10-01-2024, 07:20 PM
(10-01-2024, 07:05 PM)ac3r Wrote: I think one hurdle would be having the public become accepting of the idea - and sure, the phrase "forced rehab" is lazy...I'm sure there are nicer ways to describe it, but that's besides the point. However this isn't impossible to do. Such a program and everything that comes with it - the facilities in particular - would have to be designed in such a way to be conducive to rehabilitation. We would need new facilities built and designed in such a way that they feel warm, inviting and a place where someone would actually choose to be versus their present life under addiction. They would have to look, feel and function as places for rehabilitation. In fact, it's a demonstrable and objective fact that good architectural design combined with well structured, ethical programs that actually work to help people have significant positive results. A big reason why people think things like "safe injection sites" and other fairly contemporary bandage solutions are bullshit is because they kinda are. They're half assed, even if the underlying idea is correct.
If we're to confine people who are so deep into drug addiction that they are a danger to themselves and a burden to society (burden meaning the huge cost to the social fabric and economics of our community and nation) then it needs to be in a place they don't feel like they're in jail. Thankfully, there are plenty of examples of facilities like this around the world we can look to for inspiration. But achieving this takes an unprecedented level of national willpower...which unfortunately I don't think we are ready for in Canada. It isn't just simply a matter of financially affording to design a coherent plan, designing and building facilities to treat people, integrating people back into the normal world et cetera. Before any of that, there would need to be a significant cultural shift in our attitudes to how we see this and I think because Western philosophy has long placed emphasis on individualism and autonomy, that's a huge obstacle to overcome. I guess looking at it through the perspective of mental health makes sense to me. We regularly involuntarily confine people against their will in psychiatric units/hospitals when they are deemed a danger to themselves/others. Someone living in a tent, stealing every single day and abusing drugs is just a danger to their life and those around them yet for some reason most of society thinks it's preferable to just shrug it off and let them do what they want until they pull themselves out of it or die. They're really two sides of the same coin.
This problem is clearly tearing our country apart and seemingly getting worse by the day. I look at states such as the USA in horror as to what we seem to be aiming for. So instead of handing out free needles and glass pipes, we should be legislating a concrete plan and be willing to spend the money on it. It's not as if the money isn't there. If we can spend tens of billions of our dollars giving weapons to people like the Saudi's and Israeli's, we can spend it fixing our own nation. It just takes a change of attitude. And maybe looking to places like Portugal and Netherlands to see that you can build facilities that work in addition to writing legislation that helps.
also this
Galatians 4:16