Addiction: My experience of rehabilitation in the UK

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By Stephen Smith
Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 10:00

With reader comments

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/09/addiction-my-experience-of-rehabilitation-in-the-uk/

Amy Winehouse’s death has put drug addiction and rehabilitation back in the spotlight. Her biggest hit, Rehab, tops the charts, but our national approach to, and our policy for treating addicts desperately needs to top the media agenda.

I have firsthand experience of lost teenage years to a life in organised crime, fuelled with drugs and drink. Now aged 68 and with hindsight, my credentials to talk with authority are gold plated.
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Legalising drugs will simply bring about easier ways to get hooked. Kids will still have to buy their drugs and will steal to do so. Legalising mind altering substances that do harm to our young is rubbish. Why not give them guns, but tell them not to shoot? Hash is as bad as any drug and often leads toclass A use. Shall future generations smoke one, two or three joints before studying for an exam?
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Why so much speculation about what legalization will do? There are places in which legalization is currently taking place. Certainly direct observation is more informative than hypothesis.
 
The author is a dumbass. How does it make sense to deny someone an education just because they cant pass a drug test? Imo, it would just encourage people to use more.
 
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