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Do you ever feel like we are be cheated re drugs?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 669446" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Available treatment is also one thing I have been thinking. To me it feels that too much of treatment is 'one size fits all'-type and assuming all addicts and all drugs are the same.</p><p></p><p>It feels that for example in-patient treatment is likely not even best but at least not most cost-effective way to treat a person, who thinks they are nowadays smoking too much pot or who has been using ecstasy every Saturday and have lost control of their behaviour because of that but who does not use other drugs. On the other hand with some drugs there are other drugs that make getting rid of them easier. And if addict has co-morbid mental health issues just focusing on addiction doesn't help much.</p><p></p><p>And person who just wants to get their head messed up (typical addict around here, uses benzoes, some opioids, if gets them, some ecstasy, some amphetamine, some other psychoactive common drugs like muscle relaxants and definitely alcohol and pot and mixes them all) most likely needs little different treatment than person, who has first had legitimate reason to use some psychoactive drug, but has started to use more than they should and are now hooked to that one drug and use it differently than prescribed. </p><p></p><p>It feels that somehow our drug policies (even around here, where as I said vast majority of abused drugs are actual medicines) make a huge difference between illegal drugs and other substances that also have legal use even though those substances are not so different from each other. And somehow it is thought that an addict is an addict, a druggie is a druggie and they are all the same, when the reality is much more complex.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 669446, member: 14557"] Available treatment is also one thing I have been thinking. To me it feels that too much of treatment is 'one size fits all'-type and assuming all addicts and all drugs are the same. It feels that for example in-patient treatment is likely not even best but at least not most cost-effective way to treat a person, who thinks they are nowadays smoking too much pot or who has been using ecstasy every Saturday and have lost control of their behaviour because of that but who does not use other drugs. On the other hand with some drugs there are other drugs that make getting rid of them easier. And if addict has co-morbid mental health issues just focusing on addiction doesn't help much. And person who just wants to get their head messed up (typical addict around here, uses benzoes, some opioids, if gets them, some ecstasy, some amphetamine, some other psychoactive common drugs like muscle relaxants and definitely alcohol and pot and mixes them all) most likely needs little different treatment than person, who has first had legitimate reason to use some psychoactive drug, but has started to use more than they should and are now hooked to that one drug and use it differently than prescribed. It feels that somehow our drug policies (even around here, where as I said vast majority of abused drugs are actual medicines) make a huge difference between illegal drugs and other substances that also have legal use even though those substances are not so different from each other. And somehow it is thought that an addict is an addict, a druggie is a druggie and they are all the same, when the reality is much more complex. [/QUOTE]
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