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Everyone deserves addiction treatment that works — including those in jail
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I'd like to see treatment that works, but I haven't, yet. The methadone clinics in my area just seem to supplement active addiction, and none of it actually seems to work to get users free from addiction. I don't know if that's because those users don't actually want to stop using or not, but at this point, harm minimization, to users and non-users around them seems worth a try, including not soul-crushing, below-livable wages. As it is, the last item isn't available for many non-users, so it looks like the system is the problem. Until we address conditions that create despair, symptoms of despair will continue to explode.
Let me go ahead and stop you right there, chief. This is MURICA