Re:How the war on drugs creates violence
by logfromblammo on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:33PM
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I have read (from sources of dubious provenance) that narcotics addicts who have done multiple rounds of rehab and relapse were able to finally kick their habits by taking high doses of entheogen drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin, and ibogaine.
Suggest someone attend substance abusers' anonymous meetings for the rest of their lives, and no one bats an eye. Suggest that someone kick their drug habit by taking another drug, just once, and people lose their freakin' minds.
Re:How the war on drugs creates violence
by jacquesm on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:22AM
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"Experiments have shown rats to forgo food to the point of starvation in order to work for brain stimulation or intravenous cocaine when both food and stimulation are offered concurrently for a limited time each day."
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Re:How the war on drugs creates violence
by omurphyevans on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:08AM
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When given positive other life experiences, rats do not prefer cocaine to food.
Re:How the war on drugs creates violence
by user_0001 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:09PM
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Rats imprisoned in a cage in a laboratory with no chance of escape prefer to numb them selves with non-stop IV high quality cocaine where possible.
So would I probably.
Rats living freely in their natural habit - probably different story
Re:How the war on drugs creates violence
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:13AM
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The quote I cited was about heroin in particular; I don't know the state of anti-cocaine methods and the article doesn't go into it. It only states that apparently we have a perfectly good method of curing heroin addiction that's not being used for pretty stupid reasons.
Also, his more recent take on (US) attitude towards treating heroin addicts[1].
The ending paragraph of [1] works as a great TL;DR:
"Society is fixed, biology is mutable. People have tried everything to fix drug abuse. Being harsh and sending drug users to jail. Being nice and sending them to nice treatment centers that focus on rehabilitation. Old timey religion where fire-and-brimstone preachers talk about how Jesus wants them to stay off drugs. Flaky New Age religion where counselors tell you about how drug abuse is keeping you from your true self. Government programs. University programs. Private programs. Giving people money. Fining people money. Being unusually nice. Being unusually mean. More social support. Less social support. This school of therapy. That school of therapy. What works is just giving people a chemical to saturate the brain receptor directly. We know it works. The studies show it works. And we’re still collectively beating our heads against the wall of finding a social solution."
[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
[1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/02/practically-a-book-revi...