Forced Drug Detox Programs for Drug Addicts in Prison…?
Question by Romantic Pragmatist: Forced drug detox programs for drug addicts in prison…?
Forced drug detoxification programs for drug addicts in prison, would it better rehabilitate criminals than just time in prison itself?
I watched a chilling documentary on national geographic about a prison gang. It had people bringing up how the drug business in prisons is a multi million dollar business. They brought up on this documentary why one reason it’s such a big business is because so many inmates are drug addicts. So with this being a way of life in prison, I think this question should be pondered, would forced drug detox programs for drug addicts in prison help rehabilitate them better than just prison time itself?
To add to this, maybe I should say if inmates that had kicked their habit in a prison detox program, were separated from the rest of the prison population and were just around the other inmates that had also kicked their drug habits, do you think that would work even better?
True Niomi, it would cost more to separate addicts to kick the habit, but on the other hand maybe some of the costs could be put on the World Bank Group. After all the US for example insures people’s deposits already with the FDIC which is short for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation–
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDIC
You’d think for example that the banks that get robbed all the time would want to rehabilitate bank robbers to say the least right?
Also it is true Niomi, that drug addicts refuse help because of being in denial. I can say I know this firsthand, I had used a lot of substances in my life, but I was able to quit them cold turkey because of a stronger willpower I guess I have more than others and plus I didn’t really have the “value” or “priority” that most addicts have of substances over important things in life. I personally realized better than most addicts that other things like family and living life is more important. However yes, it is true that most addicts lose sight of those facts, and I can say I know that also because I had some roommates that got addicted heavily to substances and there was a least 3 of them I had for roommates that let their life go down the toilet because of their addictions and yes, they either didn’t want to acknowledge their addictions or refused to treat their addictions.
It is also true though Niomi that people who are extreme addicts affect other people with their actions. When addicts are so extremely out of control with their addictions, they can hurt others. When addicts are hurting others as a result or effect of their personal levels of substance addictions to such an extreme level that they endanger the lives of others, they need to have people intervene for the good of others. For example when a methhead, heroin or crack addict, etc; starts robbing banks or people at gunpoint, they’ve become a danger to others and it’s in people best interests as a whole to get criminals off of their addictions. Believe me, I’ve heard a lot of addicts say they were glad when people helped to get them off of their addictions. I’d venture to say there’s an extremely large number of addicts that would love to live their life in a much better way than what they’ve been living their life under the control of substances.
Besides that, as I mentioned you’d think it would be everyone’s best interests & well being including the addicts themselves, to want to have people who are a danger to others, because of substance addictions to be clean of addictions and living a productive life with whatever career & having a fulfilled life.
Best answer:
Answer by MoonBear
I know in Baltimore, some use the prison system to get clean so they can start using at a low level again. When their tolerance gets too high, they get arrested, go in and detox and when they get out, they start all over again.
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