DO alcoholics and addicts use the "Disease excuse to get out of prison /jail ?

Question

Many criminalls will have thier attorney say to the prosecutor that the defandant has a disease ,addction" alcholism" to get out of going to prison or jail . They will ask and often get to go to a 28 day rehab . Then probation with AA meetings .
Often they are repeat offnders with serious records. yet we as a society let them off with rehab and meetings which the are often alrealy found their victim through !
Yet a person who is truely mentally ill often end up in prison where the quickly become victims of some of societies most evil.
We claim not to like the insanity defense in fact outside of the disease of substance abuse and its growing spin offs insanitiy defence of any type are succesfull 1% of the time

Why then do we let sane criminals off with rehab and AA to reoffend ? AA/NA claims all addicts are insane yet they are well aware that they are breaking law , fail to to fit medical or legal insantiy burden is this justice or imoral ?

who ever said AA /NA does not make calins of insainty either knows nothing of AA or is not reading the BB or Bsasic text . step[ 2 clearly calsim tey are insane ICame to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. quote"
Through oput te books and others ther are multiple claimes of insanty .
Yesp they need hep they can get it in prison when they break the law . we Cannot lable behaviors disease . It isa invtation ot chaso and letting pople get away with seriious crimes

It seems that pople believe what 12 satep oranzations say alot .

I hav interviewed over 100 inmates at a stae prison they will tell you flat out that they useAA/ NA GA ect as a way ou of prison sort of like jailhouse conversions

they play along pretend to work the steps look for new victims at meetinfs if thy have open meetings at a prison often ther ar and thet dinda vulneralbel person to take advantage of . get drugs or oter contraband from . and so on . They tell new inmates how to play the system if you get b arested act a bit mentaly ill say something like I feel like offing my self or i think evey one is out ot get me . temm you hada bad child hood and tey eat it u p and you get a reduiced sentancev a rehab where you can meet conection woamen and get hooked up with a meeting that will lie to your PO . they have it down to a art from and others se it and have lerned tov blame all thier bad behavior on a disease It gets worse .

Answer 1

To many times.

Answer 2

Because prison does absolutely nothing to solve the problem. And treatment does.

People who are addicted to drugs or alcohol suffer a medical problem. One that can be treated, so that the person doesn't drink or take drugs again. And if the choice is spend $5000 locking them away without treatment, or spending $2000 with a 50-50 chance of them getting clean so they don't abuse again, which makes more sense?

Where the problem can be treated effectively, punishment does absolutely nothing. And punishment is more expensive. But treatment is only an effective answer for those who are personally using or abusing. It's not a solution for dealers or those who voluntarily choose to commit crimes that actually harm someone else.

Answer 3

Well, you can't blame a person for trying any excuse to get out of going to jail/prison. The courts often go for it because it is cheaper than housing and feeding a person while giving the ILLUSION that something is being done.

Answer 4

I think the insanity defence is a major excuse too.

Doing this only makes the majority of law abiding people who have troubles with addiction or mental health issues look bad when they attempt to secure their rights, e.g. responsible jobs, loans, custody of children, etc. Any scofflaw with a mental illness or even thinks they might have one can say to anybody that they hallucinated and their "voices" told them to do something and there's no way to prove that or not to ...

Answer 5

I know of no such claim by AA or NA that says all addicts are insane and they are well aware they are breaking the law. I don't like wasting my answers on questions that clearly don't have the facts correct.

Answer 6

Une jeune fille arrive en retard à ses cours et explique son retard au professeur - Je suis désolée mais j'ai mes règles.. Le professeur: -Mais Mademoiselle notre université a aussi ses règles. ;)

Answer 7

Get over it-they just need help

Yes it is a disease for some.

Answer 8

THAT IS THE EXCUSE FOR EVERYTHING THEY DO. BUT IF THEY DON'T GET CAUGHT IT'S OK.