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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 646670" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Well, because the U.S. is right now run by conservatives and they are very against social programs that help the poor, it's not going to happen here. Just won't. I live in a state where services are being slashed. This affects the poor AND the mentally ill, especially the mentally ill poor. The whole country leans in this direction now.</p><p></p><p>As for drugs, I think it's more DNA than mental illness. Mental illness doesn't mean you are prone to addiction. It CAN lead to substance use, but maybe not abuse. I knew a lot of well-adjusted kids who experimented with drugs and then some of them got hooked. Who knows who is at risk? It's like Russian roulette. Most kids start using drugs because it's "Fun" or "cool" or they want to be accepted by the "popular" kids, not because they are not well off or mentally ill. At least here, drugs are as big in the well off suburbs as in the working class.</p><p></p><p>Of course, the ultra-poor...selling drugs is about the only way to make a living and forget your hopelessness so I agree in that case. I doubt Canada sees the poverty of a third world country that does exist in some areas of the U.S. Maybe I'm wrong. THAT of course would lead to drug use if only because there is no industry, no recreation, and nothing to do but work for the drug lords on the corners of streets. I have driven in some areas that didn't even look like America to me. The few times this happened it was due to my poor sense of direction getting me into a very dangerous place. But I couldn't even stop to ask directions to get back to where I needed to go. The people did not look friendly. I saw guns. It was as if I left one country and found myself in another one and, yes, I am positive drug use was the biggest recreation there because all businesses were gone, fun place buildings vacant, people hanging on street corners...very sad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 646670, member: 1550"] Well, because the U.S. is right now run by conservatives and they are very against social programs that help the poor, it's not going to happen here. Just won't. I live in a state where services are being slashed. This affects the poor AND the mentally ill, especially the mentally ill poor. The whole country leans in this direction now. As for drugs, I think it's more DNA than mental illness. Mental illness doesn't mean you are prone to addiction. It CAN lead to substance use, but maybe not abuse. I knew a lot of well-adjusted kids who experimented with drugs and then some of them got hooked. Who knows who is at risk? It's like Russian roulette. Most kids start using drugs because it's "Fun" or "cool" or they want to be accepted by the "popular" kids, not because they are not well off or mentally ill. At least here, drugs are as big in the well off suburbs as in the working class. Of course, the ultra-poor...selling drugs is about the only way to make a living and forget your hopelessness so I agree in that case. I doubt Canada sees the poverty of a third world country that does exist in some areas of the U.S. Maybe I'm wrong. THAT of course would lead to drug use if only because there is no industry, no recreation, and nothing to do but work for the drug lords on the corners of streets. I have driven in some areas that didn't even look like America to me. The few times this happened it was due to my poor sense of direction getting me into a very dangerous place. But I couldn't even stop to ask directions to get back to where I needed to go. The people did not look friendly. I saw guns. It was as if I left one country and found myself in another one and, yes, I am positive drug use was the biggest recreation there because all businesses were gone, fun place buildings vacant, people hanging on street corners...very sad. [/QUOTE]
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