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wah_wah_wah posted...

I think the worst stupidity about DARE is that it is entirely possible with the right resources to get off of drugs for life and never do them again. Yet they teach it falsely as this dead end you can never go back from. If you do drugs, you can get addicted, but recovery is also possible, sometimes without even it having ruined your life in the meantime... of course, unless someone decides to criminalize you for this disorder. I feel like someone needs to be going to police forces and teaching them about the medical model of addiction rather than police officers going to kids and preaching about how they will ruin them if they do drugs.

So should they tell kids to go do meth or heroin or whatever and hope they don't get a disease or loose their teeth while living in the streets doing crime and whoring themselves to feed the habit until they decide to get help and undergo some really difficult rehab that rarely works the first time?

No.

Doing drugs is going to ruin your life. You can recover from it, get your life back on track but that doesn't mean that old life wasn't ruined. The problem you should be having with DARE is the focus they had on weed.