The knife/gun/club-wielding crook is not the problem?
> The social net / missing social network is
The lack of critical care after being stabbed/shot/clubbed is?
Of course drugs like these are a problem when their use turns people into oozing zombies. While they would still have other problems if they'd been using less damaging drugs at least they'd be able to keep their body parts and have a chance of recovery if they'd ever get over their addictions.
> Everyone else should get proper professional care.
Define "professional" in this context. Some people just don't want to be helped, they just want to zonk out on some substance and be done with. In that case "professional" would mean "providing substances which do not turn users into oozing zombies" since these people are not helped with Methadone or similar opioid-agonists.
In Germany you need to look away your gun and need to have it in a locked case for traveling (even in a car as a hunter).
And for the school shootings: less bullying more social support.
It's not magic, it's not the guns and other weapons.
The solution to all is education and social support.
Let people take part in our society.
That’s not true. People in the west have so many more choices than people in my dad’s village in Bangladesh. But it’s people in the west who are destroying themselves with drug and other vices.
Additionally, just from a cursory google, it looks like addiction is also on an alarming rise in Bangladesh, especially in the youth. I don’t see evidence addiction is isolated to “the West”.
Addiction is rising in Bangladesh—but as it’s getting richer and more westernized. But even then, to put it into context, the drug overdose rate in the US is 20 times higher adjusted for population.
The drug is the problem, and so are the suppliers -- they are killing people. Addicts and people who need psychiatric care are harming themselves. If the criminal suppliers were supplying contraband woolen socks instead, there might only be a trade dispute and a loss of retail tax income.
That said, users of harmful drugs fall into two sacrifice zones: SZ1) the purveyors of the harmful drugs don't care much if you die, and SZ2) the rest of society doesn't care if you die, but doesn't want you dying in a business district.
Government is willing to be in some "dealing" businesses, such as tobacco and alcohol, because by far most users of these substances can keep working and paying taxes. The economic advantage of government involvement is clear.
There is only so much that the levels of government will invest to reduce (palliate) the suffering of users of harmful drugs. Local government is directly motivated to not have its community (revenue base) supplanted by drug zones. Citizens don't want that either. So the minimal mitigation is what you would expect.
When we say something is a social problem, we often mean that we wish humans were kinder to humans.
>The economic advantage of government involvement is clear.
Does this also include the prison-industrial complex?
Drugs? They’re widely despised of and I don’t think I have ever _seen_ a person who did drugs in my entire life. I’m middle class btw. Note that less religious cities have higher numbers of alcohol and drug consumption, like Izmir or Mersin.
It’s honestly sad to see entire societies of 330M people devastated by such simple substances and unable to defeat them. Alhamdulillah for Islam.
> “Islam and Islamic culture have successfully maintained virtually alcohol-free societies for centuries and this was done without a kind of stiff-armed, crackdown prohibition as was attempted in US history, which itself arguably caused more harm than good.”
The social net / missing social network is.
Our society struggles to take care of its own people because we live in a mentally restraint.
Even in Germany were you have a right for a basic living like a flat and heat and foot and electricity we have homeless.
And no we don't spend the money a flat and everything would cost us into alternative 'equivilent' like enough street worker / social help for them.
People with good choices and support primarily choose non self harming activities.
Everyone else should get proper professional care.