My college professor told us that yesterday.
2007-06-27 07:57:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ People with Disabilities
My son is an addict . I am a retired hardworking tax payer. I stop breathing when sleeping and need a cpap machine. medicare wont give one,, found out my son if needed can get oner. He gets a free bus pass i pay, he gets dental and glasses also.. thats the thanks you get for working 50 years...
2007-06-27 14:42:15 · answer #1 · answered by Grand pa 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your college professor is wrong.
Here how the law (the Americans with Disabilities Act) works:
Someone who is abusing drugs is not considered disabled. Under some circumstances, a person who has stopped using--but suffers effects as a result--can be considered disabled, but only if and as long as he/she no longer abuses drugs.
2007-06-27 17:29:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the rationale is that substance abuse does have a genetic disposition. If either of your parents or grandparents were abusers than you have a higher risk of becoming addicted.
"Of becoming ", not pre-programmed, not you have no choice, and not you WILL become an addict. People have choices.
There is always a stopping point, where you KNOW you are too fond of whatever it is you are using and its time to back off and leave it alone.
I think it would be more accurate to say addiction creates disabilities.
I can understand how some people feel its a much nicer world if you are stoned or out there incognizant of reality with your best friend "Oblivia" but its a choice, IMO.
Back to that "no responsibility for what I do" disease thats infested our society.
I am really NOT happy with the concept that people choose to become disabled, and we, who had no choice, are lumped in with the choosers, who at least in Canada seem to get a lot more support than we do.
Its damn demoralizing.
2007-06-27 15:54:18 · answer #3 · answered by isotope2007 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think that employers have had trouble firing substance abusers since it is considered an illness. I believe an addiction is an illness IMO.
2007-06-27 20:26:10 · answer #4 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Interesting but to me that's like a self-imposed disability, kind of like when those people get so fat they can't move, wear real clothes, and gets major medical complications.
2007-06-27 19:30:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't understand how. I see it as a choice. If you don't want to do the time, don't commit the crime. Isn't that's what the them from Beretta says?
2007-06-27 18:27:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋