Drug addiction is a mental health condition. Once addicted it can be extremely difficult to stop without proper intervention. As someone who has suffered from sad or substance abuse disorder which is classified in the dsm5 and dsm 5tr,I strongly feel jail and prisons are not the proper way to treat these disorders. Do to opiats and benzos and alcohol many people that go through withdrawl cold turkey can even have seizures and fall into acoma. I feel it should be rehabs not jails. Now if they fail rehab pr if they rehab and mess up with a drug charge then jail should be the next alternative. The reason i speak on this is intervention saved my life. Im clean and sober now for 10 years.
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