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The Drug War
In 2005 a national survey on Drug use estimated that 23.2 million people ages 12 and up were addicted to illicit drugs or alcohol in the U.S., of these 23.2 million, 2.3 percent received treatment for their addiction. "The National Treatment Improvement evaluation study" showed a high percentage (78%) in the decline of welfare received, unemployment went down, and a 64% reduction in arrest of those people who received treatment.
The government spends billions on the war on drugs but most of it is spent on trying to stop the drugs from coming into the country. This is important, however the results show that we are only stopping a small percentage of these drugs and yet spending billions on trying while the people we have addicted to these drugs do not get the help they need, so we end up spending more money on jails, medical bills, welfare cost and there is no end in sight because there is no plan to change the way we are thinking about the addict or the alcoholic.
There have been intensive studies on the stigma and attitudes that effect people addicted to drugs and alcohol. The studies show that the stigma is a powerful, shame based mark of disgrace and reproach that impedes treatment and recovery. Prejudicial attitudes and beliefs generate and drive this stigma; because of this people suffering from alcohol or drug addiction are often pushed away, discriminated against and deprived of basic human rights. The addicts internalize this thinking and behavior, which then becomes part of their identity and sense of self worthlessness.
Public support and policy are affected by this addiction stigma and delays acknowledging the disease and inhibits prevention, care, treatment and research. At this point public support for treatment is treated more like it is a criminal justice issue, until it is handled like a medical issue this stigma will continue and the cost of treatment is 100% on the addict or more often on the addicts family and if not affordable then it is sometime completely unattainable.
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