How Many Addicts Successfully Recover From Drug Addiction?
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Those rehab places seem like a revolving door. What percentage of drug addicts who’ve been addicted to hard drugs for at least one year successfully recover from their addiction the rest of their lives?
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Answer by applesk8er
1 in 6
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Jacob Sullum: In Defense of Drug Use – Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com and is a nationally syndicated columnist. In this lecture from a Libertarian Party of California event in 2000, Sullum goes beyond utilitarian arguments for repealing drug prohibition, saying that the nature of the act itself — using chemicals to alter one’s mental state — does not justify prohibition. Sullum notes that Americans use other chemical stimulants — alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and a veritable panoply of other legal substances — to similar ends every day. He also points out that most Americans’ perception of drug addiction is misguided; according to many different sources (including the Drug Enforcement Administration itself) the overwhelming majority of recreational drug users are not addicts. Sullum’s remarks in this video would later be expanded in his 2004 book, Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (www.amazon.com An .mp3 version of this lecture is available for download here: bit.ly
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