Do you feel that the government provides enough resources for the treatment of drug addiction?
30 Dec / 08
jpertello asked:
Government money for treatment is harder to come by. The Bush administration’s $12.7 billon drug-control budget request for 2007 earmarks 65% for interdiction and law enforcement and barely 35% for treatment and prevention. A National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse report found that, of the $277 that each American paid on average in state taxes to deal with substance abuse and addiction in 1998, only $10 went toward treatment and prevention.
Government money for treatment is harder to come by. The Bush administration’s $12.7 billon drug-control budget request for 2007 earmarks 65% for interdiction and law enforcement and barely 35% for treatment and prevention. A National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse report found that, of the $277 that each American paid on average in state taxes to deal with substance abuse and addiction in 1998, only $10 went toward treatment and prevention.
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Why should they? Why should we, as taxpayers, pay for addictions to alcohol or drugs? Maybe the concentration should be put more on those MDs abusing the prescription privalege, as well as the street hustler who is selling illegal ones….or even more importantly, the big dealers who import it. Watch US ports and landing strips…whatever it takes to cut down on the number of drugs brought into this country illegally. But paying for someone’s addiction is like paying for their stupidity and lack of self control.
I don’t believe the government should be providing ANY money for drug treatment. These people dug themselves the hole…let them work their way out.
You see, dangerous things can happen when we depend on the government to take care of things we should be taking care of ourselves. If we rely on them like we’d rely on a parent, why shouldn’t they be able to tell us how to live our lives? Personally, I don’t want to be told how to live, so if I become some addict, you can be sure that I intend on dealing with it myself.
Besides, drug treatment is notoriously ineffective. If a person doesn’t want to quit, they won’t. I don’t want my tax money being used on something that isn’t making a difference. Put that toward education so that they don’t become addicts to begin with.
any money that the federal government gives to treat drug addiction is above and beyond what they are required to give and is 100% charity of the American people. it is not the federal governments job to give any money to drug treatment.
I’m a recovering coke addict that had a $500 a day mainline habit. I didn’t need a treatment center. I didn’t need public money. $10 per person is roughly $3,000,000,000 how much more do you want. Get off their asses and quit doing drugs. Treatment didn’t help Lohan.
Of course not. Drugs are business
It would be one thing if the government was the ones that made people into drug addicts but they didn’t. I think that if they get on the stuff themselves then they should get off of it by themselves but I’m not the one they have to please. My girlfriend is a drug councilor and I think she would say that the amount is good where it is. The addicts are abusing the government’s kindness.
This is a Joke, it cost a lot more than that when you figure the tens of thousands they lock up as criminals each year and what we spend to keep them in jail for a non violent crime. This drug war is the biggest joke ever. Maybe if we closed our borders we could keep a lot of the drugs out not to mention illegal immigrants sneaking across our border and using resources that are met for the citizens of our country.
I see what you are saying. I myself dont see why we as americans should pay for someone elses mistakes. But they government does take tax money and use it for those causes. But if you dont know by now. Most of those so called taxes… The government decided if we cant get money for one thing then lets charge them for another and use the money for this. The government has many ways to make money for their own needs (like start wars). And they use our tax system for their spending machine.
no i really dont i mean in most casses the places for these pple are not even ethical at all they just treat most patients like crap.
No they do not . I don’t think they want to stop drug abuse there is too much money involved .