In our society and for years drug use has been seen as a crime and seen as something bad. The people caught using drugs or doing drug trafficking are usually sent to jail and they’re punished for it. Over time, some countries, and states have started to decriminalize drugs and focus on treatment. The purpose of this is to treat drug addictions like a health issue instead of a crime. States that are doing this are Oregon, California, Colorado, and some more.
There are pros and cons to this. The pros are that this could help people get out of their addiction because usually when they’re sent to jail they will do their time. Once they get out they will start doing drugs again and will either continue this vicious cycle or will overdose and die because of their addiction. If they receive treatment like therapy and counseling it can lead to long-term recovery and prevent relapse. It also helps more people to seek help and get out of their addiction.
However, there is a bad side to it. Some people say that without legal consequences drug use might increase and this could be true which could lead to more deaths because they would just use drugs without being scared of getting caught and then overdose. It is also very expensive to offer treatment to everyone so some people might be unable to get help. Focusing only on treatment could also neglect other issues like crime and public safety.
In my opinion, there are good things and bad things about this. I don’t think that everyone should get treatment and not have consequences because then they might just keep on doing it. I think that they should do an evaluation and if they really do think that the people are interested in the treatment and are not just trying to not go to jail then the treatment can be offered to them but if they ever catch them doing drugs again then they should be sent to jail. I also think that even if they are receiving treatment instead of going to jail it still should go in their criminal records.
Do you think they should be punished or receive treatment?
What treatment do you propose?
Should everyone get treatment?
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Do you think they should be punished or receive treatment? They may have made a huge mistake but they should receive treatment and also be punished. They should get treatment to live their rest of there life happy and clean.
I agree with you. The people consuming are as you said just committing a huge mistake and maybe they needed to learn from that mistake so now they know that they shouldn't do it again and to be able to learn that they need treatment.
Do you think they should be punished or receive treatment? I think they should receive treatment. I think that because drug users are often good people and if they then get off drugs they can help other people get off them also. I think a good treatment would be medicine and rehab.
I agree. People who do drugs normally are good people and should receive treatment. Also, there are many people in the world who were addicted who then went on to help thousands, or millions of people to quit doing smoking, vaping, etc.
Do you think they should be punished or receive treatment? I think people should be punished, but I also think they should receive treatment to help them live a better life. I think that the people should get a chance at a new life.
I think that if thery're punished then their situation would just worsen their situation and their addiction. But I agree with you in the fact that they deserve to get a chance at a new life and treatment would really help in that.
I think that people who do drugs should recive treatment before being held on trial. I think this because when and if they get out of prison without treatment, they are just going to keep doing drugs because of their addiction. But with treatment, people would have a higher chance to stop doing drugs.
I agree with how you said that people who do drugs should recieve treatment before going on trial because that way when they get out of prison they don't need to do drugs anymore. Also, to add onto that, if they don't recieve treatment before going to prison, their addiction will most likely become even worse when they get out of prison. Which can increase the risk of them getting arrested again.
I agree with you but I think that even in prison they could still be doing drugs because sometimes are drugs are passed between prisoners so prison could just make their addiction worse.
I think we should always have a second chance for something that we have done something bad like for example people who do drugs. Some people use drugs becuase people around do it and others things like smoke or vape. So they probably either were forced or just wanted to try it out. So I do think that we should give people some kind of treatment because mabye they want to change and want to be a differnet person, so we should give them a second chance.
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