You (and others in this thread) are helping to make my point for me, which is that personal social structures are paramount for killing drug addiction.

I don’t think anyone is disputing that some variation of this idea is true. What’s not being stated explicitly is that if it’s true that social connectedness (ambiguously including identity, purpose, etc.) matters, then it’s also true that our current enforcement mechanisms are probably incredibly counterproductive.

Everyone gets the point you’re making, you’re just not following it through to something meaningful and instead supposing it implies something it doesn’t.

And... that ties nicely in with the defund the police narrative.

This has nothing to do with the "defund the police" narrative, Portugal did this 20 years ago.

> then it’s also true that our current enforcement mechanisms are probably incredibly counterproductive.

Fits nicely to me.

Ah, I see what you meant, I read it as implying that the "defund the police" people were driving the narrative I was referencing, not that the narrative I was referencing happened to fit the "defund the police" one.