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David Sheff


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Posted: February 12, 2020, 9:18 PM
"If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets".
- David Sheff


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Posted: February 12, 2020, 10:17 PM
“David Sheff wrote a book in 2008 that became a kind of landmark. Beautiful Boy, a painful, personal story of the battle he tried to fight with and alongside his son, Nic, who was addicted to methamphetamines. The book became an international best-seller and made David Sheff one of the country’s most prominent voices on addiction — not as a doctor, an addict or an academic expert, but as a father. Sheff has continued to try to figure out a road that can lead out of addiction, and he presents that route in his new book, Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy.”

– Scott Simon, Weekend Edition
National Public Radio


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Posted: February 15, 2020, 6:11 PM
The problem is funding and lack of knowledge and effort at political levels that could make it happen.

Also, a needed aspect would be involuntary admission. So...as a society in the US we have backed off that concept even in mental health.

I like the idea of drug courts and wish they would expand this idea, even with some involuntary stays (as opposed to jail).

In the end, society pays for addiction so it would be great if we put money into treatment instead of prisons and emergency rooms.

We do need a structure to address addiction but I don't see the light at the end of that tunnel.
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