Sorry dudes, as the son of a now sober alcoholic, and having grown up hanging out with his buddies from AA, I'm gonna have to side with Hades on this. Discuss the financial benefits all you want, but giving drugs to an addict is no way to solve their problems, just prolong them. An addict has to hit bottom to want to clean up their life, that generally involves some ugly ****.
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Hey, I know broken homes just like the next member. I trust that you know the effects an addiction can have much better first hand than me. However, I wasn't arguing that you could somehow solve the drug problem with controlled drugs. I'm simply explaining the fact that clean conditions are a great thing. Less diseases and bad blood. Also, you can monitor drug use of regular drugpoint goers at least somewhat. People die less, right?
As for addiction being mental defect; can you link me with anything? You do know that all of us have mental problems if that's true? :D