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Ummm, home prices will keep going up, right?

We need this in CA.

But the Republican "War on Drugs".

The program is misleading in many ways about issues of recovery. Methadone maintenance is NOT recovery, it is an alternative intoxication and addiction that is deemed more manageable because the social service agencies take the place of the pusher with free meds and no needles are involved. Often times, addicts themselves are put in charge of certain aspects of the programs.

Unfortunately, drugs users for all intents and purposes are practicing sociopaths. They will say ANYTHING to keep getting their fix, and they know very well how to bullshit and appeal to the heartstrings of the gullible or well intentioned. I have met a few methadone customers, and the maintenance types practice the same squirrelly, manipulative con crap that the street addicts do, but they are healthier on public assistance. AND they are still stoned. Their eyes are pinned and their affect is not that of a sober person. They are delighted that they are stoned and can convince people that while using they are "normal", employable and trustworthy. They may be better than on heroin, but they are not sober.

These drugs corrupt nearly everybody that come in contact with them, over social issues and issues of money, because there is just so much money to be had from selling. Social issues become Alice in Wonderland, because everybody is bullshitting everybody else and nothing is real any more. Selling sex and interpersonal power trips also become part of the scene. The addicts will play the 'official' social services scene like a fiddle while running their street cons on the side, often intermingling their preferred heroin with the methadone used to prevent withdrawal or take off the edge. Some of them will also just sell the methadone if they can, and buy heroin.

Even the social service types get corrupted and often become part of the problem/con rather than the solution. Some of the social service officers interviewed in the cited video, in addition to promoting their own employment, seem to fit into the con category because they are just not being honest about what drug maintenance involves and promote the delusion that it is some kind of 'recovery' or repatriation to morally and legally chaste society when it is not. They are just managing addicts in a less harmful environment (ostensibly).

Real recovery requires abstinence and the sociopathic behavior can take upwards of a year to wane.

Addiction is a death sentence, and abstinence is only realistic for a small minority of highly motivated addicts, estimated to be as low as two percent long term clean time for motivated narcotics addicts in programs.

Is maintenance preferable? Of course it is. You should give them all the drugs they want for free under controlled circumstances. It's as close as you will ever get to behavior modification for true addicts. Just forget about the boy scout and normalized citizen worker bee delusions, they are still addicts and would still kill granny for a fix.

I love the lady in this documentary who, at the city hall meeting, specifically calls out the elephant in the room. "This isn't a housing problem, it is a drugs problem." The citizens roar with applause. The city councilors cluck their tongues at the unfashionable truth.

Ceffer says

Unfortunately, drugs users for all intents and purposes are practicing sociopaths

So true. My little sister got herself addicted to heroin and was a total sociopath during that time. She got off it somehow, and has been clean for seven years. Well, except for weed which was her medication of choice to stay clean I guess.

Send all the homeless and drug addicts to Portland, Oregon where the police and local government are pro-AntiFa.