Drug Rehab: are users criminals or are they just sick?

Question

i have a pro and contrast paper due and i need good sources can anyone help me i need to argue both sides with good points...thanks

Answer 1

Rehab is for QUITTERS!

Answer 2

Well people in drug rehab hopefully are attempting to straighten out their life. They are only a criminal if they are selling the substance (against the law) or using the drug. But being an addict should not automatically mean you are a criminial. Being an addict means you have a disease (this has finally been admitted by the medical profession). If the person who is high commits a crime then yes he is a criminal for having committed that crime. Just because he has a disease doesn't make it ok to commit crimes. That would be like saying that Cancer patients shouldn't be held accountable for armed robbery because they have Cancer.

There is an article on this site:


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=870298&dopt=Abstract

that I found.. but all I did was type in "addiction and crime" at google.com.

I've been on both sides of this question. I've been clean and sober now for 22 years. I'm grateful that I didn't commit crimes that hurt other people.. only myself. I didn't learn to drive until I got clean because I didn't want the responsibility of hurting someone else while under the inffluence. I didnt use guns, didn't rob businesses... I'm sure I should be guilty because of the associations I had.. An addicted person needs to find someone to supply them with whatever they're addited too. I'm grateful that I got out of that whole seen basically intact without too many dead brain cells. You might want to find a rehab near you and see if you can interview some people who work in the field. Most of them are in recovery themselves and may have a different variation of opinion than I do..

Good Topic. Really got me thinking!

Answer 3

Drug Rehab Criminals - only if they are sent there for doing crime of which they got caught and arrested and convicted of and the judicial decision was to send them there in the first place. If the are drug users, it is not a crime to do them just to have them, so they are all criminals.

Drug Rehab Sick - Addiction is an illness set forth in the DSM-IV, a psychology diagnostic tool, and others, such as the Doctors Desk Reference.

Answer 4

In that drug use is illegal, this would make them criminals.

I know many people who "didn't inhale" lol and they never got busted so are they criminals?

The "war on drugs" is now big business. If drugs were legalized with many stipulations, it would greatly reduce crime, and boost the economy....but...what about the DEA? I mean those guys need jobs lol.
I did a paper on this long ago. Did you know that coca-cola originally contained cocaine? In the 1800's and first decade of 1900's (not sure of exact date) you could go into a pharmacy (then an apothecary) and purchase laudanum (an opiate) And nobody was stealing to get drug money.

Answer 5

Well there are users that have a disease jus tlike any other,cancer or diabetes..It's just that thier disease has side affects that hurt the people they love as well as the pain they are going through themselfs .Some call it self medicating. But then there are those that commit criminal acts to feed thier habbit, usaually after a good stint in rehab and for some the right medications for their chemical imbalances and for those that don't have a chemical imbalance , But just face thier fears they go on to live happy and healthy lives its called F.E.A.R....face everything and recover or f***everything and run.

Answer 6

You see they are niether i am sorry this wont help your report but they might be called sick but really it is that and most likely pear preasure you see they are either going through a very hard part of there life or they want to be kewl but they eventually no it is wrong but it is to late the would be criminals since drugs are illgal but... The real criminals are the drug dealers!!

Answer 7

If personal experience counts, you can put me in for having a brother who has been up and down with everything. The rehab provided helped him a lot. But the cops burst into a Narcotics Anonymous meeting he had set up, and arrested a man, and my brother has been harder and harder to get through to. He'll make it, because he knows that his family are behind him, but there is no help officially at all.

Answer 8

Some are and some aren't. Some might exhibit criminal behavior without drugs. Some might resort to crime to feed their addiction. Some just have a problem with drug abuse when it is impairing day to day living and being productive.

Answer 9

that isn't any longer a recommendations is a singular and that i do not have time to study the completed component I only inform you this if the authorities truly opt to wrestle the drug warfare first component they ought to do is legalized the weed which will shrink in 0.5 the drug cartel skill then US favor to placed aways their stupid mind-set and searching for for a severe collaboration with Mexico in order to prepare all factors and police forces to end the activity yet i do not think it is under no circumstances going to ensue because US authorities make a huge income to maintain the weed unlawful

Answer 10

They are both. They have a physical addition coupled with a mental obsession. Acting on this urge, makes them do the drugs which are illegal, making them law breakers, hence criminals.

Answer 11

Well, it'd be hard to find a user who wasn't committing another crime other than just illegal drug use cuz it costs alot, BUT drug addiction is an illness.