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Addiction treatments are safe, effective — and rarely offered to patients. That's because many doctors and nurses still view people with alcohol or drug addiction with suspicion and hostility. n.pr/4fFpY98

n.prHow deep-rooted medical bias creates deadly consequences for addiction patientsAddiction treatments are safe, effective — and rarely offered to patients. That's because many doctors and nurses still view people with alcohol or drug addiction with suspicion and hostility.

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An ortho NP once told me addicts just lack the willpower (lmao) to change. The 12th Tradition kept me from telling him that the doctor whose practice he worked for was, at that time, a greeter at my homegroup.

One of the greatest failings in the US right now is that we've convinced ourselves that things like poverty and addiction are moral failings.

I'm deeply suspicious of big pharma and how they bias medical providers in their treatments. I'm deeply suspicious of many prescribed drugs that seem to provide more complications than remedies. I generally avoid the healthcare system because of how broken it is.

And then when you DO finally end up in the healthcare system, you’re generally sicker, care will be more expensive, risk of complications and mortality will be higher. Not sure that’s an awesome plan.

Addiction and homelessness are involuntary states of being in which people can find themselves. It's not a matter of just stop using or get a job. It's a slow slide into hopelessness. We have lost our compassion and grace as a nation.

So addiction and homelessness are involuntary, and some addicted and homeless people will not volunteer to get treated and instead destroy themselves and their communities, why are so many addiction advocates against arresting and forcing these people into treatment?

I understand addiction, and some people need to hit rock bottom repeatedly before they’re willing to help themselves. Why you’re completely OK with people being afraid to leave their homes and prioritizing drug addicts over them, boggles my mind. I guess your children aren’t afraid to go to school.

You cannot force a legal adult into treatment if they don’t want it. Period. Some people simply prefer the substance of their choice over health, family, hygiene, shelter, etc. It’s not ok, but here we are.

It took me 2 years of nicotine patches & gum to quit smoking. I was hooked & would never have been able to quit on my own. I'd as soon divorce my husband (now of 50 years of marriage) rather than quit. The physical addition was so strong that without "crutches", I'd never had quit. 1/

Addiction is that strong. Now substitute in drugs for cigarettes & it's a worse situation. It is to for "preference" that people can't quit; its a physical addition so strong that people will forsake the important things in their life for another hit.

I’m fully on board with throwing those people in jail or voluntarily committing them. A person’s selfishness and their willingness to destroy themselves and their own community just isn’t fucking worth it anymore. Watching parts of my city go to shit and it’s basically “nothing we can do about it.”

If my son was so lost that he was doing heroin or fenty every walking moment, disturbing the peace, damaging property and stealing, and screaming on the streets at all hours of the night, I would fully support rounding him up and putting him away in a treatment centre. What is wrong with you?

WHAT IS YOUR SOLUTION? MY CITY BUILD TWO DOZEN MINI HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS THIS YEAR AND HALF OF THEM ARE OUT OF COMMISSION BECAUSE OF DAMAGES.THERE ARE PEOPLE SHOOTING UP IN FRONT OF SCHOOLS AND NO ONE DOES A THING. THE METHADONE CLINIC STEET LOOKS LIKE A SET ON THE WALKING DEAD.

It’s not a “preference”. Recurrently choosing the substance over all of those other things is LITERALLY the illness. I’m not saying there are easy solutions, but to shrug your shoulders and say “eh, that’s what they want” is just ignorant and asinine.

Not always. They often end up in a hospital because their health is compromised. Sometimes due to their use of substances, sometimes due to self-neglect secondary to their use of symptoms. If someone ASKS for treatment, they should have it.

Legalize drugs and use the profits from government-run dispensaries to fund top quality addiction treatment. That would cut off the flow of money to gangs and cartels, and support the health of the addicted.

"They do it to themselves. If they don't care about themselves, then why should I care about them." It feels like that is kind of the mantra of a lot of people in the medical community.