How about a campaign to end mass criminality instead? I would imagine if people stopped committing crimes and felonies then there wouldn't be a mass incarceration problem.
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Please clarify: Is it being destroyed or just spiraling out of control?Originally posted by VUWildCat2003:
Libtard thinking destroying America.
Well, if you're typically a lot of cash and valued items around in a poor neighborhood and are unable to have the protections afforded to regular businesses, you need to adjust your attitude to survive.Originally posted by TheFoyeEffect:
Street level drug dealers who move large amounts of product tend not to be very nice people.
Great points selmore, football players get addicted rather easily due to pain pills which at times leads to that heroin. The problem is, what do you do with these people if treatments don't work as they potentially become dangers to society? Prevention is great but a lot of those people are out there so prevention is no longer an option. Not a lot of good answers.Originally posted by selmore1:
I'm in line with bgranc. Over 80% of people who are arrested for drugs are arrested for possession. 50% of the federal prison population is in for drug offenses. I think those numbers show that it's not just the "bad guys" that are in jail. If you want to assume that all 20% are harmful, dangerous criminals, then that leaves 30% of the federal prison population as low level users.
Really not much to argue here, as I think we're all pretty much in line, the only problem is I can't see a leader in the forseeable future actually try and tackle this problem with smarts. If it's every even mentioned in a campaign it will be nothing but smear campaigns about the candidate is soft on crime and wants your kids to get hooked on drugs.
Also, as someone mentioned before, something has to be done about the prescribing of opiates. Doctors give them out way to easily and the people who take them do not understand the potential consequences. Lets say you get in a car crash, hurt your back and get prescribed 3 30mg painkillers a day (extremely easy to get) for 2 months. If you take the medicine exactly as the doctor prescribes and don't abuse, you are 99% coming out of that with problems going forward. The only things that can come of it are, 1, you will absolutely have withdrawal symptoms that will last multiple days and could have lingering effects for weeks, 2, you realize you have an addictive personality and become addicted to them 3, you get addicted and can no longer get your pain pills/afford to buy them from a dealer which leads you to heroin, 4 , you get prescribed another medicine that takes away the withdrawal effects but can also be addictive and have horrible withdrawal symptoms. Now that's with a pretty high dosage but all that can happen with 10mgs or any amount really. Not nearly enough is done on the prescribing end and people don't want anything to happen because it's a cash cow. Yes, it's ultimately on the consumer, but the consumer usually doesn't realize the effects before it's too late. People think that addiction is a choice and that it won't happen to them. What they don't realize is that these things mess with your body and make you physically dependent on them whether you like it or not.
fixed.Originally posted by adp98:
Do a lot of work with the pharmaceutical lobby treating opioid abuse. We're beginning to see huge benefits on a drug called vivitrol. It's an opioid blocker that is now being piloted by Bureau of Prisons. Huge problem both in society and within the criminal justice system. However, reforms are coming to how we treat drug abusers. Long over due.
I do a lot of work with one of the world's largest manufacturers of it. It's a great solution for a lot of tough situations.Originally posted by selmore1:
Vitriol is a great thing. The more it becomes available and the easier access people have to it the better.
Yesterday I actually participated in the launching of a Public Policy program myself, the school and two other alums launched here in DC for Villanova. The title of our first forum was around criminal justice reform and drug abusers. Had Karen Moyer testify on her foundation's role and the work they do supporting families of drug addictcts and children. Lots of great work being done in this space by many dedicated people, myself included. The Villanova fall magazine will have a nice profile on it. Cool stuff. Sometimes learning a thing or two about the people you stereo-type is important so you have a semblence of a clue on what you speak. Or you can continue through life being the turd in the punch bowl while judging others based on nothing but your own synical view of the world.Originally posted by NickleDimer:
fixed.Originally posted by adp98:
Do a lot of work with the pharmaceutical lobby treating opioid abuse. We're beginning to see huge benefits on a drug called vivitrol. It's an opioid blocker that is now being piloted by Bureau of Prisons. Huge problem both in society and within the criminal justice system. However, reforms are coming to how we treat drug abusers. Long over due.
There is only one manufacturer and they are very small biotech outside of Boston.Originally posted by NickleDimer:
I do a lot of work with one of the world's largest manufacturers of it. It's a great solution for a lot of tough situations.Originally posted by selmore1:
Vitriol is a great thing. The more it becomes available and the easier access people have to it the better.
Originally posted by adp98:
There is only one manufacturer and they are very small biotech outside of Boston.Originally posted by NickleDimer:
I do a lot of work with one of the world's largest manufacturers of it. It's a great solution for a lot of tough situations.Originally posted by selmore1:
Vitriol is a great thing. The more it becomes available and the easier access people have to it the better.
Congrats on going deep undercover for your clients in "charity work". Was there a bonus for getting their drug rolled out by a government agency?Originally posted by adp98:
Yesterday I actually participated in the launching of a Public Policy program myself, the school and two other alums launched here in DC for Villanova. The title of our first forum was around criminal justice reform and drug abusers. Had Karen Moyer testify on her foundation's role and the work they do supporting families of drug addictcts and children. Lots of great work being done in this space by many dedicated people, myself included. The Villanova fall magazine will have a nice profile on it. Cool stuff. Sometimes learning a thing or two about the people you stereo-type is important so you have a semblence of a clue on what you speak. Or you can continue through life being the turd in the punch bowl while judging others based on nothing but your own synical view of the world.