early childhood traumas and abuses.
You get a taste of that with the use but never get close to it again after.
""" institutionalized individuals or those who experienced fatal or severe consequences due to their SUD may have not been sampled """
And also.. the average remission times for these addictions are still very long, e.g. roughly 15 years for heroin or alcohol
Alternately, you just execute people for drug trafficking. A total win in terms of net human suffering.
In terms of net human suffering we can execute everyone. No people -- no suffering
This article confuses drug use with addiction. Addiction is a state where a patient wants to quit a drug, but can't. And that is when you want to intervene as a psychiatrist.